IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
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My own hardback copy with a somewhat battered jacket
From Wikipedia
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of the Third Reich through to the last day of the regime, at the end of World War II when the US and Germany were at war with each other.
Edwin Black’s 2001 book was awarded Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year by American Society of Journalists and Authors in 2003. It garnered many reviews, both plauditory but also some critical.
The jacket features a detail from an IBM punched card printed with a Nazi roundel and various column and row markers that would be useful for hand-punching (the arrows indicate which rows to punch for each letter in the EBCDIC code). It’s unclear if this is a real card or a mock-up. The title and subtitle are in Bank Gothic with a white-edge shadow effect. Difficult to see from the photos, but the title and the “holes” are embossed and printed with a gloss black.
Photo: D Jones. License: CC BY.
Jacket, showing front, spine, and back. Th author’s name is in Futura, the subtitle on the spine in Futura Condensed, and the blurbs on the back in Bembo.
License: All Rights Reserved.
Spine, showing similar typography to the jacket
Source: ebornbooks.com License: All Rights Reserved.
A paperback of one of the later editions, by Dialog Press
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