It's amusing to read the documents now, but this was serious stuff during WWII. I first learned about it when I read "IBM and the Holocaust" (http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/) by Edwin Black. There was a French bureaucrat who was part of occupied France's government who practiced this form of bureaucratic sabotage. I wish I could remember his name. He was eventually found out by the Nazis and died in a concentration camp.