How the Nazis used uniforms to differentiate concentration camp prisoners 

I've been to a few different camps trying to understand what they went through. I can't even begin to understand how they felt in these camps but i believe we should never let them be forgotten.

My great-grandfather was a prisoner in KL Buchenwald. I found his documentation in archives and it said he was a political prisoner (after the Warsaw Uprising), but they kept him alive because he was a qualified metalworker. I must say, their archives are amazingly detailed. Pity it documents the oceans of suffering

Thank you for bringing light to this and not letting this tragedy be forgotten

In high school, we were able to meet 2 camp survivors. It is one of my greatest moments of my life. Feel sad for future generations that will never be able to meet people that actually were there

RIP to all those who perished. You will always be remembered and loved❤😢

A registered nurse that I worked with in the 60s and early 70s had been a prisoner in one of the well-known camps. She got tears in her eyes when talking about getting a bag of potatoes for everyone to eat in there and what a treasure it was.. Nothing else, but a potato, but they had been so hungry with nothing to eat…. potatoes were gourmet to them. I can still see her talking about this and the horrible things that they went through. We must never forget.

Thank you for keeping history alive!

I read a story about a woman whose job it was to sort the clothes. She would put on rags from the other prisoners & go to work. There she would exchange her clothing & shoes for better stuff & then go back to her place & give the new clothes to the other prisoners . She did this her entire stay so others would have good & warm clothes. Very brave lady

Lots of my older ancestors went to concentration camps luckily my grandma didn’t and survived she wrote a book on her life she was 6 when it happened

This should be taught in all schools We must NEVER forget😢

Before this I only knew of the yellow triangle/star and the pink triangle thank you for sharing this!

I was stationed in west Germany, 1986-88, I went to Dachau

Anything to do with these camps literally makes me feel physically sick. I find it so painful that humans treated other humans like they did.and then went home to their families and acted normal. And I’m not Jewish but I feel their pain.

I could never understand how anyone could treat anyone else so unfeelingly. Hearts of stone.

We should not forget the Anglo Boer war in the 1900 between British and the Boers. Many women and children died in British concentration camps in South Africa during the second Anglo boer war. 24000 women and 3400 children died. If it was not for British English women Emily Hophouse more women and children would have died.

The horrors those people endured…..

Makes me so sad to see what people went through 😢

The film ' boy in the strips pajamas ' (slow start ... but....) a movie that really made me go whoa* and has never left my mind.

It is also worth noting how the colour you wore could affect treatment by both guards and prisoners. In many cases those who wore pink triangles were persecuted by guards and prisoners alike. these people suffered one of the highest death rates in the camps by category. People charged under 175 were not allowed to access financial aid postwar unlike other survivors

This breaks my heart

Here’s some more info I found on the meanings of the different color triangles: Red triangle - political prisoners: social democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, gentiles who assisted Jews; trade unionists and Freemasons Green triangle - convicts and criminals (often working as kapos) Blue triangle - foreign forced laborers and emigrants. Purple triangle - primarily Jehovah’s Witnesses (over 99%) as well as members of other small pacifist religious groups. Pink triangle - primarily homosexual men and those identified as such at the time (e.g., bisexual men, trans women) and sexual offenders as well as pedophiles and zoophiles. Black triangle - people who were deemed asocial elements (asozial) and work-shy (arbeitsscheu), including Roma and Sinti.

Thats actually very interesting, thank you for the information!

My greatgrandfather died there in Neuengamme, november 1942, he would have worn a red triangle.

Wow, that penciled picture at the end really hit home.

So amazing that these printed records survived. Thank you for helping these dead souls speak for themselves. Don't forget that prisoners had their numbers tattooed on their arms. This was a way of dehumanizing the prisoners, taking away their names, and turning them into mere numbers. I live in Canada and I have seen the arm tattoos of many people as I was growing up. I always had to fight back tears. I can't begin to imagine the horrors that these brave people endured. Yes, yellow for Jewish people, and pink for gays. NEVER AGAIN.

Thank you 🙏 I thought it was just the yellow star. Very informative!!❤️

They died of hunger in the last days, not gassed. Britain cut of all supplies to the camp

Also, a pink triangle to designate that a person was homosexual. Pink was worn by many men before WWII, but afterward the color was stigmatized and often still is today.

Purple triangles were Jehovas Witneses

I worked at a psych hospital in the late 90's. It was in westchester ny. We had some floridly psychotic patients come in, and one had a large amount of bugs on them. After delousing, i felt absolutely contaminated. I went to the mall and had my head shaved as i was going to meet up with a girl after work. When I came back, multiple dr s and social workers said i looked horribly intimidating. A dr who didn’t usually come in said, "he looks wonderdul, and you know who he is. Stop being obnoxious. With that, everyone was silent. I said thank you. She patted my leg and stood up. As she did for the dirst time, i noticed the tattoo on her arm. It was the dirst time i saw someone with a concentration camp tattoo. I have to admit. I nearly burst into tears. And im not a cry in public kind of cat.

And yet there is a growing number of people saying this is all fake 😒😞

We must continue to teach this to future generations. We must never forget.

Thank you for this video This was Never taught to us...

My great-great-grandfather was actually a prisoner in this concentration camp for not wanting to fight in the war. He and his brother escaped from the frontlines but while his brother had the 'excuse' of marrying his wife, he himself didn't have enough reasons not to fight and was sent to Neuengamme. After the war, he died of a sickness he caught there. A few years ago I visited with my class and before that my grandma told me about this, makes the topic even heavier if you know your own family was affected.

This is the only good reason to film a tiktok at a concentration camp

I never knew there were so many different patches that could be worn. Great video.

We’re learning about this in school!

What a beautiful German voice. I could listen all day.

On top of my sadness I'm also angry that there are some people who deny any of this ever happened and not even out of shame. How blinkered does a person have to be? We don't forget...ever!

I'd like to see this complete broadcast.

Thank you for content that makes humanity better.

Talk about the Holodomor now 🙃

The sad part of this is it happened and people have forgotten what hate does. 😢

Thank you for telling their story.

I felt like this was all pretty common and well-known information. It’s interesting to see all the commenters that are just learning about this

Gotta love german matculousness, efficiency and attention to detail.. 👀 very technical

Never forget, history Never repeat,God bless their souls

Other symbols not discussed in video - Circle under the triangle meant flight risk and line on top meant youre a multiple offender. If you had "relations" with a Jewish person youd get a triangle for that too

My grandfather died at a concentration camp. He fell from the tower.

Neuengamme is the name of the former concentration camp she is in. These places must be remembered

Thanks for this.I badly needed it

It was a working camp.

Wow I have never learned this. This should be placed in history books.

Very, very interesting. I never knew about this practice.

My grandfather died a Dachau. A tragic story - he got drunk on elicit spirits and fell out of his watchtower.

Every single person on this Earth needs to go visit the remains of those concentration camps at least once in their life. It is vitally important for us to never forget the atrocities perpetrated on human beings by other human beings. We can't let this kind of thing be forgotten.

Thank you. If we forget history, we will repeat it.

Be sure to also visite other concentrationcamps. Not all camps are looking the same. Neuengamme ,Hamburg is a good place to start diving into this historic event :)

Very very sad situation! God bless all of them and their families

It is so sad, what people had to go through. It brings me to tears watching this. It is unbelievable, how badly people were treated.

Thanks I was looking for more examples other than the pink triangle and the star of David

The men with the pink triangles were treated the worse

Being held against your will. Beaten and harnessed, some lived a very short time doing manual labor until they died from being beat for not working fast enough. Let us never forget who they were and what they went through. Thank you for bringing this to light.

We MUST NOT forget.😢

My great Grandfather was in the Wehrmacht

Upside down Purple Triangle were for Jehovahs Witnesses.

We also need to understand that IBM was directly involved in tracking all of the prisoners using card reader technology. It started out with their expertise in census taking. This naturally translated to categorizing all of the different Jews and where they came from. It also tracked their heritage.

Great video

Great educational video. Seeing it done by DW fills me with joy. Good to have German people on the good side of history this time around :) Germans should be proud of themselves, not about the dark history but how You overcame it.

Those with pink triangles were likely persecuted by other prisoners, but never those who wore purple triangles, who always tried to be kind and supportive....as they could be anyway. Interesting because the Bible that they followed so stoically, condemmned homosexual acts. Acts, not the people.

I hope & pray that history never repeats itself what suffering that these men, women & children went through was pure evil, may God bless all the souls who never made it mat they rest in eternal peace🙏🌹💔😪☘️🇮🇪

Never knew that. I have read a great deal tho. Thank u so much. Blessings

If you are sickened by human suffering you should know that the Israel Government and their IDF is slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent humans as you read this. Educate yourself and spread the word.

We can’t let this ever happen again 😢may they Rest In Peace 🕊

Very thankful for the story

Had a neighbor growing up that served in the army during World War II in Europe and his outfit liberated a concentration camp I don’t know which one but he said that to himself I’m gonna be nice to everybody I ever see he was always nice to me. I never knew that he was in the army during World War II, I heard about these stories after he had died

The pink triangle are gays. They still use that as a symbol of theirs.

Let's also document what modern days jews in Israel are doing to the Palestinians shall we? It feels like a grudge but on the worng people.

It's good to keep the stories alive! Education of the young is the only way to keep this cycle from repeating itself!

The pegs through the cards is horrifying. They were never leaving.

The labels system was also supported by the IBM computer system which played major role in helping SS to run the camps

In 1978 as the dependent of a US Army father our middle School in Schweinfurt Germany had a class trip to Dachau. The photos if how the people were treated caused me to have strange dreams. The smell of the unwashed people was still strong in the wooden barracks they were kept in. We were shown the gas chamber, the ovens used to cremate, labs where the experiments happened, and the guards quarters. Humans can be so ignorant and heartless to treat each other and earth like trash

I'm currently staying near Belsen. Every day I can't decide if I should go there or not.

Your Prime Minister Netanyahu is Doing the Same thing to Palestinians Today.

Thank you for this information brings to light how more awful practices of the ungodly regime of a mad man .What a huge and tragic loss for the world 😢. I am not Jewish I am a Christian from the US .

They would sometimes gun down U.S soldiers who were put in the camps as a PO. It was a dark war but it has brought people closer from hating a common enemy.

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Yeah right. How did they tell who got pool privileges and who didn’t

I never knew this. Thank you 🙏🏼

They also used tags to house them they didn’t want political prisoners mixing with others it’s so horrible.

I don't know why this is on my feed. But I feel like I owe the ones who suffered, to watch them.

Very sad so many lost souls 💔 😢

These horrible places must never be forgotten. How evil people can and will be must be shown to help prevent this in the future. I toured Manzanar in southern California's desert, a horrible place with sad wind.

Wow😮 Happy this time is over. You are Awesome ❤

Do a show about the human rights in Palestine, if you really care about human rights for all peoples

Purple triangles

Do a documentary on Palestinian prisoners.

very interesting!

Jehová Witness. What triangle they got.?

Look up how the treated the purple triangles