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Re: holocaust babies - stylish or sick?

Posted by Dante on Sunday, August 31 2014 at 8:26:37PM
In reply to holocaust babies - stylish or sick? posted by apple on Saturday, August 30 2014 at 1:19:24PM

Well, aside from the fact that there's no similarity whatsoever, they have a point. ;p

Concentration Camp inmates "pyjamas" had stripes about 3 times thicker which ran up-down, not left right.

And... the ball-ended six-pointed star was NEVER used by the Nazis because they weren't staging an American Western. It is about as common in the old West as the five-point star with ball-ends and the seven-pointed variant.

Further, within the camps the civilian clothing with the yellow star was confiscated. The coloring system for most camps was based on the Dachau scheme assigned all Jews as red-triangle political prisoners with an upward facing yellow triangle in the background ( or later a yellow bar above ) to indicate "jewish political prisoner."

Though I have found no photos of the yellow star alone on any striped camp uniform, it seems as if the Buchenwald camp may have used it this way. The closest photo evidence for this is of the Dutch, with the "N" superimposed to indicate "Nederlander jew." There is also testimonial evidence from Buchenwald that this was the case.

So yes, the togs are evocative of Death-Camp clothes for those without any knowledge whatsoever. But it hardly honors the memories of those killed in the Holocaust to be willfully ignorant enough to see Nazi symbols everywhere they look.

Dante

Dante





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