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		pbhjpbhj on June 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM and the Holocaust (2017) So from '37, you'd contend, they had no sharing of skills, workers, or information? Why did they retain the same name if they were separate companies? Did IBM in USA get money for use of trademarks, patents, etc., From IBM in Germany?

Aloha on June 8, 2019 [–]

They never had the same name, dehomag vs IBM, and with currency controls, money from Germany flowed to a trickle.

The Edwin Black book makes this clear, lays it all out in an interesting story.

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