30 Apr
2001
30 Apr
'01
4:43 p.m.
Quoting Mike <dogas(a)bellsouth.net>et>:
> "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance
between Nazi
> Germany and America's Most Powerful
Corporation"
by Edwin Black,
Crown
I saw it at the local Hastings, but also didn't have pick it up. I will read it this summer, though. I
suspect it will
try to shock me by detailing how IBM had sold
technology of some
kind to Germany before US involvement in World War
II. While such
a practice seems shocking today, it probably
wasn't
such a big deal
back then. Correct me if my history is wrong, but it
seems to me
that Germany would have in fact been the best
potential customer,
being one country that made decent progress towards
getting out of
the depression that was widespread in Europe at the
time. Also,
this was before we all figured out that Naziism was a
Bad Thing,
right?
Can anyone tell us what the book says?
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu
There's a number of reviews at the Amazon site.
Reading them will give you a pretty good idea of what
it's about.