In September 1941, Jews in the Third Reich areas were ordered to wear a yellow badge, referred to as a "Jewish star" (Judenstern). According to the order, issued two years after a similar requirement was introduced among Polish Jews, all Jews aged 6 or over were to wear, on the left side of their chest, a fist-sized yellow six-point star bearing the inscription "Jude." The Judenstern order in the Reich and the areas annexed to it, as in every other location, was but one of a series of anti-Jewish decrees, each representing a general escalation in severity of the Jewish policy applied.
At this stage (September 1941), the marking of the Jews in Germany was carried out in preparation for the "Final Solution." Persons not employed in enterprises of importance to the state economy were placed under restrictions of movement that month, and were sent to the East over the next few months.
