The Roots of Progress

IBM and the Holocaust

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

Edwin Black

IBM supplied the Nazis with specialized punch-card machines that ran their census (to identify the Jews) and that ultimately managed the operations of the concentration camps. Argues with some convincing evidence that Watson Sr. was complicit in this and was in fact a fascist sympathizer. Technology is not always used for good.

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