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IBM and the Nazi Holocaust
In February 2001, Edwin Black, son of Polish survivors from concentration camps, published a book " IBM and the Holocaust " in which he reveals the commercial relationships between IBM and the Hitler's regime. IBM did not stop to deliver its mecanographic technology to its German subsidiary, during all the Nazi time (1933-1945), through its subsidiaries based in neutral countries, specifically Geneva. Geneva was the administrative centre of these operations during the war.
This technology - whose IBM detained the quasi-monopoly - was a technical tool of first importance as well for the management of the war efforts as for the administrative operations of industrial destruction of the Jewish and Gypsy populations.
GIRCA has consequently decided to unify the main Gypsy organisations in order to sue IBM. It is the first action of that type undertaken by the Gypsy communities.
The legal action against IBM has been lodged by GIRCA in front of the Geneva First Instance Court on January 31st, 2002. Its goal is to make recognize by the Swiss Courts the complicity of IBM with the crimes against humanity committed between 1933 and 1945. 5 European Gypsies have assigned to GIRCA their rights in moral tort and loss of financial assistance. This legal action should last between 2 and 4 years before a final decision.
A claim of US$ 15 billion
On April 14th, 2001, a letter was sent to IBM Europe in Paris, IBM Switzerland in Zurich and IBM Corp. in USA claiming on behalf of the Gypsy communities US$ 15 billion.
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Found this hard to believe when I read this.
The argumentation sounds very 'constructed'. I wonder how this will turn out in the end.
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IBM and the Nazi Holocaust
In February 2001, Edwin Black, son of Polish survivors from concentration camps, published a book " IBM and the Holocaust " in which he reveals the commercial relationships between IBM and the Hitler's regime. IBM did not stop to deliver its mecanographic technology to its German subsidiary, during all the Nazi time (1933-1945), through its subsidiaries based in neutral countries, specifically Geneva. Geneva was the administrative centre of these operations during the war.
This technology - whose IBM detained the quasi-monopoly - was a technical tool of first importance as well for the management of the war efforts as for the administrative operations of industrial destruction of the Jewish and Gypsy populations.
GIRCA has consequently decided to unify the main Gypsy organisations in order to sue IBM. It is the first action of that type undertaken by the Gypsy communities.
The legal action against IBM has been lodged by GIRCA in front of the Geneva First Instance Court on January 31st, 2002. Its goal is to make recognize by the Swiss Courts the complicity of IBM with the crimes against humanity committed between 1933 and 1945. 5 European Gypsies have assigned to GIRCA their rights in moral tort and loss of financial assistance. This legal action should last between 2 and 4 years before a final decision.
A claim of US$ 15 billion
On April 14th, 2001, a letter was sent to IBM Europe in Paris, IBM Switzerland in Zurich and IBM Corp. in USA claiming on behalf of the Gypsy communities US$ 15 billion.
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Found this hard to believe when I read this.
The argumentation sounds very 'constructed'. I wonder how this will turn out in the end.
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