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I'm familiar with that book - it's a very slanted view of the facts.

IBM had about as much to do with the Holocaust is did Prescott Bush. A lot is made of his connection, too... until you look further and discover that he held one share of a company that invested in a company that had invested in a German company.

For the record, I'm Jewish, as far as I know, the entire European branch of my family was exterminated by the Nazis, I used to work for IBM... and I examined these claims very closely before I did so. In my experience, IBM is the most upstanding and principled company I've ever been involved with. IBM US basically lost all control of their German subsidiary, and their only goal was for the US to win the war, and them to regain their subsidiary and substantial amount of equipment. Believe me, IBM had nothing to gain by helping the Nazis... and if they had done so, the US Gov would have come down VERY hard on them. IBM attorneys are notoriously risk-averse, and their opinions on legal risk issues carry a LOT of weight in terms of the IBM foodchain.