Name: IBM and the Holocaust
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
ISBN: 9780375431241

Edwin Black

Examines IBM's Hollerith punch card machine and its role during WWII to locate quickly and accurately the millions of Jews living in Europe, ultimately easing the process of annihilating the Jews.

The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

IBM and the Holocaust

IBM and the Holocaust promises to reveal the international company's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany - beginning in 1933 in the first weeks Hitler came to power, and continuing through to the end of World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, help was needed to create the enabling technological solutions, step by step, from the identification and cataloguing programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s. Only after Jews were identified - a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately - could they be targeted for swift asset confiscation, the creation of ghettos, deportations, enslaved labour and, ultimately, annihilation.

IBM and the Holocaust The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

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