Why yellow? The color yellow has long been connected with villainy, cowardice, and jealousy. The color of the traitor and betrayal. The color of the betrayal of Jesus and the later medieval yellow star recycled by the Nazis who did not invent anything, simply took what was there and intensified it to its logical conclusion we know too well. As Holocaust remembrance day approaches the entire sad history of the Jew in Europe when compared to the parallel arc of Jews in Arab countries does posit a reflection on the belief that ultimately Islam is a religion of peace when compared with the Jewish European experience within what was considered impossible in a civilized world, the age of Enlightenment to which Jewish in the East saw the potential for mass destruction…
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In medieval France, the doors of traitor’s houses were painted in bright yellow. In Spain, Inquisition victims, Jews and heretics, were forced to wear yellow as a mark of treason and heresy. Even today, the color yellow is strongly associated with negative things, importantly, in connection with the Jewish yellow badge, the colr is also a symbol of quarantine; Jews like victims of the yellow fever are to be isolated as to not contaminate the balance of the population, more specifically to pollute the gene pool.
ADDENDUM:
(see link at end)…The first reference to a Jewish badge during the Nazi era was made by the German Zionist leader, Robert Weltsch. During the Nazi declared boycott upon Jewish stores on April 1, 1933, yellow Stars of David were painted on windows. In reaction to this, Weltsch wrote an article entitled “Tragt ihn mit Stolz, den gelben Fleck” (“Wear the Yellow Badge with Pride”) which was published on April 4, 1933. At this time, Jewish badges had yet even to be discussed among the top Nazis.
It is believed that the first time that the implementation of a Jewish badge was discussed among the Nazi leaders was right after Kristallnacht in 1938. At a meeting on November 12, 1938, Reinhard Heydrich made the first suggestion about a badge.
But it wasn’t until after the Second World War began in September 1939 that individual authorities implemented a Jewish badge in the occupied territories of Poland. For instance, on November 16, 1939, the order for a Jewish badge was announced in Lodz. We are returning to the Middle Ages. The yellow patch once again becomes a part of Jewish dress. Today an order was announced that all Jews, no matter what age or sex, have to wear a band of “Jewish-yellow,” centimeters wide, on their right arm, just below the armpit.
Various locales within occupied Poland had their own regulations about size, color, and shape of the badge to be worn, until Hans Frank made a decree that affected all of the Government General in Poland. On November 23, 1939, Hans Frank, the chief officer of the Government General, declared that all Jews above ten years of age were to wear a white badge with a Star of David on their right arm….Read More:http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/yellowstar.htm
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