Machine Readable Race: Constructing Racial Information in the Third Reich

This paper examines how informational processing drove new structures of racial classification in the Third Reich. The Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen Gesellschaft mbH (Dehomag) worked closely with the government in designing and integrating punch-card informational systems. As a German subsidiary of I...

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Main Author: Munn Luke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2020-08-01
Series:Open Information Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0011