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IBM and the Holocaust
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

"Black also reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM's punchcard technology.In his book, Black charges that "without IBM's machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did."

In April 12, 1933 The German Govt decided
it would conduct a long-delayed national
census. The purpose was to identify
and create a database to determine the
Correct and True Genetic heritage of its
citizens and nations.
The German subsidiary of IBM, Dehomag
offered to assist the govt
in genetic identification of its
peoples.

"This activity was not only countenanced by Thomas Watson and IBM in America, Black argues, but was actively encouraged and financially supported, with Watson himself traveling to Germany in October 1933 and the company ramping up its investment in its German subsidiary from 400,000 to 7,000,000 reichsmarks — about $1 million.This injection of American capital allowed Dehomag to purchase land in Berlin and to construct IBM's first factory in Germany, Black charges, thereby "tooling up for what it correctly saw as a massive financial relationship with the Hitler regime."