data collected on citizens have always been used against citizens in the end, sometimes subtly, sometimes genocidal. In the Netherlands, official documents of the population contained a field of religion from 1851 forward - to help in the planning of the city, and make sure everyone had a good selection of appropriate places of worship nearby their residence. The goal was quite benign, and the collection was not conceivable dangerous in any way.
When a new administration rolled in the Netherlands in WW2 war machines that benign Population Register has been reoriented to
genocide. We must consider this and the lessons of history, as the government today perceive absurd amounts of data on each and
each individual, with a little more purpose or afterwards that "because we can . "
Jacques Mattheij posted a summary of the events that is well worth reading:
Since 1851, Amsterdam had a register that recorded the following innocent pieces of data about residents: name , date of birth, address, marital status, parents, profession, religion, previous addresses and date of death if deceased. for many years, this system has served and has been meticulously kept up to date.
this which no doubt well-meaning servant long before World War II had the brilliant idea to record religious affiliation in the census is lost in the mists of time. what we know is that this small field caused untold thousands people to die once the occupants have decided to use it to locate the Jewish people. And there were many of those in Amsterdam, which was home to about 80,000 Jews (Dutch) of the total of about 104,000 in all of the Netherlands at the beginning of the war. 70,000 of them had their data entered into the register Amsterdam.
After the Civil Registry was in the hands of the enemy, the extermination program for Jews based Amsterdam (those who had not fled) moved into high gear and street after the street was raided. Entire neighborhoods were empty. The importance of the register has not been lost on the resistance who planned and executed a bold attack (Dutch) to destroy as they could register by firebombs after subduing the guards. The attackers were betrayed to the Nazis and all but two were executed in the dunes near Overveen. Although the attack was not a complete success records the song was destroyed completely (about 15%), and much of the rest suffered extensive water damage because firefighters do everything possible to drown the parts that did not burn (after dragging their heels as long as possible to let the building burn as they could get away with without raising suspicion that they knew what was going on).
Read the full article on the Jacques Mattheij.
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