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Blue inverted triangle superimposed upon a red one representing foreign forced labour and political prisoner (for example, Spanish Republicans in Mauthausen). [ 16 ] Green inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one representing a Jewish habitual criminal.
Colored inverted triangles were used in the concentration camps in the German-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 had specific meanings indicated by their color and shape.
The inverted black triangle (German: schwarzes Dreieck) was an identification badge used in Nazi concentration camps to mark prisoners designated asozial ("a(nti-)social") [1] [2] and arbeitsscheu ("work-shy"). The Roma and Sinti people were considered asocial and tagged with the black triangle.
An ACT UP member displaying the organization's trademark protest sign with an inverted, upward-pointing pink triangle. In the 1970s, newly active Australian, European and North American queer liberation advocates began to use the pink triangle to raise awareness of its use in Nazi Germany. [ 17 ]
No, the blue triangle is the single greatest oversight and injustice in Holocaust Remembrance - blue triangles,based on my interviews with 3 survivors - were issued to ethnic Slavs (Poles, Russians, Serbs, Ukrainians, etc.) who were collected and sent to camps.
Nazi symbols and additional symbols have subsequently been used by neo-Nazis. Swastika. The Nazis' principal symbol was the swastika, which the newly established ...
Purple triangle. The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify Bibelforsher (that is Bible Student movement and Jehovah's Witnesses) in Nazi Germany. The purple triangle was introduced in July 1936 with other concentration camps such as those of Dachau and Buchenwald following in 1937 and 1938. [1]
Aktion Arbeitsscheu Reich was a punitive campaign in Nazi Germany targeting individuals deemed as "work-shy" or "asocial." In April and June 1938, as part of the "Arbeitsscheu Reich" (work-shy Reich), more than 10,000 men were arrested as so-called "black triangle anti-social elements" and sent to concentration camps.