Thread: #PrideMonth
In Nazi concentration camps, each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the reason for their imprisonment;
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In Nazi concentration camps, each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the reason for their imprisonment;
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A pink triangle was established for prisoners identified as homosexual men, which also included bisexual men and transgender women. The pink triangles were slightly larger than the other colored triangles so that guards could identify them from a distance.
It is said that those who wore the pink triangles were singled out by the guards, and when the guards were finished with them, some of the other inmates would harm them as well.
At the end of the war, when the concentration camps were finally liberated, all of the prisoners were released except those who wore the pink triangle.
Those with a pink triangle on their pocket were put back in prison and their nightmare continued. Prisoners imprisoned for homosexuality were re-incarcerated by the USA led Allied-established Federal Republic of Germany.
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The Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, which turned homosexuality from a minor offense into a felony, remained intact in East Germany until 1968 and in West Germany until 1969, though West Germany continued to imprison those identified as homosexual until 1994.
Its important to know this piece of history when west is going gaga over pride month and major brands from developed countries are enforcing the idea of acceptance in conservative societies of Asia or Africa while themselves being the major oppressor of LGBT community throughout.
Conservative socities in India, Japan or even china have treated queers far better than their virtue signalling societies of so called superior west.
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