Purple triangle
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The purple triangle was one of several Nazi concentration camp badges inmates were required to wear, to identify them to guards by class. A purple triangle was used for Jehovah's Witnesses.
- "Incarcerated by the hundreds, the Witnesses in camps bore on their uniforms the purple triangle, the only camp symbol designating a non-Jewish religious group." - Jolene Chu (first link below)
See also:Nazi concentration camp badges
External links
- Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance (http://www.baycrest.org/Spring%202001/article12.htm) by Jolene Chu, originally published in Judaism Today, No. 12, Spring 1999
- Purple Triangle:An Untold Story of the Holocaust (http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/PurpleTriangle.html)
- From The Watchtower June 1, 1998 by Jehovah's Witnesses (http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1998/6/1/article_01.htm)
- From Awake!July 8, 1998 by Jehovah's Witnesses (http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1998/7/8/article_01.htm)
- From The Watchtower March 1, 2003 by Jehovah's Witnesses (http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_02.htm#_top_)