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"Couldn't have done it without 'em" -Hiter ...Ok maybe that's apocryphal. The truth is though, without IBM, IG Farben, Volkswagon and others... he couldn't hav
by M_Grey 10y ago
"Couldn't have done it without 'em" -Hiter
...Ok maybe that's apocryphal. The truth is though, without IBM, IG Farben, Volkswagon and others... he couldn't have. We always like to see leaders as some kind of mythical figure, but it's the pencil pushers, anonymous bureaucrats, and people looking to make a profit who really make it happen.
- astrodust 10y agoOne of the take-aways from that book was how precisely targeted the police were. Early on they were rounding up people who were ostensibly Jewish, they were easy to identify, but later they'd moved on to pin-point identifying people who were 1/4 or 1/8th Jewish, people who didn't even know they were technically Jewish at all. This was only possible because birth records were systematically computerized, processed, and tabulated by these early computer systems. Those punch-cards encoded everything about a person. When they showed up in towns they'd have lists of specific people they were looking for. This has extremely disconcerting parallels to these ICE raids that are ongoing.