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Purple inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one representing a Jehovah's Witness of Jewish descent. Pink inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one representing a Jewish "sexual offender", typically a gay or bisexual man. Black inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one representing an "asocial" or work-shy Jew.
The tattoo was the prisoner's camp entry number, sometimes with a special symbol added: some Jews had a triangle, and Romani had the letter "Z" (from German Zigeuner for "Gypsy"). In May 1944, the Jewish men received the letters "A" or "B" to indicate particular series of numbers.
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.
The addition of a blue triangle to the pink triangle in the biangles symbol contrasts the pink and represents heterosexuality. The two triangles overlap and form lavender, which represents the "queerness of bisexuality", referencing the Lavender Menace and 1980s and 1990s associations of lavender with queerness. [24] [25]
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 ...
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...
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]