For many years, GIRCA has been pressing charges against IBM, but the special interest group representing Sinti and Roma has now suffered a defeat. GIRCA charges that the IBM Group supplied machines and card punchers to the National Socialist régime in Germany from 1933 to 1945 from the production of its subsidiary Hollerith-Maschinen-Gesellschaft (DEHOMAG) for the planning and execution of the Holocaust, thus contributing to the persecution of Sinti and Roma in the concentration camps. The organization thus demanded damages from IBM due to its "involvement in crimes against humanity." More...
