Book Links IBM to Hitler NY Daily News 2/10/2001

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>NY Daily News 2/10/2001
>  Book Links IBM to Hitler
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>  By PAUL D. COLFORD
>  Daily News Business Writer
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>  A tightly guarded book due to go on sale Monday will allege that IBM, now
>  the world's sixth-largest company, had ties to the Third Reich and a role in
>  carrying out Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jews.
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>  The book was written by Edwin Black, who previously wrote "The Transfer
>  Agreement: The Untold Story of the Secret Agreement Between the Third Reich
>  and Jewish Palestine."
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>  IBM told its employees yesterday that the book would report that
>  company-made tabulating machines were used by the Nazi regime and would
>  speculate "on the activities of IBM's subsidiary in Germany at the time."
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>  IBM said it could not comment further "without access to the book's
>  contents."
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>  The book will be released simultaneously in the United States by Crown
>  Publishers and more than 40 other countries, although it's not in Crown's
>  catalogue. New York-area retailers have ordered it based only on a few
>  details provided by sales representatives.
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>  Manhattan-based Crown declined yesterday to identify the author or title but
>  told news organizations that they would receive "an important and stunning
>  book" about the Holocaust on Monday. Crown said in an e-mail that the author
>  tapped "previously undisclosed primary sources" and worked with researchers
>  and historians in seven countries.
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>  Crown also provided endorsements of the book, including one from famed Nazi
>  hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who said it will "result in a shocking conclusion
>  never realized before" and would address the "hidden history" of World War
>  II.
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>  Asked for further details, Crown spokeswoman Tina Constable said, "It
>  reveals a missing piece of Hitler's plan of Jewish persecution. It's a major
>  book that could involve a wide variety of parties in the U.S. and Europe."
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>  Crown is a division of Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann, the
>  German media giant.
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>  IBM, which has annual revenues of $87.5 billion, is the world's
>  sixth-largest company in Fortune magazine's closely watched ranking of
>  corporate power.
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>  A history of IBM that appears on the computer maker's Web site says, "When
>  World War II began, all IBM facilities were placed at the disposal of the
>  U.S. government. IBM's product line expanded to include bombsights, rifles
>  and engine parts - in all, more than three dozen major ordnance items."
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>  The head of IBM at the time was Thomas Watson, a corporate titan who led the
>  company for decades.
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>  Original Publication Date: 2/10/01
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