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A 2001 book by Edwin Black, entitled IBM and the Holocaust, reached the conclusion that IBM's commercial activities in Germany during World War II make it morally complicit in the Holocaust. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An updated 2002 paperback edition of the book included new evidence of the connection between IBM's United States headquarters, which ...
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the ...
IBM as a military contractor produced 6% of the M1 Carbine rifles used in World War II, about 346,500 of them, between August 1943 and May. IBM built the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, an electromechanical computer, during World War II.
International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational corporation specializing in computer technology and information technology consulting. Headquartered in Armonk, New York, the company originated from the amalgamation of various enterprises dedicated to automating routine business transactions, notably pioneering punched card-based data tabulating machines and time clocks.
Watson built IBM into such a dominant company that the federal government filed a civil antitrust suit against it in 1952. IBM owned and leased to its customers more than 90 percent of all tabulating machines in the United States at the time. When Watson died in 1956, IBM's revenues were $897 million, and the company had 72,500 employees. [12]
During World War II, BTM was called upon to design and manufacture a machine to assist breaking the German Enigma machine ciphers. This machine, known as a bombe , was initially conceived by Alan Turing , but the actual machine was designed by BTM chief engineer Harold 'Doc' Keen , who had led the company's engineering department throughout the ...
The left end consisted of electromechanical computing components. The right end included data and program readers, and automatic typewriters. The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
Dehomag was a German subsidiary of IBM and later a standalone company with a monopoly in the German market before and during World War II. [1] The word was a syllabic abbreviation for Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen GmbH (English: German Hollerith Machines LLC).