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Saturday, September 09, 2006
IBM implicated in Nazi extermination of Jews
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Published Sunday 11th February 2001 06:23 GMT
Writer Edwin Black claims to have roughly 20,000 pages of documentation proving that American-as-apple-pie tech behemoth IBM embraced and advanced the twisted dreams of der Führer by supplying crucial technology to the Nazis in a book entitled IBM and the Holocaust.
"Hundreds of thousands of human beings were being identified, sorted, assigned and transported by means of [IBM's] card system," Black says.
Hitler's perverse ambitions were "greatly enhanced and energised by the ingenuity of IBM and Thomas J. Watson, its autocratic chairman."
Virtually all the logistics of the Nazi rat-bastard programme -- certainly the best publicised if not the most extensive of mankind's frequent genocidal enterprises -- can be credited to IBM technology, we are told.
"IBM did not invent Germany's anti-Semitism, but when Germany wanted to identify Jews by name, IBM showed it how. When the Reich wanted to use that information to launch programmes of social expulsion and expropriation, IBM provided the means. When the trains had to run on time between concentration camps, IBM offered the solution."
Even as late as 1945, Black says, IBM execs in the US were in constant touch with their Nazi partners, smoothing over the odds and ends of a business alliance which had by that time been illegal for years.
Ghastly stuff, and savagely damming if it should withstand examination.
Which is not to say that Black is entirely objective here.
"My parents are Holocaust survivors, uprooted from their homes in Poland. My mother escaped from a cattle truck en route to Treblinka concentration camp, was shot and buried alive in a shallow mass grave. My father, who had run away from a guarded line of Jews, discovered her leg protruding from the snow and dug her out. They lived in the forests for two years," he reveals.
But he reveals it in the first paragraphs of his book, suggesting that he doesn't feel it's anything worth hiding, and so implying that readers ought not to consider it anything worth questioning.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/11/ibm_implicated_in_nazi_extermination/print.html
Related:
IBM and Auschwitz
Business is Business
Hadassah Magazine
IBM and the Polish Holocaust
Jerusalem Post
Final Solutions
Village Voice
My Mother's Ticket to Treblinka
The Forward
IBM in Nazi Poland
History News Network
The Legal Participation in Genocide
C-Net
The Legal Participation in Genocide
Miami Herald
Ethnic Cleansing in Connecticut
Hartford Advocate
Hitler Took Eugenics from USA
JTA
Keep Eugenics Away From Genetics
Newsday
Eugenics & the Nazis—The California Connection
San Francisco Chronicle
Newgenics—The Power to Classify
Reform Judaism
An American War Criminal at Buchenwald
History News Network
Hitler's Debt to America
The Guardian
To read the articles listed above,
click on the link below and scroll down to
"IBM and the Holocaust"
and also
"War Against the Weak":
http://www.featuregroup.com/articles.php
posted by Vetzine
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