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The author presents legal and social conditions of the Sinti and Roma in the last and present century. He focuses especially on the last decades of the 20th century and contemporary years. He explains intricacies of attainment of national minority status in Germany, shows how is the process of social integration, with social problems for years have to struggle, especially in what way are they perceive among the German society and what is the attitude the Germans towards the Sinti and Roma.