GR translation: sugar faces

[Michael Bailey]

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Hollerith.html

All governments gather information about their citizens. The Nazi
regime, however, used such information to track political opponents,
enforce racial policies, and, ultimately, implement mass murder. As
early as 1934, various government bureaus began to compile card
catalogs identifying political and racial enemies of the regime, such
as Freemasons, Jews, Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), and "genetically
diseased" persons. The 1939 census became the basis for a national
register of Jews. That year, German census forms for the first time
included explicitly racial categories. Jews were identified not only
by religious affiliation, but by race as well. Within three years, the
completed national register of Jews and some Jewish Mischlinge ("mixed
breeds") was to become one of the sources for Nazi deportation lists.
Most of those deported perished in the Holocaust.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Hollerith machines were the best data
processing devices available. The Nazi regime employed thousands of
people in 1933 to 1939 to record national census data onto Hollerith
punch cards. The SS used the Hollerith machines during the war to
monitor the large numbers of prisoners shipped in and out of
concentration camps. The machines were manufactured by
DEHOMAG-Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft or German Hollerith
Machine Company, a subsidiary of IBM since 1922.