• @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Yep, now look up the dark past of basically any large corporation that existed at that time… wild stuff.

      it makes me wonder why, when we see WWII movies or documentaries, why they are doing everything analog? Typewriters, handwritten letters, when we know they had IBM computers, which were sold to the Nazis including during the war, in direct contravention of sanctions. Could it be they want to hide that unsavory bit of history

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          The Nazis literally used custom made IBM punch cards to keep records of their undesirables. I know society at large was mostly unaware of computers, but did they did play a role in WWII. We see cipher devices like Enigma in historical documentaries and fiction, but we don’t see the computers that calculated bomb and rocket trajectories, and least of all the Nazi’s database which seems quite well buried in footnotes, though it was critical in the holocaust.

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      01 year ago

      I find some dark amusement in knowing there is a wiki page called “IBM and the holocaust” haha. Not gonna read it though

      • @blazeknave
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        21 year ago

        Tldr the arm tattoo #s were the ID in the IBM asset tracking database for the efficiently run coal mines.