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Berlin-Marzahn Rastplatz was a camp set up forRomani people in theBerlinsuburb ofMarzahn byNazi authorities.
The Nazis used theNuremberg Laws related to social misfits, vagabonds, and criminals as a means to intimidate and arrest Romani and Sinti Romani in Germany.[1] At 4 a.m. on 16 July 1936, prior to the opening of the1936 Berlin Olympics, police arrested 600 Romani[2] inGreater Berlin and forcibly relocated them via 130 caravans[2] to Marzahn, an open field in eastern Berlin sandwiched between a cemetery and a sewage dump.[3][4]Upon arrival the men and women were separated and taken for medical inspection. From there, prisoners were either deemed fit to work or unfit. Those that were deemed unfit were sent to execution.[5] Later, the prison would be surrounded bybarbed wire and prisoners were subject to forced labour in armament plants.[3][4] The camp also led to involuntarysterilization and loss of citizenship to the Romani prisoners as they were classified as aliens (non-Aryans).[1]
Eventually, the men from Marzahn would be sent toSachsenhausen concentration camp (in 1938), and women and children were sent toAuschwitz (in 1943).[3]
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