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- From: cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale)
- Subject: Re: question about the triangle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.105714.5373@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
- Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
- References: <1993Jan24.130204.10122@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1993Jan24.203055.26264@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1993Jan24.214507.6532@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:57:14 GMT
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- In <1993Jan24.214507.6532@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- mjw19@cl.cam.ac.uk (M.J. Williams) writes:
- >rb012b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Rod Bugarin-registered Democrat) writes:
- >>weaverli0469@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- >>>Just a quick question : What does the triangle stand for?
- >>
- >>From my understanding, it was used during Nazi Germany to identify gays or
- >>jews. I'm not sure. Basically, it is for a symbol for queer life, either
- >>queer-friendly or just queers. Hope that helps!!!!
- >
- >Not Jews, just various "social misfits" (Gays, Lesbians, Women who refused to
- >bear the children of the Master Race etc.). Jews wore stars.
-
- According to the book "The Men with the Pink Triangle", Jews in
- concentration camps wore yellow triangles. I think that the wearing of
- the Star of David might have been forced upon Jews in Nazi society
- _before_ the concentrations camps were started.
-
- Centuries before, the christian church used to force Jews to distinguish
- themselves by wearing some symbol; I think it was a yellow ribbon or
- scarf.
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-
- Ciaran.
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- ---- Ciaran McHale (cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie)
- \bi/ Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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