Dieser amerikanische Kolumnist und Journalist spezialisiert sich auf Menschenrechte und das historische Zusammenspiel von Wirtschaft und Politik im Nahen Osten. Seine Arbeit untersucht auch Erdölpolitik, Missbräuche durch Unternehmen und die finanziellen Grundlagen Nazi-Deutschlands. Seine Analysen decken die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen globaler Macht und menschlichem Schicksal auf.
Ein Buch, das für Gesprächsstoff sorgen wird. Es geht um die hier erstmals dokumentierte Verstrickung eines Weltkonzerns in den Holocaust. Intensive Recherchen des Autors in den Archiven mehrerer Länder haben sensationelles Material zutage gefördert, das die Vorgeschichte und Durchführung der nationalsozialistischen Judenvernichtung in neuem Licht erscheinen lässt.
"Nazi Nexus" is the single explosive volume that details the pivotal corporate American connection to the Holocaust. The work includes some of the biggest names in business from IBM and General Motors to the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Institution.
Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
<b>IBM & the Holocaust</b> tells of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany--beginning in 1933 in the 1st weeks that Hitler came to power & continuing well into WWII. As the 3rd Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest & genocide, IBM & its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification & cataloging programs of the 30s to the selections of the 40s. Only after Jews were identified--a massively complex task Hitler wanted done immediately--could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor & annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation & organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 30s no computer existed. But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed & constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate the persecution of the Jews. Historians were amazed at the speed & accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify & locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany & then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations & ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads & organizing of concentration camp slave labor. IBM & its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, anticipating the Reich's needs. They didn't merely sell the machines & walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees & became the sole source of the billions of punch cards needed. <b>IBM & the Holocaust</b> details the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the 3rd Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters & the Geneva intermediaries--all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution & destruction. Just as compelling is the human drama of one of our century's greatest minds, IBM founder Thomas Watson, who cooperated with the Nazis for the sake of profit. Only with IBM's technologic assistance was Hitler able to achieve the staggering numbers of the Holocaust. Edwin Black has now uncovered one of the last great mysteries of Germany's war against the Jews: how Hitler got the names.