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The '''yellow badge''', also known as '''yellow patch''', '''Jewish badge''' or '''yellow star''' ({{lang-de|Judenstern|lit=Jew's star}}), was a badge that [[Jews]] were ordered to wear by some [[caliphates]] during the [[Middle Ages]], some European powers during the Medieval and [[early modern period]]s, and the [[Axis powers]] in [[World War II]]. The badges marked the wearer as a religious or ethnic outsider, often as a [[badge of shame]].<ref>{{cite book |author=D'Ancona, Jacob |title=The City Of Light |publisher=Citadel |location=New York |year= 2003 |pages= 23–24|isbn=0-8065-2463-4 |quote=But the wearing of a badge or outward sign – whose effect, intended or otherwise, successful or not, was to shame and to make vulnerable as well as to distinguish the wearer…}}</ref>

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