I was under the impression that once the war broke out, IBM in Germany was cut off from the rest of the company, and the support provided to the German government that was so controversial was from the severed German appendage of IBM rather than something that IBM proper directed or profited from (sort of like how Coca-Cola&#x27;s facilities in Germany turned into Fanta, which ironically made its way back to America after the war).<p>Is this not true? That&#x27;s not to say that non-German former IBM employees who offered assistance in Nazi Germany shouldn&#x27;t be considered Nazi collaborators, but I never thought of their actions as reflecting on IBM as a whole or IBM&#x27;s leadership at the time.<p>Of course IBM made a decision to do business with the Nazi government prior to the war, but public perceptions of the Nazis in America were very different in the &#x27;30s, partially because the Nazis weren&#x27;t nearly as well-understood then as now. Hitler was Life Magazine&#x27;s Man of the Year in 1938, and prominent Americans like Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford were known to be admirers.<p>None of this is to excuse anyone&#x27;s delusions about Hitler or the Nazis, or to excuse those who helped them. I just never thought it was 100% appropriate to tar IBM with that particular brush. Or am I missing vital information (very possible)?