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> There was no need for technology, nazis weren't checking the papers or bothering with recording anything. The Nazis did census data to sort out all kinds of
by freeflight 5y ago
> There was no need for technology, nazis weren't checking the papers or bothering with recording anything.
The Nazis did census data to sort out all kinds of undesirables, one of the more infamous examples being the Pink List; Since the German Kaiserreich police made lists of homosexuals and those suspected of being homosexuals.
These lists made it trough the Weimarer Republic, and once the Nazis took over the Gestapo already had most of their work done for them, because these pink lists were only one of many lists Germans liked to keep about the population.
It's one of the reasons why Germany to this day tries to be somewhat careful about large collections of personal data because after the Nazis, there then was the GDR with the Stasi, who once again took it to a whole new level.
These are relevant and well known historical examples for data collections being abused, making the Nazis out as mere "Dudes with guns" is vastly underplaying the levels of sophistication and effort that were put into "sorting trough people" on population size scales.
- ajuc 5y agoYou are talking about 3rd Reich only part of Holocaust. It was bad, but it was a drop in the sea compared to what Germans did in occupied territories during WW2. A few orders of magnitude more victims.
- freeflight 5y agoI'm not talking about "3rd Reich only part of Holocaust", I'm talking about how the Gestapo was responsible for collecting and siphoning trough census data even in occupied non-German territories [0] In that context, whatever point you are trying to make about numbers of victims in territories is kinda besides the point. The point being that even in occupied Poland everybody had to register for the census, Polish people that were found without their registration form were shot on the spot. In addition to that the Nazis also got Polish population data from the Deutscher Volksverband in Poland. And it wasn't just Poland where that happened, it happened in pretty much every territory occupied by the Nazis because that's what the Gestapo was created for. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenkartei https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenkartei