It’s talked about in this thread. The short version that IBM built a logistics machine for the Nazis that was used to coordinate the transport of supplies for the war effort and transporting people to concentration camps.
TL:DR: IBM sold machines to the Nazis that they used to track down people to put into concentration camps. It would’ve been harder to do if they had to rely on paper records only.
Jeez, hard to imagine them not having been paper. Sometimes it’s easy to forget. Kind of like the IRS using computers older than some senators, and that’s saying something.
So do I have to look it up now? Ugh, but I am le tired
It’s talked about in this thread. The short version that IBM built a logistics machine for the Nazis that was used to coordinate the transport of supplies for the war effort and transporting people to concentration camps.
TL:DR: IBM sold machines to the Nazis that they used to track down people to put into concentration camps. It would’ve been harder to do if they had to rely on paper records only.
Jeez, hard to imagine them not having been paper. Sometimes it’s easy to forget. Kind of like the IRS using computers older than some senators, and that’s saying something.