Fixing decree

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Fixing decree or fixed decree refers to a decree that the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) on the instructions of Heinrich Himmler sent in a rapid letter to the criminal police control centers in the German Reich on October 17, 1939, in order to "basically regulate the Gypsy question on a national scale throughout the Reich within a short period of time". The “gypsies to be arrested later” are to be interned “ in special assembly camps until they are finally evacuated ”.

Measures ordered

  1. The local police authorities and the gendarmerie were instructed to impose on all " Gypsies " and "Gypsy hybrids" ("Gypsy-style travelers " were not mentioned) staying in their area the condition not to leave their place of residence or whereabouts immediately. The offender was threatened with being sent to a concentration camp . The legal basis for this was the decree of the Reich Minister of the Interior of December 14, 1937 - Pol.S-Kr. 2 No. 1682 / 37-2098 according to AII 1 e (unpublished) on “ Preventive Combat of Crime ”.
  2. 25, 26 and 27 October 1939 were set as the search days for family-wise registration and census. The local police authorities and the gendarmerie were responsible for recording and counting.
  3. The results had to be reported to the criminal police by the local police authorities and the gendarmerie.
  4. The implementation of the measures should be treated as an "immediate matter" by all authorities and departments involved. Pending work should be postponed and the recording work done in the shortest possible time.

The reports received were checked by the Reich Criminal Police Office (RKPA) in coordination with the Reich Health Office , and the resulting arrests were ordered in each individual case. The Reich Criminal Police Office issued a special wanted list for the Sinti and Roma who evaded these measures.

As a result, quite a few families were arrested on the trip. In their car they were only very inadequately protected against the winter weather conditions. Some therefore evaded the assessment and tried to stay with relatives or to return to their hometown. Individuals understood the "detention decree" as an indication of the intensification of the persecution and fled abroad.

See also

literature

  • Michael Zimmermann: Racial Utopia and Genocide. The National Socialist "Solution to the Gypsy Question" . Christians, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-7672-1270-6 , pp. 169f. ( Hamburg Contributions to Social and Contemporary History 33).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reprint of the so-called basic decree by Wolfgang Ayaß (arrangement): "Gemeinschaftfremde", sources on the persecution of "anti-social" 1933-1945 , Koblenz 1998, no. 50.