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A 2001 book by Edwin Black, entitled IBM and the Holocaust, reached the conclusion that IBM's commercial activities in Germany during World War II make it morally complicit in the Holocaust. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An updated 2002 paperback edition of the book included new evidence of the connection between IBM's United States headquarters, which ...
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the ...
During World War II, IBM underwent a significant transformation in its product line [75] and operations to support the war effort. Originally known for its tabulating equipment and time recording devices, IBM shifted its focus to manufacturing various military ordnance items and essential products.
During World War II, Deutsche Luft Hansa employed more than 10,000 forced laborers, including many children, from occupied countries; forced Jewish labor was particularly used from 1940 to 1942. [59] [60] [61] Forced laborers were used to install and maintain radar systems and to assemble, repair, and maintain aircraft, including military aircraft.
American companies that had dealings with Nazi Germany included Ford Motor Company, [2] [3] Coca-Cola, [4] [5] and IBM. [6] [7] [8] Ford Werke and Ford SAF (Ford's subsidiaries in Germany and France, respectively) produced military vehicles and other equipment for Nazi Germany's war effort.
After World War II, Watson began work to further the extent of IBM's influence abroad and in 1949, he created the IBM World Trade Corporation in order to oversee IBM's foreign business. [21] Watson retired in 1956 and his oldest son, Thomas J. Watson Jr., became IBM's CEO. [22]
IBM as a military contractor produced 6% of the M1 Carbine rifles used in World War II, about 346,500 of them, between August 1943 and May 1944. IBM built the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator , an electromechanical computer, during World War II.
[2]: 197 Initially contracted to RCA, the AN/FSQ-7 production units were started by IBM in 1958 [citation needed] (32 DCs were planned [2]: 207 for networking NORAD regions.) [36] IBM's production contract developed 56 SAGE computers for $.5 billion (~$18 million per computer pair in each FSQ-7) [32] —cf. the $2 billion WWII Manhattan Project.