Has anyone read Edwin Black's "IBM and the Holocaust"? it details how Thomas J. Watson befriended Hitler and how IBM staff assisted Germany in ensuring the trains arrived to the death camps on time.
2007-12-31 02:46:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
IBM's own staff assisted German officers with the punch card system, ensuring the trains ran on time. Thomas J Watson knew exactly what was going on, but because he was getting rich off Germany, he turned a blind eye to the killing of the jews...typical god-fearing catholic....
2008-01-01 11:14:27 · update #1
My 'worst case' connection of big business connections to the Nazis is Bayer medicine...the progeny of IG Farben, the pharmaceutical conglomerate that supplied 2 1/2 tons of zyclon B per month in the summer of 1944 to the SS for their death camps.
2007-12-31 05:07:35 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-10 17:30:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my god, an international company sold products to a foreign government!! They must have been in on the whole thing...
Really it's a bit ridiculous to be upset that a business entity a world away would sell products to a foreign power. What the Nazis ended up using them for is hardly the fault of IBM. That's like suing a sporting goods store because someone got beat up with a baseball bat.
2007-12-31 05:56:46 · answer #3 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is a tenuous connection. IBM sold punch-card style computers to pre-war, pre-Holocaust Nazi Germany. The security apparatus used it to keep a card file system on Germany's political opponents.
This book is a sensationalist attempt by the "Holocaust industry" to cast the net wider to create more "perpetrators" no matter how remote. If they cast IBM or similar companies guilty then it is no small leap to make ALL Americans guilty for the Holocaust.
A person could make a connection between Coca-cola and the Nazis.
2007-12-31 03:58:10 · answer #4 · answered by Philip L 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋