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====1941==== :Jews in the [[Independent State of Croatia]], a puppet state of Nazi Germany, were ordered to wear "Jewish insignia".<ref>{{cite web|date=17 June 1941|title=Notice regarding the obligatory wearing of Jewish insignia and the marking of Jewish trades, stores and companies|url=http://www.jusp-jasenovac.hr/Default.aspx?sid=7457|website=jusp-jasenovac.hr|publisher=Jasenovac Memorial Site|access-date=2014-01-16}}</ref> Jewish Poles in German-occupied [[Kresy|Soviet-annexed Poland]], Jewish Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians as well as Soviet Jews in German-occupied areas were obliged to wear white armbands or yellow badges. All Romanian Jews were ordered to wear the yellow badge.<ref>{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Richard J.|author-link=Richard J. Evans|year=2008|title=[[The Third Reich at War]]|location=New York|publisher=Penguin Books|page=231|isbn=978-0-14-311671-4}}</ref> The yellow badge was the only standardised identifying mark in the German-occupied East; other signs were forbidden. Jewish Germans and Jews with citizenship of annexed states (Austrians, Czechs, Danzigers) from the age of six years were ordered to wear the yellow badge from 19 September when in public.<ref name="Polizeiverordnung" /> In Luxembourg, the German occupation authorities introduce the [[Nuremberg Laws]], followed by several other anti-Jewish ordinances including an order for all Jews to wear a yellow star with the word {{lang|de|Jude}}.<ref>{{cite web |last=Webb |first=Chris |date=2010 |title=The Destruction of the Jews of Luxembourg |url=http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/luxembourg.html |website=HolocaustResearchProject.org |publisher=Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team |access-date=15 March 2018 }}</ref> The [[Slovak Republic (1939β1945)|Slovak Republic]] ordered its Jews to wear yellow badges.
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