| Once
again, Edwin Black has hit the mark. IBM and the
Holocaust is a story that must be read if one is
to understand how Hitler and the Nazis were able to
implement their Final Solution to exterminate European
Jewry. We have been told that "nobody knew,"
but Edwin Black proves conclusively that many knew and
that IBM was instrumental in Hitler's success identifying
nearly ten million European Jews and killing six million. |
Abraham
H. Foxman, National Director
Anti-Defamation League |
Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust gives shocking
credence to the growing body of evidence not only of
a conspiracy of silence, but of complicity on the part
of the Allied nations and their corporations… reaching
its most extreme expression in IBM's role in making
the mass extermination of Jews and others possible.
Black's thorough research and documentation leaves no
room for deniability. It raises frightening questions
about the past and challenges for the present. |
Malcolm
Hoenlein, Executive Vice-chairman
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations |
Because of IBM and the Holocaust, we will never
look the same way at the issues of U.S. and international
corporate complicity in the Holocaust. Black's compelling
story vividly shows how IBM's pursuit of profit facilitated
the Reich's access to the most sophisticated punch card
systems - used in identifying Jews, in ghettoization,
and even in the scheduling of the trains to the death
camps. . . . This groundbreaking book should be mandatory
reading for every political leader, CEO, professor of
business ethics - indeed, for every person concerned
about ensuring future holocausts will never occur. |
Rabbi
David Saperstein, Director
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism |
A must read for all who ask... How did we allow it to
happen? Where were our leaders? A story of greed and
profit in the face of unspeakable horror. |
Rabbi
Marvin Hier, Founder and Dean
Simon Wiesenthal Center |
There are still a few dark corners of the Holocaust
waiting to be discovered. Until Edwin Black's research,
the role of IBM in facilitating the Holocaust was one
of them. This vital book unearths the multifaceted effort
expended by IBM in the US, Germany and elsewhere in
Europe to place its tabulating equipment and expertise
at the hands of the Nazi death machine in pursuit of
profit. It is an object lesson in how commercial zeal
dominated morals and principles, which many other multi-nationals
would do well to examine, and learn from. What they
should also learn is that ultimately the truth will
out, however much they attempt to hide it. |
Michael
Whine, Director
Defence Policy & Group Relations Division, Board
of Deputies of British Jews |
If all the Nazis had was pen and paper organization,
it would have been impossible to put together the assembly-line
slaughter of millions of people. In his shocking book,
IBM and the Holocaust, Edwin Black shatters the
myth of German efficiency. The foundation of the Holocaust
was based on American ingenuity in pursuit of the Almighty
Dollar. The blood of my grandparents, aunts, uncles
and cousins is on that money. |
Esther
Finder, President
Generation After |
This is a frightening book, one that leaves a clear
feeling of discomfort when one finally lays it down.
The distress is not so much created by the ugly reminder
of Nazi horrors, and IBM's complicity, but rather the
inescapable truth: International business acknowledges
no borders, no politics, and no morals. The only law
is the bottom line, and we are all willing participants. |
Ken
McVay, Director
The Nizkor Project
www.nizkor.org |
A stunning book! Compellingly written and meticulously
researched, IBM and the Holocaust brings new
meaning to the Holocaust as a manifestation of "the
banality of evil." We now have a glimpse of the
kind of moral depravity that can be justified in a society
driven by the pursuit of the almighty dollar. |
Rabbi
Sid Schwarz, President
Washington Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values |
With the publication of IBM and the Holocaust,
Edwin Black has brought to light a profoundly disturbing
and distasteful tale of corporate complicity with the
greatest of evils. However, this book is more than a
record of past deeds. It is an urgent and increasingly
relevant warning. Beware the dangers of technology unrestrained
by morality; of corporate mentality uninformed by conscience. |
Rabbi
Jack A. Luxemburg, President
Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington |
I am in awe of Edwin Black's detailed research and horrified
by the evidence he so ably records in his book IBM
and the Holocaust. Just as we have asked how could
the "civilized" Germans carry out their crimes,
we must now ask the same of an American company, IBM,
which aided the Reich in the Final Solution. |
David
Lincoln, Senior Rabbi
Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, New York |
