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After Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, there were different local decrees requiring Jews to wear a distinctive sign under the General Government. The sign was a white armband with a blue Star of David on it; in the Warthegau a yellow badge in the form of a Star of David on the left side of the breast and on the back. [24]
Schematic of the triangle-based badge system in use at most Nazi concentration camps. Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in German camps. They were used in the concentration camps in the German-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. [1]
2nd pattern SS Totenkopf, 1934–45. While different uniforms existed [1] for the SS over time, the all-black SS uniform adopted in 1932 is the most well known. [2] The black–white–red colour scheme was characteristic of the German Empire, and it was later adopted by the Nazi Party.
The yellow badge that Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany as a badge of shame. Nazi concentration camp badges of shame were triangular and color-coded to classify prisoners by reason for detention, [31] and Jews wore two triangles in the shape of the six-pointed Star of David.
Hitler and several other key Nazis had been raised as Catholics but they became hostile to the Church in their adulthood; Article 24 of the National Socialist Program called for conditional toleration of Christian denominations and the 1933 Reichskonkordat treaty with the Vatican guaranteed religious freedom for Catholics, but the Nazis sought ...
Since the 1930s, right-wing regimes with anti-Semitic policies came to power in the Nazi Germany and some other European countries. These events led to the emergence of hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees. Between 350,000 [2] and 400,000 [3] Jews left Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia before the start of World War II.
A denunciation from German bishops of the murder of the "innocent and defenceless", including "people of a foreign race or descent", followed. [2] Hitler's invasion of Catholic Poland sparked the War. Nazi policy towards the Church was at its most severe in the areas it annexed to the Reich, such as the Czech and Slovene lands, Austria and Poland.
Members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary street thugs of the German Nazi Party, were called "brown shirts" after the color of the party uniform.Propaganda poster showing SA uniforms from the Freikorps movements after World War I, through the party ban 1923–25, the uniform ban 1930–1931 up to 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor.