International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) [View all]

[Behind the Aegis]

In November 2005, General Assembly Resolution 60/7 was passed without a vote, it was to institute what is known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has several presentations (if one happens to be in the area). Some of the presentations will be broadcasted live (I am uncertain if the weather has affected any of these presentations.)

Between 12 and 13 million persons were murdered in the Holocaust, 6 million Jews, over a million Poles, Russian soldiers, gays, mentally ill people, disabled people, the Rom, and others were beaten, raped, tortured, shot, gassed, and worked to death. They were identified by triangles and numbers.

Single triangles

• Red triangle—political prisoners: social democrats, socialists, trade unionists, Freemasons, communists, and anarchists.
  
• Green triangle— "professional criminals" (convicts, often working in the camps as kapos).
  
• Blue triangle—foreign forced laborers, emigrants.
  
• Purple triangle—primarily Jehovah's Witnesses (over 99%), and members of other small religious groups.[2]
  
• Pink triangle—primarily homosexual men, as well as sexual offenders including rapists, paedophiles and zoophiles.[3]
  
• Black triangle—people who were deemed "asocial elements" (asozial) and "work shy" (arbeitsscheu) including Roma. They wore the black triangle with a "Z" notation (for Zigeuner, meaning Gypsy) to the right of the triangle's point.
• Roma males were later assigned a brown triangle. Roma females were still deemed "asocials" as they were stereotyped as petty criminals (prostitutes, kidnappers, and fortune tellers).
  

  The mentally ill
  

  Alcoholics and drug addicts
  

  Vagrants and beggars
  

  Pacifists and Conscription resisters.
  

  Prostitutes[5][6]
  

  Some anarchists
  

  
  
• Brown triangle—Roma males.
  
• Uninverted red triangle — an enemy POW (Sonderhäftling - "Special Detainee&quot , German spy or traitor (Aktionshäftling - "Activities Detainee&quot , or a military deserter or criminal (Wehrmacht Angehöriger - "Service Member&quot .

People who wore the green and pink triangles were convicted in criminal courts and may have been transferred to the criminal prison systems after the camps were liberated.

Then there were the Jews...

Double triangles

Double-triangle badges resembled two superimposed triangles forming a Star of David, a Jewish symbol.


• Two superimposed yellow triangles or a six-pointed star, the "Yellow badge"— a Jew. The word Jude ("Jew&quot was often inscribed in faux-Hebrew-looking letters inside the center of the badge.
  
• Red inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one—a Jewish political prisoner
  
• Green inverted triangle upon a yellow one—a Jewish "habitual criminal"
  
• Purple inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one—a Jehovah's Witness of Jewish descent[7]
  
• Pink inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one—a Jewish "sexual offender"
  
• Black inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one—"asocial" and "work shy" Jews
  
• Voided black inverted triangle superimposed over a yellow triangle—a Jew convicted of miscegenation and labelled as a Rassenschänder ("race defiler&quot .
  
• Yellow inverted triangle superimposed over a black triangle—an Aryan (woman) convicted of miscegenation and labelled as a Rassenschänder ("race defiler&quot .

Like those who wore pink and green triangles, people in the bottom two categories would have been convicted in criminal courts.

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Despite the horror, madness and hate, there were those who went above and beyond, and they are known as the "Righteous Among the Nations". They can be known and remembered here, Righteous Among the Nations by country.

Never Again!