• Imprisonment
    Purple Triangles—“Forgotten Victims” of the Nazi Regime
    • Collage: 1. Theodor Sponsel’s prisoner card. 2. Theodor Sponsel in his camp uniform. 3. A group of Jehovah’s Witnesses after their release from a concentration camp.

      Prisoner Card: Häftlingspersonalbogen Theodor Sponsel, Buchenwald, 1.1.5.3/7169220/​ITS Digital Archive, Arolsen Archives

      32 Camp bureaucracy meticulously kept account of all inmates. After the dissolution of the Niederhagen concentration camp (1939-1943; for some time the camp was under the jurisdiction of the Sachsenhausen camp), a “remaining labor group,” consisting almost entirely of Jehovah’s Witnesses, stayed at Wewelsburg. Theodor Sponsel was one of them.​—(Group picture taken shortly after liberation in 1945.)