text:  came on to the agenda of many of the European states. Such panics about the notion of a gypsy menace were joined by new pseudo-sciences of eugenics or criminal biology. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, camps for gypsies were established on the outskirts of German cities, and Roma were subject to the same racial laws as Jews, including restrictions on marriage and selection for compulsory sterilization.