From fac1ac0915d7019837e5c19fa0834e49f42f7079 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 17:33:28 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] Books: history: IBM and The Holocaust: Operation Reinhard --- books/history/ibm-holocaust.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/books/history/ibm-holocaust.md b/books/history/ibm-holocaust.md index 11ff478..6205c17 100644 --- a/books/history/ibm-holocaust.md +++ b/books/history/ibm-holocaust.md @@ -1895,4 +1895,26 @@ That was before the US entering the war. * 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]] -- GitLab