> How data was collected Previously collected census data of Amsterdam. > The original purpose of collection > The benign intentions of the original collecto

> How data was collected Previously collected census data of Amsterdam. > The original purpose of collection > The benign intentions of the original collectors The usual reasons any state pays to count their citizens. This particular census data included the religious affiliation. > How the data moved from the collecting administration to the abusive administration In 1941, when the Nazis occupied Amsterdam, they commissioned the local civil servants this map of a particular subset of their census data: https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/uploads/archive/museum/topstukken/stippenkaart_1633.jpg https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/uploads/archive/museum/topstuk... Each black dot represents 10 Jews. 3/4 of those dots were efficiently rounded up and eventually murdered in the camps.