{"id":364737,"date":"2010-02-24T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T08:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23224"},"modified":"2010-02-24T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T08:29:07","slug":"the-tattoo-used-in-auschwitz-was-originally-an-ibm-code-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/364737","title":{"rendered":"The Tattoo Used in Auschwitz Was Originally An IBM Code Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Here is another (controversial) chapter from Russ Kick&#8217;s classic bite-size Disinformation book<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971394288\/disinformation\">50 Things You&#8217;re Not Supposed to Know<\/a><\/em>, published in 2003.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For more on Russ Kick, check out his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/thememoryhole.com\">The Memory Hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_____________________________________<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23225\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IBMinAuschwitzPhoneBook-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"IBM in Auschwitz Phone Book\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/>The tattooed numbers on the forearms of people held and killed in Nazi concentration camps\u00a0have become a chilling symbol of hatred. Victims were stamped with the indelible number in a\u00a0dehumanizing effort to keep track of them like widgets in the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers obviously weren\u2019t chosen at random. They were part of a coded system, with\u00a0each number tracked as the unlucky person who bore it was moved through the system.<\/p>\n<p>Edwin Black made headlines in 2001 when his painstakingly researched book, IBM and the\u00a0Holocaust, showed that IBM machines were used to automate the \u201cFinal Solution\u201d and the\u00a0jackbooted takeover of Europe.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another (controversial) chapter from Russ Kick&#8217;s classic bite-size Disinformation book 50 Things You&#8217;re Not Supposed to Know, published in 2003. For more on Russ Kick, check out his website, The Memory Hole. _____________________________________ The tattooed numbers on the forearms of people held and killed in Nazi concentration camps\u00a0have become a chilling symbol of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}