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When Hitler came
to power in 1933
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his goal was to dismantle
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and destroy the
Jewish community.
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This was an enterprise
so vast
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that it required the resources
of a computer.
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But in 1933 there
was no computer
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What there was
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was the IBM
punch card system
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which controlled
and stored information
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based upon the holes
that were punched
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in various rows
and columns.
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Naturally there was
no off the shelf software
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as there is today.
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Each applicant was custom
designed and an engineer
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had to personally
configure it.
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Millions of people of
all religions nationalities
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and characteristics
went through
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the concentration
camp system.
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Thats an extraordinary
traffic management program
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that required
an IBM system
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in every railroad
direction
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and an IBM system in every
concentration camp.
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Now this is a typical
prisoner card.
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There are little boxes
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where all the information
is to be punched in.
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We compare this information
to the code sheet
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for concentration camps.
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And here you see
Auschwitz is one
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Buchenwald is two
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and Dachau is three.
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Now what kinds of
prisoners were they?
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They could be a Jehovahs
witness for two
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a homosexual for three
a communist for six
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or a Jew for eight.
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Now what was their stats?
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One was released
two was transferred
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four was executed
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five was suicide
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and six.
Code six
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Sonderbahandlung
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special treatment
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meant the gas chamber
or sometimes a bullet.
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They would punch
that number in
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the material was tabulated
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and the machines were set.
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And of course the
punch cards by the millions