92. ICC Meeting transcripts, American Section Meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1937, p. 501, American Chamber of Commerce, Hagley ACCT1960 Box 8.
93. ICC Meeting transcripts, American Section Meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1937, p. 505, American Chamber of Commerce, Hagley ACCT1960 Box 8.
94. ICC Meeting transcripts, American Section Meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1937, p. 505, American Chamber of Commerce, Hagley ACCT1960 Box 8.
95. ICC Meeting transcripts, American Section Meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1937, p. 500, American Chamber of Commerce, Hagley ACCT1960 Box 8.
96. “Watson for Freer Trade,” NYT, April 25, 1937.
97. “Watson Defends 6-Figure Income,” NYT, April 8, 1936; Watson, Jr., and Petre, p. 55; Belden and Belden, pp. 192, 195; William Rodgers, Think: A Biography of the Watsons and IBM (New York: Stein and Day, 1969), p. 121.
98. Draft Letter, Thomas J. Watson to Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, circa November 1937, IBM Files.
99. “Report to the Associates of the Dehomag Company,” October 6, 1936, pp. 4-5, 9, IBM Files.
100. “Report to the Associates of the Dehomag Company,” October 6, 1936, pp. 4-5, 9, IBM Files; Letter, J.E. Holt to J.G. Johnston, June 2, 1938, NA RG60.
101. “Thomas J. Watson Is Decorated by Hitler for Work in Bettering Economic Relations,” NYT, July 2, 1937.
102. Letter, Thomas J. Watson to Cordell Hull, February 12, 1937, NA RG59 600.00171/369; Louis P. Lochner, ed. and transl., The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943 (New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1948); also see “Salute for Hitler at Trade Congress,” NYT, June 29, 1937; “Hitler Meets International Chamber Delegates,” NYT, July 13, 1937.
103. Press Release, ICC, October 22, 1937, NA RG59; Letter, Decker to Taylor, May 26, 1939, Department of Justice, War Division, Economic Warfare Section, NA RG60; see Letter, Chevalerie to J.T. Wilson, August 4, 1939, Department of Justice, War Division, Economic Warfare Section, NA RG60.
104. Telegram, White House to Thomas J. Watson, June 27, 1937, NA RG59.
105. Internationale Wirtschaft 7/8 (July-August 1937): 6; Volkischer Beobachter, June 28, 1937.
106. “Salute for Hitler at Trade Congress,” NYT, June 29, 1937.
107. “Salute for Hitler at Trade Congress,” NYT, June 29, 1937.
108. “Salute for Hitler at Trade Congress,” NYT, June 29, 1937.
109. “Germans Plead for Colonies at World C. of C.,” New York Herald Tribune, June 29, 1937.
110. “Salute for Hitler at Trade Congress,” NYT, June 29, 1937.
111. “Germans Plead For Colonies at World C. of C.,” New York Herald Tribune, June 29, 1937; “Salute for Hitler at Trade Congress,” NYT, June 29, 1937.
112. “Salute for Hitler at Trade Congress,” NYT, June 29, 1937.
113. Internationale Wirtschaft 7/8 (July-August 1937): 6-8.
114. The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943, pp. 20-21; Belden and Belden, p. 196.
115. The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943, pp. 20-21.
116. “Thomas J. Watson Is Decorated by Hitler for Work in Bettering Economic Relations,” NYT, July 2, 1937; “Watson Sends Hitler Notes of Gratitude,” NYT, July 6, 1937; see also Watson, Jr., and Petre, p. 55; Internationale Wirtschaft 7/8 (July-August 1937): 7.
117. Rodgers, p. 114.
VI: WAR CARDS
1. “Watson Sends Hitler Notes of Gratitude,” NYT, July 6, 1937.
2. Letter, Ilse Meyer to Thomas J. Watson, July 4, 1938, IBM Files.
3. “Reich Orders Jews to Hold No Meetings,” NYT, April 14, 1937; “Jewish Cafes Closed in Reich,” NYT, August 27, 1937; “Ghetto Zones for Jews Decreed in Berlin Parks,” NYT, August 18, 1937; “Special Seats for Jews,” NYT, September 16, 1937; “Germans to Raze Synagogue,” NYT, September 28, 1938; “Munich’s Main Synagogue Being Wrecked by Nazis,” NYT, June 13, 1938.
4. “Jewish Clothiers Gain,” NYT, October 9, 1937; “Warns Jews Owning Boarding Houses,” NYT, September 2, 1938; “Jews to Lose Permits,” NYT, September 21, 1938; “‘Business Ghetto’ Is Berlin’s Aim,” NYT, June 27, 1938; “Anti-Jewish Drive Covers All Reich; Arrests Mounting,” NYT, June 19, 1938; “Anti-Jewish Raids Continue in Berlin,” NYT, June 18, 1938.
5. James Connally, History of Computing in Europe (IBM World Trade Corporation, circa 1967), p. E-12.
6. Gotz Aly and Karl Heinz Roth, Die restlose Erfassung: Volkszahlen, Identifizieren, Aussondern im Nationalsozialismus (Berlin: Rotbuch Verlag, 1984), p. 25.
7. Connally, p. E-12; Memorandum, J.G. Johnston to J.E. Holt, March 25, 1938, Department of Justice, War Division, Economic Warfare Section, NA RG60; Letter, J.E. Holt to J.G. Johnston, June 2, 1938, Department of Justice, War Division, Economic Warfare Section, NA RG60.
8. Volkischer Beobachter, Ausg. Koln, 30 (December 1937) cited in Aly and Roth, p. 24.
9. ZSTAP/M, Rep.77, Title 343, Volume 1, No.107 cited in Aly and Roth, p. 76.
10. “Austria Absorbed in German Reich: The Austrian Situation,” “Vienna Jews Beaten; Stores Plundered,” “Nazi Purge in Linz Now in Full Swing,” NYT, March 14, 1938; “Austrian Shake-Up Is Pressed by Nazis,” “Schuschnigg Under Arrest,” “Hitler Enters a Cheering Vienna,” NYT, March 15, 1938; “Jews Humiliated by Vienna Crowds,” NYT, March 16, 1938; “Jews Scrub Streets in Vienna Inner City,” NYT, March 24, 1938.
11. “Vienna Nazis Widen Drive on Jews; Every Family Reported Suffering,” NYT, June 20, 1938.
12. “Vienna Prisoners Sent to Camp or to Hard Labor on Projects,” NYT, June 3, 1938; “Arrests Continue,” NYT, June 9, 1938; “Non-Jews Hard Hit by Drive in Berlin,” NYT, June 23, 1938.
13. “Austrian Province Ousts 3,000 Jews,” NYT, April 24, 1938.
14. “Employer in Vienna Dismisses 30,000 Jews,” NYT, July 1, 1938.
15. “Freud Leaves Vienna for London Refuge, Declaring He Plans to Come Here Later,” NYT, June 5, 1938.
16. “Jews Scrub Streets in Vienna Inner City,” NYT, March 24, 1938, “New Suicide Wave Breaks Out in Vienna,” NYT, May 7, 1938; “Wave of Suicides Renewed in Vienna,” NYT, June 28, 1938.
17. “Hitler Enters a Cheering Vienna,” NYT, March 15, 1938.
18. Connally, pp. E-9, E-10, E-12,19, 24; “German Nazis Point for Austrian Jews,” NYT, March 13, 1938; Handwritten Notes, circa 1945, IBM Files; see H.B. Fellinger, Enclosure 6, July 19, 1945, p. 15, IBM Files.
19. Jochen von Lang, ed., Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police, transl. Ralph Manheim (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1983), pp. 46-47.
20. von Lang, pp. 46-47.