Was IBM index cards helpful to Hitler in finding the Jews he sought to eliminate?

Question

Ibm sent the tech support to Germany to further their computer system to a world wide use. Remember the index cards with all the holes in it like an old player piano role?

Answer 1

Several big companies were involved in funding Germany to nationalize communism that threatened to unite the workers of the world and challenge their hold and control over them. Communism and it's socialism was wide spread in even the US. Hitler rose to power and the Germans were just too efficient, and so they pulled out and moved to stop the monster they created. IBM Corporation did not have wide use of the card system, but their is strong evidence it speeded up Hitler's round up. Some day we will know the truth, and you that are quick to call this poster crazy will eat crow as your conscience nags at you.

Answer 2

Absolutely incorrect. First of all. IBM did not make computers until after WWII. The only electronic computers available during that time period were very simplistic (by today's standards) that were being developed by governments for the war purpose.



During the war, many of IBM factories, which had been producing typewriters and electronic tabulating machines (an enormous sized calculator), were converted to manufacture rifles and ordnance for the US military. If the Nazis got there hands on any IBM equipment during the war it was through black markets channels, not directly from the company.



If your referring to that work of "fiction" by Edwin Black, the contents of that book have been discredited by many WWII experts and IBM has officially denied any knowledge of Nazi collaboration.

Answer 3

And - horror of horrors! What about the companies that made the paper? And all of the typewriter companies!



And you you believe that the Nazi's even bought office furniture?



Maybe you need to get a life and ask yourself if it is reasonable to blame IBM simply because a piece of office automation equipment which they sold all over the world was used by the Nazis.

Answer 4

no

the system was locally based with officers in each city assessing and issuing certificates of racial purity



IBM played no part at all, the book that alleges this is inconsistent with Nazi operations and know practices. Simply each person had to have a certificate of racial purity for their papers, if you didn't your name was passed on to the Gestapo. there was need for a central punch card system. Find a Jew send him off, sell his property, unsophisticated but very effective



the first modern electronic computer as we know it was invented by the British postal service to crack German enigma codes

Answer 5

Punch card technology started in the 1880's.



Did the Nazi regime use it for the purpose you state? I've never seen anything to suggest they did.











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