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Identifying Prisoners: The Marking System 

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Identifying Prisoners: The Marking System 

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From 1938, Jews in the camps were identified by a yellow star

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sewn onto their prison uniforms, a perversion of the Jewish Star of David

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symbol. After 1939 and with some variation from camp to camp, the categories of prisoners were easily identified by a marking system combining a colored inverted triangle with lettering. The badges sewn onto prisoner uniforms enabled SS guards to identify the alleged grounds for incarceration.

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During the last year of the war, as the Germans retreated into the Reich itself, the concentration camp population (Jewish and non-Jewish) suffered catastrophic losses due to starvation, exposure, disease, and mistreatment.

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This image shows Soviet prisoners of war walking, possibly a death march. This shows how they treated prisoners and Jews.

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From as early as 1934, concentration camp commandants used prisoners as forced laborers for SS construction projects such as the construction or expansion of the camps themselves.

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Entrance to the gas chamber in Auschwitz I

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Entrance to the gas chamber in Auschwitz I

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This shows the entrance to a gas chamber, which is weird because it looks like a normal house.

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This is interesting because it shows how little the camps changed during their time of being up.

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I picked this image of an early concentration camp because its very interesting to see how they started out. 