Abstract (eng)
Only a fraction of the Nazi crimes committed against Roma and Sinti were dealt with in the Austrian people's courts in the course of post-war justice. As special courts, they were responsible for the judicial "denazification", which in Austria was closely interlinked with a bureaucratic "cleansing" which encompassed a registration of so-called "former-Nazis" and atonement payments. Only 23 of over 136.000 cases related to this genocide have been identified until now. A large number of Nazi crimes against Roma and Sinti went unatoned. This circumstance can be classified as part of the process of discrimination against these victims in the immediate post-war period (but also beyond). Almost half of the proceedings before the People's Court regarding the Porajmos were dismantled or discontinued, and in the majority of cases the perpetrators were sentenced to light sentences or even acquitted. In this master's thesis, two Austrian people's court proceedings were analyzed. Both of them are linked to the so-called "Gypsy Camp" Lackenbach. The main sources include the trial documents of the two trials, on the one hand against the camp-commandant of the so-called "Gypsy Camp" Lackenbach, Franz Langmüller, and on the other hand against Friedrich Messer, who was on trial for, among other things, denunciation of a Roma and participation in deportations. In this master's thesis, trial files were examined for the reproduction of antiziganist stereotypes. The picture of a continuity of racist resentment against Roma and Sinti arises not only in the justification attempts of the perpetrators, but also through the executive actors inside the people's court. Furthermore, the question of how to deal with the witnesses in court was investigated. The image of ongoing discrimination was confirmed.