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Photocopy sheet with a facsimile of a Dehomag D11 census punch card

Object | Accession Number: 1990.48.5

Photocopy of a punch card facsimile used in the 1933 German census. This punch card was used with a Dehomag 11 tabulating system. which was the type used for processing results of the 1933 and 1939 German census during the Nazi regime (1933-1945). Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] was a German based subsidiary of the US company, IBM. The Hollerith machine was a punch-card system consisting of three components, a punching machine [1990.48.3] that transmitted information onto punch cards, a sorting machine [1990.48.2] that arranged the punch cards by categories, and the tabulating machine [1990.48.1] that computed the results.

Language
German
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Object Type
Punched cards (aat)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:11:47
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