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by mikeyouse 3506 days ago
New documents came out after the book was published that showed that IBM had specific punch cards for each concentration camp, each reason (homosexual, Jew, antisocial, gypsy,etc.) and for manner of death (natural causes, suicide, death by gas chamber).

The SS had to be trained, the machines had to be maintained, and the cards had to be updated. IBM engineers were on site at each concentration camp throughout most of the war.

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> New documents came out after the book was published... and for manner of death (natural causes, suicide, death by gas chamber).

Do you have a citation for that?

The author of the 2001 book that OP was referring to wrote a new edition in 2012ish with the new docs. He wrote about it in HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/ibm-holocaust_b_13...