Finding the Jews

Finding the Jews In a Meta Data- Informational Technology Age it is always extremely useful to conduct surveillance on our various agencies who gather this data and watch them carefully to see how their data matching programs work- or don’t work, and how once they have the information or potential access to that information; they use it. Here -this is Stone Age History by comparison to the awesome amounts of Meta data collected and flowing which can safely ensure another extremely successful Holocaust taking place once those major policy decisions are made by authorities. What we have here is the reverse. The Policy decisions were made- And you just need to read Mein Kampf with an open mind to see that or campaign speeches as the Nazi Party came to power. But the precision of identifying tracking and counting the Jews was initially not there… But IBM was about to put that right helping out the German government. ‘Identifying the Jews in Germany would be an uphill technological challenge that would take years of increasingly honed counting programs and registration campaigns. From the moment Hitler was appointed Chancellor, fear gripped the entire Jewish community. No Jew wanted to step forward to identify himself…. The identification process began in the first weeks of the Third Reich. On April 12 1933 the Hitler regime announced a long delayed census of all Germans would take place immediately… the Nazis knew that prior censuses were plagued by three to five years of hand sorting rendering the result virtually useless for enacting swift social policies. If only the Nazis could at least obtain information on the 41 million Germans living in Prussia, Germany’s largest state, comprising 60% of the German population. How fast? Nazi planners wanted al the 41 million Prussians processed and preliminary results within four months. The Prussian government was completely incapable… But IBM’s Dehomag was. The company offered a solution. It would handle the entire project as a contract. Dehomag would design the census package counting and classifying every citizen. Moreover it would recruit, train and even feed the hundreds of temporary workers needed to process the census … Organizing the census was a prodigious task. Dehomag hired some 900 workers mainly supplied by the Berlin employment office which had become dominated by venomous German Labor Front. Dehomag enjoyed good relations with the German Labor Front which ranked in the vanguard of radical Nazism. Coordinating with the German employment office christened the enterprise as a patriotic duty since relieving the jobless was major objective of Hitler’s promise to Germany…. On June 16 1933 one half million census takers went door to door gathering information. Cadres of Storm Troopers and SS officers were added to create a virtual census army… the interview included pointed questions about the head of the household’s religion and whether the person was in a mixed marriage… Dehomag abandoned its standard 45 column card and went to the 60 column format. Sixty columns each with ten horizontal positions created 600 punch card possibilities… Soon the Reich could begin the identification process- who was Aryan and who was Jew. Population statistics had crossed the border from science of anonymous masses to the investigation of individuals’ p70-73 IBM and The Holocaust Edwin Black 2002.