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What's the ratio of each? Is there a tracker?

• search_social 6y ago
  >What's the ratio of each? Is there a tracker? Yes. >Among the companies participating in this lucrative trade was Dehomag, IBM’s 90 percent–owned subsidiary. Shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933, Dehomag was asked to assist the German government in its task of ethnic identification, with particular reference to Jews and Gypsies. Watson thought it was such a stunning business opportunity that he went to Germany in October of that year and increased IBM’s investment in the German subsidiary by another million dollars, a hefty sum in those days. Thanks to the *Hollerith machine* the Nazis were able to increase their count of Germans with Jewish forebears from an estimated 400,000 to 600,000 to 2 million people. >Every time the Nazis invaded and took another country—Austria, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, France—the call would go out for the rental of *IBM machines* to identify Jews and Gypsies in the conquered countries. These also ended up as *tracking, counting, and recording machines* in the concentration camps. It was all very efficient and very rewarding for IBM’s bottom line. Edwin Black writes that Nazi Germany became the second most important customer for IBM after the United States. When his groundbreaking book, IBM and the Holocaust, was published in 2001, it was heralded as a major exposé of a little-known but central aspect of the German annihilation of Jews in the Holocaust. Newsweek called it “An explosive new book....Backed by exhaustive research, Black’s case is simple and stunning.” Annotation: History never repeats. But it rhymes.
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