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  2. Merkel-Raute - Wikipedia

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    The Merkel-Raute [1] (German for "Merkel rhombus"), termed the Merkel diamond [2] or Triangle of Power by English-speaking media, [3] is a hand gesture made by resting one's hands in front of the stomach so that the fingertips meet, with the thumbs and index fingers forming a rough quadrangular shape.

  3. Nazi concentration camp badge - Wikipedia

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    Yellow inverted triangle superimposed over a black triangle representing an "Aryan" woman convicted of miscegenation and labelled as a Rassenschänder (race defiler). Like those who wore pink and green triangles, people in the bottom two categories would have been convicted in criminal courts.

  4. Valknut - Wikipedia

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    Valknut variations. On the left unicursal trefoil forms; on the right tricursal linked triangle forms.. The valknut is a symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles.It appears on a variety of objects from the archaeological record of the ancient Germanic peoples.

  5. Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps

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    Colored inverted triangles were used in the concentration camps in the German-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and shirts of the prisoners. These mandatory badges had specific meanings indicated by their color and shape.

  6. Pink triangle - Wikipedia

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    Pink triangle (Rosa Winkel in German) memorial for gay men killed at Buchenwald. In the Berlin Nollendorfplatz subway station , a pink triangle plaque honors gay male victims. Amsterdam's Homomonument uses pink triangles symbolically to memorialize gay men killed in the Holocaust (and also victims of anti-gay violence generally).

  7. Black triangle (badge) - Wikipedia

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    An inverted black triangle, as used in badges. 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.

  8. Reuleaux polygon - Wikipedia

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    Gambian dalasi coin, a Reuleaux heptagon. In geometry, a Reuleaux polygon is a curve of constant width made up of circular arcs of constant radius. [1] These shapes are named after their prototypical example, the Reuleaux triangle, which in turn is named after 19th-century German engineer Franz Reuleaux. [2]

  9. Triquetra - Wikipedia

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    Interlaced triquetra which is a trefoil knot. The triquetra (/ t r aɪ ˈ k w ɛ t r ə / try-KWEH-truh; from the Latin adjective triquetrus "three-cornered") is a triangular figure composed of three interlaced arcs, or (equivalently) three overlapping vesicae piscis lens shapes.