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[rich]

IBM and the Holocaust was very poorly written

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kai wrote:
>
>> What? "For peace"?! Yeah, I guess that's why they sold
>> LOCHSTREIFENKARTENMASCHINEN to Nazi Germany ...
>
> true that.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Black#IBM_and_the_Holocaust
>
> my dad's bud of course was a postwar IBMer, but your point is well taken.
>
> I just thought it was an interesting sidelight to Yoyodyne's hymns,
> and OBA was - being a technical sort of guy - possibly aware of that
> corporate culture.
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> --
> "...no matter what you did to its edges the true Pacific stayed
> inviolate and integrated or assumed the ugliness at any edge into some
> more general truth."
>