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   • Gminks

   @xinit @gminks And if you ask them about it today… well…

   “‘We are a technology company, we are not historians,’ spokeswoman Carol Malkovich said.”

   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ibm-and-nazi-germany/

   How bloody convenient, Carol.

   PS. I covered this in a number of my talks, here’s one where I go into a bit more detail about about it and current parallels: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4

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     • Gminks

     @gminks IBM doesn't have documents from the war because "most documents were destroyed or lost during the war."

     Like when the Nazis started burning documents to destroy evidence, IBM's documents were also somehow lost. Could be a coincidence, but....

     Added that book to my list.