Life in the camp Ravensbrück concentration camp
road roller when new prisoner arrived @ ravensbrück required wear colour-coded triangle (a winkel) identified category, letter sewn within triangle indicating prisoner s nationality. example, polish women wore red triangles, denoting political prisoner, letter p . (by 1942, polish women became largest national component @ camp.) soviet prisoners of war, , german , austrian communists wore red triangles; common criminals wore green triangles; , jehovah s witnesses labelled lavender triangles. prostitutes, romani, lesbians, or women refused marry classified separately, black triangles. jewish women wore yellow triangles sometimes, unlike other prisoners, wore second triangle other categories. example, quite rassenschande ( racial pollution ). some detainees had hair shaved, such czechoslovakia , poland, other transports did not. in 1943, instance, group of norwegian women came camp. (norwegians/scandinavians ranked nazis purest of aryans.) none had hair shaved. between 1942 , 1943, jewi...