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Well, I wasn't initially going to reply because I realize it's getting way off topic and as you say, it's hitting close to home for you and I don't mean to upset you. I can't relate to how americans knew about the holocaust because I was born in Sweden. In Sweden, surely enough, people knew the nazi's were after the Jews. My grandfather, a seaman, helped Jewish children get into hiding in Sweden. But everytime I talked to him about it, he always said that even though he knew, he never thought it was as horrific as it turned out to be. That's where I come from. But that being said, I still stand by my statement that I think the whole IBM and the nazi Germany thing is blown way out of porpotions. When people state that IBM laid the way for the German war, I really want to know how one fights wars with punch card machines, and what punch card machines has to do with the Nazi ideology. Personally I think it's just a "hit" at one of the biggest corporations in the world, but you can't really compare IBM of that day, to Big Blue today.

But again, I did start by previous post with "Hm, I thought..." and I guess that belongs in front of this post as well. I hope I do not insult you, I just wanted to explain my opinion and again sorry to the rest for getting off-topic.

Johan.

On Dec 28, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Neil Wiernik wrote:



http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/ibm-j27.shtml

there is plenty more just do a google search...
its pretty nieve for any one to think that people didnt knoww hat hitler and the nazi party were up to its not like they really hide it from any one... even if they sort of how could they hide it at the scale they were doing it (Im a child of a survivor so this subject hits very close to home for me). I think people like to say that they didnt know what they were up to, I think its more like people didnt want to belive it was happening and were there for in denial of it all. they were in dianl untill they could not any more, when they were presented with first hand pictures and stories from people then the west has no choice but to accept it. but to say they didnt now what was going on is IMHO an easy cop out.
neil..




On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Johan Nilsson wrote:

Hm, I thought the only connection IBM had with Nazi Germany was that their punch card machines were used in concentration camps. I used to do contract work with IBM and this is what I was told. It's a bit of an emberassing part of IBM history, but not really something that'd stop me from working with them or their machines. I mean, who really believes IBM knew what was happening at those locations anyways?

You guys make it sound like IBM built nuclear arms or something.

Johan.

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