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Historical Perspectives

Book Fair authors' look at the past provide lessons for the future.

Assembling the informa-
`The Brother'
tion for his book was very
hen Sam Roberts was a
complex, and the author
6-year-old growing up in
used a team of volunteers.
Brooklyn, his dad took
Sandra Maurer, a metro
Coupon Expires November 30. 2001
him to see the funeral
Detroiter met during a previ-
procession carrying Julius and Ethel
ous book fair presentation by
Rosenberg, who were convicted of spy-
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Edwin Black:
Black, did the research that
ing for Russia during the 1950s.
"IBM
supplied
the
for lunch or Dinner
linked Adolf Eich_rnann to an
"This is history," his father said,
automation required
IBM system used in Austria.
never
thinkina b that his son would
to
help
identi
bl
Jews,
29555 Northwestern Hwy.
Page after page shows
begin adding to the historical docu-
and IBM technologyw
a
s
(in La Mirage Complex)
IBM leader Thomas Watson
customized to accelerate
mentation. Sam Roberts got the
creating all the twists and
Southfield
the extermination
Rosenberg case as an assignment in
turns to sell equipment and
of Jews."
1983 as a then reporter for The New
expertise to the Nazis at the
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York Times. Now he has expanded the
same time he was selling
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information into a book, The Brother
equipment and expertise to
(Random House; S35).
`IBM And The Holocaust'
the U.S. government. His
"When I started the book, I didn't
only allegiance, Black says, was to money.
machine displayed at the
realize how relevant it was going to be,"
• Gift Baskets
"Watson made up an art form of
United States Holocaust
says Roberts, deputy editor of the
• Sweet Trays
circumventing
regulations by using his
Museum in Washington,
Times' "Week In Review" and host of
overseas subsidiaries, and he has given
• Muffins
D.C., piqued the curiosity
the newspaper's nightly public affairs
us a roadmap of how to plug these
of author and journalist Edwin Black,
• Soups
program on an all-news cable station in
[kinds of] loopholes in the future,"
and
his
follow-up
research
led
to
his
New York.
•
Cook
ies
THE o"''
c.
says Black, who contin-
latest book — IBM and the Holocaust:
ues his research on IBM
Everything Made Fresh Daily The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi
activities
and will
Germany and America's Most Powerful
expand
the
next edition
Corporation (Crown; $ $27.50).
of his book.
Inquiry into the IBM Hollerith D-
Black believes that
11 card sorting machine led Black into
the accuracy of his
a web of collusion and cooperation
information is under-
between IBM executives and the Nazi
scored by the IBM
regime, with lessons Black believes can
response, a denial of
help with the fight against terrorism.
Sam Roberts: "There
any
knowledge of the
"It's very painful for me to think
was no question that
times involved.
about what I've uncovered," says
the
Rosenbergs felt
"We've observed that
Black, the son of survivors and author
they
were victims of
IBM was virtually the
of - The Transfer Agreement: The
anti-Semitism."
n-it
first to conduct global-
Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the
ized commerce with
SAM ROBERTS
Third Reich and Jewish Palestine.
killers, and I think that
"IBM supplied the automation
we
have not properly
Try our
required to help identify Jews, and IBM
"I didn't realize that it was going to
approached
the involvement of big
technology was customized to accelerate
come out at a time when the nation
business in the global terrorism net-
the extermination of Jews. We know
would be buffeted by blind loyalty, hys-
work," Black says.
that many Jews would have died with
teria and feeling vulnerable to an
"Global terrorism will only be root-
or without technology, but the unan-
enemy attack as we did 50 years ago for
ed out as we rooted out the Nazis —
swerable question [involves] the numer-
the very first time after the Russians
village by village and door to door.
ical
impact
of
the
automation."
tested their first atomic bomb."
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One of the fronts is the economic war-
To suggest the effects of the IBM card
Expires 11/30/01
The new twist to Roberts' book is a
fare front, and that means that big
punching system, a precursor to the
series of interviews with David
business must look today at what IBM
computer, and IBM business practices,
24-hour notice please
Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother,
did in the 1930s and 1940s."
on specialty items
Black points out that in France, where
who was brought into the spying spiral
(s(,ine excepti(ins)
— Suzanne Chessler by his brother-in-law and later commit-
the technology was not used, 24 percent
of French Jewry was murdered. In
ted perjury to save his wife at the expense
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Holland, where there was a willing
Edwin Black speaks 2 p.m. Sunday,
of sendina his sister to be executed.
bureaucracy and a deeply entrenched
11, at the Jewish Community
b
Greenglass
had delivered informa-
DETROIT
Classifieds automated infrastructure, 73 percent of Nov.
Center in Oak Park and 6•30 p.m. the
tion about the atomic bomb to the
the Jews were exterminated.
same day at the West Bloomfield JCC.
Russians and provided the Soviets with

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