New York Times/Books of the Times March 7, 2001
'I.B.M. and the Holocaust': Assessing the Culpability By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
In his much anticipated new book, "I.B.M. and the Holocaust," Edwin Black makes a copiously documented case for the utter amorality of the profit motive and its indifference to consequences. Mr. Black, whom the dust jacket identifies as an expert on commercial relations with the Third Reich, recapitulates a complicated corporate record of I.B.M.'s long history of dealings with Nazi Germany, which included camouflaged business transactions during all of World War II. But midway through his fervent exposé, Mr. Black also says that many American companies did what I.B.M. did. Namely, they "refused to walk away from the extraordinary profits obtainable from trading with a pariah state such as Nazi Germany." [clip]