Editing Racial policy of Nazi Germany (section)

==Sinti and Roma==
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[[File:Bundesarchiv R 165 Bild-244-52, Asperg, Deportation von Sinti und Roma.jpg|thumb|Sinti and Roma about to be deported from the German town of [[Asperg]], 22 May 1940]]

Nazi Germany began persecution of the [[Romani people|Romani]] as early as 1936 when they began to transfer the people to municipal internment camps on the outskirts of cities, a prelude to the deportation of 23,000 Gypsies to concentration camps. "Pure-blooded" Gypsies were considered by the Nazis to be Aryan.{{sfn|Lewy|2000|p=139}} Roughly ten percent of Gypsies were considered to be racially pure.{{sfn|Lewy|2000|pp=49, 137}}

[[Heinrich Himmler]] suggested creating a "Gypsy Law" to separate Gypsies from the German people:

{{blockquote|The aim of measures taken by the State to defend the homogeneity of the German nation must be the physical separation of Gypsydom from the German nation, the prevention of [[miscegenation]], and finally, the regulation of the way of life of pure and part-Gypsies. The necessary legal foundation can only be created through a Gypsy Law, which prevents further intermingling of blood, and which regulates all the most pressing questions which go together with the existences of Gypsies in the living space of the German nation.{{sfn|Burleigh|Wippermann|1991|p=121}}}}

However, although many laws during Nazi Germany persecuted the Gypsies, a specific "Gypsy Law", although talked about often, was never enacted by the Nazis.{{sfn|Lewy|2000|p=86}}