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Nazi concentration camp badges
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...
used by the Nazis to identify Bibelforscher (Bible Students), the German name for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany. A small number of Adventists, Baptists and pacifists (less than one percent) were also identified by the badge. Nazism
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
opposed unorthodox-Christian religious minorities (along with Jews
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
), but made the Bible Students the object of particularly intense persecution, including such extensive incarceration that a distinct badge was assigned to them.
See also
- Nazi concentration camp badgesNazi concentration camp badgesNazi 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...
- Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi GermanyPersecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi GermanyJehovah's Witnesses were persecuted in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Members of the religious group refused to serve in the German military or give allegiance to the Nazi government, for which hundreds were executed. An estimated 10,000 were sent to concentration camps where approximately...
- Identification in Nazi campsIdentification in Nazi campsIdentification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps was performed in two ways: by special badges and by identification numbers.-Badges:...
External links
- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005394 US Holocaust Memorial Museum summary
- http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/steyer/jWitnesses.html "Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany" University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09637490600624691 "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
- Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance by Jolene Chu, originally published in Judaism Today, No. 12, Spring 1999
- Purple Triangle: An Untold Story of the Holocaust
- Sustained Through Terrible Trials by Éva Josefsson, The WatchtowerThe WatchtowerThe Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom is an illustrated religious magazine, published semi-monthly in 194 languages by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and printed in various branch offices around the world...
June 1, 1998 - Jehovah's Witnesses: Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril, Awake!Awake!Awake! is a monthly illustrated magazine published by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and printed in various branch offices around the world. It is considered to be a companion magazine of The Watchtower, and is distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses in...
July 8, 1998 - They Triumphed Over Persecution, The WatchtowerThe WatchtowerThe Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom is an illustrated religious magazine, published semi-monthly in 194 languages by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and printed in various branch offices around the world...
March 1, 2003