IBM and the Holocaust tells the story of the involvement of this major US corporation in the establishment of Hitler's Third Reich and the destruction of European Jewry.
Author Edwin Black shows how technology developed in America by Herman Holleritha punch card and punch card sorting systemenabled the Nazis to organise their war machine and carry through the efficient and systematic genocide of the Jews. At the time of the Nazi dictatorship, IBM had a near worldwide monopoly over the technology and the production of its vital ingredientthe punch cards.
Edwin Black is not new to the subject of the Holocaust. His parents were both Jews of European decent and survivors of the Holocaust. Black first encountered the punch card technology at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, where he saw a Hollerith card sorting machine on exhibition. He explains that it was then that questions started to nag at himwhat role did this machine play for the Nazis? What was the role of IBM?......
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