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↑ " Homosexual Prisoners - The Era of the Holocaust".
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↑ Biedroń, Robert: " Nazism's Pink Hell".
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Waxman, Olivia B.: " How the Nazi Regime's Pink Triangle Symbol Was Repurposed for LGBTQ Pride" ().
Lesbians, bisexual women, and trans men were not systematically imprisoned, though when they were, some were classified as "asocial" and forced to wear a black triangle. Those assigned a pink triangle were considered to be at the very bottom of the camp hierarchy. The triangle was pink for anyone who was a gay man, bisexual man, or transgender woman, as well as a "sexual deviant", including zoophiles and pedophiles in addition to sex offenders. Īfterward, the concentration camps started to require each prisoner to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the reason for their imprisonment. Nazi Germany used a downward-pointing pink triangle to identify gay men.īefore the use of the pink triangle, gay male prisoners in Nazi concentration camps were marked by a variety of symbols: a green triangle to identify gay criminals a red triangle for gay political prisoners the number "175" was used in reference to Paragraph 175 of the German penal code, which criminalized homosexual activity or the letter "A", which stood for Arschficker and literally translates as "arse fucker".