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1939
Czechia
Antigypsyism

Government regulation establishing disciplinary labour camps

Regulation 72/1939 created state-run disciplinary labour camps for adults labelled “work-averse” or lacking proof of subsistence. Although formally targeting “asocials,” the measure drew heavily on earlier anti-Roma laws and became a primary tool for segregating, monitoring, and coercively labouring Roma and Sinti. It signalled the institutional consolidation of anti-Roma racism before the Nazi occupation and laid an administrative foundation later used for mass internment and deportation.

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