book reviews after the release of IBM And The Holocaust. But the truth is before the world and a significant gap in scholastic understanding of the efficiency and automation backing Hitler's solutions to the "Jewish Problem" has seen light. Lawsuits against IBM to get it to open its closely guarded Nazi-era documents are intensifying and there is also a general consensus that a case for reparations for historical crimes against humanity be pursued against IBM.

This book is not for the faint-hearted or for those who are Pollyannaish about corporate ethics. It will make the readers exclaim in disbelief, clench in anger, frown in disgust and marvel in contempt that the company which boasts of finding "solutions for every problem" once offered "solutions" of a horrendous nature, all the while posing as a dependable friend of the American administration and a crusader for peace.

What is the essential lesson of IBM And the Holocaust for humankind? "Unless we understand how the Nazis acquired the names," writes Black, "more lists will be compiled against more people" (p 16). Like Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost (recounting Belgian genocide in the Congo), Edwin Black's book is both a vista to a nauseating past and a profound eye-opener for the future inhabitants of the planet that inculcating zero tolerance for genocide is simply not enough. What is also needed is zero tolerance for the technology of genocide.