{"id":676234,"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.com\/index\/676234","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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23225\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IBMinAuschwitzPhoneBook-300x233.jpg?resize=300%2C233\" 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":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PV0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}