[omurphyevans]

There's a more specific example of this - in the Netherlands for years before 1939 they had a wide ranging census and an excellent civil service. On that census was an option for religion.

The Nazi's took the census records and then used the excellent civil service to deport the overwhelming majority of Jews to the camps. The Netherlands had some of the lowest rates of survival of Jews amongst occupied territories. The Nazi's knew who they were, and where to find them.

Who knows what piece of information could be used to hound you to your death, years after you divulge it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Net...

[tripzilch]

And now we track almost everything about everyone, .. except for religion. It's almost funny how we managed to learn the absolute minimum of that lesson :-/