Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust [Paperback]

Edwin Black (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 16, 2009

Nazi Nexus is the long-awaited wrap-up in a single explosive volume that details the pivotal corporate American connection to the Holocaust. The biggest names and crimes are all there. IBM and its facilitation of the identification and accelerated destruction of the Jews; General Motors and its rapid motorization of the German military enabling the conquest of Europe and the capture of Jews everywhere; Ford Motor Company for its political inspiration; the Rockefeller Foundation for its financing of deadly eugenic science and the program that sent Mengele into Auschwitz; the Carnegie Institution for its proliferation of the concept of race science, racial laws, and the very mathematical formula used to brand the Jews for progressive destruction; and others.

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Backed by exhaustive research, Black's case in IBM and the Holocaust is simple and stunning: that IBM facilitated the identification and roundup of millions of Jews during the 12 years of the Third Reich … Black's evidence may be the most damning to appear yet against a purported corporate accomplice. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Dialog Press (February 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914153099
• ISBN-13: 978-0914153092
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A chilling read., May 3, 2009

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This review is from: Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust (Paperback)

Edwin Black's book clearly shows the awful lows to which man can stoop in pursuit of money, power and influence. It also tells us that although the holocaust was a horror committed by the Nazi's, it was also facilitated by others, including those far too close to home.

But this book also shows us that it is a mistake to believe that money was the only motivating force to this business, as some of those involved obviously shared in their anti-semitic hatred.
The anti-semitism given full expression in the holocaust is not something which begins and ends with the Nazi's, but has spanned generations, and borders.

A very valuable work that will only add to your understanding of the path to Holocaust.

25 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading, March 15, 2009

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Mark A. Winton (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This book should be required reading for many programs (business, medicine, social sciences, etc...). Dr. Black has done an amazing job of summarizing several of his books. After reading Nazi Nexus, you will want to obtain and read some of his books that are more comprehensive. On the emotional side of things, I would also warn professors using this book to spend a little time with students examining the shock many will feel while they read this. My own area is criminal justice and this book would work in many courses, e.g. organized crime, white-collar crime, etc...Dr. Black combines history, sociology, criminology, and economics into an integrated approach that has major implications for future policy. I will be reading War Against the Weak next.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Its time we knew the truth, February 1, 2010

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Excellent book. Author has spent years researching how Hitler received help from Americans as well as American corporations. It has taken many years for the truth to be known. Jews living in Europe didn't have a chance.The Nazis had so much help from IBM,Ford, GM and other corporations that its a miracle that more Jews weren't murdered in cold blood.