Ry, Gypsies, and the Holocaust Take me to

Real History, Gypsies, and the Holocaust Take me to Auschwitz Heydrich Hitler Wannsee conference Revising the “Holocaust” Wednesday, July 11, 2004 Then They Came for the Gypsies: The Legacy of Death’s Calculator By Edwin Black The Forward NEW YORK, July 11 — IN APRIL 1941, a Romanian census taker came to the home of a suspected Roma Gypsy working as a blacksmith in the picturesque town of Schaas.

The senior Nazi statistical official observing the process wrote, “He did not dare to deny his ethnical descent as Gypsy.” The census taker instructed: “Now, please write: Gypsy.” Shortly thereafter, that Gypsy blacksmith’s census questionnaire, filled out by simple pencil, joined thousands of similar questionnaires at the Romanian Central Institute for Statistics facility.

This facility was equipped with the latest IBM Hollerith high-speed punch-card machines, specifically programmed for the Romanian census. IBM’s Hollerith punch-card system stored any information, such as ethnic type, profession and residential location, in the rows and columns strategically punched. The cards could then be counted and cross-tabulated at the rate of 24,000 cards per hour, yielding almost any permutation of data.

David Irving writes:

I HAVE little problem with the idea of screwing money out of the people involved in every level of the Holocaust operation, and if the Holocaust Industry is successful against IBM then good luck to them. What does concern me in this story are some of the minutiae.

Even Professor Eberhard Jäckel , the notorious historian-cum-liar of Stuttgart and user of fake photographs to back his claims, recently stated that the figures for gypsies murdered in WW2 have been grotesquely exaggerated by the Industry. And another thing: Whatever was done to the gypsies (and I am not challenging it for one moment, as I do not claim to be an expert on the Holocaust) it was done against Adolf Hitler’s express instructions. Documented fact:

On April 20, 1942 Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler visited Hitler’s headquarters to bestow birthday greetings on the Führer. [Source: War Diary, Führer’s HQ]. On that date Himmler telephoned Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, chief of the Department of Reich (Homeland) Security, and ordered: Keine Vernichtung d.

Zigeuener — which can only be translated as “Gypsies are not to be liquidated.” [Source: Himmler’s own handwritten note on the telephone conversation, above : US National Archives, Microcopy T84]. We don’t often see that Hitler edict mentioned in the history books, do we?

To help systematize the persecution and extermination of minorities, the Romanians used custom-designed punch cards, printed exclusively by IBM, which included special columns and rows for all ethnic groups, including Roma Gypsies. The printed census forms were approved for compatibility by IBM engineers, ensuring each of the numbered boxes on the printed census forms corresponded to the designated punch-card column.

Because this was a state-of- the-art census, the women operating IBM equipment were all at least high school educated. Within a year of being identified, an estimated 25,000 Gypsies were rounded up pursuant to the Romanian Interior Minister’s order #70S/1942. Typically, roadblocks were set up on the outskirts of town as gendarmes, with lists of names, fanned out to arrest the Gypsies.

Gypsies were then deported in trains, which were scheduled and tracked by IBM’s leased and regularly serviced Hollerith machines. Their destination was a death of starvation, beatings or execution every bit as horrible as that experienced by the Jews of Romania. The Nazi census expert observing the Romanian census was Friedrich Burgdorfer , president of the Bavarian Office for Statistics in Munich.

Ludwig Hummer , an IBM punch-card expert working in IBM’s German subsidiary, Dehomag, accompanied Burgdorfer to Romania. Hummer went to Romania only reluctantly since he was not receiving a commission on the punch-card business in Romania. Romania was a sales territory operated directly from New York. But Hummer was specifically instructed to assist in the Romanian census by Werner Lier , IBM’s general manager in Geneva, Switzerland.

Lier acted with the full knowledge of IBM president Thomas J. Watson . Recently, IBM’s role as a willing accomplice in the mass murders of Gypsies — and indeed, the larger question of its Swiss operation — has come