Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Giorno della Memoria - L'Arcobaleno dell'odio


The most common forms of the badge were:


Red triangle: political prisoners (Social Democrats, Communists, Freemasons, anarchists - some anarchists were also given the black triangle - and other "enemies of the state").
Green triangle: "habitual
criminals".
Blue triangle: Foreign Forced Laborers
Pink triangle: homosexual men and other sexual offenders.
Purple triangle: religious dissenters (Jehovah's Witnesses, Bible Student movement members, Quakers, Seventh-Day Adventists)
Black Triangle: so-called "Asocial elements" (Roma and Sinti - later given the Brown Triangle -, mentally retarded, alcoholics, vagrants, the habitually "work-shy", or prostitutes[1][2], some anarchists).
Double triangles: two superimposed triangles forming a
Star of David: ATwo superimposed yellow triangles: a Jew, by practice or descent.
Red inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one: a Jewish political prisoner.
Green inverted triangle upon a yellow one: a Jewish "habitual criminal".
Pink inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one, making the Star of David: a Jewish homosexual.
Yellow triangle superimposed over a black inverted triangle, or "voided" black inverted triangle superimposed over a yellow triangle: an
Aryan convicted of miscegenation and labeled as a "race defiler".

There were many markings and combinations. A prisoner would typically have at least two, and possibly more than six.

Monday, January 05, 2009

I primi post dell'anno

Un altro raccontino, alberesco.

Qualche foto del meraviglioso Parco dello Stelvio.

Mi ritrovo con poca voglia di commentare le cose atroci che succedono nel mondo, quindi rimango nelle mie piccolezze e guardo con le mani tra i capelli quello che succede a est, dove doveva sorgere una stella ogni sera per illuminare le nostre vite e il nostro mondo.