IBM and the Holocaust: Abridged Edition

The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

By: Edwin Black

Narrated by: Edwin Black

IBM and the Holocaust is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker--a million copies in print--detailing IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all micromanaged by its president Thomas J Watson from New York and Paris. This Expanded Edition offers pages of previous unpublished documents, internal company correspondence, and other archival materials to produce an even more explosive volume.

Originally published to extraordinary praise in 2001, this provocative, award-winning international bestseller has stood the test of time as it chronicles the story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM and the Holocaust provides nothing less than a chilling investigation into corporate complicity. 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.

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Fascinating Book

Saw this pop up in a social media feed and was definitely intrigued.

Compelling book. Clearly communicates the implications of corporate greed as well as information technology in the wrong hands. Privacy too.

Even the abridged version is too long. Could be 90 minutes shorter and still get the same points and impact. Though the narration over emphasizes at times, the speaker’s passion and emotion regarding the Holocaust rings clearly through

Essential reading for anyone who works in tech

I feared the subject would be impossibly difficult to process and put off reading this book for years. However, I finished it in 2 days. The storytelling of this abridged version is excellent. The evidence is damning, exhaustive, and irrefutable from the start. The Nazi’s atrocities were only possible at the large scale and efficiency because of IBM’s ongoing support. IBM knowingly leased equipment, maintained it, collaborated on every tabulation project, and exclusively sold the punch cards necessary to enable the Nazis in war and genocide.

Disturbing, especially in light of the 2024 US Presidential Election

The company pursues unabashed capitalist interests, without any consideration of what their product is being used for. There are many parallels to current events.

It also puts IBM's artificial intelligence in a different light. I remember Watson versus Ken Jennings on Jeopardy, not realizing that it was named for the bastard, it helps the Germans identify and execute Jews And other groups.

The depth and breadth of how the IBM machines were used.

A shocking story about how far some people will go for money. The slippery slope is more like a cliff in this case.

Shocking truth about capitalism

This books shows how capitalism really works. Three is no mercy for anyone. Brutal truth