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Interestingly enough Ford apologized later on about his publications and statements about Jews.

I hadn't read anything about that, but I'm not doubting you. Can you point to something to that effect? I'd love to read it.

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Read the Publisher's Weekly description here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1891620525/103-1060893-7807851?v=glance

Also from Wikipedia:

"He later retracted the International Jew and the Protocols. On January 7, 1942, Henry Ford wrote a public letter to the ADL denouncing hatred against the Jews and expressing his hope that anti-Jewish hatred would cease for all time."

Ford's anti-Jewish campaign was less the result of real deep-seated anti-semitism and more Midwestern ignorance and being easily swayed by others with agendas. And he didn't think he was anti-semitic in his activities. He thought more that he was just exposing a conspiracy that happened to be run by Jews. He said something to the effect of "I'm just trying to take a stick to them and make them listen to the words of their great teachers." He couldn't understand why his friend and neighbor, the chief rabbi of Detroit, gave back the Model T Ford had given him.

I don't know about an apology, but when he began to see how it was hurting business, public relations, and was faced with a libel trial over some of his statements, he just dropped the whole thing. He'd been embarassed in court before, when he'd sued the Chicago Tribune for libel and his general ignorance about the world was exposed on the stand. That's where the famous/infamous "History is bunk" quote comes from. He did NOT want to be on a witness stand again.

There's one more story, from one source, that at the end of WW2, when the footage of the death camps reached America, Ford was shown some of them at the private screening room at the Rouge. He stumbled out of there wide-eyed and terrified. Was it guilt? Was it fear he'd be blamed? Did it even happen? Who knows, but it's an apt coda to the story.