Historical Truth

Martin Gilbert

Author, A History of the Twentieth Century

In Nazi Nexus, once more Edwin Black leaves all those interested in historical truth very much in his debt.
 

Ties them together … frighteningly

Richard Pachter

Pop Matters

Author Edwin Black is a child of Holocaust survivors. When he first saw an IBM card-sorting machine as part of an exhibit at the United States Holocaust Museum, he vowed to learn more about this machine and the role of its manufacturer. The result was 2001’s IBM and the Holocaust … followed by War Against the Weak, which studied the role of the fake science of eugenics and its rise in the United States in the early twentieth century … [and] provided the rationale for Hitler’s racial policies … fueled by xenophobia and ignorance and supported — astonishingly — by corporate names like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and others … More than just a “greatest hits” offering, Nazi Nexus brings several seemingly disparate threads together to create a fuller portrait of this dreadful chapter of our history. Though one may wish to see more details of other notorious American Nazi enablers (Google “Bush” and “Nazi” to read news reports of the former president’s grandfather’s collaboration, for example), Edwin Black has done more than his share. If you missed his earlier books, this is a great place to begin, and if you read one or two but not the rest, Nazi Nexus ties them all together — succinctly and frighteningly. [Full review]

Edwin Black does it again

Samuel Edelman

Holocaust Historian

Nazi Nexus outlines the horrible interface of American business, technology, and science, as well as academic research in the quest of Hitler’s genocide. This book is a must read book for anyone interested in the ethics of business and research, as well as the Holocaust.

Chilling. Connects the dots

Max Wallace

Author, The American Axis

Edwin Black connects the dots masterfully in Nazi Nexus to remind us that Hitler’s horrors were as deeply rooted in American board rooms as they were in German war rooms. It’s impossible to observe current world events without seeing Nazi Nexus as a chilling cautionary tale.

A Breakthrough

Joseph Grieboski

Institute for Religion and Public Policy

Edwin Black in Nazi Nexus breaks through a terrible chapter in human history to expose the sad complicity of American corporations in the Holocaust. Black’s research, investigation, and reporting guarantee we can learn from the sad mistakes that allowed such atrocities to occur.

A startling read

Neal Rauhauser

Daily Kos

US corporate involvement in the horrors of Nazi Germany is a story untold far too long. Black's detailed research into the U.S. companies who contributed materially and philosophically to the rise of Nazi Germany makes Nazi Nexus a startling read, even for those who thought themselves familiar with the history of the era.

Powerful, astounding

Richard Pachter

Miami Herald

Offers a compact and highly concentrated dose of history that powerfully demonstrates the deleterious effects of the convergence of avarice and ideology, American-style. The ties between Germans and Americans… are astounding.

Explosive, eye-opening

Max Wallace

Author of American Axis

Edwin Black has produced an explosive, eye-opening exposé of the corporate forces that have for more than a century sabotaged the creation of alternative energies and vehicles in order to keep us dependent on oil. There is enough truth in this book to revolutionize our way of life. (Internal Combustion)

Prodigious research, ugly truth

David Farber

Author of Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors

Conventional wisdom says that Americans addicted themselves to oil and that the free market gives people the energy sources and technologies they most desire. Edwin Black proves that the truth is uglier. Based on prodigious research deep into the historical record, Black demonstrates that power-hungry despots, avaricious monopolists, and bottom-line obsessed corporate oligarchs have long done their best to control where we get our energy and how we use it. To better understand how we got where we are today and how we can make better energy choices in the future, read this page-turner. (Internal Combusion)

About these reviews

Editors

Dialog Press

Most of the reviews displayed here are for the individual works — The Transfer Agreement, War Against the Weak, Internal Combustion plus “Hitler’s Carmaker,” and IBM and the Holocaust — on which Nazi Nexus is based.

Five explosive reveals of corporate complicity

Robert Wolfe

Chief of Nazi records, National Archives

Somehow, master investigative historian Edwin Black has woven together five explosive reveals of Nazi complicity in one important volume that will be a starting point for understanding the horrible history of American corporate partnership with Hitler’s Holocaust.