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Sure, because we know that "strict rules" are never broken. I guess I'll take the Godwin point. What if the Weimar republic had a lot of strict rules to build
by dudul 5y ago
Sure, because we know that "strict rules" are never broken.
I guess I'll take the Godwin point. What if the Weimar republic had a lot of strict rules to build such a DNA database? That would have "helped" a lot of folks in 1933 to speed things up.
- undebuggable 5y agoThe 1930s are exactly the time when business machines enabled automated national population censuses. Business machines allowed countless new ways to sort and segregate the population by gender, ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, mental (dis)abilities. It was simply too tempting. The only reason the DNA wasn't used was because it hadn't been discovered yet.
- letitbeirie 5y agoThe Dutch kept records of peoples' religions. Their Jewish population fared remarkably worse than the rest of Western Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Net...
- sofixa 5y agoAre you including Germany in the rest of Western Europe? Because in that case, you're incorrect. And the only country you can actually compare to in Western Europe is Belgium. Luxembourg was directly annexed, and France and Italy were in very specific situations ( collaborationist government with some limited autonomy that collaborated on Jews, ally with more autonomy that barely collaborated on Jews vs direct military occupation by German authorities). Belgium and Netherlands were ruled more similarly to Eastern European occupied countries ( directly by Reichscommisars), even if in a much more civilized manner.