Reply #14: And Prescott Bush was hardly alone, just one who got prosecuted.

[Richard Steele]

He felt he had been scapegoated (hey, c'mon, all his friends were doing it!)
because he didn't have enough INFLUENCE in the corridors of power,
or enough DIRT on enough important people.

This might explain GHWB's choice of a CIA career; and his Hooveresque focus on personal connections.
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ANYWAY, just as another example: InternationalBusinessMachines, aka IBM

The much-heralded "Nazi Effeciency" was not a product of race or outlook as they claimed; they BOUGHT IT from IBM.
And IBM was even dirtier than most Nazi collaborator-corporations.

Their business model for the Hollerith punchcard computers maximized profit by prohibiting standardization;
every machine was designed to do one job only.
Every machine was task-specific, designed by an IBM engineer who had that TASK described in detail by the Nazi purchaser.

A machine to calculate troop #s needed to contain/round up a given # of jews and output the necessary TRAIN SCHEDULE?
Custom designed by IBM.

A DEATHCAMP machine to record ratios of those killed immediatly to those kept alive for slave labor,
and the average cost/benefit of a laborer's 'useful life'?
Custom designed by IBM.

I highly recommend Edwin Black's award-winning book "IBM and the Holocaust" to anyone
who wants to see what happens when CORPORATIONS have the same rights as PEOPLE:

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

*snip*
Only after Jews were identified
-- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately --
could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately,
annihilation.
It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental,
it called for a computer.
Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.

But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist.
Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems,
Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews.
Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis
were able to identify and locate European Jewry.
Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled.
The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe,
from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs
to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
*snip*

"IBM: We Provide Solutions"