IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

by Black, Edwin

• ISBN13: 9780914153276
• ISBN10: 0914153277
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-16
• Publisher: Dialog Pr

Summary

IBM and the Holocaust is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker--a million copies in print--detailing IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all micromanaged by its president Thomas J Watson from New York and Paris. This Expanded Edition offers 37 pages of previous unpublished documents, pictures, internal company correspondence, and other archival materials to produce an even more explosive volume. Originally published to extraordinary praise in 2001, this provocative, award-winning international bestseller has stood the test of time as it chronicles the story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM and the Holocaust provides nothing less than a chilling investigation into corporate complicity. 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.

Author Biography

Edwin Black is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling and international investigative author of 80 editions in 14 languages in 61 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in the leading publications of the United States, Europe, and Israel. With more than a million books in print, his work focuses on genocide and hate, corporate criminality and corruption, governmental misconduct, academic fraud, philanthropy abuse, oil addiction, alternative energy, and historical investigation. Editors have submitted Black's work ten times for Pulitzer Prize nomination, and in recent years, he has been the recipient of a series of top editorial awards. IBM and the Holocaust won two top honors from the American Society of Journalists and Authors: Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year and Best Investigation of the Year.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 1
Introduction	p. 7
Numbered People	p. 19
The IBM-Hitler Intersection	p. 23
Identifying the Jews	p. 52
The IBM-Nazi Alliance	p. 75
A Nazi Medal for Watson	p. 105
War Cards	p. 137
Deadly Count	p. 169
With Blitzkrieg Efficiency	p. 199
The Dehomag Revolt	p. 218
The Struggle to Stay in the Axis	p. 269
France and Holland	p. 292
IBM and the War	p. 333
Extermination	p. 351
The Spoils of Genocide, I	p. 375
The Spoils of Genocide, II	p. 398
Afterword: The Next Chapter	p. 427
Epilogue	p. 440
Notes	p. 458
Major Sources	p. 523
Index	p. 535
Appendix: Documents and Pictures	p. 555
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