Nur für Deutsche

It was another way to intimidate local people, in addition to imposition of legal constraints, curfews and unfair exchange rates.

[citation needed] Similar signage was used in South Africa during apartheid and in the United States during Jim Crow, where bus travel for example was racially segregated.

Discriminating signage was also used informally in the UK, notably in signs in bed and breakfast accommodation barring Irish and blacks.

[citation needed] In Polish partisan parlance, toxic or otherwise undrinkable moonshine was jocularly called "nur für Deutsche".

Partisans were also fond of painting the words "nur für Deutsche" on graveyard fences or street lampposts (a reference to hanging).