IBM and the Holocaust

Re:IBM and the Holocaust by markarichards on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:55PM (#33856482)

This is also an interesting read https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-ca...

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Re:IBM and the Holocaust by akhmatova on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:26PM (#33856819)

But unfortunately misleading:

IBM was founded in 1898 by German inventor Herman Hollerith as a census tabulating company.

(1) IBM was created in 1911 (initially as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company) as an amalgamation of four companies, one of which was Hollerith's.

(2) Hollerith himself was not a "German inventor" but rather U.S.-born of German immigrant parents.

But hey, what's bit of sloppy hyperbole if it drives your point across?

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Re:IBM and the Holocaust by dontbenebby on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:04AM (#33895097)

>hey, what's bit of sloppy hyperbole if it drives your point across?

The type of person who stopped their reading on totalitarianism with the fall of the Nazis rather than the fall of the Berlin Wall tend to be unreliable narrators.

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Re:IBM and the Holocaust by dontbenebby on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:11PM (#33856642)

Ok, I’ll upvote it.

I’m leaving hn for a while.

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