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This is Edwin Black's explosive book IBM and the Holocaust - The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (2001) which exposes for the first time a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented history of the relationship of a corporate giant and the advanced technology it sold to the Third Reich, its war effort and its plan to exterminate the Jews. Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly responsible for the Final Solution? That's the question raised by author of this book, the most controversial on the subject since Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson well deserved the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer on earth. "IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success," writes Black. "IBM had almost single-handedly brought modern warfare into the information age [and] virtually put the 'blitz' in the krieg." The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith punch card machine, which Black glimpsed on exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, inspiring his five-year, top-secret book project. The Hollerith was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data. As he says the Hollerith and its punch card data ("hole 3 signified homosexual ... hole 8 designated a Jew") was indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths and organizing the entire war effort. IBM and the Holocaust provides a chilling investigation into corporate complicity and the atrocities witnessed raise startling questions that throw IBM's wartime ethics into serious doubt. Edwin Black's monumental research exposes in shocking detail how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies for the Nazis, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s. Hitler's regime was fantastically, suicidally chaotic but could IBM have been the cause of its sole competence - mass-murdering civilians? With impeccable documentation the author proves just that and much more as he has created a must-read work of history and definetly a book IBM just doesn't want you to read. 535 pages. A must read for everyone.