Purple triangle

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Purple triangle

The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify several unorthodox non-conformist religious groups known as "Bibelforscher".[1][2] Among these were mainly Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as a few members of Witness splinter groups, and members of the Adventist, Baptist, and New Apostolic movements.[3]

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  1. ^ Bibelforscher
  2. ^ Holocaust Revealed
  3. ^ 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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