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Title: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black ISBN: 0-609-60799-5 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pub. Date: 12 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (54 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: First Rate Research--Even a Widget has its Evil Side
Comment: Who would have anticipated that a speedy card-sorter, the Hollerith machine, would evolve into a tool of one of the most evil schemes of all time? Yet, this patented machine, devised by a little-known man of German descent, made it possible to conduct a census in a short time period, and turned counting into a tool useful on a mass scale. Black's book is a page-burner, containing information that will surprise the reader paragraph by paragraph. In my generation, the "Do Not Spindle, Fold, or Mutilate" written on each IBM punchcard was the introduction to the computer and information age (and often the butt of jokes). A scant 25 to 30 years earlier, similar punch cards became the currency on which the Holocaust was based. A truly groundbreaking piece of research that, fortunately, has already appeared in German translation. In the days where vast amounts of personal information are being reduced to a series of ones and zeros carried electronically and stored digitally, this saga may be the harbinger of horrors much worse than were conceived by the progenitors of the 1000-year Reich. We should pay close attention to the uses of such personal information, lest humans lose complete control of their humanity. Here we find a true fable (that's an oxymoron) with much more to teach than Aesop could have imagined.
Rating: 5
Summary: THINK about it!
Comment: An exceptional book!!! Hidden profits, endless patent infringement litigation, inappropriate dealings with government officials, and ultimate re-assimilation of subsidiaries and their blood-tainted earnings from blocked accounts all combine to portray a company that not only destroyed its competition, but actively assisted the Nazis in automating their establishments (census bureaus, railroads, SS offices, and concentration camps, to name a few) which colluded in the extermination of millions of Jews, gypsies, and social undesirables. Moreover, unlike such companies as Ford and Standard Oil that simply sold a product, IBM leased its Holleriths and had a vested interest in keeping the equipment functioning and the royalties flowing, providing the Nazis with on-site service and maintenance visits as well as specially-tailored punch card supplies throughout much of the war. A must read for anyone who is interested in the tragic consequences that occur when corporate and national self-interest collide.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Sober, Courageous Look at IBM's Sordid WW II Past
Comment: To what end should profit be more important than morality? This is the main question readers should ask after reading Edwin Black's thoughtful, thorough look at IBM's economic history with Nazi Germany before - and especially, during - World War II. Although Black is not the most lyrical of writers, he does make a very persuasive case for IBM's primary role in mechanizing Hitler's Holocaust agains the Jews, Gypsies and other racial, religious and sexual minorities in Nazi-occupied Europe. One important unanswered question from World War II has been the extent of IBM's involvement in Nazi genocide; judging from Black's evidence that involvement was substantial, to say the least. Indeed, it is Black's premise that IBM's counting machines made it possible for Germany to perfect the crime of genocide as a mere matter of industrial mechanization. Black shows how IBM's Hollerith counting machines were used to identify, round up, and then deport hundreds of thousands of Jews from Poland to Holland into the Nazi regime's nightmarish network of labor and death camps.
Black's book is also a fascinating look into corporate politics. One wonders how much IBM's New York office knew of its German affiliate's activities. Without gaining access to IBM's archives, Black shows that IBM was aware and choose not to know, concerning itself only with the profits earned by Dehomag, its German affiliate, throughout Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Title: War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black ISBN: 1568582587 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine by Edwin Black ISBN: 0786708417 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Henry Ford and the Jews by Neil Baldwin ISBN: 1891620525 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews : The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property by Harold James ISBN: 0521803292 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 23 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea by Elof Axel Carlson ISBN: 0879695870 Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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