purple triangle
purple triangle noun: a Jehovah's Witness in Nazi Germany.
Noun
purple triangle (plural purple triangles)
- A Jehovah's Witness in Nazi Germany.
- Survivor Max Liebster recalls that the SS there isolated the Witnesses and declared their barracks off limits to other prisoners. In Melk, Polish survivor Joseph Kempler says he saw ‘a camp within a camp’ and was told that the SS kept the ‘purple triangles’ in it, dangerous prisoners because they...2004, M. James Penton, quoting Jolene Chu, “Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance”, in Judaism Today, Spring 1999, issue 12, →ISSN, pages 15–19, quoted in “Evaluating the Arguments and...
- I could tell it was a purple triangle coming down the camp street even before I saw the color of their triangle. They walked differently. The Jews and other prisoners shambled along, scuffling their feet, eyes downcast.2013 November 13, April Voytko Kempler, The Altered I: Memoir of Holocaust Survivor Joseph Kempler, LeRue Press (LRP), →ISBN, page 211
Forms of purple triangle
| plural | purple triangles |
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Origin of purple triangle
From the symbol worn by Jehovah's Witnesses at Nazi concentration camps.
Questions about purple triangle
- What does purple triangle mean?
- Purple triangle means a Jehovah's Witness in Nazi Germany.
- What part of speech is purple triangle?
- Purple triangle is a noun.
- What is the plural of purple triangle?
- The plural of purple triangle is purple triangles.
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