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Abstract: IBM and the Holocaust sparked a media frenzy and became an immediate New York Times bestseller when it was published in 2001. Now in paperback, here is the stunning story of IBM’s strategic alliance with Nazi Germany, beginning in 1933 in the first weeks of Hitler’s rise to power and continuing well into the Second World War. As the Third Reich embarked on its mission of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries custom-designed the technologies that enabled every step along the way—from the first census identifying Jews, to the last death train that pulled into its station with precision timing. With its state-of-the-art punch card technology, IBM helped the Third Reich construct a foolproof dragnet for gathering humans. The world has never been the same since. About the Book What Hitler wanted should have been impossible. The immediate identification of millions of people across Europe, including extensive family histories and intimate personal details, was a task so massive and complex that a computer was in order, and in 1933 there was no computer. However, there was IBM. Custom fitting its cutting edge punch card machines for the task at hand, IBM achieved an unprecedented organizational feat—one that helped to lead to six million innocent civilians being herded, ghettoized, deported, enslaved, and ultimately, annihilated. Historians have always puzzled over the speed and accuracy with which Hitler’s Nazis identified, located—and processed their victims. IBM and the Holocaust reveals the corporate collusion behind the Third Reich, and examines how Thomas J. Watson—a popular, bombastic American CEO—profited from Hitler’s every move. With chilling success, IBM and its subsidiaries designed and implemented mechanized solutions to the Reich’s escalating demands, leasing the machines for high prices and maintaining a monopoly on the punch cards needed to run them. Despite the haze of confusion IBM sought to create with oral agreements, undated letters, and intermediaries in neutral countries, author Edwin Black was able to pull back the curtain on IBM’s shocking secret about its role in the automation of destruction.