15 Jun
2011
15 Jun
'11
9:33 a.m.
On 6/15/11 1:37 AM, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
IBM started out as a German company. There was a book
put out after
research done by Edwin Black showing IBM was part of the Nazi war
apparatus, since they needed information processing capabilities to
identify "enemies of the state" and round them up for execution.
Whether the above is a crock or not, this thread happening today is
an interesting coincidence for me. My lady and I were at our new
building on Monday sweeping and cleaning up stuff. I took a fresh air
break (no power there yet, ugh) and was hanging out outside the front
door, when a guy who was walking by stopped and chatted me up.
He was a very nice guy, but apparently he's the neighborhood bible
thumper (ugh) and conspiracy theorist (ugh again). He talked about how
IBM was originally a German company and supplied card equipment to the
Germans and was "partially responsible" for the Holocaust. Obviously he
had read Black's book...with a very active imagination.
And obviously, being interested in good stuff like technology and not
bullshit like war and people being dicks to each other, I really didn't
give a rat's ass. ;) But, as he was very friendly, I listened to what
he had to say as his point of view was so very bizarre.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL