IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
Published to extraordinary praise, this provocative international bestseller details the story of IBM’s strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM and the Holocaust provides a chilling investigation into corporate complicity, and the atrocities witnessed raise startling questions that throw IBM’s...
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Published to extraordinary praise, this provocative international bestseller details the story of IBM’s strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM and the Holocaust provides a chilling investigation into corporate complicity, and the atrocities witnessed raise startling questions that throw IBM’s wartime ethics into serious doubt. Edwin Black’s monumental research exposes how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies for the Nazis, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s. With a new afterword, the publishing event of last year is certain to generate even more controversy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780609808993 (0609808990)
Publish date: March 26th 2002
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Business,
Economics,
War,
Politics,
American History,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Germany
Whilst at time dry due to the author quoting (important) numbers and statistics, this book is an unparalleled look at the entire second world war from a previously unexplored point of view - that of Thomas J. Watson and his company, IBM. Watson wore many hats over the course of the war - Industriali...
I read this when I was 15/16 and it gave me nightmares. It was one of the first books on the Holocaust that I had read at the time and I picked it up because of the title. IBM is a recognizable brand and the Holocaust a well-known historic event...so what on earth would they have to do with each oth...
"In using statistics [the punch cards:] the government now has the road map from information to deed."Overwritten and fanatically read this is nevertheless chilling stuff. ---IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful CorporationISBN: 0609607995htt...