In WW2 how did the German know that who was a Jew and Who wasnt a Jew, where they killing Random people
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Sometimes by their name. Sometimes by their appearance. Sometimes by where they lived. Sometimes by being ratted on by neighbours. Sometimes, non-Jews were killed as if they were Jews.
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There was an efficient paper database of the German population which included religious status. When they invaded Holland they found an even more comprehensive set of files on the dutch population, and the dutch Jews were entirely 'transported'. It is now illegal for a similar database to be built in Germany. The UK governmnent is desperately trying to build tracking databases of the British population. (after all, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear!) For some reason they are very happy to hand that info over to other countries too ... especially the USA.
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It werent just Jews that were killed. They also put disabled, homeless, sick , unemployed (that didnt want to work) ppl in concentration camps. But other then that they mostly "picked" the jews by name, location where they live and how they look and act. Many jews were also quite wealthy and were owners of small and large businesses.
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The Third Reich targeted all non-Aryans for concentration camps. Back in the 1920s through 40s, a lot of goverment and academic effort was put into classifying people into races. Here's a good article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_policy_of_Nazi_Germany
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They went through jewish synogogue records as well as measurements for nose length and eye and skin colour.
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