The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify several unorthodox non-conformist religious groups known as "Bibelforscher".[1][2] Among these were mainly Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as a few members of Witness splinter groups, and members of the Adventist, Baptist, and New Apostolic movements.[3] Image File history File links Purple_triangle. ... A chart, circa 1938 - 1942, of prisoner markings used in German concentration camps. ... The National Socialist German Workers Party, (German: , or NSDAP, commonly known as the Nazi Party), was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. ... Adventist is also commonly used as an abbreviation for Seventh-day Adventist. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box: Baptist is... The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is an chiliastic church, existing since 1879 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands. ...
^ Johannes S. Wrobel, Jehovah’s Witnesses in National Socialist Concentration Camps, 1933 – 45, Religion, State & Society, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 89-125 (Johannes S. Wrobel is head of the Watchtower History Archive of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Selters/Taunus, Germany. His article states, "The concentration camp prisoner category ‘Bible Student’ at times apparently included a few members from small Bible Student splinter groups, as well as adherents of other religious groups which played only a secondary role during the time of the National Socialists regime, such as Adventists, Baptists and the New Apostolic community".)
[2] "Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany" University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
[3] "Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialist concentration camps, 1933-45," by Johannes S. Wrobel, Religion, State and Society vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2006), 89-125
(Detlef Garbe 2008) Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich. Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in association with University of Wisconsin Press.
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Distributor). (1991). Purple Triangles [VHS]. United States of America: Starlock Pictures.
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The purpletriangle was a Nazi concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify religious prisoners, the Jehovah's Witnesses (Bibelforscher).
An example of a media uproar encapsulated the kids televsion show "Teletubbies", in which one of the teletubbies was colored purple and his antenna symbol was a triangle and he was the only teletubbie that carried a purse.
Nazi concentration camp badges, made primarily of inverted triangles, 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.
The color red was probably chosen because it represented the communists, the political enemies that the Nazis hated most (and the first to be officially outlawed).
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