11 million

A lot of you have been talking about what Nick brought to our attention on thursday and I agree in it's importance. In the documentary "paper clips", which I talked about in an earlier post, the students set out to collect 6 million clips in memory of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. After their study of the event, they decided to place 11 million in the memorial to honor all that died as a result of this horrible event.

I wanted to stress that it wasn't just religious freedom that was denied, it sometimes was a difference in political views that landed you on the list. We see some of this in Playing for Time. Here is a list of the different types of badges worn in Nazi Germany. We are familiar with the yellow star, but not many people know of the others here:

• Red Triangle – Political

• Green Triangle – Professional Criminals

• Black Triangle – Asocial

• Purple Triangle – Catholic Clergy

• Pink Triangle – Homosexual

• Yellow Star – Jewish

• Violet Triangle – Jehovah Witnesses

The "Asocial" category included prostitutes, vagrants, murderers, thieves, lesbians, and those who violated laws prohibiting sexual intercourse between Aryans and Jews.


-Mr. Jackson