the story of this is as I guess you have both heard, IBM are being sued for providing the machines which allowed the Nazis to make such an effective system for killing Jews....

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

well, a friend who is a specialist in Algeria/racism

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24722898181276

http://europeanhistory.about.com/cs/culturelifestyle1/fr/fprracismeurope.htm

discovered in the "secret service" archives (which he amazingly got access to) in France that they used the same machines to systematically track the movements of Algerians.... (worried about the FLN terrorists) the police would stop the Algerians at every opportunity and quiz them and this would all go onto a record sheet.... this was they built up a complex picture of their movements.... they had over 150,000 algerians on file....

All very interesting....

And I now officially hate Swiss referees; I hope that does not make me a racist!

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scott