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This book 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 throughout Europe.

Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information (01) quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a roadmap for group destruction. The unique igniting (04) event was the most fateful (03) 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 (05) turning point. But his quest was greatly enhanced and energized by the ingenuity (02) and craving (06) for profit of a single American company and its legendary, autocratic (07) 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, an anti-Semite had automation on his side. Hitler didn’t do it alone. He had help.

(IBM and the Holocaust, Edwin Black, 2001.)

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