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=== Persecution of Romani ===
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Like the Jews, the [[Romani people|Romani]] were subjected to persecution from the early days of the regime. The Romani were forbidden to marry people of German extraction. They were shipped to concentration camps starting in 1935 and many were murdered.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|p=49}}{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=759}} Following the invasion of Poland, 2,500 Roma and [[Sinti]] people were deported from Germany to the General Government, where they were imprisoned in labour camps. The survivors were likely exterminated at [[Bełżec extermination camp|Bełżec]], [[Sobibor extermination camp|Sobibor]], or [[Treblinka]]. A further 5,000 Sinti and Austrian Lalleri people were deported to the [[Łódź Ghetto]] in late 1941, where half were estimated to have died. The Romani survivors of the ghetto were subsequently moved to the [[Chełmno extermination camp]] in early 1942.{{sfn|USHMM, ''Genocide of European Roma''}}

The Nazis intended on deporting all Romani people from Germany, and confined them to ''Zigeunerlager'' (Gypsy camps) for this purpose. Himmler ordered their deportation from Germany in December 1942, with few exceptions. A total of 23,000 Romani were deported to [[Auschwitz concentration camp]], of whom 19,000 died. Outside of Germany, the Romani people were regularly used for forced labour, though many were murdered outright. In the Baltic states and the Soviet Union, 30,000 Romani were murdered by the SS, the German Army, and ''Einsatzgruppen''. In [[Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia|occupied Serbia]], 1,000 to 12,000 Romani were murdered, while nearly all 25,000 Romani living in the [[Independent State of Croatia]] were murdered. The estimates at end of the war put the total number of Romani victims at around 220,000, which equalled approximately 25 per cent of the Romani population in Europe.{{sfn|USHMM, ''Genocide of European Roma''}}