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Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust (And by Goodwin's law corollaries I've lost this

• iends 13y ago
  It's tragic that IBM built technology that helped enabled the death of large number of people. One thing the wikipedia page doesn't make clear was IBM aware of the atrocities? The article cites the 1933 census, but things in Germany didn't really heat up until Kristallnacht in 1938? Anyway, the point was, things are not always black and white. IBM has certainly done some bad things, but it has also had a tremendous positive impact on society, medicine, techology, etc easily; more than 36m.
  • throwawayaway 13y ago
    http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/black.html http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/black.html From the author of the book of the same name.
  • pessimizer 13y ago
    >The article cites the 1933 census, but things in Germany didn't really heat up until Kristallnacht in 1938? "As the Nazi war machine occupied successive nations of Europe, capitulation was followed by a census of the population of each subjugated nation, with an eye to the identification and isolation of Jews and Gypsies. These census operations were intimately intertwined with technology and cards supplied by IBM's German and new Polish subsidiaries, which were awarded specific sales territories in Poland by decision of the New York office following Germany's successful Blitzkrieg invasion."