Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's going to be such a migrane to keep track of!? Will the Gub ment pass out little booklets to keep it all organized?? I hope they do and are charged $210 each but of course hand them out for free, with a penalty on income tax for anyone who doesn't pick one up of course.?? :-) From: George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Leave me alone On May 9, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > On May 9, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Jim Shulman wrote: > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/leave+me+alone+sm.jpg.html >> >> >> >> Konica IIIA, Plus-X. >> >> ?Because the lens alone is worth the price.? >> >> >> >> Now there are 30 states where my husband and I have to wear our pink >> triangle armbands.? So glad that civil liberties are left to a plebiscite. > > and the yellow star...? Single triangles ??? ? Red triangle?political prisoners: liberals, communists, trade unionists, royalists, social democrats and socialists, Freemasons,anarchists. ??? ? Green triangle? "professional criminals" (convicts, often Kapos, serving in exchange for reduced sentences or parole). ??? ? Blue triangle?foreign forced laborers, emigrants. ??? ? Pink triangle?sexual offenders, mostly homosexual men but rarely rapists, zoophiles and paedophiles.[2] ??? ? Purple triangle? Bible Students ??? ??? ? primarily Jehovah's Witnesses; see also Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany ??? ??? ? Free Bible Students ??? ??? ? International Missionary Society ??? ? Black triangle?people who were deemed "asocial elements" and "work shy" including ??? ??? ? Roma (Gypsies), who were later assigned a brown triangle ??? ??? ? The mentally ill ??? ??? ? Alcoholics ??? ??? ? Vagrants and beggars ??? ??? ? Pacifists ??? ??? ? Conscription resisters ??? ??? ? Prostitutes[3][4][dead link] ??? ??? ? Some anarchists ??? ??? ? Drug addicts ??? ??? ? Lesbians ??? ? Brown triangle?Roma (Gypsies) (previously wore the black triangle).[5] ??? ? Uninverted red triangle?an enemy POW, spy or a deserter. People who wore the green and pink triangles were convicted in criminal courts and may have been transferred to the criminal prison systems after the camps were liberated. [edit]Double triangles Disabled Jews with a black triangle on a yellow ? "asocial Jews". Buchenwald, 1938. Double-triangle badges resembled two superimposed triangles forming a Star of David, a Jewish symbol. ??? ? Two superimposed yellow triangles, the "Yellow badge"?a Jew ??? ? Red inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one?a Jewish political prisoner ??? ? Green inverted triangle upon a yellow one?a Jewish "habitual criminal" ??? ? Purple inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one?a Jehovah's Witness of Jewish descent[6] ??? ? Pink inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one?a Jewish "sexual offender" ??? ? Black inverted triangle superimposed upon a yellow one?"asocial" and "work shy" Jews ??? ? Voided black inverted triangle superimposed over a yellow triangle?a Jew convicted of miscegenation and labeled as a "race defiler" ??? ? Yellow inverted triangle superimposed over a black triangle?an Aryan (woman) convicted of miscegenation and labeled as a "race defiler" Like those who wore pink and green triangles, people in the bottom two categories would have been convicted in criminal courts. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information