>It's a travesty that next to no one knows the fact that the holocaust was the first large application of computers and the atom bomb was the second.

Almost everyone knows the Nazis used census data to initialize the Holocaust, it's practically the number one argument given against mass surveillance and data collection of any kind, and of censuses in particular.

Also, Allied cryptanalysis of German ciphers (particularly the Enigma code) was, arguably, the second large application of computers, and by the time we got to the atom bomb, I think they had already been in widespread use for radar and missile trajectory calculations.