IBM was extremely involved in purposefully collaborating with the reich to run censuses to identify Jewish populations, not to mention running actual prisoner inventory at various concentration camps. They specifically made overseas subsidiaries to shield this activities from US sanctions at the time.
Sent to Germany at the war’s end, Mullin eventually came across that technology at a radio station...
Fun trivia: that radio station was in Bad Nauheim, Germany, which is where Elvis Presley was stationed during his stint in the US Army.
The magnetic tape was produced by IG Farben, a lovely company if you like slave labor and holocausts.
The data was collated on IBM punch card machines, a lovely company if you like holocausts.
It does rise an interesting question, how much can you blame a company for the crimes of it's customers?
IG Farben was deeply involved with supporting all that unpleasant business, much more so than IBM.
IBM was extremely involved in purposefully collaborating with the reich to run censuses to identify Jewish populations, not to mention running actual prisoner inventory at various concentration camps. They specifically made overseas subsidiaries to shield this activities from US sanctions at the time.