Abstract
The present paper explores the role played by the Wehrmacht in the National-Socialist persecution of the Gypsies. Inside the Reich, the Wehrmacht Supreme Command was actively involved in the social exclusion of Sinti and Roma. In the Netherlands and Belgium Gypsies were removed from the military 'security zone' along the coast 'in order to combat espionage.' In France, some 3,000 persons stigmatized as nomades or tsiganes were incarcerated in camps, often under appalling conditions; such camps were ultimately under the control of the German military administration. In Serbia, the Wehrmacht contributed substantially to establishing mass shooting as the principal policy toward both the Jews and the Roma. In the USSR the military police, secret military police, and the rear area Sicherungsdivisionen in particular handed over 'itinerant Gypsies' to the SS Einsatzgruppen to be shot. Over and above, Wehrmacht units provided considerable organizational and technical assistance in conjunction with the executions ...
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