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Do you have any source for that story? I also heard of it but don’t know if it’s made up or not and couldn’t find a source

• jjulius 4y ago
  I was as curious as you, and found this: >While the fact that the census 1939 inquired Jewish ancestry is a well known fact in historiography its significance for the identification of individual Jews in the context of the Shoah has been disputed. The thesis argues that a population register introduced in 1939 - the People's Card Index (Volkskartei) - was essential in the identification of German Jews. Consulting new sources it shows that the collation of the census data on ancestry with the Volkskartei was ordered in March 1941 to facilitate the identification and localisation of German Jews in the context of the deportations. https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/95623/ https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/95623/
  • b112 4y ago
    My understanding, is it wasn't a census, but just info at local town halls. The purpose was only so you could be buried where you wanted, in a preferred cemetery, Catholics in a Catholic cemetery for example, people wanted, and cared about that, back then. But if you died without relatives... the town had to know.
  • marcosdumay 4y ago
    So, the information that killed people was actually one that people overlook even in hindsight? That puts the comments around here saying "what use can they make of X and Y?" on a new light.