Editing Nazi concentration camp badge (section)

=== Single triangles ===
[[File:Kennzeichen_für_Schutzhäftlinge_in_den_Konzentrationslagern.jpg|thumb|Marking codes used by the Nazis.]]
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* Red triangle – [[political prisoner]]s: occupied country resistance members ([[Partisan (military) |partisans]]), [[social democracy|social democrats]], [[Liberalism|liberals]], [[Socialism|socialists]], [[communism|communists]], [[anarchism|anarchists]],{{verify source| reason = these are the examples usually listed, and are probably supported by sources elsewhere in the page or on linked pages |date=November 2024}} [[Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust|gentiles who assisted Jews]], [[trade union]]ists,  and [[Suppression of Freemasonry|Freemasons]].{{citation needed| reason = these are not often listed in sources I have read previously about these symbols, particularly Freemasons |date=November 2024}}
* Green triangle – convicts and criminals (often working as ''[[kapo]]s'').{{citation needed| reason = many sources list green for criminal and elsewhere that criminals worked as kapos, but needs a citation for direct connection of Kapos + green |date=November 2024}}
* Blue triangle – foreign forced laborers and [[emigrants]]. This category included [[statelessness|stateless]] people ("''apatrides''"),{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} Spanish refugees from [[Francoist Spain]] whose citizenship was revoked and emigrants to countries which were occupied by Nazi Germany or were under German sphere of influence.<ref>Gabriele Hammermann, Stefanie Pilzweger-Steiner (2018) KZ-Gedenk·stätte Dachau: Ein Rund·gang in Leichter Sprache. p. 72</ref>
* [[Purple triangle]] – primarily [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] (over 99%) as well as members of other small pacifist religious groups.<ref group=notes>Johannes S. Wrobel (June 2006). "Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialist Concentration Camps, 1933–45". ''Religion, State & Society''. Vol. 34. No. 2. pp. 89–125. "The concentration camp prisoner category 'Bible Student' at times apparently included a few members from small Bible Student splinter groups, as well as adherents of other religious groups which played only a secondary role during the time of the National Socialist regime, such as Adventists, Baptists and the New Apostolic community (Garbe 1999, pp. 82, 406; Zeiger, 2001, p. 72). Since their numbers in the camps were quite small compared with the total number of Jehovah's Witness prisoners, I shall not consider them separately in this article. Historian Antje Zeiger (2001, p. 88) writes about Sachsenhausen camp: 'In May 1938, every tenth prisoner was a Jehovah's Witness. Less than one percent of the Witnesses included other religious nonconformists (Adventists, Baptists, pacifists), who were placed in the same prisoner classification.'"</ref>
* [[Pink triangle]] – primarily [[homosexual men]] and those who were identified as such at the time (e.g., [[Bisexuality|bisexual]] men, [[male prostitutes]], and those deemed '[[Transvestism|transvestites]]'{{efn|The concept of an official transgender identity did not exist at this time. A majority of these people would likely identify as transgender if they lived in the modern era. See [[Transvestite pass]] for more information on how they were classified.}})<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tgdor.org/holocaust.shtml|title=2008 Houston Transgender Day of Remembrance: Transgenders and Nazi Germany|author=Cristian Williams|website=tgdor.org|access-date=27 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916185919/http://tgdor.org/holocaust.shtml|archive-date=16 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://arcspace.com/feature/canadian-national-holocaust-monument/|title=Canadian National Holocaust Monument / Studio Libeskind|website=arcspace.com|access-date=30 August 2018|archive-date=27 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227233549/https://arcspace.com/feature/canadian-national-holocaust-monument/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2012/11/illuminating-the-darkness/|title=Illuminating the Darkness|website=outsmartmagazine.com|date=November 2012|access-date=30 August 2018}}</ref> and sexual offenders as well as [[Pedophilia|pedophiles]] and [[zoophiles]].<ref>Richard Plant (1988). ''The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals''. Owl Books. {{ISBN|0-8050-0600-1}}.</ref> Many in this group were subject to forced sterilization.<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary.org">{{Cite web|title=Nazi Persecution of the Mentally & Physically Disabled|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nazi-persecution-of-the-mentally-and-physically-disabled|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref>
* [[Black triangle (badge)|Black triangle]] – people who were deemed asocial elements ({{lang|de|asozial}}) and work-shy ({{lang|de|arbeitsscheu}}), including the following:
** [[Romani people|Roma]] and [[Sinti]]. They wore the black triangle with a Z notation (for {{lang|de|Zigeuner}}, meaning Gypsy) to the right of the triangle's point. Roma were later assigned a brown triangle.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/glossB.html|title=Glossary|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>
** [[Mentally ill]] and [[Developmental disability|developmentally disabled]]. Their triangles were additionally inscribed with the word {{lang|de|Blöd}}, meaning stupid.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.holocaustrevealed.org/badges.htm|title=Badges|website=holocaustrevealed.org|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Edelheit|first1=Abraham J.|last2=Edelheit|first2=Hershel|date=2018-10-08|title=History of the Holocaust |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780429493737|isbn=9780429493737|s2cid=160553505}}</ref> This category included, notably, [[Autism|autistic]] people among this group.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} Though many others including [[Schizophrenia|schizophrenic]] and [[Epilepsy|epileptic]]<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary.org"/> people were forcibly sterilized, shot, or gassed in psychiatric institutions as opposed to at the Nazi camps.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Torrey|first1=E. Fuller|last2=Yolken|first2=Robert H.|date=2010-01-01|title=Psychiatric Genocide: Nazi Attempts to Eradicate Schizophrenia|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbp097|journal=Schizophrenia Bulletin|volume=36|issue=1|pages=26–32|doi=10.1093/schbul/sbp097|pmid=19759092|pmc=2800142|issn=0586-7614}}</ref>
** [[Alcoholism|Alcoholics]] and [[addiction|drug addicts]].
** [[Homelessness|Vagrants]] and [[beggars]].
** [[Pacifism|Pacifists]] and [[Conscientious objector|conscription resisters]].
** [[Sex worker|Sex workers]].<ref>Claudia Schoppmann (1990). ''Nationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualität''. Dissertation, FU Berlin. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1991 (revisited 2nd edition 1997). {{ISBN|3-89085-538-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2 February 2008|date=1 February 2001|url=http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2001wk3/Columns/black_triangle_women|title=Black triangle women|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212113936/http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2001wk3/Columns/black_triangle_women|archive-date=12 February 2009}}</ref>
** [[Lesbian]]s.<ref name="Elman">{{cite journal|last1=Elman PhD|first1=R. Amy|title=Triangles and Tribulations: The Politics of Nazi Symbols|journal=[[Journal of Homosexuality]]|date=1996|volume=30|issue=3|pages=1–11|doi=10.1300/J082v30n03_01|pmid=8743114|issn=0091-8369}}</ref>
**Other [[Disability|disabled]] people, such as people with [[diabetes]] (as "Diabetes was conceptualized as a Jewish disease not necessarily because its prevalence was high among this population, but because medicine, science, and culture reinforced each other"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tuchman|first=Arleen Marcia|date=January 2011|title=Diabetes and Race: A Historical Perspective|journal=American Journal of Public Health|volume=101|issue=1|pages=24–33|doi=10.2105/AJPH.2010.202564|issn=0090-0036|pmc=3000712|pmid=21148711}}</ref>). 
* Brown triangle – Assigned to Roma later on in the [[Romani Holocaust]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 November 2023 |title=Prisoner groups in the concentration camp: How the Nazis stigmatized their victims |url=https://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/prisoner-groups-in-the-concentration-camp-how-the-nazis-stigmatized-their-victims/ |access-date=23 February 2025 |website=Arolsen Archives}}</ref>
* Uninverted red triangle – an enemy [[Prisoner of war|POW]] ({{lang|de|Sonderhäftling}}, meaning special detainee), a spy or traitor ({{lang|de|Aktionshäftling}}, meaning activities detainee), or a military [[deserter]] or criminal ({{lang|de|Wehrmachtsangehöriger}}, meaning [[Wehrmacht|Armed Forces]] member).

<gallery class="center" caption="Some period examples of the single triangle design at Nazi camps" widths="180px" heights="180px">
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-78612-0007, KZ Sachsenhausen, Häftlinge bei Zählappel.jpg|Single-triangle badges in various colors visible on [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]] detainees
File:Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, December 19, 1938. Heinrich Hoffman Collection. - NARA - 540177.jpg|Single-triangles visible on [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp|Sachsenhausen]] detainees
File:Purple Triangle.JPG|Specimen indicating a [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]]
File:Prisoners' Uniforms with Red Triangles of Political Prisoners - Museum Exhibit - Dachau Concentration Camp Site - Dachau - Bavaria - Germany.jpg|Red emblems of a political enemy on a [[Dachau concentration camp|Dachau]] detainee's clothing.{{note|Photo by Adam Jones.}}
File:Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, 12-19-1938 - NARA - 540175.jpg|More [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp|Sachsenhausen]] detainees
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 152-27-11A, Dachau, Konzentrationslager.jpg|[[Black triangle (badge)|Black triangles]] visible on the trousers of [[Romani people|Romani]] detainees at [[Dachau concentration camp|Dachau]]
File:Benedikt Kautsky.jpg|United States Army photo of Austrian economist and financial specialist {{ill|Benedikt Kautsky|de}}, a political prisoner, who was liberated from [[Buchenwald]] 
File:A sick Polish survivor in the Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp receives medicine from a German Red Cross worker.jpg|Liberated [[Neuengamme concentration camp|Neuengamme]] survivor standing on the right has a triangle patch with a top-bar
File:Numer obozowy KL Stutthof 29659.JPG| German concentration camp badge for Polish (non-Jewish) political prisoner in Stutthof.ID 29659 – {{ill|Lidia Główczewska|pl}}
</gallery>