Event

Controversy over IBM and the Holocaust, 2001

The 2001 book by Edwin Black and the argument over what IBM’s German unit Dehomag, and IBM, are answerable for.

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Edwin Black author of the book Scholarship & press 1
IBM the company named in the book and in a lawsuit launched within days of it, since dropped Scholarship & press 2 3
Dehomag IBM’s German unit, the book’s main subject Scholarship & press 2

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Final Solutions, by Edwin Black, The Village Voice, 26 Mar 2002. Scholarship & press
Edwin Black is the author of IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation (Crown Books , 2001 , and Three Rivers Press , 2002)
Hitler and IBM (review of Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust), by Frederick E. Allen, American Heritage, Jul 2001. Scholarship & press
within days, as it happened, of the launching of a Holocaust survivors’ lawsuit against IBM that has since been dropped
Hollerith licensed his patents in Germany to an adding-machine salesman named Willy Heidinger, who founded Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag for short
IBM Statement on Nazi-era Book and Lawsuit (14 February 2001), IBM (news release, Wayback Machine copy), 14 Feb 2001. Self-published
IBM and its employees around the world find the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime abhorrent and categorically condemn any actions which aided their unspeakable acts.
As with hundreds of foreign-owned companies that did business in Germany at that time, Dehomag came under the control of Nazi authorities prior to and during World War II.

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