SYMBOLS OF PSYCHIATRIC PRIDE IN HONOUR OF NAZI VICTIMS

Annie Goslyn

Fifty years ago, each group killed in Nazi Germany was
forced to wear a badge, such as the yellow triangles in the
shape of a star of David for the Jews, pink triangles for
homosexual men, black triangles for lesbians, gypsies and
criminals and the little known badge of the psychiatrically
labelled.  The mentally ill were the first group to be
killed.  The badge sewn onto their concentration camp
clothing was an inverted black triangle with a yellow
triangle over the top of it.  In memory of the 275,000
killed, badges have been made.  They are available from:

The Flemish Survivors' Movement
Gitschotellel 236-5
2140 Borgerhout
Antwerp
BELGIUM

Quoted from _Progress_, Newsletter of ANOPS (the Aotearoa
Network of Psychiatric Survivors), PO Box 46-108, Herne Bay,
Auckland, New Zealand.