Thursday, April 03, 2008

Yellow Badge Origin

The revival of medieval forms of anti-Jewish legislation in the Nazi era brought to the fore the problem of special marks for Jews. The first suggestion that such marks be instituted probably came from Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the German Security Police, at the historic meeting in

Hermann Göring's headquarters on November 12, 1938 No action on this specific subject was decided upon at this meeting.


From:


Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust, Philip Friedman, Jewish Publication Society of America, New York, 1980, p. 11

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