 A chart, circa 1938 - 1942, of prisoner markings used in German concentration camps. (see also translation of table below) Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of Identification in Nazi camps. They were used in the concentration camps in the Nazi-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and shirts of the prisoners. These mandatory badges of shame had specific meanings indicated by their color and shape. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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Identification of inmates in Nazi camps was performed in two ways: by special badges and by identification numbers. ...
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Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ...
Yellow badge Jews in Nazi Germany were required to wear as a badge of shame. ...
The system of badges varied between the camps, and in the latter stages of the war, the use of badges dwindled in some camps, and became increasingly accidental in others. The following description is based on the badge coding system used before and during the early stages of the war in the Dachau concentration camp, which had one of the more elaborate coding systems. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
The main entrance just after the liberation Memorial at the camp, 1997. ...
Badge coding system
Shape was chosen by analogy with the common triangular road hazard signs in Germany that denote warnings to motorists. Here, a triangle is called inverted because its base is up while one of its angles points down. Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). ...
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The most common forms of the badge were:
- Red triangle: political prisoners (Social Democrats, Communists, Freemasons, anarchists - some anarchists were also given the black triangle - and other "enemies of the state").
- Green triangle: "habitual criminals".
- Blue triangle: Foreign Forced Laborers
- Pink triangle: homosexual men and other sexual offenders.
- Purple triangle: religious dissenters (Jehovah's Witnesses, Bible Student movement members, Quakers, Seventh-Day Adventists)
- "Black Triangle: so-called "Asocial elements" (Roma and Sinti - later given the Brown Triangle -, mentally retarded, alcoholics, vagrants, the habitually "work-shy", or prostitutes[1][2], some anarchists).
Double triangles: two superimposed triangles forming a Star of David: A political prisoner is someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. ...
Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...
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for other uses please see Crime (disambiguation) A crime is an act that violates a political or moral law. ...
The pink triangle, a popular gay pride symbol, was originally used to denote homosexual men as a Nazi concentration camp badge. ...
Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ...
The purple triangle was a Nazi concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify religious prisoners, the Jehovahs Witnesses (Bibelforscher). ...
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA), colloquially referred to as the Adventists, is an evangelical Protestant Christian denomination that grew out of the prophetic Millerite movement in the United States during the middle part of the 19th century. ...
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Languages Romani, languages of native region Religions Christianity, Islam Related ethnic groups South Asians (Desi) The Roma (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom) or Romanies are an ethnic group living in many communities all over the world. ...
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- Two superimposed yellow triangles: a Jew, by practice or descent.
- Red inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one: a Jewish political prisoner.
- Green inverted triangle upon a yellow one: a Jewish "habitual criminal".
- Pink inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one, making the Star of David: a Jewish homosexual.
- Yellow triangle superimposed over a black inverted triangle, or "voided" black inverted triangle superimposed over a yellow triangle: an Aryan convicted of miscegenation and labeled as a "race defiler".
In addition to color-coding, some groups had to put letter insignia on their triangles to denote country of origin. Red triangle with a letter: "B" (Belgier, Belgians), "F" (Franzosen, French), "H" (Holländer, Dutch), "I" (Italiener, Italians), "N" (Norweger, Norwegians), "P" (Polen, Poles), "S" (Republikanische Spanier, Republican Spanish) "T" (Tschechen, Czechs), "U" (Ungarn, Hungarians). Compulsory Jewish badge under the Nazi occupation of Europe: the Star of David with the word Jew inside (this one in German) A yellow badge, also referred to as a Jewish badge, was a mandatory mark or a piece of cloth of specific geometric shape, worn on the outer garment...
Aryan (/eÉ™rjÉ™n/ or /É‘ËrjÉ™n/, Sanskrit: ) is a Sanskrit and Avestan word meaning noble/spiritual one. ...
Frederick Douglass with his second wife Helen Pitts Douglass (sitting) who was white, a famous 19th century American example of miscegenation. ...
Anthem El Himno de Riego Capital Madrid Language(s) Spanish Government Republic President - 1931–1936 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora - 1936–1939 Manuel Azaña Legislature Congress of Deputies Historical era Interwar period - Monarchy abolished April 14, 1931 - Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 - Republic in exile dissolved July 15, 1977 Currency Spanish...
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There were many markings and combinations. A prisoner would typically have at least two, and possibly more than six.
In some camps the Nacht und Nebel prisoners got painted with two big letters NN in yellow. Nacht und Nebel (German for Night and Fog) was a directive (German: ) of Adolf Hitler on December 7, 1941 signed and implemented by Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Wilhelm Keitel, resulting in kidnapping and disappearance of many political activists throughout Nazi Germanys occupied territories. ...
Penal battalion, penal company, etc., are military units consisting of convicted persons for which military service was either the assigned punishment or a voluntary replacement of imprisonment.
Table of camp inmate markings | Political Enemies | Habitual Criminals | Foreign Forced Laborers | Religious dissidents | Sexual offenders | "Asocials" | | Basic colors |
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Alternate cover US 1979 and 2002 reissue cover, also known as paint spatter cover For the military meaning, see Armed forces. ...
Notes - ^ Claudia Schoppmann: Nationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualität. (Dissertation, FU Berlin, 1990.) Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1991 (revisited 2nd edition 1997). ISBN 3-89085-538-5
- ^ Black triangle women (html) (2001-02-01). Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ At first glance, this combination appears to be contradictory. However, the Nazi definition of "Jew", according to the Nuremberg Laws, included those of Jewish ancestry, and so it was possible for such people to actually hold other religions. Thus, "Jewish Jehovah's Witness", while perhaps unlikely, was by no means impossible.
- ^ Plant, The Pink Triangle, and [1]
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2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The racial policy of Nazi Germany refers to the policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the so-called Aryan race and based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scientific legitimacy. ...
References - Plant, Richard, The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals, Owl Books, 1988, ISBN 0-8050-0600-1.
- Camp badge chart at historyplace.com
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