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In reply to the discussion: Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)85. IBM helped organize eh, paperwork for the Holcaust.

Edwin Black chronicled the sorry role played by American information technology:
IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.
Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.
But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.
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http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
The CIA, for some reason, let lots and lots of the genocidal NAZIs escape justice after the war by recruiting them as agents in the Cold War against the godless communist conspiracy. Now, these NAZIs' are so embedded in American political and economic life, few know they're there and practically no one can see them, although they can certainly see us. So, that's why I'm concerned to learn NSA is spying on everyone in the USA.
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Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen [View all]
dkf
Jul 2013
OP
They may know how to accumulate and organize but they haven't perfected the pre-crime part of it.
dkf
Jul 2013
#2
well, just drag your feet on apying veterans claims/benefits and a good number will die off
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#72
Not only would some here back employers doing that, some would cheer them on
The Straight Story
Jul 2013
#24
Thank god Obama has not continued any of the illegal and unconstutional things Bush did!
dixiegrrrrl
Jul 2013
#30
As he explains in his New Yorker profile by Mayer, he continues to talk to active NSA employees
leveymg
Jul 2013
#83
Then the FISA court order telling Verizon to hand over all its metadata to the NSA
magellan
Jul 2013
#38
Still not seeing where it says they'll be handing all my metadata over to the gov't. n/t
magellan
Jul 2013
#54
Where passing people's personal data to the US Government is concerned, it should
magellan
Jul 2013
#71
You do understand that there are other spying organizations in the world right?
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#79
"It's not about being paranoid:" That qualifier is creeping into more discussions.
Eleanors38
Jul 2013
#23
"Oh yeah? Well don't get so distressed. Did I happen to mention that I'm impressed?" nt
raouldukelives
Jul 2013
#28
I'm not surprised to see you post a characterization of DUers in place of
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#84
Great. A group primarily comprised of militaristic RW authoritarians are collecting our information,
Zorra
Jul 2013
#68
It's a freaking gold rush into data mining & surveillance. The amount of taxpayer money going to
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#70