Following the passing of the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Genetic Diseases” in July 1933, sterilization became a means to tighten the borders of the German ethnic community against outsiders, including Sinti and Roma. For a while, Sinti soldiers were spared sterilization. After Himmler's Auschwitz decree of December 1942, they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. They escaped the extermination of other Sinti and Roma in the Zigeunerlager on the night of August 2, 1944, only because they represented a human shield deployable against advancing Russian troops. Still, the Reich insisted on sterilizing them and their families before placing them in front of enemy guns because they were still considered “internal enemies.” As a result, some forty Sinti men and boys were sterilized by Dr. Franz Lucas in the men's camp in Ravensbruck in January 1945. Focusing on their story challenges Lucas's portrayal as the victim of SS practices, a narrative that long benefitted from the testimony of non-Sinti prisoners. In addition, compensation agencies in Germany underestimated the ongoing effects of psychological trauma resulting from sterilization. Sinti victims who were subjected to an “expert assessment” of their blood purity before war's end underwent a renewed assessment of their productivity for German society after the war.

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对抗“内部敌人”的战争：1945 年 1 月弗朗茨·卢卡斯博士在拉文斯布吕克男子营地对辛提人和罗姆人进行绝育

随着 1933 年 7 月《预防遗传病后代法》的通过，绝育成为加强德国民族社区对外来者边界的一种手段，包括辛提人和罗姆人。有一段时间，辛提人的士兵免于绝育。在希姆莱于 1942 年 12 月颁布奥斯威辛集中营法令后，他们被驱逐到奥斯威辛-比克瑙集中营。1944 年 8 月 2 日晚上，他们在 Zigeunerlager 中逃脱了其他辛提人和罗姆人的灭绝，只是因为他们代表了可以部署对抗前进的俄罗斯军队的人盾。尽管如此，帝国仍坚持对他们和他们的家人进行消毒，然后再将他们置于敌人的枪炮面前，因为他们仍被视为“内部敌人”。结果，大约 40 名辛提男子和男孩被弗朗兹·卢卡斯博士在男子病房中进行了绝育手术。1945 年 1 月在拉文斯布鲁克的营地。关注他们的故事挑战了卢卡斯作为党卫军实践受害者的描绘，这种叙述长期以来受益于非辛蒂囚犯的证词。此外，德国的赔偿机构低估了绝育造成的心理创伤的持续影响。在战争结束前接受过血液纯度“专家评估”的辛提人受害者在战后接受了对他们为德国社会的生产力的重新评估。