Description
This meticulously researched investigation examines how IBM’s punch-card technology and German subsidiary became entwined with the Nazi regime’s efforts to identify, categorize, dispossess, deport, and exploit Jewish people and other targeted populations. Tracing the relationship from Hitler’s rise to power through World War II, it explores the corporate systems, specialized machinery, data management, and bureaucratic processes that helped make persecution more systematic and far-reaching. The book also probes the ethical responsibilities of international business, the pursuit of profit amid atrocity, and the layers of deniability surrounding corporate collaboration. Combining archival research with a dramatic account of technology’s role in history, it raises enduring questions about complicity, accountability, and the human consequences of seemingly neutral tools.
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paperback
Time Warner Paperbacks
Published Apr 4, 2002
640 pages
ISBN: 9780751531992
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First Published
2001
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black.