Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Camp Lamont also called Lamont Prisoner of War Base Camp was a World War II German Prisoners of War camp in the City of Lamont, California, 12 miles southwest from Bakersfield in Kern County. [1] It was formed on December 2, 1944, by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) transferring 16 acres of land to the US War Department for the US Army ...
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 ...
During World War II, Deutsche Luft Hansa employed more than 10,000 forced laborers, including many children, from occupied countries; forced Jewish labor was particularly used from 1940 to 1942. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] Forced laborers were used to install and maintain radar systems and to assemble, repair, and maintain aircraft, including military ...
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).
Watson authorized providing Hitler's Third Reich with data processing solutions and involved IBM in cooperation with Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s and until the end of World War II, profiting from both the German and American war efforts. [4] A leading self-made industrialist, [5] he was one of the richest men of his time when he died in 1956.
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
IBM's subsidiary in Belgium was named Watson Belge. The director was Emile Genon, formerly of Groupe Bull, a competing punch-card firm. When the US entered the World War II in 1941, the company ownership was taken by the Nazi government and given to a custodian, H. Gabrecht, who also custodied the Netherlands subsidiary.