This was a heavy read for someone like me, who rarely reads nonfiction, but it was an eye-opener. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2016, This book was bought as a gift.....about the tenth copy I've give away....It is a tremendous work that everyone should read and keep. (not yet rated) See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, Uploaded by Of course IBM's obstructiveness makes it difficult for him to get the total picture. Please try again. How was this allowed to happen in the first place? It could be argued that Watson and his company had the power to create and provide jobs to countless Americans who were struggling during the wartime effort.
The book provides a clear picture of a corporate driven by one man to his own ends.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2015. It is something else to realize just how much easier it would be to repeat this using modern computers. The European profits garnered were returned to IBM after the war! Thomas J Watson, then president of IBM, took the moral bankruptcy of rapacious capitalism to its logical conclusion – he and the entirety of his corporation were unconcerned with providing Nazi Germany with the means with which to catalogue Jews, coordinate slave labor, and enab. A case in point: he asserts that, as World War II progressed, "eventually, every Nazi combat order, bullet and troop movement was tracked on an I.B.M. Why do you think a common perception that non-Jewish citizens in Europe and the United States were ignorant of Nazi activity lingers? IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany - beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. It is, moreover, simply not meaningful to declare, as Black does, that by 1939 or thereabouts, Germany, using IBM's Hollerith machines, ''had automated virtually its entire economy.'' The epilogue of this edition shows how the IBM of today attempted to smear the book, prevent information from being released, and still refuses to apologize. IBM managed to use the US state department for their goals.
IBM and the Holocaust is a meticulous reconstruction of International Business Machine's knowing involvement - directly from New York and through its network of European subsidiaries coordinated by a Swiss office - in providing automated solutions to the Third Reich as the Nazi regime systematically tracked and persecuted Jews throughout Europe. Random House Audio Publishing Group; Abridged Edition (1 Feb. 2001), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2014.
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if you already believed though and were not at all surprised that corporations made money with the nazis then this book can become tedious. Maybe. After 1941, I.B.M. That year, J. W. Schotte, IBMs general manager for Europe, dispatched a report to senior IBM executives in New York in which he drew a fine theoretical distinction, as Black describes it, between IBM possessing specific knowledge of the facts about a military operation, such as the number of people to be counted or a list of German bombing raids, and the actions themselves. Discuss this theoretical distinction. I already knew from our lecture some of the key facts and was really interested as IBM has become such a big company and I also know that they were the ones building the first simultaneous translation units and providing them for free for the Nuremberg Trials. Edwin Black's monumental research exposes how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enablling technologies for the Nazis, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s. I can't think of one person who doesn't need to read this important, revealing book! I'm sure many of the IBM worker bees of the era were unaware of the human cost being paid by the victims of the Holocaust for their delivered efficiency, but many of the IBM employees were not only involved, not only complicit, but responsible for architecting the decisions and solutions that the Reich implemented. How did the business principles Watson formed during his National Cash Register days inform his response to the Dehomag revolt of 1940? Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2011. Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016. If the goal is to offer some deeper insight into the role of information and informatics in the Holocaust, I didn't get there. to me what was most interesting was not that ibm colluded with the nazis but rather that high tech was used in the total destruction of a people. Black makes it clear that from Hitlers rise to power in 1933 to Germanys surrender in 1945, the horrifying situation of Europes Jews was writ large in every major newspaper in the Western world. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. It is important that this book was written so that the truth about IBM's actions in Nazi Germany are revealed. If the trains had not been so impeccably scheduled, and the minorities so rapidly censused and processed, the Nazis might have been slowed down a bit. IBM and the Holocaust is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker--a million copies in print--detailing IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all micromanaged by its president Thomas J Watson from New York and Paris. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I'mma let you finish, Facebook helping to facilitate chaos in the 2016 election, but IBM facilitating the Holocaust is the worst example of a global tech behemoth's power run amok of all time! To what extent is IBM and the Holocaust a cautionary tale about unchecked technology wed to greed? Edwin Black has now uncovered one of the last great mysteries of Germany's war against the Jews - how did Hitler get the names? Watson was friends with President Roosevelt. everyone especially those with an interest in the holocaust.
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