My understanding is that they wore them as a silent protest of Hitler's regime. They weren't forced to wear them; it was an act of resistance.
The Norwegians used the paper clips as a symbol during the Holocaust.
A group of students from Tennessee collected millions of paperclips in honor of those lost during the Holocaust. The Paper Clip Project became public and celebrities and politicians began sending paper clips to the school. These paper clips were then used to build a memorial for the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
They wore at as a sign saying we dislike you Nazis. You feel me dog
Whitwell Middle School.
6 Million Paper clips for how many people died in the holocaust!
Yes, paper clips are made of metal and can be recycled. If paper clips and staples are left attached to recycled paper they are separated during the recycling process and can be recycled as metal.
When Hitler invaded Norway, he prohibited the people from wearing any symbol representing their king. To protest this and Hitler's treatment of the Jews, Norwegians began wearing the paper clip on their lapels, the paper clip having been invented by a Norwegian Jew. It was very brave of them as the punishment for doing so could be imprisonment, deportation, or execution. But they did it anyway.
6.02 x 10^23 paper clips (602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 p. clips).
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500 paper clips
Paper Clips Project was created in 2004.
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