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A practice was established to tattoo the inmates with identification numbers. Prisoners sent straight to gas chambers didn't receive anything. Initially, in Auschwitz, the camp numbers were sewn on the clothes; with the increased death rate, it became difficult to identify corpses, since clothes were removed from corpses.
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 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 images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando, inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images It has been 80 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration ...
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Wilhelm Kling, German communist; Bruno Leuschner, East German politician; Artur London, Czechoslovakian communist; Hugo Lunardon , Austrian policeman who investigated activities of the DNSAP prior to the Anschluss; Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski, a Colonel of the Polish Army, posthumously promoted to the rank of General
Pages in category "Identity documents of Nazi Germany" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.