Detention Camps in the German Reich. From the mid-1930s onwards, Sinti and Roma in the German Reich were sent to detention camps intended solely for them. Such camps were also set up in Austria, which was annexed to the Reich in March 1938, and in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was occupied by the Reich after the break-up of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. From the spring of 1938, Sinti and Roma were increasingly sent to concentration camps, and from December 1941 to extermination camps.
