Company Response
While not directly contradicting Black's evidence, IBM has questioned Black's research methodology and conclusions. IBM indicates it does not have much information about this period or the operations of Dehomag, as most documents were destroyed or lost during the war. IBM also claimed that a lawsuit, which was dismissed, was filed to coincide with the book launch.
In 2002, IBM disputed Edwin Black's claim that IBM is withholding materials regarding this era in its archives. Nevertheless, IBM subsequently turned over a substantial portion of its corporate records of the period to academic archives in New York and Stuttgart, for review by independent scholars.
Edwin Black in his article published in George Mason University's History News Network openly accused IBM advocates of systematic elimination of references to IBM's role in the Holocaust in the Wikipedia article History of IBM.
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