By 1933, IBM had adapted the technology used in the Jamaica study for general use by Hitler’s Reich, and in 1934 IBM opened a million-dollar factory in Berlin. At the factory opening, the manager of the German subsidiary, Willi Heidinger, standing next to a representative of T. J. Watson, the president of IBM, “emotionally declared that population statistics were key to eradicating the unhealthy, inferior segments of German society” (Black 2003, 309).
