Editing Yellow badge (section)

===Axis powers===
====1939====
:Local German occupation commanders ordered Jewish Poles to wear an identifying mark under the threat of death. There were no consistent requirements as to its colour and shape: it varies from a white armband, a yellow hat to a yellow Star of David badge. [[Hans Frank]] ordered all Jewish Poles over the age of 11 years in [[General Government|German-occupied Poland]] to wear white armbands with a blue Star of David.

====1940==== 
:A popular legend portrays king [[Christian X of Denmark]] wearing the yellow badge on his daily morning horseback ride through the streets of [[Copenhagen]], followed by non-Jewish Danes responding to their king's example, thus preventing the Germans from identifying Jewish citizens. Queen [[Margrethe II of Denmark]] has explained that the story was not true.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wolden-Ræthinge|first=Anne|author-link=Anne Wolden-Ræthinge|year=1990|title=Queen in Denmark|location=Copenhagen|publisher=Gyldendal|isbn=87-01-08623-5}}{{page needed|date=July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Did King Christian X of Denmark wear a yellow star in support of the Danish Jews?|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008043|encyclopedia=[[Holocaust Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2006-08-17}}</ref> No order requiring Jews to wear identifying marks was ever introduced in Denmark.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Paulsson|first=Gunnar S.|author-link=Gunnar S. Paulsson|date=July 1995|title=The 'Bridge over the Øresund': The Historiography on the Expulsion of the Jews from Nazi-Occupied Denmark|journal=[[Journal of Contemporary History]]|volume=30|issue=3|pages=431–464|doi=10.1177/002200949503000304|jstor=261157|s2cid=162324125}}</ref>

====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 (1939–1945)|Slovak Republic]] ordered its Jews to wear yellow badges.

==== 1941/1942 ====
[[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] started to force Jews in newly annexed territories, denied Romanian citizenship, to wear the yellow badge.[[File:Die Katze lasst das Mausen nicht!.jpg|thumb|"Whoever wears this sign is an enemy of our people" &ndash; {{lang|de|[[Parole der Woche]]}}, 1 July 1942]]

====1942====
:The [[Gestapo]] ordered Jewish Germans and Jews with citizenship of annexed states to mark their apartments or houses at the front door with a white badge.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Benz|editor-first=Wolfgang|editor-link=Wolfgang Benz|year=1988|title=Die Juden in Deutschland, 1933–1945: Leben unter nationalsozialistischer Herrschaft|language=de|location=Munich|publisher=C. H. Beck|pages=618seq|isbn=3-406-33324-9}}</ref> Jewish Dutch people were ordered to wear the yellow badge. Jewish Belgians were ordered to wear the yellow badge. Jews in [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|occupied France]], covering the northern and western half of the country, were ordered to wear a yellow star by the German authorities. Bulgaria ordered its Jewish citizens to wear small yellow buttons. German forces invaded and occupied the ''[[zone libre]]'', i.e. the south-eastern half of France, but did not enforce the yellow star directive there.

====1944====
:After the occupation of [[Hungary in World War II|Hungary]], the Nazi occupiers ordered Jewish Hungarians and Jews with defunct other citizenships (Czechoslovak, Romanian, Yugoslav) in Hungarian-annexed areas to wear the yellow badge.{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=616}}