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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: 0-375-41934-9 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (54 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Recommended!
Comment: Author Edwin Black presents a compelling account of how IBM got its start in the early days of computing by providing the calculations that enabled the Nazis to identify and process Jews and other groups that were targeted for imprisonment and elimination. Black's detailed, heavily documented (note the 75 pages of end notes) saga draws on thousands of historic papers, as well as interviews conducted with the help of more than 100 volunteer researchers. Black asserts that IBM's technology helped make the Holocaust possible and that IBM's Thomas Watson was a Nazi sympathizer who saw his deal with the Nazis as good business. This fascinating book puts IBM's history of conformist culture in a new light, although it reveals a story IBM undoubtedly would rather leave untold. We [...] recommend this fine work of historical reporting to general readers and academics, as well as executives and managers. You'll be enthralled and outraged.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Great IBM Stumbles...and I am shocked and saddened.
Comment: This book answers some of the most important questions that arose from the hatred that spewed from the largest monster that ever walked on the face of the earth: The Third Reich.
It shocked me to learn that the IBM corporation was largely responsible for the cataloging and logistic systems support in the muder of 6 million people. One of the world's most powerful corporations apparently knew what its systems were being used for mass murder. It saddened me to learn that much of my professional career was based on technologies first created to support the evil monster.
This is an excellently written book. It is excellently researched and excellently reported. The facts in the book are unassailable and the book is fully foot noted. The contribution of this book to the knowledge of the Third Reich's processes, and the importance of information technology in that arena is significant.
And in addition to all of that--it is an easy read. It is written in an easy to follow style.
I strongly recommend this book to everyone who can read.
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: 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: The Mass Production of Hate by Neil Baldwin ISBN: 1586481630 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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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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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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