"[IBM's] machines were used to understand how many [...] Jews lived in any district. They also helped the Third Reich understand that as they imposed harsh regulations [...] many Jews would leave to neighboring regions"
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"IBM technology was used to support all aspects of the Holocaust, from identifying and transporting Jews, to managing their populations at concentration camps and recording their executions. Recall how much of this, by design [...], IBM would know." http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2017/11/27/ibm-holocaust/ …
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"they weren’t as successful in France, where an estimated 25% of Jews died. For comparison, an estimated 75% of Jews in Holland died. [...] Carmille sabotaged the operation, preventing any information about religion from being punched into cards." http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2017/11/27/ibm-holocaust/ …
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"I started my [PhD] in computer science in 2002. [...] I think this is an utter failure, utter lack of ethics education. Any ethical considerations I picked up during graduate school[,] were not necessarily sound." http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2017/11/27/ibm-holocaust/ …
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A majority of our students will go on to work for companies just like IBM. And if they aren’t taught that tragedies like the Holocaust happen because everyone was just doing their job, we are liable for the continued abuse of computer science." http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2017/11/27/ibm-holocaust/ …
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Was it actually IBM, or licensee, or competitor? In the UK there was a British punch card machine manufacturer, in Letchworth, that diverted to making a huge number of the first, relay-based codebreaking machines for Bletchley in WWII. Not IBM AFAWIA
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Also, to directly address your question: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust …
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