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Does IBM stand out there? A lot of well respected German companies worked with the Nazis, e.g. Porsche, Volkswagen, BMW, all the successors to IG Farben like BA
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Does IBM stand out there? A lot of well respected German companies worked with the Nazis, e.g. Porsche, Volkswagen, BMW, all the successors to IG Farben like BASF and Bayer.
- defrost 3y agoIG Farben and IBM stand out for their direct involvement in work camps and death camps. Frben not just for their use of labor but also the manufacture of gas used to kill, IBM for their provision of data tools and tattoo'd tracking codes. Many companies contribute to war efforts, fewer are closely involved with industrial scale genocide.
- GaryNumanVevo 3y agoAbsolutely. IBM sold machines and millions of punchcards to the Nazi war machine. Initially it was used for collecting familial information used to track down Jews and their extended families. Later these machines were used to directly manage concentration camps and the logistics of the war machine at large.