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TIL that an absolute legend of a bureaucrat (René Camille) saved countless lives under Nazi occupied France. He consistently sabotaged tabulating machines that IBM were happily supplying to the Nazis to round up 'undesirables' and deliberately staged huge bureaucratic cock-ups. He died in Dachau.

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