Editing Pink triangle (section)

===Nazi prisoner identification ===

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In [[Nazi concentration camps]], each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral [[Nazi concentration camp badges|triangular cloth badge]] on their chest, the color of which identified the stated reason for their imprisonment.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://libapp.shadygrove.umd.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/the-era-of-the-holocaust/homosexual-prisoners|title=Homosexual Prisoners · The Era of the Holocaust ·|website=libapp.shadygrove.umd.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-27}}</ref> Early on, prisoners perceived as gay men were variously identified with a green triangle (indicating criminals) or red triangle (political prisoners), the number ''175'' (referring to [[Paragraph 175]], the section of the German penal code criminalizing homosexual activity), or the letter ''A'' (which stood for {{lang|de|Arschficker}}, literally "arse fucker").<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1003651|title=Homosexuals in Nazi Germany - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|website=collections.ushmm.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-27}}</ref>

Later, the use of a pink triangle was established for prisoners identified as homosexual men and transgender women. ([[Lesbians|Lesbian]] and bisexual women and [[trans men]] were not systematically imprisoned; some were classified as "asocial", wearing a [[Black triangle (badge)|black triangle]].)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2016/12/20/queer-women-and-afab-people-during-the-holocaust|title=Queer Women and AFAB People During the Holocaust|work=Making Queer History|access-date=2018-08-24|language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lesbians and the Third Reich |url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lesbians-and-the-third-reich |website=Holocaust Encyclopedia |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |access-date=24 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref> The pink triangle was also assigned to others considered sexual deviants, including [[Zoophilia|zoophiles]] and pedophiles<ref name=":1" /> in addition to sex offenders. If a prisoner was also identified as [[Jewish]], the triangle was superimposed over a second yellow triangle pointing the opposite way, to resemble the [[Star of David]] like the [[yellow badge]] identifying other Jews. Prisoners wearing a pink triangle were harshly treated by most other prisoners.<ref name=":1" />

After the camps were liberated at the end of the Second World War, some of the prisoners imprisoned for homosexuality were re-incarcerated by the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]]-established [[Federal Republic of Germany]], as the Nazi laws against homosexuality were not repealed there until 1969.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Snopes |title=Were Gay Concentration Camp Prisoners 'Put Back in Prison' After World War II? |date=11 October 2018 |author=Arturo Garcia |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gay-prisoners-germany-wwii/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Gay Men under the Nazi Regime|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gay-men-under-the-nazi-regime|access-date=2022-01-28|website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org|language=en}}</ref> The Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, which turned homosexuality, previously labeled as a minor offense, into a [[felony]], remained intact in East Germany until 1968.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/documentary-explores-gay-and-lesbian-oppression-in-east-germany-a-883707.html |title=Documentary Explores Gay Life in East Germany |author=James Kirchick |date=February 13, 2013 |agency=Der Spiegel}}</ref> In 2002 the [[Government of Germany|German government]] issued an official apology to [[gay men]] who were persecuted during the war.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/world/germany/genews011.htm |title=Germany Offers Nazi-Era Pardons |author=Melissa Eddy |date=May 18, 2002 |agency=Associated Press}}<!-- not official URL but it has the full text --></ref>

[[Rudolf Brazda]], one of the last known homosexual concentration camp survivors, died on August 3, 2011, at the age of 98.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Langer |first1=Emily |title=Rudolf Brazda dies; gay man who survived Nazi concentration camp was 98 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rudolf-brazda-dies-gay-man-who-survived-nazi-concentration-camp-was-98/2011/08/05/gIQAUlb90I_story.html |access-date=22 August 2018 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=7 August 2011 |language=en}}</ref>