Kohler
Jul 1st, 2007, 1:12 PM
The Nazi Regime would not have been able to coordinate and perpetrate the Holocaust as efficiently without advanced data collecting technology sold to them by International Business Machines (IBM).
Adolph Hitler had come to power in a devastated country. Its military had been weakened by World War I; its population divided over war issues and suffering from extreme hyperinflation of their currency. Their life savings had become useless—a wheelbarrow of money barely able to afford a loaf of bread. Germans had been humiliated at the hands of the allied forces during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, to them, becoming the laughing stock of the world. The Germans had lost strategic plots of land and all of their colonies to the United States and Britain. Their navy was restricted to a mere six battleships and its army a measly 100,000 men. A large fifty mile chunk of land between France and Germany named the Rhineland had been demilitarized to ensure a French safety cushion. As a result of the War Guilt Clause that blamed the entire war on Germany, they were forced to pay 6,600 million euros (todays calculation) in war reparations.
Growing up, Hitler had idolized Thomas J. Watson, the President of the International Business Machine’s corporation because of his resemblance to Henry Ford, king of industrialization. When Hitler began to come to power in January of 1933 he had immediately began preaching his intentions to produce a master race, namely containing blond haired and blue eyed Germans. Any vague interpretation of his speeches could have been verified by his book which he wrote in prison titled Mein Kamph. Only two months later in March, the first concentration camps had been created. Sixty-thousand helpless Jews had found themselves imprisoned by April, whereas 10,000 were fortunate enough to evacuate. American businesses were forced to decide whether or not to continue trade with the sinister regime, debating whether to be ethical or profitable. Watson, having visited Germany on multiple occasions after World War I felt compassionate for the Germans, because the blame for the great war had been burdened on them alone and none of their allies. Soon Watson will begin to view Hitler and the Nazi’s as a “valuable trading ally” and will decide to provide them with data and statistic equipment with the potential to keep records with the precision, efficiency and quantity which no man could possibly compete.
The Nazi regime wanted to classify all of the people in its borders. They wanted a count of every single person, knowing their background information and religion. In April of 1933, they began to compile a census. A German sub-company of International Business Machines, Dehomag, had been willing to design a package for the Nazi’s which would categorize all Germans; as long as the government would gather the research, IBM and Dehomag promised to develop a machine called the Hollerith. Germans who had been deemed acceptable by Hitler were put to work and able to make a living during this process; “organizing the census was a prodigious task. Dehomag hired some 900 temporary staffers, mainly supplied by the Berlin employment office, which had become dominated by the venomous German Labor Front.”
Hitler had promised a better life for his people, and now that they were beginning to find jobs, were willing to turn a blind eye towards both what they were working on and what had been going on around them. While gathering information, the census bureau would knock door to door and send out questionnaires, inquiring background information, particularly focusing on mixed marriages, race and religion. Towards the end of Hitler’s first year as dictator, all of the questionnaires and data had been sent into Berlin for a more efficient processing; “A continuous speed punching operation ran two shifts, and three when needed. Dehomag decreed a quota of 450,000 cards per day for its workforce. Free coffee was provided to keep people awake. Company officials bragged that the 41 million processed cards, if stacked, would tower two and a half times higher than the Zugspitze, Germany’s 10,000-foot mountain peak.” Jewish people had their cards processed in a different line. The Reich Statistical Office had been able to determine exactly where the largest populations of Jews resided, and were able to figure out the exact numbers as well as the percentage of Jews compromised in the area.
By 1936, Hitler had begun to grow confident and to violate the Treaty of Versailles by sending his army into the Rhineland. Had the French government made even the slightest reply to this defying act, Hitler had been ready to immediately back down. It had always been a dream of the dictator to rule over his true homeland, Austria-- by 1938 this dream became a reality after he annexed the territory. Growing more confident, Hitler asks the British for a small piece of Czechoslovakia. Hoping to appease the dictator, they oblige. In gaining all of this land, Hitler also obtained large populations of Jewish people who needed to be accounted for and dealt with. By 1939, Reinhard Heydrich had sent out notices containing instructions to all other Nazi leaders informing them about the secret policies about how they would deal with Jews in conquered areas.
The technology provided to the Nazi’s by the International Business Machines, a United States corporation, helped round up minorities with ease. Perhaps without this technology, the devastating results of the holocaust could have been delayed until the allied forces liberated the concentration camps towards the end of World War II in 1945.
Hitler and his regime had been motivated to expand their boundaries in order to support his eugenic race. Along with this land came a variety of ethnic inhabitants practicing different religions, the majority of which were unacceptable and would be a considered as a violation to the progressing evolution of a dominant people as described in Mein Kamph. Due to the limitations and restrictions placed on the Germans by the treaty of Versailles, having the ability to kill all Jewish people and minorities in an efficient manner was nothing but a dream to Hitler until they received this revolutionary technology from Watson and International Business Machines that enabled them to keep an accurate census of all German people. Races had been categorized and concentration camps had been set up by the Nazis prior to their trade relations with IBM, but this will have no influence on Watson. The end result will be a genocide committed on such a tremendous scale, that even first world governments will be forced to accept the word genocide in their vocabularies.
Adolph Hitler had come to power in a devastated country. Its military had been weakened by World War I; its population divided over war issues and suffering from extreme hyperinflation of their currency. Their life savings had become useless—a wheelbarrow of money barely able to afford a loaf of bread. Germans had been humiliated at the hands of the allied forces during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, to them, becoming the laughing stock of the world. The Germans had lost strategic plots of land and all of their colonies to the United States and Britain. Their navy was restricted to a mere six battleships and its army a measly 100,000 men. A large fifty mile chunk of land between France and Germany named the Rhineland had been demilitarized to ensure a French safety cushion. As a result of the War Guilt Clause that blamed the entire war on Germany, they were forced to pay 6,600 million euros (todays calculation) in war reparations.
Growing up, Hitler had idolized Thomas J. Watson, the President of the International Business Machine’s corporation because of his resemblance to Henry Ford, king of industrialization. When Hitler began to come to power in January of 1933 he had immediately began preaching his intentions to produce a master race, namely containing blond haired and blue eyed Germans. Any vague interpretation of his speeches could have been verified by his book which he wrote in prison titled Mein Kamph. Only two months later in March, the first concentration camps had been created. Sixty-thousand helpless Jews had found themselves imprisoned by April, whereas 10,000 were fortunate enough to evacuate. American businesses were forced to decide whether or not to continue trade with the sinister regime, debating whether to be ethical or profitable. Watson, having visited Germany on multiple occasions after World War I felt compassionate for the Germans, because the blame for the great war had been burdened on them alone and none of their allies. Soon Watson will begin to view Hitler and the Nazi’s as a “valuable trading ally” and will decide to provide them with data and statistic equipment with the potential to keep records with the precision, efficiency and quantity which no man could possibly compete.
The Nazi regime wanted to classify all of the people in its borders. They wanted a count of every single person, knowing their background information and religion. In April of 1933, they began to compile a census. A German sub-company of International Business Machines, Dehomag, had been willing to design a package for the Nazi’s which would categorize all Germans; as long as the government would gather the research, IBM and Dehomag promised to develop a machine called the Hollerith. Germans who had been deemed acceptable by Hitler were put to work and able to make a living during this process; “organizing the census was a prodigious task. Dehomag hired some 900 temporary staffers, mainly supplied by the Berlin employment office, which had become dominated by the venomous German Labor Front.”
Hitler had promised a better life for his people, and now that they were beginning to find jobs, were willing to turn a blind eye towards both what they were working on and what had been going on around them. While gathering information, the census bureau would knock door to door and send out questionnaires, inquiring background information, particularly focusing on mixed marriages, race and religion. Towards the end of Hitler’s first year as dictator, all of the questionnaires and data had been sent into Berlin for a more efficient processing; “A continuous speed punching operation ran two shifts, and three when needed. Dehomag decreed a quota of 450,000 cards per day for its workforce. Free coffee was provided to keep people awake. Company officials bragged that the 41 million processed cards, if stacked, would tower two and a half times higher than the Zugspitze, Germany’s 10,000-foot mountain peak.” Jewish people had their cards processed in a different line. The Reich Statistical Office had been able to determine exactly where the largest populations of Jews resided, and were able to figure out the exact numbers as well as the percentage of Jews compromised in the area.
By 1936, Hitler had begun to grow confident and to violate the Treaty of Versailles by sending his army into the Rhineland. Had the French government made even the slightest reply to this defying act, Hitler had been ready to immediately back down. It had always been a dream of the dictator to rule over his true homeland, Austria-- by 1938 this dream became a reality after he annexed the territory. Growing more confident, Hitler asks the British for a small piece of Czechoslovakia. Hoping to appease the dictator, they oblige. In gaining all of this land, Hitler also obtained large populations of Jewish people who needed to be accounted for and dealt with. By 1939, Reinhard Heydrich had sent out notices containing instructions to all other Nazi leaders informing them about the secret policies about how they would deal with Jews in conquered areas.
The technology provided to the Nazi’s by the International Business Machines, a United States corporation, helped round up minorities with ease. Perhaps without this technology, the devastating results of the holocaust could have been delayed until the allied forces liberated the concentration camps towards the end of World War II in 1945.
Hitler and his regime had been motivated to expand their boundaries in order to support his eugenic race. Along with this land came a variety of ethnic inhabitants practicing different religions, the majority of which were unacceptable and would be a considered as a violation to the progressing evolution of a dominant people as described in Mein Kamph. Due to the limitations and restrictions placed on the Germans by the treaty of Versailles, having the ability to kill all Jewish people and minorities in an efficient manner was nothing but a dream to Hitler until they received this revolutionary technology from Watson and International Business Machines that enabled them to keep an accurate census of all German people. Races had been categorized and concentration camps had been set up by the Nazis prior to their trade relations with IBM, but this will have no influence on Watson. The end result will be a genocide committed on such a tremendous scale, that even first world governments will be forced to accept the word genocide in their vocabularies.