Editing Yellow badge (section)

===Axis powers===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Wisniewski-010-21A, Polen, Radom, Juden, Junge mit Armbinde.jpg|thumb|upright|A Jewish boy in [[Radom]] with a [[Star of David]] armband]]
After [[Nazi Germany]]'s [[invasion of Poland]] in 1939, there were different local decrees requiring Jews to wear a distinctive sign under the [[General Government]]. The sign was a white armband with a blue Star of David on it; in the [[Reichsgau Wartheland|Warthegau]] a yellow badge in the form of a Star of David on the left side of the breast and on the back.<ref>{{cite web|title=JEWISH BADGE|url=http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x02/xr0254.html|website=Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center|publisher=[[Simon Wiesenthal Center]]|access-date=13 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212104347/http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x02/xr0254.html|archive-date=2008-02-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word {{lang|de|Jude}} (German for "Jew") – inscribed in [[Faux Hebrew]] letters [[Typeface#Ethnic typefaces|meant to resemble]] [[Hebrew alphabet#Stylistic variants|Hebrew writing]] – was then extended to all Jews over the age of six in the Reich and the [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]] (by a decree issued on 1 September 1941, signed by [[Reinhard Heydrich]])<ref name="Polizeiverordnung">{{cite web|date=1 September 1941|title=Polizeiverordnung über die Kennzeichnung der Juden|url=http://www.verfassungen.de/de/de33-45/juden41.htm|website=Verfassungen der Welt|language=de|access-date=13 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722015720/http://www.verfassungen.de/de/de33-45/juden41.htm|archive-date=22 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Robertson|first=Struan|title=I. Buildings Integral to the Former Life and/or Persecution of Jews in Hamburg - Neustadt/St. Pauli. {{!}} 23. No. 35 Karolinenstraße|url=http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035/karolinenstrasse.html|website=rrz.uni-hamburg.de|publisher=Regional Computing Center, [[University of Hamburg]]|access-date=13 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051112172306/http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035/karolinenstrasse.html|archive-date=12 November 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was gradually introduced in other [[German-occupied Europe|German-occupied areas]], where local words were used (e.g. {{lang|fr|Juif}} in French, {{lang|nl|Jood}} in Dutch).

One observer reported that the star increased German non-Nazi sympathy for Jews as the impoverished citizens who wore them were, contrary to [[propaganda in Nazi Germany|Nazi propaganda]], obviously not the cause of German failure on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]. In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, government had to ban [[hat tip]]ping towards Jews and other courtesies that became popular as protests against [[occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)|the German occupation]]. A [[whispering campaign]] that claimed that the action was in response to the United States government requiring [[German Americans]] to wear swastikas was unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Howard K.|author-link=Howard K. Smith|year=1942|title=Last Train from Berlin|url=https://archive.org/details/lasttrainfromber0000smit_p0b1|url-access=limited|location=New York|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|pages=195–199, 203–204}}</ref>