German occupation of Czechoslovakia

The Wehrmacht’s occupation of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia ended the Czechoslovak state and imposed Nazi administrative control. Roma and Sinti—already subjected to restrictive “anti-Gypsy” regulations—quickly fell under harsher racial surveillance as German authorities applied their ideology of racial hierarchy. The occupation marked the starting point for the step-by-step transformation of local discriminatory practices into genocidal policy.

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