IBM custom-designed the indispensable systems that located European Jews and other undesirables, and then provided a multiplicity of custom-tailored punch card programs to help the Nazis trace family trees, index bank accounts and other property, organize eugenic campaigns and even manage extermination in death camps. . . .
Just after Hitler rose to power, IBM initiated an aggressive commercial compact with Nazi Germany, generating windfall profits as it organized and systemized the Reich's anti-Jewish and eugenic programs. As the Hitler regime took each step in its war against the Jews and all of Europe, IBM custom-designed the punch cards and other data processing solutions to streamline those campaigns into what the company described as "blitzkrieg efficiency."
It began in 1933, when the company designed and executed Hitler's first census. From there, IBM's involvement with the Reich mushroomed. On January 8, 1934, IBM opened a million-dollar factory in Berlin to manufacture Hollerith machines and coordinate data processing functions. At the factory opening, the manager of IBM's German subsidiary, Willi Heidinger, spoke vividly about what IBM technology would do for Germany's biological destiny. Standing next to the personal representative of IBM president Thomas J. Watson, and with numerous Nazi Party officials in attendance at a ceremony bedecked by swastika flags and Storm Trooper honor guards, Heidinger emotionally declared that population statistics were key to eradicating the unhealthy, inferior segments of German society. . .
Most of Heidinger's speech, along with a list of the invited Nazi Party officials, was rushed to Manhattan and immediately translated for Watson. The IBM leader cabled Heidinger a prompt not of congratulations for a job well done and sentiments well expressed.
Edwin Black, "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," p.290, 308-309
4 comments:
The truth of this has been validated in a book by Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: How America's most powerful corporation helped Nazi Germany count the Jews.
The history of American industry's involvement in eugenics both before and after WWII is ignored, unknown or forgotten by many people who should know better. This includes us as Christians.
Thanks for putting the information forward.
It doesn't surprise me that Edwin Black would have a full book on the issue. This book of his I cited is an outstanding exposure of the whole eugenics ideology, especially during that period.
I might pick up the book - though the whole study of eugenics is bit hard to get through. The evil is brazen, relentless and continues under many other names and schemes. The tie in with Planned Parenthood is a direct one through both Margaret Sanger and as evidenced by their behavior which has come to light again recently.
If it was only just Planned Parenthood.
I've got a lot of books on my shelf with that general topic of eugenics and how Hitler actually was just following the American movement, including Sanger as one of the top movers. When I first learned of all this taking place in America, I was shocked that anything like that would exist in this country. But the more I studied, the less and less surprised I became. These are some very evil people.
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