IBM & the Holocaust
Ken McVay
Holocaust." The entire text of the introduction, along with extensive
commentary on the work, may be found at
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/b/black-edwin/
Copyright 2001, Edwin Black
Reproduced with the permission of the author:
IBM and the Holocaust
by Edwin Black
Introduction
"This book will be profoundly uncomfortable to read. It was profoundly
uncomfortable to write. It tells the story of IBM's conscious
involvement-directly and through its subsidiaries-in the Holocaust, as well
as its involvement in the Nazi war machine that murdered millions of others
throughout Europe."
"Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized
information quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of
war, and a roadmap for group destruction. The unique igniting event was the
most fateful day of the last century, January 30, 1933, the day Adolf Hitler
came to power. Hitler and his hatred of the Jews was the ironic driving
force behind this intellectual turning point. But his quest was greatly
enhanced and energized by the ingenuity and craving for profit of a single
American company and its legendary, autocratic chairman. That company was
International Business Machines, and its chairman was Thomas J. Watson."
"Der Fuehrer's obsession with Jewish destruction was hardly original.
There had been czars and tyrants before him. But for the first time in
history, an anti-Semite had automation on his side. Hitler didn't do it
alone. He had help."
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