IBM and The Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Crown Publishers, New York, 2001.(Review)

reviewed by Gary Schoenfeldt

If history can be said to be both a lesson and a warning, Edwin Black's, explosive book, IBM and The Holocaust, offers both, plus a sermon or two. The Public Relations industry was invented to handle a challenge like this. Released early in 2001, the title practically screams, "So sue me!" and sets the stage for an unprecedented expose on the workings of international capital.

The son of Holocaust survivors, Edwin Black claims that a trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC set him on a path of discovery. Black and a team of over 100 researchers subsequently compiled a virtual mountain of archival evidence and set the stage …