How the Nazis used uniforms to differentiate concentration camp prisoners



This is Part 5 of our educational series on concentration camps. In Part 6, we ask young Germans what it’s like visiting a former concentration camp for the first time.

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38 thoughts on “How the Nazis used uniforms to differentiate concentration camp prisoners”

  1. We still ise numbers, or rather codes, to catalog prisoners to this day, when i wasnt in prison i was a number, consisting of the year and how many prisoners came before you this year, if i find my prisoner id i can tell you what my number used to be

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  2. Millions of germans kids, women, elderly and even animals during/after ww3 due to their indiscriminate bombing and shooting …. which became habit of western allies and continuing it even now…

    German govt MUST establish an institution to search, trace, collect data of killed innocent people and take it up with world…

    Failing this the allies continued killing in millions after ww2…and are continuing it even now…. let there should a stop to it at some level…

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  3. It’s so heartbreaking and sad to know that human beings went through this. Hate caused all of this. May all the souls of the victims rest in peace. The was one of the darkest times for humanity. It’s unimaginable to think what they went through.

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  4. Prisoners who wore a pink triangle were given that uniform because they were out LGBTQ people before being incarcerated. Prisoners with the pink triangle were also commonly forced to remain serving time in certain camps after said camps were liberated

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