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Names can sometimes be changed to protect individual privacy (such as in [[witness protection]]), or in cases were groups of people are escaping persecution.<ref name="x631">{{cite book | last=Ahmed | first=S.R. | title=Preventing Identity Crime: Identity Theft and Identity Fraud: An Identity Crime Model and Legislative Analysis with Recommendations for Preventing Identity Crime | publisher=Brill | year=2020 | isbn=978-90-04-39597-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPPcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 | access-date=2024-06-02 | page=39}}</ref> After arriving in the [[United States]], European Jews who fled Nazi persecution sometimes [[anglicization|anglicized]] their surnames to avoid discrimination.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holton |first1=G. |last2=Sonnert |first2=G. |title=What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution |date=25 December 2006 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-60179-6 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAeMDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |language=en}}</ref> Governments can also forcibly change people's names, as when the [[National Socialist]] government of Germany assigned German names to European people in the territories they conquered.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lemkin |first1=Raphael |title=Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress |date=2014 |publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-58477-576-8 |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChhmqYeVS80C&pg=PA82 |language=en}}</ref> In the [[1980s]], the [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]] forcibly changed the first and last names of its [[Turks in Bulgaria|Turkish citizens]] to Bulgarian names.<ref name="i395">{{cite book | last=Neuburger | first=M.C. | title=The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria | publisher=Cornell University Press | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-5017-2023-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hf6tDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 | access-date=2024-06-02 | page=77}}</ref>