Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust

"Hitler did it. But Hitler had help. Nazi Nexus chronicles the type of indispensable help Hitler did receive." Historian Edwin Black, bestselling author of IBM and the Holocaust and American son of two Holocaust survivors, provides a detailed, depressing, illuminating, and persuasive argument. The Nazi Nexus names names, gives dates, and provides primary source documents to demonstrate that dangerous ideas and brutal crimes have many roots and tragic consequences.Grounded in both exceptional scholarship and moral outrage, this primer details "the cold-hearted complicity off some of America's most iconic corporate entities" : Ford, General Motors, Rockefeller Foundation, and IBM. The chapter titles announce the often-suppressed history of American fascists: Ford, Jew Hatred, and Political Racism; Carnegie, Eugenics, and the Master Race; Rockefeller, Megele, and Eugencide; GM and the Motorization of the Reich; and IBM Organizes the Holocaust." Every chapter provides stunning details and unpleasant surprises about the men that Nazi Germany showered with their highest prizes for international friends and loyal supporters: Henry Ford, Thomas Watson, and Alfred B. Sloan.This thin volume illuminates the widespread acceptance of eugenics among "the best and the brightest" Americans and Germans between the World Wars, the admiration for Hitler's industrialization and militarization, and the huge profits collected through hidden wartime collaboration with the Nazi enemy. Hard to read and impossible to forget, I strongly recommend Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust.

That's what Adolph was probably singing as he invaded Poland. His friends? Ford, GM, IBM to name a few.The book may be short, but it is long on information on American businesses involved with Hitler's Germany. I was amazed at how U.S. businesses and Foundations actually made the Nazi war machine not only viable, but also more efficient.It is truly pathetic how greed trumps ethics. And what is worse is that these corporations like Ford, G.M. and I.B.M. and their CEOs were already wealthy beyond anything imaginable at that time.One section covers the Nation City Lines conspiracy. It doesn't actually connect to the Nazi nexus, but it just shows how unscrupulous these big U.S. businesses were.I was not expecting the ending, and it totally took me by surprise. Great book!

Have read him before ( IBM and the Holocaust),find him to be fair and believable.This book shows a side of the USA that isn't generally discussed and not much to be proud of.After reading Nazi nexus,I can see why.I had no problem believing the antisemetism of Henry Ford and Tom Watson and their peers and even the willingness of the major American companies including Coca Cola dealing with the Nazis for profit.What suprised me most,was the section on Eugenics.America and some major foundations were at the forefront of mass sterilizations of the mentally ill and poorer segments of society.California lead the pack,but many states were involved. Very scary!! Our foundations were in mutual experiments and financing with the Nazis on this. It was us that inspired Hitler to take eugenics to the next final level!! Incredible,but a needed read.

This is by far the best book on this topic. This book is a summary of Black's 5 other award winning books on this topic. He also shows war war II, or at least the Holocaust, was largely due to the acceptance of academic eugenics. The support of the U.S. policy to Nazi Germany, though, went well beyond our eugenics contributions by academia. Black shows that many American corporations worked closely with the Nazis, both in the war and in supporting the Holocaust in some ways as well. It was not only academia but industry that in some ways cooperated with the Nazi movement which Black details. United States bankers and industry, even the weapons industry, invested heavily in the Nazi’s war machine. The companies included Ford Motor Company, General Motors, the Carnegie Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Standard Oil, Eastman Kodak, and even Coke who invented Fanta to help energize Nazi soldiers. IBM created the program and the hardware that created the system that produced the numbers tattooed on the arms of the inmates. A wartime subsidiary of IBM was even set up in Poland by IBM’s New York headquarter, shortly after Hitler’s 1939 invasion. The purpose was to help Germany automate the crimes committed in Poland. Thanks to Edwin Black this has all been carefully documented in this and his 5 other books.

I could not put this book down. In clear and straightforward language, Mr. Black tells the story of American corporations, such as IBM, Ford Motor Company, General Motors complicity with Nazi Germany. Too many Americans are not aware of IBM's assistance with the "final solution", or General Motors providing trucks and cars to help the Nazi's mobilise for war. I reccommend this book. Thank you Mr. Black for writing this book.

I’ve always wondered how the German people could become so hateful. Seemed unfathomable that a natural movement like this could arise self contained within one society. It wasn’t, it was ignited by our American hero, Henry Ford. No wonder why the Holocaust was not factor in American involvement. Could have happened just as easily in America.

This an incredible book. I have been interested to this war since many years but i never tought that GM and IBM have been involved in that the way they have , trying to fight the wermach and at the same time give them the tool they needed to succeed. It shows how foul these big corporations can be. And worse the claimed losts on their revenues and asked for refund to the US government for the lost of the Opel entreprises that place is fund outside of the normal banking system.IBM is other history probably worst.Thank you.

I bought this book because the more I learn about the world the more I seem to feel that I have to learn. The more I learn the more I find out that the world is nothing like we think it is! I didn't really understand that this book is a compilation of a few other books but as I don't know much about the subject yet, it gave me an overview of what went on during WWII and showed me that I need to read a lot more!After finishing this book I was left with a number of questions and maybe the most important was why all these companies and people weren't tried together with the Nazis. Knowing that the Nazis screamed that they were not alone in their crimes and implicated these companies during the Nuremberg trials made it even more difficult to understand. Why does the world do as if America had nothing to do with all that was going on? Why aren't we taught the whole truth in school? What is the use of learning history if it is a fabricated story? Then we could as well learn about Moby Dick or James Bond? If it is all fiction they tell us about, why not use real fiction? Why do we go to museums if they don't tell the truth? Recently they decided not to include WWII in the European Museum I think in Strasbourg (or is it in Brussels, I don't remember) because the countries in the EU couldn't agree in one version of the facts!This book is very well written and sometimes difficult to read because the facts are told in a very realistic way. The only problem for me is that the author is Jewish and I wonder whether his version of the facts is not somehow clouded by his heritage. I don't have any difficulty believing what he says, that is not the problem, but I would have preferred to read a book by a more independent party (I will look for one!). From what I have found out so far I can't agree with him when he says that Jews don't have anything to do with the state the world is in, for example, and that they don't influence life in America big time (and I seem to descend from a Jewish family myself, so I can talk!). I think that one's heritage shouldn't cloud the facts, although I do understand that sometimes it is difficult to be dispassionate! That was my reason to give this book 4 stars instead of 5! I would also like to read a book by a so-called Holocaust denier to try to understand why they say that it didn't happen or at least not in the scale we are told, but... I have no idea whether those books exist at all as in many countries it is a crime to state such a thing (and that makes me wonder about it even more!).Read about Ford's role in the war and the Holocaust, read about IBM's role, Rockefellers, General Motor's, Mengelen, eugenics and much more! You will have a few sleepless nights but it will be worth it because you will have a better picture of the world we live in!

This book should be a mandatory reading in all high schools.Why is it not already the case?IBM Watson might have answers to every question but not this one.

This is not a perfect book - the author is clearly arguing a point rather than dispassionately analysing it - but it is an absolutely fascinating insight into the relationship between global corporations and the Nazi regime, which has relevance today as we see the same corporations at work in other oppressive regimes.

Both scary and interesting. Well worth the read.