Author: Verena Meier, Forschungsstelle Antiziganismus (Research Centre on Antigypsyism), Universität Heidelberg (Heidelberg University) - Academia.edu

Abstract: »VERENA MEIER in her chapter on Sinti and their ‘(Non-)recognition as victims of fascism and their role in the judicial prosecution of medical professionals in East Germany after 1945’ examines a huge timespan from pre-war National Socialist Germany to post-war German Democratic Republic. After explaining the racist developments that led to the forced sterilization of Sinti and Roma, she examines the situation in the GDR until 1961, the problems the young victims faced as well as their role in the prosecution of Nazi doctors and medical staff. By analyzing the biographies of these young Sinti, MEIER emphasizes the obvious traumas that affected social relationships and often led to lifelong suffering. In contrast, the former Nazi persecutors had scant difficulties reintegrating into the new East and West German societies and continuing their careers.« (Source: Helga Amesberger, Helga Embacher, Johannes-Dieter Steinert. »Introduction: Ideological Intersection of Sexualized Violence during Nazi Persecution.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 16)

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