06 | Uniformed ‘Arbeitskompanie’ [‘fatigue company’] of Slovak Roma (propaganda photo from the Nazi magazine ‘Slowakische Rundschau’, early 1942). In January 1940, Slovakia, one of Hitler’s puppet states, passed military service legislation that excluded ‘Jews’ and ‘gypsies’ from military service in the regular Slovak army. Instead they were compelled to serve as a work corps in special units.

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