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Die Verstrickung des Weltkonzerns in die Verbrechen der Nazis

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IBM und der Holocaust

Die Verstrickung des Weltkonzerns in die Verbrechen der Nazis

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IBM und der Holocaust: Die Verstrickung des Weltkonzerns in die Verbrechen der Nazis (engl. Originaltitel: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation) ist ein Buch des Investigativjournalisten Edwin Black, das 2001 erstmals veröffentlicht wurde.

Black stellt im Detail die Geschäftsbeziehungen des US-Konzerns IBM und seiner deutschen wie europäischen Tochterfirmen mit der deutschen Regierung Adolf Hitlers während der 1930er Jahre und der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs dar. Eine Kernaussage des Buches ist Blacks These, dass die Technologie von IBM den Völkermord ermöglichte, vor allem durch die Herstellung und Tabellierung von Lochkarten auf der Basis von Daten aus der Volkszählung.

Die Neuauflage von 2012 bot eine um 37 Seiten bisher unveröffentlichter Dokumente erweiterte Ausgabe. Dazu kamen Fotos und anderes Archivmaterial.

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Propyläen Verlag
Language
German
Pages
704

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2001-02-01, Propyläen Verlag
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Table of Contents

Einleitung Page 7
1. Nummerierte Menschen Page 21
2. IBM und Hitler Page 27
3. Wie man Juden identifiziert Page 65
4. Das Bündnis zwischen IBM und den Nazis Page 95
5. Ein Orden für Watson Page 136
6. Kriegskarten Page 176
7. Tödliche Zählung Page 216
8. Mit der Effektivität des Blitzkriegs Page 256
9. Die Revolte der Dehomag Page 282
10. Geschäfte um jeden Preis Page 352
11. Frankreich und die Niederlande Page 384
12. IBM und der Krieg Page 443
13. Vernichtung Page 470
14. Völkermordgewinne 1 Page 503
15. Völkermordgewinne 2 Page 536
Anmerkungen Page 579
Quellen und Bibliographie Page 673
Abkürzungen Page 691
Danksagung Page 692
Personenregister Page 700

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Berlin, Germany
Other Titles
IBM y el holocausto
Translation Of
IBM and the Holocaust
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
Cäcilie Plieninger

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Hardcover
Pagination
704p.
Number of pages
704
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.6 x 2 inches
Weight
2 pounds

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OL9064427M
ISBN 10
3549071302
ISBN 13
9783549071304
OCLC/WorldCat
234101307
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212559
Deutsche National Bibliothek
961007486
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Q770859
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IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing throughout World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.
Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.

But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and 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 and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.

IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.

IBM and the Holocaust takes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries -- all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and 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 did Hitler get the names?

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