Holocaust

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jbor schrieb:

> I'm not sure whether the different types of prisoners had coloured triangles
> on their clothes or painted on their backs so they were immediately
> identifiable in Dora as they were at Auschwitz or while they were on the
> "Death Marches"
                 
    from the photos i've seen i got the impression that the                     
    dora prisoners did not regulary wear the coloured triangles.   

> -- Horak describes this tagging and the "hierarchy" of
> prisoners in Auschwitz and the Eastern labour camps she was in in vivid
> detail. If so it is something which Pynchon has omitted from his text.

    on the hierachy of prisoners see also eugen kogon's buchenwald-report     
   (it's also, imo, still one of the most profound studies on the concentration 
   camp system): "der ss-staat. das system der deutschen konzentrationslager"   
   (22. edition, münchen 1989: heyne), where kogon reports that the queer       
   prisoners, wearing the pink triangle, were always at the hierachy's low      
   end. there's an impressive theatre play on queer concentration camp        
   prisoners i've seen once in the 80s. unfortunately i forgot the author's     
   name, but i still remember the title: "rosa winkel". anyone? 

kfl