HN just wrecked all my morning productivity with particle spaces, and now my afternoon productivity is wrecked with dated computing devices. I will never get anything done.
”While I was imprisoned inside Buchenwald I had, after a few days, told the [people] in the work production scheduling department of my ideas. The head of the department, Mr. Munich said, 'See, Herzstark, I understand you've been working on a new thing, a small calculating machine. Do you know, I can give you a tip. We will allow you to make and draw everything. If it is really worth something, then we will give it to the Führer as a present after we win the war. Then, surely, you will be made an Aryan.' For me, that was the first time I thought to myself, my God, if you do this, you can extend your life. And then and there I started to draw the CURTA, the way I had imagined it.”
It’s revealing that a Nazi camp manager in 1943 would dangle the carrot that someone could be “made Aryan.” Shows that the leaders didn’t actually believe the race bullshit.
