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

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

Exposing IBM's complicity in the Holocaust.

If history and ethical dilemmas intrigue you, "IBM and the Holocaust" is a thought-provoking read. It peels back the curtain on how a corporate giant collaborated with a totalitarian regime, offering a sobering look at the dangers of technology being used for harm. It's a chilling reminder of the moral responsibilities of corporations and the impact their decisions can have on humanity.

  • ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Edwin Black
$8.90
ISBN: 9780751531992
Authors: Edwin Black
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Date of Publication: 2002-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Business, Politics, History
Related Topics: War, History, European History, World War II, Social Justice, Technology, Politics, Historical, Government
Goodreads rating: 4.02
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IBM & the Holocaust tells of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany, beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into WWII. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 30s to the selections of the 40s. Only after Jews were identified—a massively complex task Hitler wanted done immediately—could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 30s no computer existed. But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate the persecution of the Jews. Historians were amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor. IBM and its German
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Exposing IBM's complicity in the Holocaust.

If history and ethical dilemmas intrigue you, "IBM and the Holocaust" is a thought-provoking read. It peels back the curtain on how a corporate giant collaborated with a totalitarian regime, offering a sobering look at the dangers of technology being used for harm. It's a chilling reminder of the moral responsibilities of corporations and the impact their decisions can have on humanity.

  • ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.