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It's not as though any of it was a surprise, that IBM supplied the Nazis with card sorting equipment. The surprise is that it's been kept a secret for so long.

John Dvorak
ZDNet Achordesk UK
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Stop the presses: IBM Corp. has turned against the Holocaust. No, really, it says so right here in this recent press release: "IBM and its employees around the world find the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime abhorrent and categorically condemn any actions which aided their unspeakable acts." This sentence deserves close study as a hilarious example of the corporate public relations mentality in action. By denying--in stilted, phony language--an accusation no one has made, it rises above meaninglessness only to raise the very doubt it was meant to suppress.
Michael Kinsley
Slate.com
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Edwin Black has thrown the book at IBM.
Jessica Reaves
Time.com


Like any efficiency-driven organization, the Nazis were big on technology. It wasn't just to order and track office supplies--they had to keep track of all the Jews in concentration camps. And to do that, they used IBM equipment.
Betsy Schiffman
Forbes.com

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