German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has apologized to the Sinti and Roma people in Germany for the way they were treated during World War II and the discrimination they have faced since. Racism did not simply end after the fall of the Nazis, Steinmeier said on Thursday in a video message to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma. People were stigmatized and criminalized, and suffered humiliation and exclusion at the hands of the authorities, police and judiciary even after the war ended, the president said. He said the genocide they faced…