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How IBM Helped Create the Hitler Death Machine

By AAN Staff
march 27, 2002  10:13 am
How IBM Helped Create the Hitler Death Machine
During Hitler's reign, Germany became IBM's premier foreign customer. What role did the company play in automating the Nazi death machine? "IBM and the Nazis jointly designed, and IBM exclusively produced, technological solutions that enabled Hitler to accelerate and in many ways automate key aspects of his persecution of Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others the Nazis considered enemies," Edwin Black reports in The Village Voice. "Custom-designed, IBM-produced punch cards, sorted by IBM machines leased to the Nazis, helped organize and manage the initial identification and social expulsion of Jews and others, the confiscation of their property, their ghettoization, their deportation, and, ultimately, even their extermination."
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