[Leica] PESO: Leave me alone

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Tina

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:39 PM, CB <curtisbliss at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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