Hitler's Willing Executives.(Reinhold Billstein)(Nicholas Levis)(Review) (book review)

Nation, The, May, 2001 by Friedman, John

IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. By Edwin Black. Crown. 519 pp. $27.50.

WORKING FOR THE ENEMY: Ford, General Motors, and Forced Labor in Germany During the Second World War. By Reinhold Billstein, Karola Fings, Anita Kugler and Nicholas Levis. Edited by Nicholas Levis. Berghahn. 310 pp. $39.95.

"Business complications do strange things to our patriotism and to our ethics," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in 1945. It has taken half a century, but historians are responding to her indirect appeal to confront US corporations that supported Nazi Germany.

In the past decade, particularly in Germany, a number of historians such as Ulrich Herbert and Karl Heinz Roth have turned away...

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