IBM and the Holocaust (2002)

It has been over 50 years since Adolf Hitler took his life in a small underground bunker near Berlin. And while, for many, the Holocaust that he planned and executed against the Jewish population of Europe is a thing of the past - a dark chapter of our history that serves a reminder of man's inhuman potential - for others, it is a subject of unrelinquished sorrow and tireless investigation.

It is in the latter camp that we find Edwin Black, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated international bestseller IBM and the Holocaust. The book, which documents IBM's direct links to Hilter and his so-called 'Final Solution' by providing the Third Reich with census machines and punch card technology, caused IBM to issue a formal statement claiming that the Nazis controlled the operations of IBM Germany during the war. But Edwin's research shows that Thomas J. Watson, founder and president of IBM during the company's financial relationship with the Nazis, exercised more hands-on control of the operation than they care to admit.

In his GuerrillaNews directorial debut, Paul Shore interviews the author and deploys GNN's trademark design aesthetic in what is sure to be one of the most controversial documentaries about U.S. corporate complicity with the Nazi regime.

IBM and the Holocaust was cut to the pulsing hypnotica of Mitchell Akiyama.

Director: Paul Shore
Producer: Stephen Marshall/Bonnie Shore/Josh Shore
Production Company: Guerrilla News Network/TableTribe
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Guerrilla News Network; IBM; Edwin Black

Category:

News & Politics

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• GNN
• IBM
• Nazi
• WOII
• Edwin
• Black

[distressed7]

@egc52556 Forgiveness? Let it go? Forgiveness is not just going on, letting it go, with no acknowledgement from the perpetrator. That is sick, and , that is called enabling. Addicts, and criminals love your reasoning. I am sorry. it is acknowledging it, and making sure it does not happen again. What you are postulating is what is called "sweeping dirt under the rug."

We let things go because we fear confrontation.We fear a fight. We fear defeat. We all do. However, it is time for reckoning.

[ExposeZionistCrimes]

The holocaust is a HOAX. Watch onethirdoftheholocaustcom

also holohoax101com

[urvil]

GNN is so lame, I feel embarrassed for Black that he's in one of these silly videos.

[ZuzerHun]

@egc52556 exactly. i have the book and documents show that ibm engineers flew from the usa to aus-birkenau and worked on the project.

[egc52556]

If the information presented in this video is true then IBM's involvement was more than providing a "tool" without knowing how that tool was being used. These IBM tabulating machines needed direct hands-on involvement to function properly. These weren't some neatly packaged idiot-proof consumer electronics device the Nazis bought at Sears-Roebuck.

Nevertheless, it is time to forgive. Not forget, but forgive. Let it go.

[TheHolySpirit]

Something is happening in Britain at the moment that may be related to this video.

Devon & Cornwall Police + Avon & Somerset Police (both registered corporations) along with local councils and soon to be joined by schools and hospitals etc have become South West One' whos parent company is IBM CORP. In late 2008 all the assets of Devon and Cornwall Police were transferred to South West One Corporation and therefore to IBM CORP.

What are the implications of IBM running a Police Force?

[microverses]

'no relation to earlier computers used'

you sir, win the todays 'i don't know how to think' award.

the relation?

I B M

'used and INVENTED for the purpose...'

It was 'just a tool' for the Nazi regime as well. You've missed the whole point, I don't even know how that's possible. Really.

pro tip - computers, of any kind, crunch numbers. numbers only. that's all they know, math.

[LLCoolPass]

im on a thinkpad, no relation to the earlier computers used and invented for the purpose of calculating artillery and for counting bodies

but hey, we also use our computers to watching this so its just a tool

[jacobholstein]

It is very arrogant to not want your children to be murdered on a bus or in a Sbarro's pizzeria. You are so enlightened N73B60.

[N73B60]

now they should help the palestinians get rid of those arrogant jews.