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by Natfan
20 days ago
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust > In April 1933, the government announced a national census to identify Jews, Roma, and other groups. Black reports that Dehomag offered its services in Prussia and that Watson approved new investments, raising IBM’s capital in Germany from 400,000 to 7 million Reichsmarks. The funds financed IBM’s first German factory in Berlin. Black also describes a “secret deal” between Watson and Heidinger giving Dehomag authority to serve IBM clients outside Germany, and argues that Germany soon became IBM’s second-largest market. He states that the 1933 census, using IBM machines, raised the official estimate of Jews in Germany from roughly half a million to about two million. since learning this fact, i have boycotted IBM (not that it's particularly hard, they're not the giant they once were) |
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