28 June 1942Under the code name ‘Operation Blue’ [‘Unternehmen Blau’] or ‘Case Blue’ [‘Fall Blau’], the Wehrmacht’s summer offensive begins in the southern section of the German Eastern Front with advances towards the Volga region and the North Caucasus (Soviet Union). By the end of February 1943, hundreds of Roma were murdered by German units in these areas.
November 1942In November 1942, a group of over 100 Roma (mostly women, children and elderly people) were suffocated in a gas van in Voroshilovsk, German occupied Russia. Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D was responsible for this mass crime.
