1933 German Census

Children

"In Hitler's Germany, the statistical and census community, overrun with doctrinaire Nazis, publicly boasted about the new demographic breakthroughs their equipment would achieve."
"Indeed, the Third Reich would open startling statistical venues for Hollerith machines never before instituted-perhaps never before even imagined," wrote Edwin Black in IBM and the Holocaust, his pioneering 2001 expose of the forgotten...
The U.S. had a ready solution. IBM's German subsidiary landed its first major contract the same year Hitler became chancellor. The 1933 Nazi census was pushed through by Hitler as an emergency genetic stock-taking of the German people.