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= IBM And The Holocaust = IBM had an alliance with Nazi Germany from the moment Hilter recieved power in 1933 untill 1941. IBM did not want to leave a trail of their alliance with Germany so all agreements, contracts, and directions were made verbally.

Hitler had 6 stages of war against the Jewish people: Ientification expulsion, confiscation, ghettoizations , deportation , and ultimally extermination. For Hilter to carrry out the last part of his plan, the killing of an entire race, he needed alot of organization. The kind of organization you could only get from a computer, but in the 1930's there was no such thing. Thats where IBM's punch card system came in.The system enabled the Nazis to count the amount of people under their control, connfincating bank accounts, coordinating trains to deciding who worked where.

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 * 1 **.The three part punch card system was invented & then named after what Americian engineer ?

2. After the war, how many survivors filed a law suit against IBM & on what date was the lawsiut filed ? Click on the link below to find the answer. []

 Once the death rate at Auschwitz grew, the tatoo evolved. The original tatoo was used for a working innmate, not a dead one. The Hollerith number of each innmate was kept in a central file at Department DII of the SS Economics Administration in Oranienburg. This was IBMs central office in Europe, this office oversaw all slave labor. Dr. Mengele's patients had their own distinct number he tatooed on himself before he performed his " expirments. "
 * 3.** The infamous Auschwitz tatoo began as [|what ?]

In 1941, IBM finally pulled out of their alliance with Nazi Germany, and Watson returned the medal he recieved from Hitler in 1940. IBM still tries to hide the alliance but many historians have found enough facts

" IBM made Hitlers' program of Jewish distruction a technologial mission of the company pursued with a chilling success " - Edwin Black