IBM 'helped in Nazi mass-murder'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3832141.stm

Machines built by computer giant IBM helped the Nazi regime commit mass murder more efficiently, Gypsy groups have alleged.

A Swiss court has cleared the way for a lawsuit against the firm, asking for compensation for its wartime role.

IBM had an office in Geneva during the war, which the lawsuit alleges was used for trading with the Nazis.

The firm insists that it had no role in the Holocaust, and that its German unit was taken over before the war.

This was how IBM punch-card machines came to be used by the Holocaust bureaucracy, the company says.

Call for compensation

The case is one of many lawsuits launched by groups representing Jewish, Gypsy and other victims of the Holocaust.

Most actions so far have been based in the US, and have targeted German companies such as DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen and Siemens, which can be shown to have profited from Nazi-era slave labour.

Some German companies have contributed to funds created to compensate victims and their families.

The IBM case could be more difficult, since the plaintiffs will have to demonstrate some knowledge on the part of the US firm that its machines were being put to immoral use.

IBM has, however, already paid into a German Government-led Holocaust fund.

A US lawsuit against the company was dropped in 2001.

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I am telling you...this whole thing about Holocaust is one big bullshit! I mean, seriously bullshit!! Okay, 6 million people were dead, but it was 60 years ago for crying out loud!!!

(Sian IBM sbb kena deal ngan this allegation, dah ler lame giler accusation. Aku nak samanlah kerajaan Jepun sebab dulu diorang landing kat padang sawah padi atuk aku dulu time WWII, abih rosak padi takleh makan. Atuk aku dapat makan ubi kayu jekk time tu, mujur tak mati. Kalau mati, maybe aku tak ada hari ni. Aci tak?)

What about the muslims killed in Sarajevo? And in Ambon? And in Afghanistan during Soviet invasion, and of course during the US led invasion? And muslim babies death in Iraq for the past 10 years?

The death of 6 million jews, gypsy and a few other minorities is somewhat questionable nowadays. Who can tell me exactly, where the fuck they got that number, given a meagre scale of efficiency in recording birth & death certificates during that time? Plus the huge exodus of Europeans including the Jews from Europe continent to America after the Great Slump in 1930s. And please tell me for sure, how many jews were in Europe left back then? Let's compare the number please.

And yeah, it was during the war!! People died in war, so what??! One man's death is a casualty and 100 men's deaths are merely statistic. And 6 million death? 60 years ago?Hey, don't make such a big fuss over it, get over with it and move on laa dude! Huh...