I wish people would stop blaming ibm for concentration camps. They saw a void in efficiency and filled that void. That’s capitalism and the American way. How their technology was used isn’t their fault.
I imagine you could make an argument to support that assertion and it may hold up. That doesn’t really matter to me though as Germany declared war on the US and then we fought a bloody war. Seems like an enemy as long as you don’t subscribe to the leftist “I’m going to redefine terms until I’m right” school of argument. Happy to agree to disagree though fren.
ongoing business relationship between Watson's IBM and the emerging German regime headed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Hitler came to power in January 1933; on March 20 of that same year he established a concentration camp for political prisoners in the Bavarian town of Dachau, just outside the city of Munich.
It’s not that their technology was used for evil by the Nazis without their knowledge - they knew exactly what it was being used for, and they actively participated. So yeah it was indeed their fault - read the book by Edwin Black.
I wish people would stop blaming ibm for concentration camps. They saw a void in efficiency and filled that void. That’s capitalism and the American way. How their technology was used isn’t their fault.
Collaborating with an enemy in a time of war is treason. They did that and never faced consequences.
Agree to disagree fren, but I don’t believe nazi Germany was in fact our enemy.
I imagine you could make an argument to support that assertion and it may hold up. That doesn’t really matter to me though as Germany declared war on the US and then we fought a bloody war. Seems like an enemy as long as you don’t subscribe to the leftist “I’m going to redefine terms until I’m right” school of argument. Happy to agree to disagree though fren.
That's not the point. The point is how they treated their enemies.
Right wingers are less likely to get vaccinated. People who value freedom get legally excluded from the economy.
Agreed. Murica was not at war when the clocking in machine was invented at the C camps.
The point is they put the infrastructure in place before they started jailing political opponents and rounding up jews
ongoing business relationship between Watson's IBM and the emerging German regime headed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Hitler came to power in January 1933; on March 20 of that same year he established a concentration camp for political prisoners in the Bavarian town of Dachau, just outside the city of Munich.
It’s not that their technology was used for evil by the Nazis without their knowledge - they knew exactly what it was being used for, and they actively participated. So yeah it was indeed their fault - read the book by Edwin Black.