Minorities persecuted via punch cards

Minorities persecuted via punch cards, Eldon New, Telicom Magazine, XV.5, March, 2001

Recently, in the United States, archaic punch ard machines were 
responsible for the dis-enrfanchisemnet of many minority voters.
Enough to deliver the presidency to the whims of the Supreme Court,
(with disatrous results).

But the pattern of abuse of punch card and data processing technology
goes back further than anyone realized.

I used to work for IBM during the vietnam War, and I was bothered
by somthing vauge and undefinable about the connection between
what the company made, and how it was being used.

My cousin, Ronnie Cohen, worked for IBM in Little Rock at the
same tim that I worked at IBM in Memphis, with a very similar job.

So I was especially interested in the release of a new book:
"IBM and the Holocaust", by Edwin Black

It is so new, it does not yet show up on a "Google" search,
but I found the web site by using an experimental search engine
at NEC. (BY hte way, IBM helped Japan tool up for Pearl Harbor too.)

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/book.html
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Bridget Kinsella -- 2/12/01

Under a shroud of secrecy, today Crown published IBM and the Holocaust:
The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most 
Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black. It is the first book to connect 
IBM's technical ingenuity with the infamous efficiency of Hitler's 
Final Solution. "There have been czars and tyrants before him. But 
for the first time in history, an anti-Semite had automation on his 
side," writes Black.

"IBM and the Holocaust is a story that must be read if one is to 
understand how Hitler and the Nazis were able to implement their 
Final Solution to exterminate European Jewry. We have been told that 
'nobody knew,' but Edwin Black proves conclusively that many knew 
and that IBM was instrumental in Hitler's success identifying nearly 
ten million European Jews and killing 6 million. As we become more 
technologically advanced, we must always remember that technology 
can work for evil as well as good. This book tells us that we must 
be ever vigilant and never allow progress and profits to triumph over
morality and ethics."
--Abraham H. Foxman, National Director,  Anti-Defamation League 


"Edwin Black has put together an impressive array of facts which 
result in a shocking conclusion never realized before: IBM collaborated
with the Third Reich. IBM and the Holocaust should be read by 
everyone interested in the 'hidden history' of the Second World War."
--Simon Wiesenthal, Director, Jewish Doccumentation Center, Vienna, 
Austria 



http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/book.html

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