IBM
IBM had a significant involvement with the Nazis during World War II, as detailed in the book “IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation” by investigative journalist Edwin Black. IBM’s technology played a crucial role in facilitating the Holocaust genocide by assisting the German Nazi regime in various ways. This included generating and tabulating punch cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.
The relationship between IBM and the Nazis involved providing technology that enabled the Nazis to automate their persecution of Jews and other targeted groups. IBM’s punch-card technology was used in Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps to register inmates, track slave labour, and facilitate the systematic identification and categorization of individuals based on various criteria.
IBM’s involvement extended to custom-built technology that helped the Nazis achieve scale, velocity, and efficiency in their atrocities. The company’s machines were used in concentration camps, with specific codes for Jewish inmates and gas chambers. IBM’s role in providing technology for the Holocaust was part of an ongoing business relationship that continued even after Hitler came to power in 1933.
The evidence presented by Black and other historians highlights how IBM’s technology significantly contributed to the industrialization of the Holocaust, enabling the Nazis to carry out mass deportations, ghettoization, and ultimately extermination with chilling efficiency. Despite debates among scholars about the extent of IBM’s responsibility, it is clear that IBM’s technology played a crucial role in enabling the Nazis to execute their genocidal plans.
Not only has IBM conspired with the Nazis to kill millions and keep track of their heinous crimes with the IBM tabulation machine. IBM is also known for polluting waterways; the true tolls on the human population worldwide where IBM set up shop will never be known. Birth defects, cancer, permanent part time employees. IBM cares little of the human toll, only profits. Despite continued calls for boycotts against the Nazis, IBM continued their relationship.
Excerpts from WBNG on Endicott, NY spill: http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-york/3105389-40-years-after-spill-former-ibm.html
Birth defects correlation: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51854089_Adverse_Birth_Outcomes_and_Maternal_Exposure_to_Trichloroethylene_and_Tetrachloroethylene_through_Soil_Vapor_Intrusion_in_New_York_State