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Article: IBM's connection to Holocaust explored
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2001
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IBM's connection to Holocaust explored
By JOHN MARK EBERHART
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Tuesday, February 27, 2001
IBM and the Holocaust. By Edwin Black. Crown. 520 pages. $27.50.
Was International Business Machines, "The Solutions Company," an
integral part and witting participant in Nazi Germany's "Final
Solution"?
It's the question raised by Edwin Black's "IBM and the Holocaust."
And Black's subtitle reveals his conclusion as to the answer: "The
Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful
Corporation."
This is a complex book. But Black's premise is simple: IBM and its
subsidiaries in Germany and the rest of Europe created, supplied and
serviced tabulation machines ...