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Re:100th anniversary of Konrad Zuse: creator of the first pr... by david927 on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @10:05AM (#1451891)
He was a German during the war. There's a difference. I think you're thinking of people like Henry Ford and Thomas Watson (founder of IBM).
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Re:100th anniversary of Konrad Zuse: creator of the first pr... by tomjen3 on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @11:44AM (#1452190)
There is also the difference that he properly didn't have much choice.

Thomas Watson on the other hand wasn't forced to make the punchcards the nazis used to run their census and kill the jews; he did it very, very willingly.

And Ford was given a fucking medal by Hitler.

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Re:100th anniversary of Konrad Zuse: creator of the first pr... by phreeza on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @11:57AM (#1452223)
I disagree. There is a huge difference between not resisting the regime(which is what most Germans are guilty of) and working in the weapons industry, actively supporting the war effort.
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