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Not sure if you’re aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
by nixgeek 8y ago
Not sure if you’re aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
- newsgremlin 8y agoSurprised I've never heard this book or IBM's specific involvement with the Nazi regime. Strange how of the many times IBM has been mentioned this isn't one of the glaring facts that atleast one person brings up.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoIts interesting that in WW2 NCR got the contract to build the 4 rotor Bommbes and Not IBM
- durnygbur 8y agoTheir subsidary - Watson Business Machines - was optimizing the logistics of transporting people to concentration, labour, and death camps with punchcard workshop straight next to the Warsaw Ghetto. The IBM's original "Watson project". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag#Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag#Holocaust