Brad Pitt has just attached himself to a very interesting film project called Ibm and the Holocaust, which he will produce and star in. I imagine the title grabbed your attention, and the story is about exactly what the title says.
The movie is based on a book of the same name written by Edwin Black, and it examines Ibm's indispensable role in facilitating the Third Reich’s extermination of the Jews. The book answers the following question.... How did the Nazis identify and round up so many Jews with such precision and speed?
According to Vulture, "The short answer is that Ibm’s then-chief executive,
Thomas Watson, formed a strategic alliance with Nazi Germany starting in 1933. Punch cards were used to help sort through mountains of German census information, cross-referencing data about the mother tongue, religion, nationality, profession, and location of 66 million Germans to quickly and ruthlessly identify, tax,