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Article

22 Oct 2001

Author:
Edwin Black, in Star-Telegram [Fort Worth, Texas]

IBM must apologize and open its archives

My book, IBM and the Holocaust, documents IBM's strategic business and consultative alliance with Nazi Germany beginning at the first moment of the Hitler regime in 1933 and continuing right into the war. It was this joint planning and custom production of billions of punch cards per year that endowed the Third Reich with the technology it needed to dramatically accelerate and automate all phases of its Jewish persecution.