Auction #38: Worldwide Stamps, Postal History, Worldwide Coins & Worldwide Banknotes

1942 "JUDENSTERN" AS WORN BY THE JEWS IN FRANCE AS FROM JUNE 1942. By the beginning of 1942, the Germans had begun to arrest French Jews and send them to concentration camps in other places under German control, they forxed Jews to sew 'tellow star on ther clothing from occupation on November 11, 1942. The badges were distributed out of the local police stations; one textile coupon secured three badges. In a letter dated May 5 1942, from Captain Theodor Danneker, the Chief of Jewish Affairs of the Gestapo in Paris, to the Director of the Foundries at Deberny et Peignot, is included two impressions of the printing blocks used to make the 400,000 stars orderedf to be made. An order outlning discriminatory measures against the Jews issud by the commander of the SS in France.