European Roma were considered racially inferior by the Nazi regime and tens of thousands were killed during the Holocaust. Their treatment during the Holocaust is sometimes comparable to that of the Jews. A common misconception is that the Nazis are the source of hatred towards the Roma. The truth is that the Christian Church was the first to persecute the Gypsies, and then it spread to the British. In the 19th century, some Gypsy families were herded into a forest area in England and forced to live in horrible conditions. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Persecution of Gypsies existed at least a hundred years before the Nazis took it to extremes. In fact, anti-Gypsy laws were in effect long before anti-Jewish laws were enforced. From 1933, Gypsies were sterilized. The same year, Gypsy concentration camps were created. In 1936, the movement against European Roma went global and European governments supported Nazi Germany in identifying Roma in other European countries. Also that year, the Nazi Party proclaimed that the Roma problem was a racial problem and should be solved that way. Roma were subjected to random imprisonment, forced labor, and ultimately massacres. Auschwitz, Dachua and Ravensbrook were all possible concentration camps for European Roma. One of the most horrific experiences the Roma people went through was the medical experiments of the infamous Josef Mengele. The gypsy twins were particularly targeted, as were the dwarves. The most common method of murdering Gypsies was gassing. The Nazis loaded them into vans and injected them with carbon monoxide until they died. Conditions in the camps were the cause of many diseases, such as typhus, small...... middle of paper ......e worked, gassed, experimented to the death during the Holocaust . We will never know what children like Johan Stojka would have been like without the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Roma. The stories about their treatment are almost unbearable to read but should never be forgotten. The one thing everyone can learn from his stories is that genocide is real and should never be tolerated. — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Np, and Web. November 14, 2013. “Gypsies: a persecuted race”. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: University of Minnesota. Np, and Web. November 12, 2013. “Gypsies: a persecuted race”. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: University of Minnesota. Np, and Web. November 14, 2013. “JOHANN (HANSI) STOJKA.” http://www.ushmm.org/. UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, nd Web. November 19. 2013.