Purple triangle

The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify several religious minorities. As an inherently Christian-based phenomenon [Steigmann-Gall, Richard. "The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945". Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521823714] [Jones, Prudence, and Nigel Pennick, 1997, "A History of Pagan Europe" (London, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-15804-4), pp. 196-197.] Flowers, Stephen E., and Michael Moynihan, 2007, "The Secret King: The Myth and Reality of Nazi Occultism" (Feral House/Dominion, ISBN 978-1-932595-25-3), pp. 28, 30-31.] [Höhne, Heinz, 1969, "The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS" (Martin Secker & Warburg), pp. 138, 143-5, 156-57.] [Collections of sources: [http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/NSChristianity.html Online documentation with sources and photos] - [http://www.nobeliefs.com/speeches.htm Hitler's speaches about Christianity] - [http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/paul_23_4.html Online document with photos and sources] - [http://nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm Photo gallery on Christianity and Nazism providing evidence of both Christo-Nazi symbolism and Christo-Nazi conjoined authorities] ] , Nazism opposed all non-Christian or unorthodox-Christian religious minorities (along with Jews). [ [http://www.cesnur.org/2006/sd_chryssides.htm Bibelforscher] ] [ [http://www.holocaustrevealed.org/_domain/holocaustrevealed.org/badges.htm Holocaust Revealed ] ]

Among these communities were mainly Jehovah's Witnesses (known as "Bibelforscher", "Bible scholars") and Germanic Neopagans, as well as a few members of Witness splinter groups, and members of the Adventist, Baptist, and New Apostolic movements. [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".)]

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* [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005394] US Holocaust Memorial Museum summary
* [http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/steyer/jWitnesses.html] "Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany" University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
* [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09637490600624691] "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
* [http://www.baycrest.org/Spring%202001/article12.htm Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance] by Jolene Chu, originally published in "Judaism Today", No. 12, Spring 1999
* [http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/PurpleTriangle.html Purple Triangle: An Untold Story of the Holocaust]
* [http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980601/article_01.htm Sustained Through Terrible Trials] by Éva Josefsson, "The Watchtower" June 1, 1998
* [http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm Jehovah's Witnesses: Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril] , "Awake!" July 8, 1998
* [http://www.watchtower.org/e/20030301/article_02.htm They Triumphed Over Persecution] , "The Watchtower" March 1, 2003
*cite book | people=Garbe, Detlef | year=Detlef Garbe 2008 | url=| title=Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich | location=Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin | publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in association with University of Wisconsin Press
*cite video | people=Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Distributor) | year=1991 | url=| title=Purple Triangles | medium=VHS | location=United States of America | publisher=Starlock Pictures