No offence to anyone out there but what was the point of this vid?
Are we not supposed to buy IBM products cus there like every other corperation out there?
The capitilised on a situation before someone else could have.
The nazi would have found a way without them im sure plus all they were as far as i gathered is a tabulating machine.
So the nazis could COUNT quicker therefore helping genocide? Im sure there were other companys that did a lot worse out there....
Well sorry to anyone who might have been involved in the holocost. It was a terrible thing!!! and i in no way support the nazis or anything like it....

Iunno fiver, I guess its a matter of a means to an end, and whether you believe you can clearly draw no connection between a company making a profit off other peoples deaths.

Whatever keeps the shareholders happy doesn't sound like a good company motto to me, because then anything goes in the name of making a buck.

It's not that the Nazi's could count quickly. The machines that IBM provided were bespoke hardware, that means it had to be made to order for whatever taks it was put to. The nazi's used it to create large records of everyone detained; recording name, identification number, date of birth, sex and then marking them out as a jews, homosexuals, communists, anti-nazi influences, and various other categorizes. In creating the hardware IBM knew directly what the use of the machines was for.

We're talking about a home corporation trading with the enemy at the time, when this was not allowed. Corporate competition and expansion is one thing, for example Coca-Cola could not sell Coca-Cola in Germany. So they went and created Fanta to sell to the German market.

That and creating machines directly related to the mass extermination are two very different things.

Fanta was designed for Nazis? Wow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta
Damn...

I strongly encourage you to do a little research on the web. This vid is awful, it leaves away many of the important facts like the Hollerith Maschinen GmbH etc. There are way more trustworthy and complete sources for IBM´s history out there on the net.

This video (and i suppose the book also) lacks proper investigation.

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