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>Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system ofidentification in Nazi camps. They were used in theconcentration campsin theNazi-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there.[1]The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and trousers of the prisoners. These mandatorybadges of shamehad specific meanings indicated by their colour and shape.

>Redtriangle —political prisoners:SOCIAL DEMOCRATS,SOCIALISTS,COMMUNISTS, andANARCHISTS;rescuers of Jews;trade unionists; andFreemasons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge


Were they socialists now? Then why exterminate socialists?

>No one in the SA spoke more loudly for "a continuation of the German revolution" (as one prominent stormtrooper put it) than Röhm.[i]Röhm, as one of the earliest members of the Nazi Party, had participated in the MunichBeer Hall Putsch, an attempt by Hitler to seize power by force in 1923. A combat veteran ofWorld War I, Röhm had recently boasted that he would execute 12 men in retaliation for the killing of any stormtrooper.[12]Röhm saw violence as a means to political ends. He took seriously the socialist promise of National Socialism, and demanded that Hitler and the other party leaders initiate wide-ranging socialist reform in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives