IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

IBM and the Holocaust is a book by investigative journalist Edwin Black which details the business dealings of the American-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries with the government of Adolf Hitler during the 1930s and the years of World War II. In the book, Black outlines the way in which IBM's technology helped facilitate Nazi genocide against the Jewish people throu... More

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  • 2001

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  • IBM und der Holocaust. Die Verstrickung des Weltkonzerns in die Verbrechen der Nazis

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Edwin Black

Edwin Black is an American syndicated columnist, and journalist specializing in the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East, petroleum policy, the abuses practiced by corporations, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany, among other topics. Black's eight...

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