Read more The English Bookstore is edited by Gabi Bauer . Canadian Professor Robert Gellately describes in his careful study of the mechanisms of National Socialism how Hitler found support within the German population and how this backing also developed with the help of the press and various influences. With the help of an array of primary documents he also gives an overview on the terror of the regime's official and unofficial helpers. That's the question raised by Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust . The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith punch card machine which was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data and indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort.
Neighbors tells their story.
This is a shocking, brutal story that has never before been told. It is the most important study of Polish-Jewish relations to be published in decades and should become a classic of Holocaust literature. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. A vivid account of a 19th-century maritime disaster that engaged the popular imagination of the time with its horrors of castaways and cannibalism. Yet the sinking was only the beginning of a fantastic voyage, narrated with brilliance and informed speculation.