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In Europe, Jews were required to wear the Judenhut or pileum cornutum, a cone-shaped hat, in most cases yellow. [21] In 1267, the Vienna city council ordered Jews to wear this type of hat rather than a badge. [13] There is a reference to a dispensation from the badge in Erfurt on 16 October 1294, the earliest reference to the badge in Germany. [13]
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.
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]
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.
In 1941, when Jews were forced to wear the Star of David, Nazi pamphlets instructed people to remember antisemitic arguments at the sight of it, particularly Kaufman's Germany Must Perish!. [47] This book was also heavily relied on for the pamphlet "The War Goal of World Plutocracy".
By August, a German named Altmayer was in charge of Riga. The Nazis then registered all the Jews of Riga, and they further decreed that all Jews must wear a second yellow star, this one in the middle of their backs, and not use the sidewalks but walk in the roadway instead. [21] Jews could be randomly assaulted with impunity by any non-Jew. [22]
A video making the rounds on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube claims that Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company, was involved in deadly medical testing on Auschwitz prisoners during the Holocaust.
The Nazis marked disabled concentration camp inmates with a black triangle. Some UK groups concerned with the rights of disabled people have adopted the symbol in their campaigns. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Such groups cite press coverage and government policies, including changes to incapacity benefits and disability living allowance, as the reasons for ...