![]() ![]() ![]() Several reviewers have attempted to cast doubt on the facts and conclusions presented in IBM. Watson, had global control of a technology that was enormously helpful, indeed indispensable, to the Nazi machinery of war and annihilation. Edwin Black makes a copiously documented case for the utter amorality of the profit motive and its indifference to consequences … IBM, led by its chairman, Thomas J. If nothing else, this book should be required reading for every first-year MBA student.ĬOPIOUSLY DOCUMENTED CASE FOR UTTER AMORALITY. With exhaustive research, Black makes the case that IBM and Watson conspired with Nazi Germany to help automate the genocide of Europe’s Jews … Black’s book is so enlightening it paints a richly textured picture of how a man, and an entire company, can ignore all sense of morality while not once transgressing the lines of business ethics. With the help of more than a hundred researchers working in archives in the U.S., Britain, Germany, France, and Israel, Edwin Black has documented a sordid relationship between this great American company and the Third Reich, one that extended into the war years.ĮXHAUSTIVE RESEARCH. And he made other equally indefensible choices in his years of doing a profitable business counting Jews for Hitler-choices that are described in IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black. Thomas Watson chose to tabulate the Nazi census, to accept Hitler’s medal, and to fight for control of Dehomag. ![]() – Christopher Simpson, Washington Post Book World He goes on to document that IBM managed to profit from Hitler’s state throughout its existence … Black establishes beyond dispute that IBM Hollerith machines significantly advanced Nazi efforts to exterminate Jewry … IBM and the Holocaust is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust. Black clearly demonstrates that Nazi Germany employed IBM Hollerith punch-card machines to perform critical tasks in carrying out the Holocaust and the German war effort. An explosive book… Backed by exhaustive research, Black’s case is simple and stunning: that IBM facilitated the identification and roundup of millions of Jews during the 12 years of the Third Reich… Black’s evidence may be the most damning to appear yet against a purported corporate accomplice.īEYOND DISPUTE. Best Humanities Book, 2018 for the Chinese edition of IBM and the Holocaust, awarded by a joint committee of booksellers and information technologists in China.ĮXPLOSIVE AND STUNNING.American Society of Journalists and Authors, Best Article of Investigative Journalism on IBM at Auschwitz for “Final Solutions,” adapted from IBM and the Holocaust and published in the Village Voice, 2003.American Society of Journalists and Authors, Best Nonfiction Investigative Book of the Year, 2003.More than a million copies in print, in 20 languages in scores of editions in 190 countries New York Times bestseller 8 weeks in Jan 2021, hit Amazon’s top 10 in all books, #1 in WWII History, #1 in Military History, #1 in Company Profiles, and #1 in Jewish History. ![]()
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