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They were forced to do it under Nazi law and there were penalties for not doing so. The point was to make them easily identifiable as members the hated minority.

The yellow Star od David, inscribed with the word "Jude," has become a symbol of Nazi persecution, possibly even the "icon #1" of the Holocaust. It abounds upon Holocaust literature and materials - book covers, movie posters and the like. But the Jewish badge was not instituted in 1933 when Hitler came to power. It was not instituted in 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship. It was still not implemented by Kristallnacht in 1938. The public labeling of the Jews by use of the Jewish badge did not begin until after the start of the Second World War. And even then, it began as local laws rather than as a unified Nazi policy.

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