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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.
Title page of the US Army's Dachau investigation report. The signs are two Siegrunes, the symbol of the SS which ran the concentration camp. Foreword. Dachau is a 72-page investigation report by the 7th US Army on Dachau, one of the concentration camps established by Nazi Germany.
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.
A nurse captured the photo of a woman wearing an American flag mask and holding a sign in German that read "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work will set you free." Auschwitz Museum denounces woman ...
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.
Escaping his fractured home life at his aunt and uncle’s farm near Lancaster, PA, in the summer of 1988, the 13-year-old was greeted by his neo-Nazi cousin who had a mural of Hitler in his bedroom.