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"Fun" fact: It was IBM who helped tabulate data from the 1933 national census, which was then used to identify hundreds of thousands more Jews than would have b
by Natfan 4y ago
"Fun" fact: It was IBM who helped tabulate data from the 1933 national census, which was then used to identify hundreds of thousands more Jews than would have been found by the Nazi party without their efforts.
"Machine-tabulated census data greatly expanded the estimated number of Jews in Germany by identifying individuals with only one or a few Jewish ancestors. Previous estimates of 400,000 to 600,000 were abandoned for a new estimate of 2 million Jews."
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II
- mvdwoord 4y agoAnd to add insult to injury, the IBM office in Munich (birthplace of national socialism), is located on 1 Hollerithstrasse (Hollerith street). The IBM subsidiary in Nazi Germany selling and maintaining the tabulating machines was DeHoMag, Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen AG. ...
- daniel-cussen 4y agoThat's just the name of the founder, Herman Hollerith. He had nothing to do with any of that.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agonit: the founder of IBM was Tom Watson Senior, not Herman Hollerith. But your point stands -- Hollerith had nothing to do with this.
- chasd00 4y agoDid working with IBM contribute to Hitler’s spiral into insanity? 4/5 joking
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoHey Siri, select * from all_humans where atLeastOneOverlap(schools_attended, art_schools) = true and atLeastOneOverlap(employers, list.of(ibm)) = true;