Hohenasperg near Stuttgart, Germany, May 1940. The 490 Sinti and Roma from Baden and the Palatinate, previously concentrated in the Hohenasperg transit camp, are led to the train station to be deported to German-occupied Poland. The so-called May Deportation was the first family-by-family deportation of Sinti and Roma from the Reich. At the same time, families were also interned in transit camps in Cologne and Hamburg, selected according to racial criteria and loaded onto deportation trains. The women, men and children were deported to the General Government. There they had to do forced labour in various camps and gettos. Many did not survive.
The picture is part of a series of slides that have been preserved in the holdings of the Racial Hygiene Research Unit (RHF) in the Federal Archives. It can therefore be assumed that a member of the RHF took these photos.
