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Sto caricando le informazioni... IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (AUTHOR SIGNED) (edizione 2001)di Edwin Black
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IBM and the Holocaustis the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s. Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed. But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor. IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed. IBM and the Holocausttakes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries -- all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction. Just as compelling is the human drama of one of our century's greatest minds, IBM founder Thomas Watson, who cooperated with the Nazis for the sake of profit. Only with IBM's technologic assistance was Hitler able to achieve the staggering numbers of the Holocaust. Edwin Black has now uncovered one of the last great mysteries of Germany's war against the Jews -- how did Hitler get the names? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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All'opera parteciparono le filiali IBM dei paesi occupati; grazie alla filiale europea, con sede nella Svizzera neutrale, l'IBM americana riuscì ad aggirare i divieti imposti dall'entrata in guerra degli Stati Uniti, e continuò a collaborare con Hitler anche quando era ben chiaro che il fine dell'occupazione nazista dell'Europa era l'eliminazione fisica degli ebrei; ma alla fine della guerra, le attrezzature e i conti correnti della Dehomag vennero riassorbiti dalla sede centrale, che prestò la propria opera alla burocrazia alleata e alla ricostruzione della nuova Germania. Il documentatissimo saggio di Black avrà in tutto il mondo un'eco che andrà ben oltre i dibattiti storiografici. Soprattutto, fornirà potenti elementi di riflessione sui temi, attuali oggi come ai tempi del Terzo Reich, della ricerca del profitto a tutti i costi, e delle responsabilità etiche della tecnologia, della scienza, dell'economia. (