The tattooed numbers on the forearms of people held and killed in Nazi concentration camps have become a chilling symbol of hatred. Victims were stamped with the indelible numble in a dehumanizing effort to keep track of them like widgets in the supply chain.

Edwin Black made headlines in 2001 when his painstakingly researched book, IBM and the Holocaust, showed that IMB machines were used to automate the “Final Solution” and the jackbooted takeover of Europe. Worse, he showed that the top levels of the company either knew or willfully turned a blind eye.

I’ve been interested in reading this book for a long time now, but I’ve never gotten around to it for some reason. There’s lots of interesting items in the list above, but I’d take it with a grain of salt since there’s no telling how much of it is actually true or false.