Posted on 02/06/2019 12:54:37 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Henry Ford was peaking as a global celebrity at the conclusion of World War I, having introduced the $5 workday, assembly line and Model T -- revolutionary changes that transformed the way people lived. Reporters staked out the gates of his Fair Lane mansion. Ford loved the limelight and he constantly made news, even running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan as a Democrat in 1918. He narrowly lost.
In the midst of his fame, Ford became a media mogul of sorts, forming the Dearborn Publishing Company and purchasing the sleepy Dearborn Independent weekly newspaper, which was dying of red ink. He published the paper under his name for the first time 100 years ago, in January 1919. Under Ford, the Independent became notorious for its unprecedented attacks on Jews. But Ford’s anti-Semitism traveled far beyond the Dearborn borders. Showing the marketing expertise that had catapulted Ford Motor into one of the world's most famous brands, Henry Ford's lieutenants vastly widened the reach of his attacks by packaging the paper’s anti-Semitic content into four books. Experts say "The International Jew," distributed across Europe and North America during the rise of fascism in the 1920s and 30s, influenced some of the future rulers of Nazi Germany.
In 1931, two years before he became the German chancellor, Adolf Hitler gave an interview to a Detroit News reporter in his Munich office, which featured a large portrait of Ford over the desk of the future führer. The reporter asked about the photo.
"I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration,” Hitler told the News.
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Henry Ford was a classic progressive and loved micromanaging the lives of his employees. Hated Jews, admired Hitler. Built a Ford Plant in the USSR 4 years BEFORE we recognized the Soviet government. Happily dealt with nazi Germany right up until war was declared.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise”.
Concerning whether the Jews are still God’s chosen people, the math is simple:
The Middle East consists of 22 Arab Muslim states and the state of Israel. Most Arab states & peoples are fanatically anti-Jewish, for their Koran repeatedly tells them so.
350,000,000 Arab Muslims hate the 7,000,000 Jews of Israel and want them dead. Yet the state of Israel has survived and prospered for seventy years through five wars intended to destroy Israel and massacre the Jews.
Is Israel’s survival due to Jewish cleverness and Arab incompetence, or to the power of God?
I hold that it is the latter.
It was -way- beyond Hitler admiring the assembly line and organizational skills. It was mostly Ford’s psycho book series “The International Jew”, and Ford’s “progressive” mentality.
He was good at some things, but he had zero respect for the the individual. He was a typical “daddy knows best” progressive.
Like mass immigration.
Why beat up icons
cheap virtue signaling
its like crack to folks today
As China did to Tibet, as the islamics did to Serbia, as isis does to every country they inhabit.
There are two excellent books on Ford and Ford Motor Company,
“Ford ,the Men and the Machine” by Robert Lacey, and “The Reckoning” by David Halberstam.
He outright helped the Germans during WWII.
Yep, sorry. You caught me trying to be pc.
Not to be disrespectful, but this quote is from a neo-NAZI, not Voltaire. Unless you are a neo-NAZI
Not sure concealing the truth helps our cause. Leftists throw mud regardless. Truth, like Democrat party racism, is the cure
Yes. I lived in Dearborn for a few months in ‘73. It was a nice middle class neighborhood back then. I went to funeral in ‘94 and was surprised to find most of the houses on the street I lived on were boarded up. Only people I saw the street were women wearing hajids.
No disrespect taken.
Ad hominem does not render a statement false.
No disrespect meant.
Our government gave amnesty and a new home/job to thousands of Nazis in fact, like Arthur Rudolph and other scientists who had been war criminals.
As a Michigander I want all who loved the nazis here during that time to be listed in public.
“I’ve been led to believe that Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism was just a byproduct of the times he lived in.”
Yep, that is what history tells us. But it won’t stop multitudes from posting on this site, condemning anti-semitism.
Anti-semitism is just one form of many, and sometimes murderous, hatreds.
About twenty Christians were slaughtered last year in Texas as they worshiped, but that means nothing when someone can cover themselves in righteousness at the opportunity to condemn anti-semitism.
For all his faults, and we all have faults, no one in American history has bettered the life of the entire nation as did Ford.
I remember reading a blurb Napoleon Hill wrote about Ford. He said that Ford was the only person in the United States who could pick up a phone and defeat the moneyed interest on Wall Street. He did not really develop that thought any further.
Good points! Few of us are for iconoclasm. I also am not for revisionist history or hagiographies.
That’s a fact.
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