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bumped | 14 years ago

While their jew counting, Nazi profits turn 66.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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bryanh|14 years ago

In this spirit, Samuel Colt is responsible for the death of millions upon millions. Nonsense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Colt

scott_s|14 years ago

Unfortunately, the relationship was not as indirect. See Edwin Black's book on the issue: http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ The evidence Black presents that there was knowledge at high levels about what was going on is disturbing but convincing. I am an IBM employee, and I made myself read the book because I felt it was something I should know about.

gaius|14 years ago

I saw an interview with old Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the eponymous rifle. The interviewer asked him, are you ashamed to have created a weapon that caused so many deaths? He snorted in contempt and replied, I designed my weapon to defend the Motherland from Fascist invaders. And no-one can argue with that!

briggsbio|14 years ago

As would Oppenheimer (nuclear bomb/nuclear energy). Benefits of nuclear energy are palpable. But even the A-bomb and it's use as a deterrent could be seen (loosely) as a positive force.

And Alfred Nobel (TNT). His prize notwithstanding, but TNT has unlocked significant natural resources that have improved the quality of life worldwide.

"I am become death. The destroyer of worlds."

Symmetry|14 years ago

Less, I'd say. Samuel Colt could reasonably know that his device would be used to kill people. A person making a census machine, especially before the first modern genocide, can't be reasonably expected it would be used to kill people.

cellis|14 years ago

Samuel Colt probably saved millions upon millions.

adamc|14 years ago

Thanks for alerting me to this -- I'd never heard about it before.

chopsueyar|14 years ago

I wanted to post that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

bumped|14 years ago

Aha. But I did, so I get all of the negative karma points. They are all mine :)

I love human life too much to celebrate the birthday of a soulless corporation, managed by evil people at that time, that knowingly profited from atrocities.