[Leica] PESO: Leave me alone

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

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.

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