Posted on 03/27/2002 3:22:59 PM PST by geros
Direct IBM involvement in Holocaust revealed By Edwin Black, Special To 'The Jerusalem Post'
WASHINGTON (March 27) - Recently discovered Nazi documents and Polish eyewitness testimony make it clear IBM's alliance with the Third Reich went far beyond its German subsidiary.
During the rape of Poland and the Holocaust there, which killed millions and plundered a nation, IBM technology was a key factor. That custom-tailored technology was provided not through the German subsidiary, but directly through a new special Polish subsidiary reporting to IBM New York, mainly at its headquarters at 590 N. Madison Ave. in Manhattan.
When the Nazis invaded Poland, IBM New York established a special new subsidiary called Watson Business Machines, which was totally separate and apart from its German subsidiary. The Polish subsidiary was also known to the Nazis as Watson Buromaschinen, the German equivalent of Watson Business Machines. IBM's new Polish company's sole purpose was to service the Nazi occupation during the rape of Poland.
Documents and eyewitness testimony reveal the existence of two key IBM customer sites. The Polish Railways Hollerith Department, at 22 Pawia St. in Krakow, kept tabs on all trains to Auschwitz and elsewhere in Poland.
"I knew they were not German machines," said Leon Krzemieniecki, who worked the railway's machines for two years. "The labels were in English... The person maintaining and repairing the machines spread the diagrams out sometimes. The language of the diagrams of those machines was only in English."
Documents also reveal a massive 500-man Hollerith Gruppe at the Reich Statistical Office in Poland, which calculated all the statistics for the Third Reich, including deaths of Jews per square meter, and reported continuously to a Berlin agency named Central Office for Foreign Statistics and Foreign Country Research.
In 1942, IBM president Thomas J. Watson dispatched his attorney to Berlin to arrange for German machines to be labeled as Czech machines and moved into Poland as long as the Polish subsidiary received a commission.
IBM spokesman Carol Makovich in New York said in reaction: "IBM does not have much information about this period."
Oh wait, Mercedes, BASF, Bayer, BWM, Krupp, Siemens, Volkswagen all paid off the survivors. Hrmmm...who else has money that hasn't paid...
But nobody is ever even going to investigate them. Stansfield Turner tried and got swatted down but good.
How could I have missed them? They made their money from IBM's blunders back in the 80s, so they profited from IBM, and hence Naziism...ahh, makes sense now.
Microsoft entered into a contract with I.B.M., providing the operating system for I.B.M. computers. This contract essentially made the company.
From the history of windows:
October 1981
PC-DOS 1.0 ships with the new IBM PC. Microsoft ships MS-DOS shortly afterwards and licenses MS-DOS to all comers.
Just a coincidence that there has been a campaign since last summer to shake down Poland for reparations. Had some success. The ex-communist President of Poland apologized and stated Monday that Polish intelligence and the Mossad are working jointly on several projects.
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