What did the triangle mean on the gypsies armband?

Answer 1

Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in Nazi camps. They were used in the concentration camps in the Nazi-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and shirts of the prisoners. These mandatory badges of shame had specific meanings indicated by their color and shape.

• Red triangle-political prisoners: communists, trade unionists, liberals, social democrats, Freemasons, anarchists.
• Green triangle- "habitual criminals" (convicts, ofttimes Kapos, serving in exchange for reduced sentences or parole).
• Blue triangle-foreign forced laborers, emigrants.
• Pink triangle-sexual offenders which included homosexual men along with rapists, bestiality and paedophiles.
• Purple triangle-"Bible Students"

• Jehovah's Witnesses
• Dawn Bible Students
• Free Bible Students
• Reformed Seventh Day Adventists

• Black triangle-people who were deemed "asocial elements" and "work shy" including

• Roma (Gypsies), who were later assigned a brown triangle
• The mentally retarded
• The mentally ill
• Alcoholics
• Vagrants and beggars
• Pacifists
• Conscription resisters
• Prostitutes
• Some anarchists.
• Aristocrats

• Brown triangle-Roma (Gypsies) (previously wore the black triangle).
• Uninverted red triangle-an enemy POW, spy or a deserter.