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| | Nazi concentration camps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In most camps, prisoners were made to wear identifying overalls with colored badges according to their categorisation: red triangles for Communists and other political prisoners, green triangles for common criminals, pink for homosexual men, purple for Jehovah's Witnesses, fl for Gypsies and asocials, and yellow for Jews. |
 | | Sometimes the concentration camps were used to hold important prisoners, such as the generals involved in the attempted assassination of Hitler, U-Boat Captain turned Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller, and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris who was interned at Flossenburg in February 7, 1945, until he was hanged on April 9, shortly before the war's end. |
 | | German POWs, as well as a civilian members of a German, Ukrainian and other ethnic minorities between 1945 and 1956. |
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