May 19, 2006 – Iran’s roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth.

Perhaps we need to be reminded of our history. Some might say that I am being alarmist and we should be slow to rush to conclusions. I suggest people visit the Canadian War Museum’s newspaper archives and read some of the articles from World War II that date back to before 1939. It is amazing how much people in the west were aware of what Hitler and the Third Reich had planned on doing before it was done. The following is an article from the Globe and Mail on their website at:

http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/newspapers/intro_e.html

October 23, 1941 –

BERLIN ORDERS JEW TENANTS VACATE

New Campaign of Hate Opens;

(By GEORGE AXELSSON.)

(Bv Telephone to the New York

Times and The Globe and Mail .)

Rerun, Oct. 22.-A new hate-the-Jews campaign, aiming to create a recrudescence of anti-Semitic feeling has been started by the Berlin press. With a number of Jewish flat owners having been abruptly served with dispossession notices to make room for "Aryans," the new’ campaign is seen as a move to counteract any sympathy the public may feel for the dispossessed Jews. "Don’t waste any tears on the Jews, remember how overbearing they were back in 1921," is the slogan launched by Der Stuermer. When discussing the newest anti-Jewish measures in semi-official circles one is met by the statement: "The New York Jews have declared war on us — it is only natural that we should take protective measures against our enemy." The press has not so far been allowed to print the decree affecting’ Jewish tenants, which even the local Jewish newspaper has omitted. An estimate of the number of persons thus earmarked for dispossession, and of possible deportation, or already removed is difficult to establish. But it is thought in usually wellinformed circles that temporarily not all of the 80,000 Jews remaining in the Reich capital will have to go now, since reasonably only those flats or apartments which for size or comfort prove desirable will be requisitioned now, and possibly no more than 1,000 or 2,000 habitations meeting those requirements are still held by Jews. The possibility is admitted, however, that the drive against the Jews will be continued and eventually include other German. cities, so that the result will ultimately be the transfer of all Jews to destinations probably outside the Reich domain proper – for instance, in the east in the general direction of occupied Russian territory, The Jews who have now been told to vacate their apartments can only take along such belongings as can be carried by hand, and this baggage must not include more than two sets of- undertivear and one-set of bed linen- per person. No money can be taken along beyond the usual ten marks allowed per person leaving Reich territory. The "annoyance" measures against the Jews-petty inroads and their personal liberty-have lately grown more numerous . Cigar stores now display the sign, "No entrance for Jews"-this in addition to the usual one that the available stock is sold out, so that not even the Aryan" customers can get any. News vendors and kiosks in the subway now have signs, "No newspapers

are sold to Jews," but that measure the vendors themselves explained by newsprint shortage and the accusation that Jews have been taking advantage of this state of affairs to "corner" the supply for their own financial benefits . With curtailed editions, kiosks are usually sold out after 8 a.m., when 10 or 15 pfennig newspapers bring twice to three times their price in the underhand market. With the compulsory wearing of the Star of David branding all Jews conspicuously, access has become completely impossible to the multitude of places heretofore formerly barring Jews, but where usually no questions were asked, such as shops, restaurants, entertainment places, race tracks and some parks. This has served to further complicate life for non-"aryans" to the point where one of their number said today: "The smartest thing in the Reich a Jew can do today is to go to his doctor for a shot of cyanide in the arm."