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Curt Herzstark created this calculator in 1943 inside the Buchenwald concentration camp after nazis obliged him to work on this project so he can stay alive inside this nightmare. He was liberated in april 11, 1945. It was known as the “Math Grenade” because it’s size.

“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”

CURT HERZSTARK