Anyone read....

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_qwest.net>
Date: Tue May 1 10:10:28 2001

IIRC my high-school history correctly, noone outside of Germany had
any idea of the magnitude of Hilter's racial purification policies.
It wasn't until the allies marched into the concentration camps and
discovered piles of bones instead of cheering prisoners that the
truth came out.

Then, anyone who had done business with Germany couldn't make their
associations publically know without risk of retaliation.

clint


On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:

> Quoting Mike <dogas_at_bellsouth.net>:
> > "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi
> > Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" by Edwin Black,
> > Crown
>
> I saw it at the local Hastings, but also didn't have the money to
> pick it up. I will read it this summer, though. I suspect it will
> try to shock me by detailing how IBM had sold technology of some
> kind to Germany before US involvement in World War II. While such
> a practice seems shocking today, it probably wasn't such a big deal
> back then. Correct me if my history is wrong, but it seems to me
> that Germany would have in fact been the best potential customer,
> being one country that made decent progress towards getting out of
> the depression that was widespread in Europe at the time. Also,
> this was before we all figured out that Naziism was a Bad Thing,
> right?
>
> Can anyone tell us what the book says?
>
> --
> Jeffrey S. Sharp
> jss_at_ou.edu
>
>
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