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May 29, 1942:
Jews in Paris are forced to sew a yellow star on their coats
On this day in 1942, on the advice of Nazi propaganda minister
Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler orders all Jews in occupied Paris
to wear an identifying yellow star on the left side of their
coats.
Joseph Goebbels had made the persecution, and ultimately the
extermination, of Jews a personal priority from the earliest days
of the war, often recording in his diary such statements as:
"They are no longer people but beasts," and "[T]he Jews... are
now being evacuated eastward. The procedure is pretty barbaric
and is not to be described here more definitely. Not much will
remain of the Jews."
But Goebbels was not the first to suggest this particular form of
isolation. "The yellow star may make some Catholics shudder,"
wrote a French newspaper at the time. "It renews the most
strictly Catholic tradition." Intermittently, throughout the
history of the papal states, that territory in central Italy
controlled by the pope, Jews were often confined to ghettoes and
forced to wear either yellow hats or yellow stars.
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