Introduction
This book will be profoundly uncomfortable to read. It was profoundly
uncomfortable to write. It tells the story of IBM's conscious
involvement—directly and through its subsidiaries—in the Holocaust, as well as
its involvement in the Nazi war machine that murdered millions of others
throughout Europe.
Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information
quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a
roadmap for group destruction. The unique igniting event was the most fateful
day of the last century, January 30, 1933, the day Adolf Hitler came to power.
Hitler and his hatred of the Jews was the ironic driving force behind this
intellectual turning point. But his quest was greatly enhanced and energized by
the ingenuity and craving for profit of a single American company and its
legendary, autocratic chairman. That company was International Business
Machines, and its chairman was Thomas J. Watson.
Der Führer's obsession with Jewish destruction was hardly original. There
had been czars and tyrants before him. But for the first time in history, a ... read full excerpt from: IBM and the Holocaust ebook
