Posted on 02/16/2021 6:55:27 AM PST by SJackson
Later.
How was what IBM did any different than what is unfolding with tech corporations today? “Hey, can’t blame Hitler if a private company like I.G. Farben is killing Jews in Farben’s camps.”
I did read this book about 10 years ago.
It was very interesting.
IBM in ww2,Microsoft,Facebook,and Google today.Nothing changes except the names.
That was then. Although it has the same name, the IBM of today is not the IBM of that time. Small minded idiots are easily fooled by the similarity in names, and think that the company of today is guilty for the crimes committed by the heads of the corporation in the 1930’s and 40’s.
“The evidence indelibly proves that IBM was an indispensable and pivotal partner in the greatest crime in history: The Holocaust.”
As a Jew, it is hard to accept that the scope of murder by totalitarians is so high, including Mao’s 50,000,000 which beat Hitler by about 5X.
Tech today is only interested in killing our personal and political rights.
Folks,
Technology can be used for good and bad. If one is going to hold up this example, then lets talk about the good ways we used it to.
The book may be true and have good information, BUT IT DOES HAVE AN AGENDA.
That's not true. They just haven't announced the camps yet.
You need to rethink that
Oh, no, they're playing the same old game of re-labeling some human beings as non-human, so as to make for guilt-free genocide:
I worked for IBM for 25 years and occasionally was asked to attend and recruit at engineering college employment fairs.
At UC Berkeley inevitably some student would ask me why IBM sold tabulating machines to the Nazis.
All I could say was that I did know the details. Not a very good answer but it was what it was.
I also worked with some brilliant Jewish scientists and engineers. Some of them had been with IBM a long time. Hearing their stories of the early days at IBM was interesting. Some of them were the first new hires after IBM lifted their no Jewish hiring policy.
I don’t necessarily disagree with what you’re saying, but our personal rights have to be breached first, which is the stage we’re at. If the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th amendments prevail, they’ll fail. If they succeed, the American experiment is over. And we’ll see the ramifications of tyranny. But our rights are the battle line now. And we’re losing on the first, Joe will soon be attacking the second. Could that loss lead to “reeducation” via concentration camps, it has many places. Jews were an exception in WWII, but in general concentration camps, dems will call them “reeducation camps”, are generally filled with the political opposition. Actual or perceived.
Re-read my post. Aborion is killing human beings. It is going on right now, with outright outspoken-in-PR-releases corporate support.
Seems clear an agenda is being driven. Even in this snippet, there’s some gross inanities:
Germans couldn’t make their own paper card stock?
IBM employees were somehow under personal command of Watson, and not loyal German citizens first?
While interesting, doesn’t sound like it rises to the significance of an “Arms of Krupp” expose’
I read that book several years ago. I’ve brought it up several times since when discussing tech with friends. Most people are in the dark. Even, back in those days the politicans gave IBM wiggle room. When the U.S. said no trade with Nazi Germany or companies still involved in trade with Germany, IBM simply moved their headquarters to Switzerland. Fascinating book and a real education.
Probably. But they needed both the IBM machines and the bi weekly maintainance. I'd agree it's not the same as Krupp.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
One the federal government successfully breaches in many areas, from abortion to education to intrastate transportation.
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