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IBM allegedly produces a card tracking system enabling Nazis to track Jewish communities.

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Thomas J. Watson allegedly supplies data processing technology to Hitler to bolster IBM's profits. This will be revealed by a lawsuit in 2001 filed by five Holocaust survivors in New York. "The lawsuit filed against IBM echoes this theme, charging that the company helped to develop a custom push-card method of tracking ethnicity for the Germans, and also serviced the machines for the Nazis during the war years... Dehomag, a subsidiary, was placed under the control of the Reich government just before the war broke out. The tabulating machines made by the company were used for censuses taken in 1933 and 1939, and allowed the Nazis to create cross-indexes of names, family histories, addresses, business records and bank accounts of its citizens" (Delio, 2001).

These machines will eventually be displayed at the National Holocaust Museum.