Dr. Edwin Black

New York Times Reporter and Bestselling Author visits Rosenblatt High School 

On Monday, February 06, 2017, Rosenblatt High School students had the opportunity to hear a lecture from Dr. Edwin Black.  Dr. Black is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling international investigative reporter, with more than a million books in print.  His work focuses on human rights, genocide and hate, corporate criminality and corruption, governmental misconduct, academic fraud, philanthropic abuse, oil addiction, alternative energy and historical investigation.

  

His lecture focused on IBM and the Holocaust, weaving a stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II.  As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.  His lecture took the students through IBM’s carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries -- all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction.




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Rabbi Baruch Plotkin, MJEd. 

Rabbi in Residence, Donna Klein Jewish Academy