![Immediately after the Anschluss, Vienna's Jews were forced to wash pro-independence slogans (Reibpartie [de]) from the city's pavements.](https://cdn.deepswipe.app/images/0.2.0/e5365bf26d51562ac3c850de2f1b79d635137acb6b8c2da4aebc0c4739b27f9b.jpg)
For Austria’s Jews, persecution began almost overnight
After the Anschluss, Jewish men and women were humiliated in public, driven through Vienna’s streets, and forced to scrub away pro-independence slogans. Homes and shops were plundered as Jews were pushed out of public life within months.Anschluss: What It Meant for Austria’s Jews
![German-languageschematic chart on poster showing cloth insignia worn on prisoner's uniforms in Nazi concentration camps before and during the early stages of World War II in concentration camps with a more elaborate triangle-based badge coding system. Double-triangle badges resembled two superimposed triangles forming a Star of David, a Jewish symbol. In addition to color-coding, non-German prisoners were marked by the first letter of the German name for their home country or ethnic group. See Nazi concentration camp badges Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps Yellow badge (Judenstern) Identification marks for protective custody prisoners in concentration camps (German: Kennzeichen für Schutzhäftlinge in den Konzentrations Lagern) Base/primary colours (Grundfarben) Political prisoner (Politisch) Professional criminal (Berufsverbrecher) Emigrant (Emigrant) Purple triangle: Bible researcher, i. e. Jehovah's Witnesses (Bibelforscher) Pink triangle: Homosexual (Homosexuell) Work-shy, state level (Arbeitsscheu Reich) Work-shy, communities (Arbeitsscheu [Arbeitsscheu Gemeinden]) Badge for repeat offenders (Abzeichen für Rückfällige) Prisoners of the punishment company (Strafkompanie) Jews (Juden) Jewish race defiler (Jüdischer Rassenschänder) Escape suspect (Fluchtverdächtiger) 1a Prisoner (1a Häftling) Example: Political Jew, repeat offender, member of the punishment company (Beispiel:Politischer Jude, Rückfällig, [Angehöriger der] Strafkompanie) Special Action Wehrmacht, special detainees, military activists, deserters, etc (Sonder-Aktion Wehrmacht [SAW-Häftlinge]) Pole (Pole); Czech (Tscheche)](https://cdn.deepswipe.app/images/0.2.0/f94f3be1bab59e3c7f3b5e39fd1037ca013683360f0088056200f2914a43fd17.jpg)
Then the system closed in
The Nuremberg Laws were extended into Austria in May 1938. Jews were blocked from professions, shut out of schools and universities, and later forced to wear the yellow badge.Anschluss: What It Meant for Austria’s Jews
