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Calculating "layoffs" back then, calculating layoffs now

• onetimemanytime 8y ago
  More to the likes of improving gas chamber efficiency or something like that.
  • onetimemanytime 8y ago
    for those that downvoted: "However, another invention did exist: the IBM punch card and card sorting system-a precursor to the computer. IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success. IBM Germany, using its own staff and equipment, designed, executed, and supplied the indispensable technologic assistance Hitler's Third Reich needed to accomplish what had never been done before-the automation of human destruction. More than 2,000 such multi-machine sets were dispatched throughout Germany, and thousands more throughout German-dominated Europe. Card sorting operations were established in every major concentration camp. People were moved from place to place, systematically worked to death, and their remains cataloged with icy automation. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-calculator-quot https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-ca...