Black triangle (badge)

The inverted black triangle (German: schwarzer Winkel) was an identification badge used in Nazi concentration camps to mark prisoners designated "asocial" ("a(nti-)social") and arbeitsscheu ("work-shy"). The Roma and Sinti people (Gypsies) were considered asocial and tagged with the black triangle. The Yenish were also counted among the "asocials". The designation also included disabled individuals, alcoholics, beggars, homeless people, nomads, and prostitutes (though male sex workers were marked with the pink triangle), as well as violators of laws prohibiting sexual relations between Aryans and Jews. LGBTQ women, transgender men or transmasculine individuals, and other transgender or otherwise LGBTQ people assigned female at birth were also deemed to be anti-social, including lesbians and others deemed as nonconformists.