

However, additional data categories about links to Japan were also maintained, such as years of residence in Japan and the extent of education received there. These cards were to include standard demographic information about age, sex, education, occupation, family size, medical history, criminal record, and RC location. His grand design for 1943 was a locator file in which would appear a Hollerith alphabetic punch card for each evacuee. In the United States IBM was, at the request of the government, the subcontractor for the Japanese internment camps' punched card project:


documenting operations by Dehomag which allowed the Nazis to better organize their war effort, in particular the Holocaust and use of Nazi concentration camps.Much attention focuses on the role of IBM's German subsidiary, known as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag. In Germany, during World War II, IBM engaged in business practices which have been the source of controversy. 2 Critics of IBM's actions during World War II.
