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All members of the SS had to have tattoos. Others did not need tattoos.

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Only ethnic Germans and the SS police escaped the registration tattoos, in Nazi Germany. Tattoos were used to mark and tract prisoners who were sent to the labor camps. Jews, homosexuals, the mentally ill, Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, blacks and the Roma were all tattooed - while in forced labor concentration camps.

The Nazis initiated the tattooing program at Auschwitz in mid-1941, but soon the number system was out dated - due to the execution of more inmates than actual live prisoners. Instead, the Nazis introduced a new system that was distinct to each division of the extermination camp - Josef Mengele, who performed inhumane scientific experiments on prisoners, tattooed his own distinct number series on those prisoners depending on where in his camp they were assigned.

The purpose was not only to identify but to degrade - making these people a mere number in the system - so less than human. It is horrifying still today how inhumane a human can be.

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