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Friday March 29, 2002

U.S. report

NEW YORK (JTA) -- A Holocaust scholar says new evidence shows IBM had a larger role in the Nazi extermination of Polish Jewry than was previously known.

Nazi documents and testimony from Polish eyewitnesses make clear that IBM's railroad management programs and custom-designed punch cards were provided to the Third Reich by a subsidiary based in Warsaw but controlled from New York, according to new evidence compiled by scholar Edwin Black.

In his book "IBM and the Holocaust," Black already had identified the role of IBM technology in the Nazi killing process and tried to show that IBM's relationship with the Nazis was more than the company has admitted.

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