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Good question!

Without the Hollerith card machines, Hollocaust would have been impossible to perform at that massive scale that eventually became evident. Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) that sold the equipment to Germany at the time, later changed name to International Business Machines.

Apartheid was awful too.



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