Was the Nazi concentration camp system privatised?

[CplFerro]

As in, were contracts awarded to corporations to participate in their administration in any way, or were they entirely military in supervision?

[Cylinder]

As in, were contracts awarded to corporations to participate in their administration in any way, or were they entirely military in supervision?

Supervision was under military control as far as I know.

German corporations had some hand in the administration of work camps - not as a contractor but as a consumer of the fruits of slave labor. A good example is the building of Weichsel Union Metallwerke - a Krupp-owned armaments factory which used labor from Auschwitz and nearby Birkenau.

[bangdazap]

IBM supposedly developed the punch card technology for use in tracking German Jews: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/ibm-j27.shtml

[MaxHardcore]

IBM supposedly developed the punch card technology for use in tracking German Jews: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/ibm-j27.shtml

It might have been used for classifying undesirables, but punched cards were not created for that reason.

[Chaos]

The insurance corporation Frankfurter Allianz Versicherung AG also provided insurance coverage for at least some concentration camps - IIRC those in which prisoners worked in slave labor. Not sure if others were involved as well; the whole thing might have been a bit large for just one company.

[bangdazap]

It might have been used for classifying undesirables, but punched cards were not created for that reason.
You're right, I made a mistake there. IBM seems to have been pretty involved in parts of the holocaust though