#91 Death Camp tattoos were IBM numbers - Ep 10 Trading with the Nazis

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English - March 06, 2024 08:17 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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During the war US and British bankers continued to send cash to Germany, while American companies in Germany were drawn down a slippery slope of collaboration. American bosses may have kept in touch with German subsidiaries via neutral hang-outs (like the fictional Rick’s Bar in the 1942 film Casablanca). Some made use of prisoners of war for slave labour. The five-figure tattoo on every death camp inmate began as an IBM-Dehomag punch card number. Nobody was going to be called to account for trading with the Nazis.

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