Hollerith Fundstück
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Aus einer Schulbibliothek in einer losen Sammlung mit Biographien von Juden, die während der Nazidiktatur ermordet wurden, die auch folgende Fotoreproduktion beinhaltete:
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Hollerith Machine
All governments gather information about their citizens. The Nazi regime, however, used such information to treck political opponents, enforce racial policies, and, ultimately, implement mass murder. As early as 1934, various government bureaus began to compile card catalogs identifying political and racial enemies of the regime, such as Freemansons, Jews, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), and "genetically diseased" persons. The 1939 census became the basis for a national register of Jews. That year, German census forms for the first time included explicitly racial categories. Jews were identified not only by religious affiliation, but by race as well. Within three years, the completed national register of Jews and some Jewish 'Mischlinge' ("mixed breeds") was to become one of the sources for Nazi deportation lists. Most of those deported perished in the Holocaust.
During the 1939s and 1940s, Hollerith machines were the best data processing devices available. The Nazi regime employed thousands of people in 1933 to 1939 to record national census data onto Hollerith punch cards. The SS used Hollerith machines during the war to monitor the large number of prisoners shipped into and out of concentration camps. The machines were manufactured by DEHOMAG––Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft of German Hollerith Machine Company, a subsidiary of IBM since 1922.
For educational purposes only. Photograph by Arnold Kramer, USHMM.
This publication has been made possible by support from the Louis and Henriette Blaustein Foundation.
Als Ergänzung zum Beitrag Das Trennungsgebot, in dem die Hollerith Maschinen genannt wurden und zur Erinnerung, dass Geschichte nicht statisch ist und wozu Datensammlungen und IT-Technik missbraucht werden können, wenn sie in die Hände totalitärer Regime fallen bzw. von ihnen entwickelt werden.
All governments gather information about their citizens. The Nazi regime, however, used such information to treck political opponents, enforce racial policies, and, ultimately, implement mass murder. As early as 1934, various government bureaus began to compile card catalogs identifying political and racial enemies of the regime, such as Freemansons, Jews, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), and "genetically diseased" persons. The 1939 census became the basis for a national register of Jews. That year, German census forms for the first time included explicitly racial categories. Jews were identified not only by religious affiliation, but by race as well. Within three years, the completed national register of Jews and some Jewish 'Mischlinge' ("mixed breeds") was to become one of the sources for Nazi deportation lists. Most of those deported perished in the Holocaust.
During the 1939s and 1940s, Hollerith machines were the best data processing devices available. The Nazi regime employed thousands of people in 1933 to 1939 to record national census data onto Hollerith punch cards. The SS used Hollerith machines during the war to monitor the large number of prisoners shipped into and out of concentration camps. The machines were manufactured by DEHOMAG––Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft of German Hollerith Machine Company, a subsidiary of IBM since 1922.
For educational purposes only. Photograph by Arnold Kramer, USHMM.
This publication has been made possible by support from the Louis and Henriette Blaustein Foundation.
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gepostet am Dienstag, 16. Januar 2007 um 19:38
