IBM and the Holocaust is 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 Holocaust takes 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?

埃德溫·布萊剋（Edwin Black）

‧ 16次普利策奬提名作傢

‧《紐約時報》調查記者、暢銷書作傢

‧ 紀錄片和好萊塢電影的內容提供者

為找尋納粹如何獲取瞭他父母的身份信息，美籍猶太記者埃德溫·布萊剋受美國大屠殺紀念館一颱霍爾瑞斯機器的指引，開始在世界範圍內調查IBM與納粹的關聯。很快，埋藏幾十年的罪證被他一一串聯起來。

布萊剋主要研究大屠殺、公司的罪行和貪汙現象、政府的失職、學術造假和曆史等。他的獲奬暢銷作品包括《反弱者戰爭》、《納粹聯結》、《轉讓協議》）等，在100多個國傢以20種語言齣版瞭200個版本。他已獲16次普利策奬提名，曾接受奧普拉·溫弗瑞、CNN、今日秀、NBC Dateline等知名節目的專訪。近幾年，他又獲得瞭一係列卓越編輯奬。此外，他的作品經常被改編為紀錄片，另有多部著作的電影版權已被好萊塢買斷，其中一部即《IBM與納粹》。