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"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 6 million. As we become more
technologically advanced, we must always remember that technology can work
for evil as well as good. This book tells us that we must be ever vigilant
and never allow progress and profits to triumph over morality and ethics."
(Abraham H. Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League)
"In this carefully researched, yet chilling book, Edwin Black relates how the
corporate and technological zeal of IBM, and its CEO, Thomas J. Watson,
contributed step-by-step to Nazi power, and advanced the Holocaust. One can
only wonder how different the number of Holocaust deaths might have been
throughout Europe had Hitler not enjoyed the strategic services of IBM and
its punch card technology. This book is an awesome warning for the future."
(William Seltzer, author of Population Statistics and the Holocaust
Former Director, U.N. Statistics Division)
"Edwin Black's groundbreaking book, IBM and the Holocaust, made a great
impression on me. It documents, for the first time that an American company,
IBM, bears a good deal of the moral responsibility for the preparation of
the persecution of the Nazi victims. IBM and the Holocaust confirms the
belief that the Holocaust was not only a cruel, unprecedented crime, but
also an enormous bureaucratic undertaking. As such, this shocking book
offers a great warning and reminder for individuals, states, companies, and
institutions, that more than any advantage or profit, we must above all
respect basic moral obligations." (Franciszek Piper, historian,
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)
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"I am appalled. The sordid details of the Holocaust seem never to end. Edwin
Black has now provided us with evidence of yet more complicity by the giants
of industry--this time International Business Machines. Not only did this
mighty organization unhesitatingly place monetary gain above human life and
dignity, but the technology it provided made the very machinery of Nazism,
and the genocide of millions of Jews, Roma and others, possible. The horrors
of the Third Reich continue to haunt us into the twenty-first century. Edwin
Black is to be thoroughly commended for bringing this new information to the
world's attention in his book, IBM and the Holocaust. I wait now with
interest to see how IBM will respond to these facts-which it has clearly
wished to conceal." (Ian F. Hancock, Director, The Romani Archives and
Documentation Center, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, Member)
"Edwin Black's research has produced an impressive study. All of us
interested in secret, heretofore unknown records on WWII, should learn from
Black's work how much more could be revealed. IBM and the Holocaust shows us
how little we were informed about aspects of the Holocaust we thought we
knew everything about--and how far human beings on the Allied side could go
to make a profit." (Dr. Shlomo Aronson, Professor of Political Science,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem. former scholar-in-residence, Library of
Congress author of, Beginnings of the Gestapo System)
"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)
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