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Generally, the "March Violets" were assumed to join the Party for opportunistic reasons only and were held in contempt by the Old Fighters. Also called Märzgefallene or "March casualties." Mauthausen – small town in upper Austria which was also the location of an infamous concentration camp designed to punish or re-educate political prisoners.
March Violets is a historical detective novel and the first written by Philip Kerr featuring detective Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther. March Violets is the first of the trilogy by Kerr called Berlin Noir. The second, The Pale Criminal, appeared in 1990 and the third, A German Requiem in 1991.
Green triangle – convicts and criminals (often working as kapos). Blue triangle – foreign forced laborers and emigrants. This category included apatrides, Spanish refugees from Francoist Spain whose citizenship was revoked and emigrants to countries which were occupied by Nazi Germany or were under German sphere of influence. [2]
The Nazi Party, [b] officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (‹See Tfd› German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei [c] or NSDAP), was a far-right [10] [11] [12] political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
The green ticket roundup (French: rafle du billet vert ), also known as the green card roundup, [a] took place on 14 May 1941 during the Nazi occupation of France. The mass arrest started a day after French Police delivered a green card ( billet vert ) to 6694 foreign Jews living in Paris, instructing them to report for a "status check".
Green carnation Sweet flag plant In 19th-century England , green indicated homosexual affiliations, as popularized by gay author Oscar Wilde , who often wore a green carnation on his lapel. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] According to some interpretations, American poet Walt Whitman used the sweet flag plant to represent homoerotic male love because of its ...
The March Violets shifted towards a more pop-oriented sound, [9] and Denbigh left the band in early February 1985, [12] prior to the band's first American tour in March 1985. [13] Denbigh did appear on the next single, "Deep", released 11 May 1985 but recorded prior to his departure.
These were marked with a distinctive upwards-facing green arrow, which bore resemblance to a Christmas tree and had the effect of blacklisting a number of applicants to BBC roles. Knowledge of these files was made public in 1985 after being reported on by The Observer ; by this time, the practice had ceased, but a number of files remained.