Talk:Census in Germany

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interesting article. Needs "translation" though...some of the titles and headings should be English. Census in 1806 was probably taken before August, when emperor released all from ties to the empire. Thus, it would still be in the statistics of the HRE. World map of population makes no sense where it is. Auntieruth55 (talk) 23:24, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bit removed from Hermann Hollerith article[edit]

I removed the following from the Hermann Hollerith article as it was just not closely enough and seemed to be someone with a cause doing guilt by association. It is also unattributed. Someone might see a use for something here or in the overall census article if they get some citation.

All governments gather information about their citizens. The Nazi regime, however, used such information to track political opponents, enforce racial policies, and, ultimately, implement mass murder. As early as 1934, various government bureaus began to compile card catalogs identifying political and racial enemies of the regime, such as Freemasons, Jews, Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), and "genetically diseased" persons. The 1939 census became the basis for a national register of Jews. That year, German census forms for the first time included explicitly racial categories. Jews were identified not only by religious affiliation, but by race as well. Within three years, the completed national register of Jews and some Jewish Mischlinge ("mixed breeds") was to become one of the sources for Nazi deportation lists. Most of those deported perished in the Holocaust.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Hollerith machines were the best data processing devices available. The Nazi regime employed thousands of people in 1933 to 1939 to record national census data onto Hollerith punch cards. The SS used the Hollerith machines during the war to monitor the large numbers of prisoners shipped in and out of concentration camps. The machines were manufactured by DEHOMAG-Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft or German Hollerith Machine Company, a subsidiary of IBM since 1922.^{[citation needed]}

(not my contribution - some ip) Dmcq (talk) 20:14, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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1946 census[edit]

Why does the caption for File:Germany_sex_by_age_1946_10_29.png say "Many former German soldiers didn't participate" in the 1946 census? Were they boycotting the census for some reason? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:34, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]