Corrie ten Boom and national ID cards

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In her book The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom recalls that after the Nazis invaded and occupied her country (Netherlands), they required everyone to have and carry an identity card. Corrie says that the local population viewed this requirement as a severe infringement on freedom and privacy. (I don’t have the book, so unfortunately I can’t provide an exact quote.)

In the 1940's, it would seem that Corrie's attitude was shared by many on the other side of the Pond. For example, Forrest Linder, a United States census staffer, said in 1942, “Traditional American thinking regarding freedom of action and thought might consider a mandatory identification register as an infringement of that liberty and the beginning of an American ‘gestapo.’ The political implications or effects of a compulsory identity registration might be considerable.” A government report added that national ID would enable "control of civilian population movement such as the removal of the Japanese from restricted areas... or the right of the individual to travel about the country." (Quoted by Margo Anderson, “Public Management of Big Data: Historical Lessons from the 1940s,” https://margoanderson.org/govstat/integrity.htm.)

ID cards and/or internal passports are a subject of interest to me, especially how such things have historically (including but not limited to WW2 and the Third Reich) been perceived by the general population and how they have impacted privacy and freedom of thought and movement. If anyone has resources to share—particularly primary sources and personal stories—please do.