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'''Edwin Black''' is an award-winning ''New York Times'' bestselling American ] and ] specializing in corporate and historical investigations. He has published 65 editions in 14 languages in 61 countries. He has also written numerous newspaper and magazine articles, published throughout the ], ] and ]. The author has been featured in, and/or has been the subject of, numerous documentaries.
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'''Edwin Black''' (born February 27, 1950) is an American historian and author, as well as a ], investigative ], and weekly talk show host on The Edwin Black Show. He specializes in ], the historical interplay between economics and politics in the ], petroleum policy, academic fraud, corporate criminality and abuse, and the financial underpinnings of ].
==Work==
=== The Transfer Agreement ===
Edwin Black's first non-fiction book was ''The Transfer Agreement'', originally published in 1984 and then subsequently republished in 1999, 2001 and 2002. The book details the 1933 ] between the Nazis and the ] to rescue European Jews and their assets by transferring them to Jewish ]. The Nazis insisted that the transfer was conditioned on the purchase and resale of German goods. The more goods the Zionist sold, the more Jews the ] released. While it allowed about 50,000 German Jews to escape the clutches of the Nazi regime, this program effectively broke the Jewish-led anti-Nazi boycott working to topple the Hitler regime in its first year. Black's book was given the ] Award for the best nonfiction book of the year. Although Black was originally attacked by Jewish communal leaders, he later became a Jewish journalist.{{cn}} The 25th Anniversary edition was released in July 2009 with an afterword by Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the ] and a new introduction by the author.


==Biography==
=== IBM and the Holocaust ===
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===Early years===
Black's second non-fiction book was ''IBM and the Holocaust'' which in February 2001 was published simultaneously in 40 nations in 9 languages and is now sold in 60 nations in 13 languages. In brief, IBM and the Holocaust "tells the story of IBM's conscious involvement-directly and through its subsidiaries-in the Holocaust, as well as its involvement in the Nazi war machine that murdered millions of others throughout Europe". Black's book documents how IBM's ] headquarters and CEO ] acted through its overseas subsidiaries to provide the ] with ] machines that could help the Nazis to track down the European Jewry (especially in newly conquered territory). The book quotes extensively from numerous IBM and government memos and letters that describe how IBM in New York, IBM's Geneva office and Dehomag, its German subsidiary, were intimately involved in supporting Nazi oppression. The book also includes IBM's internal reports that admit that these machines made the Nazis much more efficient in their efforts. Several documentaries, including the 2003 film The Corporation screened, C-SPAN broadcast and ], the ''Village Voice,'' the JTA and numerous other publications published close-ups of several documents demonstrating IBM's involvement in the Holocaust. These included IBM code sheets for concentration camps taken from the files of the National Archives. Black maintains that Prisoner Code 8 was Jew, Code 11 was Gypsy. Camp Code 001 was ], Code 002 was ]. Status Code 5 was executed by order, Code 6 was gas chamber.


Black is the son of Holocaust survivors from Poland. His mother, Ethel "Edjya" Katz, from ], told of narrowly escaping death during the ] by escaping a ] en route to the ] as a 13-year old in August 1943. After escaping, she was shot by militiamen and then rescued by a Polish Jewish fighter whom she later married.<ref name=Kliewer>Betty Kliewer, ''The Cutting Edge News,'' Feb. 15, 2005.</ref> Black's father described escaping death by fleeing to the woods from a long march to an isolated "shooting pit" and subsequently fighting the Nazis as a ] ]. The pair survived ] by hiding in the forests of ] for two years, emerging only after the end of the conflict and emigrating to the United States.<ref name=Kliewer/><ref name="Intro22">Edwin Black, "Introduction to the 1984 Edition," ''The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine.'' Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2009; pg. xxii -xx111.</ref>
=== War Against the Weak ===
Black's third non-fiction book was ''War Against the Weak'', published in 2003, documented the American eugenics program in the first decades of the 20th century. The legislation in 27 states was eventually ] by the U.S. ]. The book also documents the American eugenics movement's direct financial and political sponsorship of Nazi eugenics after the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1933 through the efforts of the ], the ] and the ] railroad fortune. The Carnegie Institution helped create the mathematical formulas defining a half-Jew, quarter-Jew, sixteenth Jew and so forth which became enshrined in the ]. The Rockefeller Foundation, according to the book, financed the program that sent ] to ]. The book won the 2003 International Human Rights Award from the ].


Of his own origins, Black has written: "I was born in ], raised in Jewish neighborhoods, and my parents never tried to speak of their experience again."<ref name="Intro22" /> In his book '']'', Black notes that following in the beliefs of his parents, he was from his earliest days a supporter of the State of ].<ref name="Intro22" /> As a young man he spent time on a ], visited Israel on several other occasions, and gave earnest consideration to permanent residency there.<ref name="Intro22" />
=== Banking on Baghdad ===
Black's fourth nonfiction book was ''Banking on Baghdad'', which traced the history of commerce and conflict in Mesopotamia and Iraq from the onset of recorded history to the Second Gulf War. The book, which accessed numerous public, private and corporate archives, begins with the first commercial trading of the ancient world in the "Cradle of Civilization," including the origin of that term. But the bulk of the research and text centers on the Ottoman Empire, the run-up to WWI and the western imperialism and League of Nations mandate process that created the oil states and modern-day Iraq.


=== Internal Combustion === ===Career===
Black started working as a professional ] while still in high school, later attending university where he further developed the craft. He also was a frequent ] contributor to the four major Chicago newspapers of the day, the ''],'' the ''],'' the ''],'' and ''],'' as well as such weeklies as '']'' and ''].''{{citation needed|reason=this is a cite from Black himself|date=September 2015}} In the late 1970s, he was the editor of ''Chicago Monthly.''
Black's fifth non-fiction book was ''Internal Combustion'', published in 2006, documenting how society never needed to fuel its industrial expansion on oil, and how rulers, governments and corporations have subverted the alternatives. The book accomplishes this by chronicling the history of fuel and transportation from the beginning of recorded times to the modern day. Extensive use is made of archives and obscure research in this highly footnoted work.


One of Black's first forays into investigative journalism began in 1970 with a commission from '']''. He was tasked with finding out about an alleged plot to assassinate ] in Chicago on November 2, 1963. For Black it was a long and difficult assignment that finally resulted in his November 1975 article in ''Chicago Independent'' magazine.<ref name="Chicago_Plot">{{cite news |author=Edwin Black |title=The plot to kill JFK in Chicago Nov. 2, 1963 |url=https://archive.org/details/TheChicagoPlotToKillJfk/mode/2up |newspaper=Chicago Independent |date=November 1975 |access-date=July 24, 2024 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> He noted in the article how he became the subject of government harassment. His apartment was broken into and his files "were obviously and clumsily searched."<ref name="Chicago_Plot"/> He described his many months of scrutinizing documents, following hundreds of leads, and conducting dozens of interviews. But he wrote that his main source of information was a Secret Service agent on duty at the time of the events in Chicago.<ref name="Chicago_Plot"/> Although Black did not name this agent, it is strongly believed to have been Secret Service whistleblower ].<ref>{{cite book |author=James W. Douglass |year=2010 |orig-year=2008 |title=JFK and the Unspeakable |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KS-6XrdalGkC&pg=PA433 |publisher=Touchstone |page=433n131 |isbn=9781439193884 |quote=Crucial to his article was the firsthand information provided at great risk by an unidentified Secret Service agent⁠—Abraham Bolden.}}</ref>
''Internal Combustion'' received four major awards, including outstanding book of the year from the ], the ] for investigative reporting, the ], and the ].


In 1978, Black interviewed the ] lawyer who represented members of the ], which had marched provocatively through the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of ].<ref>Edwin Black, "Introduction to the 1984 Edition," ''The Transfer Agreement,'' pg. xxi.</ref> In preparing himself for that interview, Black's interest was piqued by the hidden history of relations between the government of ] and ] ] during the initial years of the Nazi regime. Five years of research followed, ending in the 1984 publication of his first book, '']''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Book Discussion on ''The Transfer Agreement'' |url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?289751-1/book-discussion-transfer-agreement|publisher=]|access-date=19 April 2015|date=30 October 2009|quote=Edwin Black talked about his book The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (Dialog Press; 25th anniversary ed. August 25, 2009). He pieced together the story of an agreement made between Hitler’s government and a group of Zionist leaders in 1933. The agreement called for the transfer of 55,000 Jews and $100 million to Palestine in exchange for calling off a planned economic boycott of Nazi Germany by Jewish organizations. For his only planned presentation on the release of the 25th anniversary edition of his controversial volume Edwin Black was interviewed by Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt. He also responded to questions from members of the audience and those submitted in advance electronically. Mitchell Bard moderated. This event at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Rockville, Maryland, at 2:30 p.m. Friday, October 30, 2009, was sponsored by the History News Network and cosponsored by Jewish Virtual Library, State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Institute for Religion and Public Policy, Binghamton Social Justice Fund, Spero News, The Auto Channel, Energy Publisher, The Cutting Edge News and Dialog Press}}</ref>
=== The Plan ===
Black's sixth non-fiction book was ''The Plan'' published in 2008, and his second on the topic of energy independence and oil addiction. ''The Plan'' however does not discuss energy independence as much as a fuel crisis looming in the event of a sudden oil interruption. Black states that the U.S. consumes about 20 million barrels of oil per day, some 70 percent imported, and if only 2 million were interrupted for a protracted period of a month or more, the nation would be thrown into economic chaos.


In the early 1990s, Black served as the editor-in-chief for ''] Professional'' magazine and ''OS/2 Week'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insearchofstupidity.com/ch6.htm|title=In Search of Stupidity, Excerpts from Chapter 1|access-date=2014-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127185712/http://www.insearchofstupidity.com/ch6.htm|archive-date=2013-01-27|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-40-corporate-desktop-standard|title=Windows NT 4.0: Corporate Desktop Standard|access-date=2014-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227023518/http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-40-corporate-desktop-standard|archive-date=2014-12-27|url-status=dead}}</ref> and reported on OS/2 users and technology. Black's books have typically made use of networks of volunteer and professional researchers assembled for each project. Three years before completion of his 2001 book, ''],'' Black began to put together what would ultimately become a team of more than 100 researchers, translators, and assistants to work on discovery and analysis of ] documents written in German, French, and Polish. {{Citation needed|reason=Previous cite was self-published by Black|date=September 2015}} In all, more than 20,000 documents from some 50 different libraries, archives, museums, and other collections were assembled and analyzed in the writing of the book.<ref>Black, ''IBM and the Holocaust,'' pg. 13.</ref>
=== Nazi Nexus ===
Black's seventh non-fiction book ''Nazi Nexus'' published in 2009, in which he again returns to exploring Holocaust connections. This time, Black has woven together five major American corporate giants into a web of pivotal corporate complicity in the Holocaust.


In 2006, Black wrote an article on Iran and the Holocaust, claiming that there was an "Iran-Nazi alliance" during World War Two, that Reza Shah was inspired to rename his country from Persia to Iran by Nazi agents, and that "Iran and its leaders were not only aware of the Holocaust, they played both sides" because Jewish refugees passing through Iran had to pay exorbitant fees.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Black |first=Edwin |date=2006-01-08 |title=Denial of Holocaust nothing new in Iran / Ties to Hitler led to plots against British and Jews |url=https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Denial-of-Holocaust-nothing-new-in-Iran-Ties-to-2507165.php |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=SFGATE |language=en}}</ref> The article was critisized by the Iranian historian ], who instead argued that Iran did not charge any money at all, that Nazi agents had no role in Reza Shah's renaming decision, and that there was no Iran-Nazi alliance.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edwin Black lies and distorts Iran's history {{!}} Iranian.com |url=https://iranian.com/main/blog/iran-history-buff/edwin-black-lies-and-distorts-irans-history.html |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=iranian.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=iranian.com: Abbas Milani, Iran, Jews and the Holocaust: An answer to Mr. Black |url=https://www.iranian.com/AbbasMilani/2006/February/Black/index.html |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=www.iranian.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Milani |first=Abbas |date=2006-02-19 |title=Iran, Jews and the Holocaust / The beneficent legacy of Persia remembered |url=https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/iran-jews-and-the-holocaust-the-beneficent-2541076.php |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=SFGATE |language=en}}</ref>
Black concludes that taken together, the five companies created a Nazi Nexus without which the Holocaust would have been a very different tragedy of a very different dimension.


In the fall of 2012, it was reported that Plan B, the production company owned by actor ], had taken an option on a cinematic adaptation of Black's ''IBM and the Holocaust.''<ref name="Pitt"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106111114/http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1992:brad-pitt-to-produce-movie-on-ibm-a-the-holocaust&catid=108:jewcy-news&Itemid=291 |date=2014-01-06 }} ''The Jewish Voice,'' Sept. 19, 2012.</ref> Marcus Hinchey, co-writer of the 2010 film ''],'' was tapped for script-writing responsibilities.<ref name="Pitt" /> Black has written on topics beyond that of 1933–1945 German history, including books on the issue of oil dependence, the history of ], and ]. He is presently a syndicated columnist in publications in the United States, Israel, and elsewhere. Black has also occasionally written on the subject of ], contributing opinion pieces and composer interviews to various print and online publications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.moviemusicuk.us/jerryint.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115035628/http://www.moviemusicuk.us/jerryint.htm|url-status=dead|title=Jerry Goldsmith talks to Edwin Black|archive-date=January 15, 2010}}</ref> An aficionado of ], Black regularly credits specific works which have provided "musical inspiration that propelled the writing" in the introductory notes to each book.<ref>See, for example, Edwin Black, ''Financing the Flames: How Tax-Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terror in Israel.'' Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2013; pg. xxiii, in which he credits specific works by ], ], and ].</ref>
=== The Farhud ===
Author Black details the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust.


In 2010, in his book ''The Farhud'', Black resurrected the "Forgotten Pogrom", the bloody June 1–2, 1941, pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad, known as the ], sometimes called the Iraqi Kristallnacht. In 2015, Black founded the annual commemoration, International Farhud Day, which he proclaimed at the United Nations in a live globally-streamed event. The remembrance has been recognized and observed in many countries and in 2021, it was reported in the media that 10,000 people in numerous countries lit candles. Black has coined or popularized certain words and terms. These include: "petropolitical" in lectures during the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo; "digital ghetto" and/or "algorithm ghetto" in 2001 during lectures on the book IBM and the Holocaust, and again at the 2018 Michigan Holocaust Day Commemoration. Black is also the originator of International Farhud Day, June 1, commemorating the 1941 massacre of Jews in Iraq, which was proclaimed at the United Nations in a live globally-streamed event in 2015. He originated the Yom HaGirush commemoration, November 30, commemorating the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries after the State of Israel was declared its independence, in a broadcast of the Edwin Black Show in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://yomhagirush.com/ |title = Yom HaGirush}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/317811 | title=Yom HaGirush—the inside story | date=29 November 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theedwinblackshow.com/yom-hagirush-850000-jews-expelled-arab-states|title=Yom HaGirush—850,000 Jews Expelled from Arab States &#124; the Edwin Black Show}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/History/Pages/June-1-declared-International-Farhud-Day-Jun-2015.aspx| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160424075606/http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/History/Pages/June-1-declared-International-Farhud-Day-Jun-2015.aspx| archive-date = 2016-04-24| title = June 1 declared International Farhud Day Jun 2015}} </ref>
== Authored books ==
* 1984 -
* 1999 -
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* 2003 - .
* 2004 -
* 2006 -
* 2008 -
* 2009 -
* 2010 -


Black has written an article critical of Misplaced Pages, "Misplaced Pages—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge".<ref name="Black">, by Edwin Black.</ref>
== Contributions to anthologies and other books ==
* 2004 - Contributor, technical translator, ''The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich'' by ], Karl Heinz Roth, Edwin Black, Assenka Oksiloff (Temple University Press)
* 2005 - Chapter Contributor, ''The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World'', edited by John Friedman (Picador Books)
* 2006 - Essay Contributor, ''What Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists'', edited by ] (Wiley Books)
* 2007 - Chapter Contributor, ''Das Helige Nichts'', edited by Johann Wabbel (Patmos Books)


==Newspapers and magazines== ===Selected book tours===
Edwin Black has been the editor of several magazines, and his work has appeared in many leading magazines and newspapers internationally. From 1974 and 1976, Black was the editor of '']'', an enterprise journalism and investigative city magazine, during its three year existence; the magazine won a ] for editorial excellence. From 1992 to 1997, Black was the editor of '']'', an enterprise journalism computer monthly, during its five year existence; the magazine won a ] Award.


In February and March 2014, Black embarked upon a "Parliamentary Tour" in which he appeared at four parliaments in a four-week period, including the ] in London, the ] in Brussels, the ] in Jerusalem, and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the ] in Washington D.C.<ref name=Monreal>Carol Monreal, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109121215/http://www.speroforum.com/a/GNUHMXSGMH20/75448-Bestselling-author-remains-a-road-warrior-for-human-rights#.VKRwhnuoNS1 |date=2015-01-09 }} Spero News, speroforum.com/</ref>
As a journalist and author, Black's writings have appeared in many newspapers and magazines in several countries. In the United States, these include the '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', the '']'', the '']'', '']'', and others. Overseas, these include: '']'' of London, the '']'', the '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', the '']'', '']'' and others.


In November and December 2014, Black went on a 45-event "Human Rights Tour". In North Carolina, Black reportedly appeared nine times in three days speaking out against the persecution of Yazidis, Shia Muslims, and Christians in Iraq, racial injustice in the United States, and its impact on the November elections, as well as environmental injustice arising out of oil addiction, journalistic ethics in covering human rights, bias against Jews in Israel, and a health care crisis in the Middle East.<ref>Monreal, "Best-selling Author Remains a Road Warrior for Human Rights." See also: Mariana Barillas, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907121603/http://www.speroforum.com/a/DDEKHSOZOI36/75390-Noted-author-Edwin-Black-schools-students-on-the-roots-of-racism#.VKRyRnuoNS0 |date=2017-09-07 }} Spero News, December 9, 2014; and David Bloom, Hometown Life.com, December 21, 2014.</ref>
== Notable articles ==
* 2002 -
* 2002 -
* 2002 -
* 2003 -
* 2003 -
* 2004 -
* 2004 -
* 2006 - (article series)
* 2007 - (article series)


From May 31 to June 3, 2016, Black embarked upon a 100-hour, four-city, three-country commemoration book tour to observe International Farhud Day on the 75th anniversary of the Farhud. Black originated International Farhud Day the year before. The tour began on May 31 in the morning in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., then shifted to the Edmond J. Safra Congregation in New York the evening that same day. On June 2, he led the book and commemoration ceremony in London with the Israeli Embassy at the Lauderdale Rd Synagogue. On June 3, he arrived in Israel for a series of Farhud book and commemoration events that ended with a ceremony in the Knesset.
== Major documentary appearances ==
* 2001 - "IBM's Role and the Holocaust" GNN
* 2002 - ''The King of Capitalism'', BBC
* 2002 - ''The Corporation'', theatrical release
* 2007 - ''Saddam and the Third Reich'', History Channel
* 2007 - ''Racism – A History'', BBC
* 2009 - ''War Against the Weak—The Movie'', film festival release


==Selected awards and citations==
==References==

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=== Literary ===
Black's ten works of ] have been translated into an array of non-English languages, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>, WorldCat, Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved May 8, 2010.</ref>

* 2007: Honorable Mention for General Non-Fiction Books from the ASJA for the book ''Internal Combustion.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asja.org/awards/awar2007.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509053811/http://www.asja.org/awards/awar2007.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-05-09 |title=2007 Awards (archived)|publisher= American Society of Journalists and Authors}}</ref>
* 2005: Best World Affairs Book Award from the Great Lakes chapter of the ] for ''Banking on Baghdad.''<ref> Edwin Black.com. Retrieved May 9, 2010.</ref>
* 2003: Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Journalism from the ASJA for the article "Final Solutions: How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland," published in ''The Village Voice.''<ref name=AFJA2003 />
* 2003: Outstanding Book Award: General Nonfiction from the ] (ASJA) for the book ''IBM and the Holocaust.''<ref name=AFJA2003>{{cite web|url=http://www.asja.org/about/for-media/news-release.php?item=nr030509|title=ASJA Presents 2003 Writing Awards|work=American Society of Journalists and Authors|publisher=asja.org|access-date=2015-12-13|archive-date=2013-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907232211/http://www.asja.org/about/for-media/news-release.php?item=nr030509|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1985: ] of the Friends of the ] for best non-fiction book of 1984, for ''The Transfer Agreement.''<ref>Martin Barillas, The Cutting Edge.com, October 12, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2010.</ref>

===Human rights===

* 2016: "Moral Compass Award" from The Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida for lifelong achievement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.holocaustmuseumswfl.org/calendar-item/edwin-black-speaking-series/|title=Edwin Black Speaking Series - Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://naples.floridaweekly.com/news/2016-02-18/Top_News/Holocaust_museum_presents_bestselling_author_Edwin.html|title=Holocaust museum presents best-selling author Edwin Black - February 18, 2016 - Florida Weekly|access-date=February 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306095438/http://naples.floridaweekly.com/news/2016-02-18/Top_News/Holocaust_museum_presents_bestselling_author_Edwin.html|archive-date=March 6, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naplesnews.com/participate/361322901.html|title=Internationally Acclaimed Author Edwin Black to Speak in Collier and Lee Counties February 21-24, 2016|website=www.naplesnews.com}}</ref>
* 2011: "Moral Courage Award" for ''War Against the Weak'', granted by The Initiative for Moral Courage, San Diego State University, and Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, The Center for Ethics in Science and Technology, USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, The Anti-Defamation League, California State University, San Marcos Arts & Lectures, Institute for World Justice, Daniel Pearl Music Days, Harmony for Humanity, Armenian Law Students Association, and Thomas Jefferson School of Law.<ref>Terrence Sterling, ''The Cutting Edge,'' Oct. 30, 2011.</ref>
* 2011: "Drum Major for Justice Award" for ''War Against the Weak'', granted by ].<ref>Mariana Barillas, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907121603/http://www.speroforum.com/a/DDEKHSOZOI36/75390-Noted-author-Edwin-Black-schools-students-on-the-roots-of-racism#.VKRyRnuoNS0 |date=2017-09-07 }} Spero News, Dec. 9, 2014.</ref>
* 2011: "Justice for All Award," for ''War Against the Weak'', granted in a Congressional ceremony by the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mcmorris.house.gov/news-releases/mcmorris-rodgers-receives-justice-for-all-award-from-american-association-of-people-with-disabilities-aapd/ |title=McMorris Rodgers Receives "Justice for All" Award From American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)|access-date=February 16, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216040545/http://mcmorris.house.gov/news-releases/mcmorris-rodgers-receives-justice-for-all-award-from-american-association-of-people-with-disabilities-aapd/ |archive-date=February 16, 2015 }}</ref>

===Governmental===

* 2016: "Special Tribute" from The State of Michigan Legislature, 98th Legislature, for his research and achievement on the topic of Slavery to Freedom, signed and presented by State Representatives Sheldon Neely, Samir Singhm and State Senator Curtis Hertel Jr.
*2007: "Commendation Award," from the State of California, for achievement in alternative energy, signed and presented by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
*2006: "Commendation Award," from the City of Los Angeles, for lifetime achievement in community service, signed and presented by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
*2003: "Edwin Black Day," from the City of Las Vegas, for lifetime achievement in investigative journalism, signed and presented by Mayor Oscar Goodman.

===Organizational===

*2010: "Merit Citation" from Hadassah for ''The Farhud.''
*2007: "Integrity Award" from American Jewish Congress, for lifetime achievement.
*2004: "Dona Gracia Medal" from International Association of Sephardic Progress for ''Banking on Baghdad.''
*1984: "Extraordinary Service" from the Jewish War Veterans for ''The Transfer Agreement.''

===Energy===

*2007: "The Thomas Edison Award" from the American Jewish Congress for ''Internal Combustion.''
*2007: "The Green Globes" from the Harmony Festival, for ''Internal Combustion.''

==Works==

===Books===
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* '']'' New York: Macmillan, 1984.
* ''Format C:'' (novel) Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 1999.
* {{cite book |last1=Black |first1=Edwin |author-mask1=1 |date=2001-02-12 |title=] |language=en-us |edition= First |location=New York |publisher=] |isbn=978-0609607992 |lccn=2001028201 |mr= |oclc=45896166 |ol=OL23245381M |df = dmy-all}}
* '']: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race.'' New York: Basic Books, 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plotz |first=David |title=Supremacist Science |url=https://www.motherjones.com/media/2003/09/supremacist-science/ |access-date=2023-03-02 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=War Against the Weak (Book Review) |url=https://www.cmf.org.uk/resources/publications/content/?context=article&id=1234 |access-date=2023-03-02 |website=Christian Medical Fellowship - cmf.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Review of Edwin Black: War against the weak |url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:71018 |access-date=2023-03-02 |website=espace.library.uq.edu.au}}</ref>
* ''Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict.'' Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
* ''Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives.'' New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006.
* ''The Plan: How to Rescue Society When the Oil Stops&nbsp;— or the Day Before.'' (cover title) Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2008.
* ''Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust.'' Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2009.
* ''The Farhud: The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust.'' Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2010.
* ''British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement.'' Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2011.
* ''Financing the Flames: How Tax-Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terror in Israel.'' Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2013.
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===Anthology contributions===

* ] and Karl Heinz Roth, ''The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich.'' Introduction and translation by Edwin Black. Additional translation by Assenka Oksiloff. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
* John Friedman (ed.), ''The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World.'' New York: Picador Books, 2005. Chapter: ''IBM and the Holocaust.''
* Eric Katz (ed.), ''Death By Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany.'' New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. Chapter: ''IBM and the Holocaust.''
* ] (ed.), ''What Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists.'' Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Chapter: ''Israel and Me.''
* Michael T. Wilson (ed.), ''Democracy: Opposing Viewpoints.'' Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, 2006. Chapter: ''On Democracy''.
* Arthur L. Caplan (Editor), Robert Arp (Editor), ''Contemporary Debates in Bioethics,'' Wiley Blackwell; 2013. Chapter: ''Human Genetic Enhancement—The Slippery Slope to Genocide.''
* Fernando De Maio (Editor), M.D. Raj C. Shah MD (Editor), John Mazzeo (Editor), David A. Ansell MD (Editor), ''Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader Paperback,'' University of Chicago Press; 2019. Chapter: ''Racism in Red Blood Cells.''

===Contributions to video and film documentaries===
* ''IBM's Role and the Holocaust,'' ], 2002.<ref>Paul Shore, Guerrilla News Network, 2002.</ref>
* ''],'' ], 2007.

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American journalist (born 1950) This article is about the American journalist. For the rhetorician, see Edwin Black (rhetorician).
Edwin Black
Edwin Black in March 2014Edwin Black in March 2014
BornChicago, Illinois, United States
OccupationAuthor, journalist, historian, talk show host
GenreNon Fiction
Notable worksInternal Combustion, The Farhud, Nazi Nexus, Banking on Baghdad, British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement, and Financing the Flames.
Notable awardsAmerican Society of Journalists and Authors Best Nonfiction Investigative Book of the year for IBM and the Holocaust, 2003

Edwin Black (born February 27, 1950) is an American historian and author, as well as a syndicated columnist, investigative journalist, and weekly talk show host on The Edwin Black Show. He specializes in human rights, the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East, petroleum policy, academic fraud, corporate criminality and abuse, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany.

Biography

Early years

Black is the son of Holocaust survivors from Poland. His mother, Ethel "Edjya" Katz, from Białystok, told of narrowly escaping death during the Holocaust by escaping a boxcar en route to the Treblinka extermination camp as a 13-year old in August 1943. After escaping, she was shot by militiamen and then rescued by a Polish Jewish fighter whom she later married. Black's father described escaping death by fleeing to the woods from a long march to an isolated "shooting pit" and subsequently fighting the Nazis as a Betar partisan. The pair survived World War II by hiding in the forests of Poland for two years, emerging only after the end of the conflict and emigrating to the United States.

Of his own origins, Black has written: "I was born in Chicago, raised in Jewish neighborhoods, and my parents never tried to speak of their experience again." In his book The Transfer Agreement, Black notes that following in the beliefs of his parents, he was from his earliest days a supporter of the State of Israel. As a young man he spent time on a kibbutz, visited Israel on several other occasions, and gave earnest consideration to permanent residency there.

Career

Black started working as a professional journalist while still in high school, later attending university where he further developed the craft. He also was a frequent freelance contributor to the four major Chicago newspapers of the day, the Tribune, the Daily News, the Sun-Times, and Chicago Today, as well as such weeklies as Chicago Reader and Chicago Magazine. In the late 1970s, he was the editor of Chicago Monthly.

One of Black's first forays into investigative journalism began in 1970 with a commission from Atlantic Monthly. He was tasked with finding out about an alleged plot to assassinate President Kennedy in Chicago on November 2, 1963. For Black it was a long and difficult assignment that finally resulted in his November 1975 article in Chicago Independent magazine. He noted in the article how he became the subject of government harassment. His apartment was broken into and his files "were obviously and clumsily searched." He described his many months of scrutinizing documents, following hundreds of leads, and conducting dozens of interviews. But he wrote that his main source of information was a Secret Service agent on duty at the time of the events in Chicago. Although Black did not name this agent, it is strongly believed to have been Secret Service whistleblower Abraham Bolden.

In 1978, Black interviewed the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who represented members of the American Nazi Party, which had marched provocatively through the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie. In preparing himself for that interview, Black's interest was piqued by the hidden history of relations between the government of Adolf Hitler and German-Jewish Zionists during the initial years of the Nazi regime. Five years of research followed, ending in the 1984 publication of his first book, The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine.

In the early 1990s, Black served as the editor-in-chief for OS/2 Professional magazine and OS/2 Week, and reported on OS/2 users and technology. Black's books have typically made use of networks of volunteer and professional researchers assembled for each project. Three years before completion of his 2001 book, IBM and the Holocaust, Black began to put together what would ultimately become a team of more than 100 researchers, translators, and assistants to work on discovery and analysis of primary source documents written in German, French, and Polish. In all, more than 20,000 documents from some 50 different libraries, archives, museums, and other collections were assembled and analyzed in the writing of the book.

In 2006, Black wrote an article on Iran and the Holocaust, claiming that there was an "Iran-Nazi alliance" during World War Two, that Reza Shah was inspired to rename his country from Persia to Iran by Nazi agents, and that "Iran and its leaders were not only aware of the Holocaust, they played both sides" because Jewish refugees passing through Iran had to pay exorbitant fees. The article was critisized by the Iranian historian Abbas Milani, who instead argued that Iran did not charge any money at all, that Nazi agents had no role in Reza Shah's renaming decision, and that there was no Iran-Nazi alliance.

In the fall of 2012, it was reported that Plan B, the production company owned by actor Brad Pitt, had taken an option on a cinematic adaptation of Black's IBM and the Holocaust. Marcus Hinchey, co-writer of the 2010 film All Good Things, was tapped for script-writing responsibilities. Black has written on topics beyond that of 1933–1945 German history, including books on the issue of oil dependence, the history of Iraq, and alternative energy. He is presently a syndicated columnist in publications in the United States, Israel, and elsewhere. Black has also occasionally written on the subject of film and television music, contributing opinion pieces and composer interviews to various print and online publications. An aficionado of musical soundtracks, Black regularly credits specific works which have provided "musical inspiration that propelled the writing" in the introductory notes to each book.

In 2010, in his book The Farhud, Black resurrected the "Forgotten Pogrom", the bloody June 1–2, 1941, pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad, known as the Farhud, sometimes called the Iraqi Kristallnacht. In 2015, Black founded the annual commemoration, International Farhud Day, which he proclaimed at the United Nations in a live globally-streamed event. The remembrance has been recognized and observed in many countries and in 2021, it was reported in the media that 10,000 people in numerous countries lit candles. Black has coined or popularized certain words and terms. These include: "petropolitical" in lectures during the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo; "digital ghetto" and/or "algorithm ghetto" in 2001 during lectures on the book IBM and the Holocaust, and again at the 2018 Michigan Holocaust Day Commemoration. Black is also the originator of International Farhud Day, June 1, commemorating the 1941 massacre of Jews in Iraq, which was proclaimed at the United Nations in a live globally-streamed event in 2015. He originated the Yom HaGirush commemoration, November 30, commemorating the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries after the State of Israel was declared its independence, in a broadcast of the Edwin Black Show in 2021.

Black has written an article critical of Misplaced Pages, "Misplaced Pages—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge".

Selected book tours

In February and March 2014, Black embarked upon a "Parliamentary Tour" in which he appeared at four parliaments in a four-week period, including the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in London, the European Parliament in Brussels, the Knesset in Jerusalem, and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives in Washington D.C.

In November and December 2014, Black went on a 45-event "Human Rights Tour". In North Carolina, Black reportedly appeared nine times in three days speaking out against the persecution of Yazidis, Shia Muslims, and Christians in Iraq, racial injustice in the United States, and its impact on the November elections, as well as environmental injustice arising out of oil addiction, journalistic ethics in covering human rights, bias against Jews in Israel, and a health care crisis in the Middle East.

From May 31 to June 3, 2016, Black embarked upon a 100-hour, four-city, three-country commemoration book tour to observe International Farhud Day on the 75th anniversary of the Farhud. Black originated International Farhud Day the year before. The tour began on May 31 in the morning in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., then shifted to the Edmond J. Safra Congregation in New York the evening that same day. On June 2, he led the book and commemoration ceremony in London with the Israeli Embassy at the Lauderdale Rd Synagogue. On June 3, he arrived in Israel for a series of Farhud book and commemoration events that ended with a ceremony in the Knesset.

Selected awards and citations

Literary

Black's ten works of non-fiction have been translated into an array of non-English languages, including French, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, and Hebrew.

  • 2007: Honorable Mention for General Non-Fiction Books from the ASJA for the book Internal Combustion.
  • 2005: Best World Affairs Book Award from the Great Lakes chapter of the World Affairs Council for Banking on Baghdad.
  • 2003: Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Journalism from the ASJA for the article "Final Solutions: How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland," published in The Village Voice.
  • 2003: Outstanding Book Award: General Nonfiction from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) for the book IBM and the Holocaust.
  • 1985: Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library for best non-fiction book of 1984, for The Transfer Agreement.

Human rights

  • 2016: "Moral Compass Award" from The Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida for lifelong achievement.
  • 2011: "Moral Courage Award" for War Against the Weak, granted by The Initiative for Moral Courage, San Diego State University, and Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, The Center for Ethics in Science and Technology, USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, The Anti-Defamation League, California State University, San Marcos Arts & Lectures, Institute for World Justice, Daniel Pearl Music Days, Harmony for Humanity, Armenian Law Students Association, and Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
  • 2011: "Drum Major for Justice Award" for War Against the Weak, granted by North Carolina Central University.
  • 2011: "Justice for All Award," for War Against the Weak, granted in a Congressional ceremony by the American Association of People with Disabilities.

Governmental

  • 2016: "Special Tribute" from The State of Michigan Legislature, 98th Legislature, for his research and achievement on the topic of Slavery to Freedom, signed and presented by State Representatives Sheldon Neely, Samir Singhm and State Senator Curtis Hertel Jr.
  • 2007: "Commendation Award," from the State of California, for achievement in alternative energy, signed and presented by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • 2006: "Commendation Award," from the City of Los Angeles, for lifetime achievement in community service, signed and presented by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
  • 2003: "Edwin Black Day," from the City of Las Vegas, for lifetime achievement in investigative journalism, signed and presented by Mayor Oscar Goodman.

Organizational

  • 2010: "Merit Citation" from Hadassah for The Farhud.
  • 2007: "Integrity Award" from American Jewish Congress, for lifetime achievement.
  • 2004: "Dona Gracia Medal" from International Association of Sephardic Progress for Banking on Baghdad.
  • 1984: "Extraordinary Service" from the Jewish War Veterans for The Transfer Agreement.

Energy

  • 2007: "The Thomas Edison Award" from the American Jewish Congress for Internal Combustion.
  • 2007: "The Green Globes" from the Harmony Festival, for Internal Combustion.

Works

Books

Anthology contributions

  • Götz Aly and Karl Heinz Roth, The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich. Introduction and translation by Edwin Black. Additional translation by Assenka Oksiloff. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
  • John Friedman (ed.), The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World. New York: Picador Books, 2005. Chapter: IBM and the Holocaust.
  • Eric Katz (ed.), Death By Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. Chapter: IBM and the Holocaust.
  • Alan Dershowitz (ed.), What Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Chapter: Israel and Me.
  • Michael T. Wilson (ed.), Democracy: Opposing Viewpoints. Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, 2006. Chapter: On Democracy.
  • Arthur L. Caplan (Editor), Robert Arp (Editor), Contemporary Debates in Bioethics, Wiley Blackwell; 2013. Chapter: Human Genetic Enhancement—The Slippery Slope to Genocide.
  • Fernando De Maio (Editor), M.D. Raj C. Shah MD (Editor), John Mazzeo (Editor), David A. Ansell MD (Editor), Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader Paperback, University of Chicago Press; 2019. Chapter: Racism in Red Blood Cells.

Contributions to video and film documentaries

Footnotes

  1. ^ Betty Kliewer, "Ethyl Black Inspired a Generation with Holocaust Survival," The Cutting Edge News, Feb. 15, 2005.
  2. ^ Edwin Black, "Introduction to the 1984 Edition," The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2009; pg. xxii -xx111.
  3. ^ Edwin Black (November 1975). "The plot to kill JFK in Chicago Nov. 2, 1963". Chicago Independent. Retrieved July 24, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  4. James W. Douglass (2010) . JFK and the Unspeakable. Touchstone. p. 433n131. ISBN 9781439193884. Crucial to his article was the firsthand information provided at great risk by an unidentified Secret Service agent⁠—Abraham Bolden.
  5. Edwin Black, "Introduction to the 1984 Edition," The Transfer Agreement, pg. xxi.
  6. "Book Discussion on The Transfer Agreement". C-SPAN. 30 October 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2015. Edwin Black talked about his book The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (Dialog Press; 25th anniversary ed. August 25, 2009). He pieced together the story of an agreement made between Hitler's government and a group of Zionist leaders in 1933. The agreement called for the transfer of 55,000 Jews and $100 million to Palestine in exchange for calling off a planned economic boycott of Nazi Germany by Jewish organizations. For his only planned presentation on the release of the 25th anniversary edition of his controversial volume Edwin Black was interviewed by Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt. He also responded to questions from members of the audience and those submitted in advance electronically. Mitchell Bard moderated. This event at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Rockville, Maryland, at 2:30 p.m. Friday, October 30, 2009, was sponsored by the History News Network and cosponsored by Jewish Virtual Library, State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Institute for Religion and Public Policy, Binghamton Social Justice Fund, Spero News, The Auto Channel, Energy Publisher, The Cutting Edge News and Dialog Press
  7. "In Search of Stupidity, Excerpts from Chapter 1". Archived from the original on 2013-01-27. Retrieved 2014-12-27.
  8. "Windows NT 4.0: Corporate Desktop Standard". Archived from the original on 2014-12-27. Retrieved 2014-12-27.
  9. Black, IBM and the Holocaust, pg. 13.
  10. Black, Edwin (2006-01-08). "Denial of Holocaust nothing new in Iran / Ties to Hitler led to plots against British and Jews". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  11. "Edwin Black lies and distorts Iran's history | Iranian.com". iranian.com. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  12. "iranian.com: Abbas Milani, Iran, Jews and the Holocaust: An answer to Mr. Black". www.iranian.com. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  13. Milani, Abbas (2006-02-19). "Iran, Jews and the Holocaust / The beneficent legacy of Persia remembered". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  14. ^ "Brad Pitt to Produce Movie on IBM & the Holocaust," Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine The Jewish Voice, Sept. 19, 2012.
  15. "Jerry Goldsmith talks to Edwin Black". Archived from the original on January 15, 2010.
  16. See, for example, Edwin Black, Financing the Flames: How Tax-Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terror in Israel. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2013; pg. xxiii, in which he credits specific works by Hans Zimmer, Anthony Gonzalez, and Jerry Goldsmith.
  17. "Yom HaGirush".
  18. "Yom HaGirush—the inside story". 29 November 2021.
  19. "Yom HaGirush—850,000 Jews Expelled from Arab States | the Edwin Black Show".
  20. "June 1 declared International Farhud Day Jun 2015". Archived from the original on 2016-04-24.
  21. Misplaced Pages—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge, by Edwin Black.
  22. Carol Monreal, "Best-selling Author Remains a Road Warrior for Human Rights," Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine Spero News, speroforum.com/
  23. Monreal, "Best-selling Author Remains a Road Warrior for Human Rights." See also: Mariana Barillas, "Noted Author Edwin Black Schools Students on the Roots of Racism," Archived 2017-09-07 at the Wayback Machine Spero News, December 9, 2014; and David Bloom, "Award-winning journalist talks about Ferguson, the Middle East," Hometown Life.com, December 21, 2014.
  24. "Edwin Black" author search, WorldCat, Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  25. "2007 Awards (archived)". American Society of Journalists and Authors. Archived from the original on 2008-05-09.
  26. "Awards," Edwin Black.com. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
  27. ^ "ASJA Presents 2003 Writing Awards". American Society of Journalists and Authors. asja.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-07. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  28. Martin Barillas, "Author Holds Historic Event on The Transfer Agreement," The Cutting Edge.com, October 12, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
  29. "Edwin Black Speaking Series - Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida".
  30. "Holocaust museum presents best-selling author Edwin Black - February 18, 2016 - Florida Weekly". Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  31. "Internationally Acclaimed Author Edwin Black to Speak in Collier and Lee Counties February 21-24, 2016". www.naplesnews.com.
  32. Terrence Sterling, "Investigative Author Edwin Black Headlined Conference, Received First 'Moral Courage' Award," The Cutting Edge, Oct. 30, 2011.
  33. Mariana Barillas, "Noted Author Edwin Black Schools Students on the Roots of Racism," Archived 2017-09-07 at the Wayback Machine Spero News, Dec. 9, 2014.
  34. "McMorris Rodgers Receives "Justice for All" Award From American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)". Archived from the original on February 16, 2015. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
  35. Plotz, David. "Supremacist Science". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
  36. "War Against the Weak (Book Review)". Christian Medical Fellowship - cmf.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
  37. "Review of Edwin Black: War against the weak". espace.library.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
  38. Paul Shore, IBM and the Holocaust, Guerrilla News Network, 2002.

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