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Title: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black, Crown ISBN: 0375419330 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35
Rating: 5
Summary: Passionate Turning Point Revelation
Comment: IBM and the Holocaust is not the first Holocaust book I have read--but what an eye-opener. Why has this topic not been covered in any of the thousands of books or papers presented over the years? And when I ask questions of professors and museums seeking more information, no one has any answers.
In his book, the author has perfected the art of recreating the moment and the context, as well as making the undeniable case for IBM's complicity in the murder of millions of Jews and other Europeans during the Hitler regime--both before and after America's entrance in the war. When Watson rides down the dusty turn of the century backroads of upstate NY making sales in saloons, I see it before me. When Hitler crowns him with a medal in Berlin in 1937 for serving the Reich's goals, I see the banquets and the frivolity.
Ironically, instead of actually forming conclusions, the author pulls back and forces the reader to reach the inescapeable conclusion on his own. Yes, IBM technology and corporate power helped organize the Holocaust and escalate the numbers. IBM did not cause the Holocaust, but its involvement was essential to the scale we know today.
Black's documentation is superb. I found myself actually reading footnotes, just to verify the astonishing revelations filling every page. To the scores of historians who have endorsed this book, I hope you will now carry on this important research. To those few with sour grapes, read the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Calculated" Genocide
Comment: I took the authors advice and did read the book in it's entirety and as I did a compelling story unfolded, a chilling account of calculated genocide. Whilst the passages describing the fate of the Jewish people were as harrowing as in any other document or film describing this dark chapter, it was the knowledge that in all likelihood many IBM employees knew what was going on and had enabled the company to amass a fortune in assisting the Nazi war machine with it's 'Final Solution' that caused me most concern.
There was one memorable, heartening story of French Resistance member Carmille and of how he duped the Nazis - they contracted him to sift the census information for their anti-Semitic purposes, he used the data to prepare his countrymen for effective mobilisation. The comparison of how differently the French and Netherlands Jews fared under German occupation was enlightening and perhaps hinted at how sometimes a healthy disregard for authority can prove beneficial. When coupled to a bureaucratic and very much localised government infrastructure I (like the author) feel that it probably saved many lives.
This book should serve as a warning to the common man that large business corporations can be as ruthless as dictator-led regimes and worry little about the niceties of whom they are dealing with when there's a profit to be made!
One perturbing moment for me was when on turning a page I spotted my precise initials and surname in the text'
T. J. Watson
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.
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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: 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 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: 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: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism by Stefan Kuhl ISBN: 0195149785 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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