# Did IBM Help Hitler? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 15, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216 "2004-05-15T02:07:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/1 "2004-05-15T02:07:55Z")
I can’t recall where I stumbled upon an article, book, or post to this affect? (I searched, but it doesn’t seem to be here on the Master’s Board and General Q’s). Anyway, whatever I saw claimed that IBM helped Hitler organize and/or systemize his “final solution” killing machine from round-ups to family bloodlines, etc. Is this true? Did IBM even exist back then? (What did they have back then, anyhow? Pre-punchcards?) I was wondering if other Dopers have ever heard claims about this? - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/2 "2004-05-15T02:13:50Z")
Check [url=http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ this out. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/3 "2004-05-15T02:14:56Z")
Or maybe [this](http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/4 "2004-05-15T02:15:39Z")
> [@x-ray vision](#): > > Check [http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/](http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/) this out. Trying to make the link an active hyperlink… ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/5 "2004-05-15T02:19:59Z")
I bet ya…name any big-wig company from those days, or robberbarron family, and I’d bet anything you’ll find out they weasled their way into profiting off the Nazi’s insanity…probably a lot of smaller players, too. :mad: _Anything_ for a buck. They’d sell their own mothers if it’d turn them a profit! - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/6 "2004-05-15T02:45:54Z")
> [@Jinx](#): > > I bet ya…name any big-wig company from those days, or robberbarron family, and I’d bet anything you’ll find out they weasled their way into profiting off the Nazi’s insanity…probably a lot of smaller players, too. :mad: > > _Anything_ for a buck. They’d sell their own mothers if it’d turn them a profit! > > - Jinx Texaco being one of the more famous ones. To try to make amends they sponsored the Texaco Opera on Saturday afternoons for 60 years. I guess Texaco has figured it has done enough amending, and is no longer sponsoring that program come the next season (in the fall). Never fear, opera fans, PBS will continue to bring the program without Texaco’s sponsorship. So, at least Texaco did something. What did IBM do to try to make amends? Zilch. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/7 "2004-05-15T05:07:27Z")
Here’s a related article written by the Master: [Did Krups, Braun, and Mercedes-Benz make Nazi concentration camp ovens? Did Hitler name the Volkswagen?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_078.html) ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/8 "2004-05-15T11:50:57Z")
On the general subject of US corporations’ links to Nazi Germany, the comedian and activist [Mark Thomas](http://www.mtcp.co.uk/) is currently getting a certain amount of attention in the UK for [his interest in Coca-Cola and the Third Reich](http://www.mtcp.co.uk/coca-cola/). ---
**Author:** ![LuckySevens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@LuckySevens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LuckySevens)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/9 "2004-05-15T12:01:37Z")
I thought IBM wasnt a company until 1950 😕 ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ibm-help-hitler/245216/10 "2004-05-15T12:08:24Z")
[IBM was incorporated on June 15 1911](http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1880.html).