Investigative author Edwin Black to speak in Durham NC on Nazi connections to corporate America

Renowned investigative journalist and best-selling author Edwin Black will appear on August 31 at the Charlotte and Dick Levin Jewish Community Center in Durham, North Carolina, as part of his international book and lecture tour. His lecture is entitled  "Nazi Nexus--America's Corporate Complicity in the Holocaust" based on his award-winning bestseller Nazi Nexus--America's Corporate Connections to the Holocaust and the files of Ford, GM, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and IBM. Click here to see the JCC website.    

In Naxi Nexus, and his upcoming lecture, Black recounts how IBM colluded with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi genocide regime to enumerate, identify, and control victims destined for extermination during the Holocaust.  General Motors, through its affiliates, is revealed to have been a sure ally during the build-up of the Nazi war machine, and the Second World War. These and other revelations are among the stark facts that Black brings to bear in his lecture series.  Click here to see a lecture schedule:  http://www.edwinblack.com/index.php?page=10190#norAugust2011

Esquire Magazine has called Edwin Black a “dangerous man” because of his meticulous research and authoritative sources cited in books that have challenged popular conceptions about the Holocaust, petropolitics and foreign affairs, and corporate complicity in warfare and genocide.  Black's many books have included IBM and the Holocaust, The Farhud, The Plan, and War Against the Weak .

The latter of these recounts the growth of the pseudo-science known as eugenics that was funded by corporate America and which sought to eliminate so-called ‘unfit’ people such as African-Americans, Native Americans, and the poor, through sterilization abetted by local and state governments. Black follows the connections between American eugenicists and their funders and supporters, such as Henry Ford and the Carnegie Institution, to Adolf Hitler and the logical terminus of their inhuman philosophy in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Author Black uses exhaustive research and dynamic literary style to bring alive the testimony of the victims of pseudo-science and intolerance in our own country and abroad.

Black’s exhaustive research is coming to the fore in the national political scene where as a scholar-in-residence in North Carolina, he will address members of that state’s legislature as they deliberate over  offering compensation to victims of forced sterilization.

Sponsored by Winston-Salem State University including its School of Health Sciences, School of Business and Economics, School of Education and Human Performance and College of Arts and Sciences North Carolina Holocaust Council, in association with North Carolina Holocaust Council, Jewish Life at Duke University, Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs, North Carolina Central University, Appalachian State University Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, and the Charlotte and Dick Levin Jewish Community Center-Durham, Guilford College and cosponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance, the Binghamton Social Justice Fund, and History Network News, the Institute for Religion and Public Policy, Jewish Virtual Library, The Auto Channel, Speroforum and The Cutting Edge News.