IBM punch-card machines enabled the Holocaust’s systematic logistics

Evidence

Writer Edwin Black (2001) has recently argued that the Holocaust could not have assumed its systematic and mechanical shape without the card punch and sorting devices that were manufactured for the Third Reich by IBM and its European affiliates and adapted for use in tracking death camp populations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 258

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 258