IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker "IBM and the Holocaust" - with over a million copies in print - details IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all meticulously managed by its president Thomas J Watson from New York and Paris. This Expanded Edition offers 37 pages of previously unpublished documents, pictures, internal company correspondence, and other archival materials to produce an even more explosive volume.

Originally published to extraordinary praise in 2001, this provocative, award-winning international bestseller has stood the test of time as it chronicles the story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM and the Holocaust provides nothing less than a chilling investigation into corporate complicity. Edwin Black's monumental research exposes how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies for the Nazis, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.

Praised as a groundbreaking exposé, this book demonstrates in meticulous detail how IBM and its chief executive Thomas J. Watson willingly collaborated with the Third Reich. The research uncovers how IBM's inhumane machinery and cards, used to organize Nazi genocide, were selected, designed, and serviced by IBM for the Nazis. These technologies, including punch cards and sorting machines, were instrumental in the identification and accelerated extermination of millions of Jews and other "undesirables."

Pulitzer-nominated author Edwin Black has written a masterpiece of investigative history. His work chronicles the co-planning and co-organizing between IBM and the Nazi regime, as well as the corporate co-complicity in the Holocaust. From the identification and cataloguing of Jews in the 1930s to the selections for the death camps in the 1940s, IBM technicians were on-site, ensure that its technologically-advanced systems worked smoothly. This shocking exposé has forced a reconsideration of IBM's role and the irrefutable fragments of history it has brought to light.

The book's Expanded Edition includes an additional 37 pages of previously unpublished documents, photographs, internal company correspondence, and other archival materials that further substantiate the charges of IBM's intimate involvement with the Third Reich and the destruction of millions of lives. This updated volume stands as a chilling testament to the consequences of unchecked corporate power and the critical need for business ethics.

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