Purple triangle
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The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify several unorthodox non-conformist religious groups known as "Bibelforscher".[1][2] Among these were mainly Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as a few members of Witness splinter groups, and members of the Adventist, Baptist, and New Apostolic movements.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Bibelforscher
- ^ Holocaust Revealed
- ^ Johannes S. Wrobel, Jehovah’s Witnesses in National Socialist Concentration Camps, 1933 – 45, Religion, State & Society, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 89-125 (Johannes S. Wrobel is head of the Watchtower History Archive of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Selters/Taunus, Germany. His article states, "The concentration camp prisoner category ‘Bible Student’ at times apparently included a few members from small Bible Student splinter groups, as well as adherents of other religious groups which played only a secondary role during the time of the National Socialists regime, such as Adventists, Baptists and the New Apostolic community".)
[edit] External links
- [1] US Holocaust Memorial Museum summary
- [2] "Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany" University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- [3] "Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialist concentration camps, 1933-45," by Johannes S. Wrobel, Religion, State and Society vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2006), 89-125
- Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance by Jolene Chu, originally published in Judaism Today, No. 12, Spring 1999
- Purple Triangle: An Untold Story of the Holocaust
- Sustained Through Terrible Trials by Éva Josefsson, The Watchtower June 1, 1998
- Jehovah's Witnesses: Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril, Awake! July 8, 1998
- They Triumphed Over Persecution, The Watchtower March 1, 2003
- (Detlef Garbe 2008) Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich. Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in association with University of Wisconsin Press.
- Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Distributor). (1991). Purple Triangles [VHS]. United States of America: Starlock Pictures.