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·出版社：Three Rivers Press
·页码：560 页码
·出版日：2002年
·ISBN：9780609808993
·条码：9780609808993
·装帧：平装
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Published to extraordinary praise, this provocative international bestseller details the story of IBM’s strategic alliance with Nazi Germany.IBM and the Holocaustprovides a chilling investigation into corporate complicity, and the atrocities witnessed raise startling questions that throw IBM’s wartime ethics into serious doubt. 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. With a new afterword, the publishing event of last year is certain to generate even more controversy.
作者简介
The son of Polish survivors, Washington-based writer EDWIN BLACK is the author of the award-winning Holocaust finance investigation,The Transfer Agreement, and is an expert on commercial relations with the Third Reich.
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Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly responsible for the Final Solution? That's the question raised by Edwin Black'sIBM and the Holocaust, the most controversial book on the subject since Daniel Jonah Goldhagen'sHitler's Willing Executioners. Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, is less tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less provocative: he argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer on earth. "IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success," writes Black. "IBM had almost single-handedly brought modern warfare into the information age [and] virtually put the 'blitz' in thekrieg."The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith punch card machine, which Black glimpsed on exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, inspiring his five-year, top-secret book project. The Hollerith was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data. Black says the Hollerith and its punch card data ("hole 3 signified homosexual ... hole 8 designated a Jew") was indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort. Hitler's regime was fantastically, suicidally chaotic; could IBM have been the cause of its sole competence: mass-murdering civilians? Better scholars than I must sift through and appraise Black's mountainous evidence, but clearly the assessment is overdue.The moral argument turns on one question: How much did IBM New York know about IBM Germany's work, and when? Black documents a scary game of brinksmanship orchestrated by IBM chief Watson, who walked a fine line between enraging U.S. officials and infuriating Hitler. He shamefully delayed returning the Nazi medal until forced to--and when he did return it, the Nazis almost kicked IBM and its crucial machines out of Germany. (Hitler was prone to self-defeating decisions, as demonstrated inHow Hitler Could Have Won World War II.)Black has created a must-read work of history. But it's also a fascinating business book examining the colliding influences of personality, morality, and cold strategic calculation.--Tim Appelo--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
FromBooklist
The publisher has ordered a print run of 100,000 copies, indicating that they expect high demand for this contentious expose. The author asserts that a collusion existed between IBM Corporation and the government of the Third Reich, wherein IBM supplied the technology enabling Nazi authorities to systematize their persecution of European Jews. Expect much discussion in the press and on the street about this very controversial book.
Brad Hooper
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
“Establishes beyond dispute that IBM Hollerith machines significantly advanced Nazi efforts to exterminate Jewry. . . .IBM and the Holocaustis a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust.”
—Washington Post Book World
“An ugly story, hidden for years, told by a master craftsman . . . compelling . . . it’s a chilling lesson.”
—Miami Herald
“IBM and the Holocaustis a disturbing book—all the more so because its author doesn’t prescribe what should be done about sins committed more than half a century ago. It is left to the readers to decide.”
—Chicago Tribune
Review
?Establishes beyond dispute that IBM Hollerith machines significantly advanced Nazi efforts to exterminate Jewry. . . .IBM and the Holocaustis a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust.?
?Washington Post Book World
?An ugly story, hidden for years, told by a master craftsman . . . compelling . . . it?s a chilling lesson.?
?Miami Herald
?IBM and the Holocaustis a disturbing book?all the more so because its author doesn?t prescribe what should be done about sins committed more than half a century ago. It is left to the readers to decide.?
?Chicago Tribune
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