ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals how during the early 1940s, the eugenic vision of the biopolitical state widened to include the ‘purification’ of Romania not only of its Jewish population but also of its Roma people. Biopolitics and eugenics merged into Romanian racism. The more Romania became involved in World War II, the more racism and anti-Roma eugenics became fully accepted by the political regime of Ion Antonescu, leading to the deportation and extermination of these two ethnic groups to Transnistria.
