Have governments or combatants marked the houses of groups to be persecuted?
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The story of marking the houses that you read probably referred to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, when the houses of Huguenots were indeed marked by crosses, according to some accounts. If I remember correctly this is also shown in the movie Intolerance by Griffith.
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