Dehomag D11 puncher

Identifier
irn521588
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.48.3
Dates
1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

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Archival History

The Dehomag D11 puncher was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Technische Sammlungen Dresden.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden

Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Scope and Content

Dehomag D11 puncher machine of 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, this punching machine 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.

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