audiobook Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust by Edwin Black in History

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Detailed; Depressing; Illuminating; and PersuasiveBy Eric H. Roth"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.18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. With a Little Help From My FriendsBy Elliot MalachThat'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!2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Compelling and revealing in its detailBy Elise MarcheffThis book tells the story of what I never knew about the rise of the Nazis to power; the back story of American corporate involvement with the regime from the start. The narrative is detailed and absorbing and drew me in to learn more about the role of some our best known and largest corporations in supporting and doing business with the regime and ultimately how this support helped further the Nazi military and eugenics agenda. Well documented research fleshed out the detail and the human story behind the historical narrative.