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Books: history: IBM and The Holocaust: Operation Reinhard

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* Investigation that required "Holocaust knowledge with an emphasis on Hitler-era finance, added to information-technology expertise, sifted through the dogged techniques of an investigative reporter", 454.
* Local and central processing facilities -- like Berlin and Oranienburg, 455.
## Further reading
* Quantifying the Holocaust: Hyperintense kill rates during the Nazi genocide:
* https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/nazi-holocaust-death-rate-underestimated
* http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau7292
* http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau7292/tab-pdf
* https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/operation-reinhard-einsatz-reinhard
Operation Reinhard (1942–1943) was the largest single murder campaign of the
Holocaust, during which some 1.7 million Jews from German-occupied Poland were
murdered by the Nazis. Most perished in gas chambers at the death camps Belzec,
Sobibor, and Treblinka. However, the tempo, kill rates, and spatial dynamics of
these events were poorly documented. Using an unusual dataset originating from
railway transportation records, this study identifies an extreme phase of
hyperintense killing when >1.47 million Jews—more than 25% of the Jews killed
in all 6 years of World War II—were murdered by the Nazis in an intense,100-day
(~3-month) surge. Operation Reinhard is shown to be an extreme event, based on
kill rate, number, and proportion (>99.9%) of the population murdered in camps,
highlighting its singularly violent character, even compared to other more
recent genocides. The Holocaust kill rate is some 10 times higher than
estimates suggested by authorities on comparative genocide.
[[!tag tecnology history sociology]]
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