1900–1939
Legal persecution
17 août 1938·Allemagne
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the "decree on names" imposes Israel and Sara on Jews not bearing a first name from the official list; the passport is marked with a "J" in October
On the seventeenth day of August, the decree on names required Jews in Germany to add Israel or Sara to their given name when they did not already bear one appearing on the official list. In October, the passport was stamped with a "J."
The measure confiscated nothing and harmed no one physically: it rendered visible. It completed a movement begun five years earlier by removing from Jews the possibility of blending in with the rest of the population, a condition for all the measures that would follow. The stamping of the passport was moreover obtained at the request of Switzerland, which wished to be able to turn people back at its border.
- Period :
- 1900–1939
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
Journal officiel du Reich ; archives diplomatiques suisses.