Audible.com Offers E-Audio Edition of IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black for Exclusive Introductory Period.Business Editors, Hi-Tech Writers WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 New Downloadable Audiobook Offers Detailed Evidence that IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Knowingly Aided the Nazi War Machine and Profited Throughout Hitler's Program of Jewish Persecution Author Edwin Black Delivers Powerful Reading Simultaneous International Publication - February 12, 2001 Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ADBL ADBL Agricultural Development Bank Limited (Nepal) ) today announced exclusive availability of the American audiobook edition of IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black for online digital download  The perspective and/or examples in this article do not represent a world-wide view. Please [ edit] this page to improve its geographical balance. or streaming at www.audible.com/black. Simultaneously today, Crown Publishers will publish the American hardcover edition. International editions will be published this week in more than forty countries worldwide. Audible is the leading provider of Internet-delivered spoken audio (www.audible.com(TM)) for computer-based listening and for mobile playback on AudibleReady(TM) PC-based portable digital audio players. "We are honored to introduce the exclusive American e-audio edition of this riveting historical account," said Donald Katz, founder and chairman, Audible, Inc. "Edwin Black's reading of this important book testifies to the literary power of listening, and we are proud that Audible's audio service has the proven production flexibility and speed to bring the digital audio edition of IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST to our customers as fast as the news breaks." IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST was inspired by a visit Edwin Black made with his parents--both Holocaust survivors--to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a national institution situated in a prominent location adjacent to The National Mall in Washington, D.C. (in between 14th and 15th streets SW); however, it is not a constituent institution of the Smithsonian Institution. in Washington, D.C., where a Hollerith machine The first automatic data processing system. It was used to count the 1890 U.S. census. Developed by Herman Hollerith, a statistician who had worked for the Census Bureau, the system used a hand punch to record the data as holes in dollar-bill-sized punch cards and a tabulating machine to with an IBM logo is on prominent display. "For hours," he remembers, "I stood frozen, staring at this machine, thinking that the cryptic exhibit description that the machine was used for census represented only the tip of a dark iceberg." "Make no mistake. The Holocaust would still have occurred without IBM," says Black. "To think otherwise is more than wrong. The Holocaust would have proceeded--and often did proceed--with simple bullets, death marches, and massacres based on pen and paper persecution. But there is reason to examine the fantastical numbers Hitler achieved in murdering so many millions so swiftly, and to identify the crucial role of automation and technology." IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the book is a meticulous reconstruction of International Business Machine's knowing involvement--directly from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and through its network of European subsidiaries coordinated by a Swiss office--in providing automated solutions to the Third Reich Third Reich Official designation for the Nazi Party's regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945. The name reflects Adolf Hitler's conception of his expansionist regime—which he predicted would last 1,000 years—as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman as the Nazi regime systematically tracked and persecuted Jews throughout Europe. Black builds the case that IBM's corporate headquarters in New York, and its president, Thomas J. Watson Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was the president of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from the 1920s to the 1950s. , not only helped develop the technology the Nazis needed to expedite their program of Jewish destruction, but also amassed a fortune in profits while doing so. In 1937, Hitler awarded Watson a medal for his special efforts on behalf of the Reich. The medal was only returned in 1940 at the height of public outrage over the rape of Poland and the conquest of Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). . Black's research began some five years ago and involved one hundred volunteers, researchers, and world-class scholars working in more than fifty archives in seven nations to gather more than 20,000 documents. Black repeatedly approached IBM for comment and access to its corporate archives. In response, IBM transferred six boxes of documents to the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the . Black has since studied the contents of each box. When these documents were examined alongside thousands of others from archives around the world, the whole story began to unfold, and IBM's conscious collaboration with the Hitler regime was revealed. IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST details the history of the company's punch card A storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that holds data as patterns of punched holes. Each of the 80 or 96 columns holds one character. The holes are punched by a keypunch machine or card punch peripheral and are fed into the computer by a card reader. system and Hollerith tabulating machines. A precursor to the computer, various Hollerith machines were used by governments around the world, including the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , as a state-of the-art census, scheduling, accountancy, and management tool. According to Black, not only did IBM eagerly accommodate the Third Reich's punch card demands, in many cases it anticipated the Reich's need for new punch card solutions. As the Nazis annexed or invaded country after country, IBM and its European subsidiaries - regularly redesigned and updated their applications for the Reich, thus enabling the Nazis to quickly tabulate (1) To arrange data into a columnar format. (2) To sum and print totals. the census, run the rail cars, identify the slave labor pool, and allow Hitler to automate his grand plan with a computer like efficiency and thoroughness that took the world by surprise. Black provides detailed evidence of IBM New York's involvement in expanding and operating its European subsidiaries, which designed, leased, and serviced Hitler's Holleriths throughout the twelve-year Reich. Using newly discovered primary sources, Black documents how IBM and its subsidiaries eagerly custom-designed and printed punch cards for any purpose its Nazi clients could devise while also upgrading and customizing its machines for a wide variety of uses. Black also details the company's concerted program of structured deniability and its grandiose American patriotic endeavors and peace initiatives during the War, even as the company simultaneously and knowingly profited from its protracted pro·tract tr.v. pro·tract·ed, pro·tract·ing, pro·tracts 1. To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong: disputants who needlessly protracted the negotiations. 2. partnership with the Reich. About Edwin Black Edwin Black is the author of the best selling book THE TRANSFER AGREEMENT: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine, which won the Carl Sandburg Award for nonfiction in 1984. He is a leading expert on Reich economics. As a journalist, Black has written primarily investigative and enterprise articles for publications as diverse as the Washington Post, American Bar Association American Bar Association (ABA), voluntary organization of lawyers admitted to the bar of any state. Founded (1878) largely through the efforts of the Connecticut Bar Association, it is devoted to improving the administration of justice, seeking uniformity of law Journal, Playboy, Redbook, and the Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper Sunday Magazine, among other publications. Between 1986 and 1988, Black's award-winning weekly syndicated column, "The Cutting Edge," was published by Jewish newspapers in fifty cities across the United States and Canada. He has twice been nominated for the Society of Professional Journalists' SDX (1) See AIT. (2) (Storage Data Acceleration) An earlier technique from Western Digital that improved performance of IDE CD-ROM drives. SDX-compliant drives used a special 10-pin cable, but the method never took off. award, one of those times by the American Bar Association Journal. All of the audio editions from audible.com can be accessed for computer-based download or streaming, or for rapid transfer from a PC to any AudibleReady portable digital audio player. Current portable listening options include the Diamond Rio This article is about the american country band. For the MP3 player brand, see Rio (digital audio players). Diamond Rio is an American country music band formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. 500, any of the Pocket PCs manufactured by Casio, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard or the Digisette Duo-Aria, a digital audio player that operates as a stand-alone device or can playback using virtually any standard audiocassette tape player. About Audible, Inc. 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