I am aware that IBM has designed the tabulator machines to calculate information dealing with the extermination of Jews, but are there any other currently existing corporations which have helped Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy.
Note: I am specifically interested in the corporations which have done something to help, not mearly existed on those territories during that time.
IT didn't exist at the time, so technically the answer is zero, none.
If you mean companies that are currently IT companies, and created and sold equipment explicitly for the purpose of use in the holocaust, that'd exclude any company outside German occupied Europe, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland, as there simply was no trade during the holocaust years with Germany from anywhere else.
Of German companies, no doubt many if not most supplied items that found their way into the bureacracies and organisations responsible. Therefore a list of German IT companies, filtered for date of establishment prior to 1945, would be a good start.
For the others it's much harder as there's no doubt no records of export to Germany during the war left, those would long ago have been destroyed because they'd be too embarrassing for the countries and companies involved to retain.
IBM and other American companies (and many around Europe) certainly traded with Germany before the war, and some of that equipment made its way into the SS, SA, Organisation Todt, Gestapo, etc. etc.. But that wasn't delivered for the purpose of being used as it ended up.
And if you count equipment captured by the Germans in their conquest of Europe, the list of companies gets even longer. Would you count the manufacturer of every train and truck used to transport people to the camps? Every tractor and farm implement used to grow the food that fed the local police forces and troops in the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and elsewhere? Every clothing manufacturer that created the uniforms for those people?
Quite obviously at some point you'd find that every company in every country that ever traded pre-1945 with any country that formed part of the Reich could be implicated. And quite a few of those (if they still exist) are today (or have today) IT companies. Think British Aerospace, Dassault, Boeing, Saab, the list goes on and on.
General Electric which was the majority shareholder in AEG was a large corporate donor to the Nazi party up to and including 1942. They also funneled laundered money through Lisbon to the Nazi regime after 1942 as royalties from their subsidiary Union Carbide.
GEC was prosecuted and convicted for this after the war.
In July 1943 the Nazis could not afford to continue development of the V2 rocket, thus privatised the project selling rights to manufacture the weapon to AEG. This German company raised capital on Wall Street to pay for Mittelwerke ostensibly as a loan to GEC for the establishment of an Osram Lamp factory in Brazil. Most of the funds were diverted from Lisbon to Switzerland where it was used to pay for the missiles which later rained down on London
I saw an article about this on www.europeanknightsproject.org Subhas Bose had links to several firms in Austria. I will do a little research and edit my post later. This is an interesting topic certainly
