What there was was the IBM punch card system which controlled and stored information based upon the holes that were punched in various rows and columns.
That's an extraordinary traffic management program that required an IBM system in every railroad direction and an IBM system in every concentration camp.
But here on October 9th 1941 a letter is being written directly to Thomas J. Watson with all sorts of detail of the activity of the German subsidiary none of these machines were sold they were all leased by IBM.