See also: Star (homonymy)
The yellow star was a part of fabric in form of star of David and color Jaune, that the Nazi regime forced the Juif S like distinctive sign to be related to their Vêtement S, in Germany and in the zones which it occupied at that time (France, Netherlands, etc).
Description
In the center of yellow star, in certain countries, the Mot designating was also registered the Jews in the local Langue: “Jude” in Germany, “Jew” in France, “Jood” with the Netherlands, simple “a J” in Belgium (which meant “Jood” for the Dutch-speaking ones, and “Jew” for the French-speaking people), “HŽ” in Slovakia.
Setting-up
The yellow star was founded by a decree of September 1st, 1941, signed by Reinhard Heydrich, then Reichsminister of Innern (Minister of Interior Department). All the old Jews of more than six years had then to carry it in a quite visible way each time they were shown in public, without what they were exposed, even by negligence, with a Amende or detention.
It acts in fact in its finality of a more recent adaptation of the principle of the Rouelle of 1215.
Caption port of yellow star by the Danes not-Jews
A legend wants that, during the occupation of Denmark by the Nazi Germany, the king Christian X, even according to the versions, the not-Jewish population as a whole, carried also yellow star in order to support their Jewish fellow-citizens while making ineffective the measurement of the occupant.
However, measurement not having been imposed on Denmark, this history is consequently false.
Other distinctive signs imposed by the Nazi regime
In Poland, the Germans obliged the Jews of more than twelve years to carry a white arm-band with a blue star of David in the center, on the right-hand man. In Croatia, the arm-band was yellow with a black star in the center.
Testimony
The type-setter Serge Gainsbourg, making allusion to the Occupation where, child, it was obliged to carry yellow star, will say with Ironie but not without resentment that it was a “star of Shérif”.
Popular culture
In 1986, in its Sketch One says to me that Jews slipped into the room? , the humorist Pierre Desproges incarnates, with the second degree, a character anti-semite who presents yellow star with obvious a bad faith like an object of pride for the Jews, that they instituted them-even:
On will not remove me idea that, during the last world war, of many Jews adopted a straightforwardly hostile attitude with regard to the Nazi regime. It is true that the Germans, on their side, badly hid a certain antipathy with regard to the Jews. It was not a reason to exacerbate this antipathy while raising a star with its jacket for showing well that one is not no matter who, that one is the Peuple elected
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