The following is an excerpt from IBM and the Holocaust: The
Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most
Powerful Corporation, which was re-released with additional
documentation and photographs. Author Edwin Black has been
heralded as a meticulous researcher who marshaled thousands of
pages of documents and other materials to track how IBM provided
its Hollerith calculating machines to enable the Nazi regime to
enumerate and control the victims of the Holocaust. Veils of
smoke hung above. Many of the exhausted prisoners, insensate
from torture and starvation, slumped lifelessly, waiting to fade
into death. But most of the 60,000 human beings squeezed into
this unimaginable clearing amongst the evergreens were still
running from place to place, performing assigned chores quickly,
proving their strength and viability for yet another day of
existence. Surviving the moment was their quest. 1 This
nightmare was Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a special Hell
on Earth created by Nazi Germany. At the