“With IBM as a partner, the Hitler regime was able to substantially automate and accelerate all six phases of the 12-year Holocaust: identification, exclusion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination.… There was an IBM customer site in every concentration camp.” Indeed, IBM data processing became the key to Nazi persecution of “unfit” people and “races.” And it should not be forgotten that IBM generated massive profits as it took over the organization and systematization of the Nazi eugenics programs.
