Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hugo Lopes wrote: > > >I think they were part of the I.G. Farben consortium, but if a finger > were > >to be pointed- what about BASF (Badische Anilin und SodaFabrik)- every > time > >I see their commercials on TV I add to their blurb- "yes, the wonderful > >people who brought us Zyklon-B...." > >I have to admit, I do not knowingly buy BASF products.... > >Dan > > A couple of questions Dan: > - Have you ever owned a Ford? (Henry Ford donated money to the Nazi > party before the war) > - Do you read Newsweek? (They elected Hitler man of the year in 36) > - Do you own an IBM (see the latest news) ><Snip> From CNN http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/02/12/ibm/index.html The book includes gruesome allegations that concentration camps used IBM punch cards to categorize victims: homosexuals rated No. 3, Jews No. 8, Gypsies No. 12. IBM, as a nearly exclusive supplier of database equipment to the Third Reich, fed their demand not out of Nazi sympathies but from a desire to dominate global markets for its products, Black argues. The punch-card-machine -- the mainframe computer of its day -- dates back to 1890, when Herman Hollerith, a German American, first built them to compile the U.S. population census. (And the part i love the most!!!:) IBM remains one of the world's largest suppliers of databases and Hollerith punch cards are the same technology blamed for the election counting problems in Florida in last year's U.S. presidential election. One of the machine made by the company -- believed to have been used in the 1933 German census, the year the Nazis took power -- is on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. What about Television? And jets? Cant we sue NBC and Boeing? mark rabiner :) bad mark!!! bad!!!