IBM and the Holocaust : the strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and America's most powerful corporation
Edwin Black (Author)
In 1933-45 the International Business Machines Corporation greatly helped the German Nazis and their satellites throughout Europe, first to identify Jews and persons of Jewish extraction, then to expropriate, transport, exploit, and exterminate them. Through its German subsidiary, Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft (Dehomag), IBM made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technological mission which the company pursued with success. More than 2,000 multi-machine sets were dispatched throughout Germany, and thousands more throughout Nazi-dominated Europe. Nearly every Nazi concentration camp operated a Hollerith Department, using equipment leased by IBM. IBM continued its contacts with Nazi Germany and its satellites even after the USA entered the war, and after the Nazi genocide became public knowledge. Far from being antisemitic or pro-Nazi, the IBM heads cared only for profit. Despite Nazi, and sometimes SS, custodianship over Dehomag and despite its involvement in Nazi programs, the company was not dissolved after the war. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, English, 2002
First paperback edition
Three Rivers Press, New York, 2002