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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.
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.
Jews in Paris are forced to sew a yellow star on their coats - May 29, 1942 - HISTORY.com
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Thanks for reminding us TSgt Joe C. that on May 29, 1942 Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler ordered all Jews in occupied Paris to wear an identifying yellow star on the left side of their coats on the advice of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
The Vichy French government was complicit in the persecution and deaths of many Jews, Gypsies and others.
The Vichy French government was complicit in the persecution and deaths of many Jews, Gypsies and others.
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TSgt Joe C. my goodness my friend, May 29, has a lot of historical history, I never would have imagined. Awesome share and read my friend. Keep up the great work. This is a dark history share, but it happened and its history my friend.
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And to this day jackasses like KKK idiot David Duke and the Iranian government in power since 1979 both have declared that the Holocaust was not a true event and it was faked. This Holocaust denial insult the millions of people who died and the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers were traumatized liberating these death camps and seeing the few survivors and seeing all the Corpses. Shame on Iran and the KKK and other than ours that don't want to accept the truth that Jews are human beings!
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