IBMs Role in the Holocaust What the New Documents Reveal

[niyad]

IBM’s Role in the Holocaust — What the New Documents Reveal


Newly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM’s pivotal role in the Holocaust — all six phases: identification, expulsion from society, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination. Moreover, the documents portray with crystal clarity the personal involvement and micro-management of IBM president Thomas J. Watson in the company’s co-planning and co-organizing of Hitler’s campaign to destroy the Jews.

IBM’s twelve-year alliance with the Third Reich was first revealed in my book IBM and the Holocaust, published simultaneously in 40 countries in February 2001. It was based on some 20,000 documents drawn from archives in seven countries. IBM never denied any of the information in the book; and despite thousands of media and communal requests, as well as published articles, the company has remained silent. The new “expanded edition” contains 32 pages of never-before-published internal IBM correspondence, State Department and Justice Department memos, and concentration camp documents that graphically chronicle IBM’s actions and what they knew during the 12-year Hitler regime. On the anniversary of the release of the original book, the new edition was released on February 26, 2012 at a special live global streaming event at Yeshiva University’s Furst Hall, sponsored by the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists together with a coalition of other groups.

Among the newly-released documents and archival materials are secret 1941 correspondence setting up the Dutch subsidiary of IBM to work in tandem with the Nazis, company President Thomas Watson’s personal approval for the 1939 release of special IBM alphabetizing machines to help organize the rape of Poland and the deportation of Polish Jews, as well as the IBM Concentration Camp Codes including IBM’s code for death by Gas Chamber. Among the newly published photos of the punch cards is the one developed for the statistician who reported directly to Himmler and Eichmann.

The significance of the incriminating documents requires context. Punch cards, also called Hollerith cards after IBM founder Herman Hollerith, were the forerunner of the computers that IBM is famous for today. These cards stored information in holes punched in the rows and columns, which were then “read” by a tabulating machine. The system worked like a player piano — but this one was devoted to the devil’s music. First designed to track people and organize a census, the Hollerith system was later adapted to any tabulation or information task.

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691.html

[bobbieinok]

1. US firms' complicity in Nazi crimes should be shouted constantly. Ford also! And Bush family!

[niyad]

2. I constantly point out the bush crime family connection with the nazis!

[bobbieinok]

3. Most DU readers know this, but M$M 'strangely' silent!?!?

M$M blares JFK's father's prohibition era dealings.

I have heard sermons contrasting the 2 families' descendants - good family vaues (Bush) vs bad values
(Kennedy). The number of post WWII Kennedy deaths 'proves their values are destroying them'.

[byronius]

4. Those sermons are clearly coming from mouth of the Devil, then.

'Cause that's exactly the opposite of the facts.

If 'god' is on the side of the Bush family, then this reality stub leads straight down. Hell Dimension. Gib's Auf.

Me, I believe the Oddities of Quantum Physics are Very Odd Indeed, and that's as religious as I get.

Both the Kennedys and the Bushes have darkness in their past. But only one produced a Bobby, and only one produced a George W.

So, clear as #$% day in the end.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Oligarchs of their day

trying to make money any way they could, no questions asked

They may have been called international capitalists or businessman but they fit the mold