Something I Did Not Know About Henry Ford

Last Night I watched a small portion of The Jewish Americans on PBS and learned something about Henry Ford that I did not know. I remember the program mentioning that Ford was an anti-semite and was mentioned by name in Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

I do not seem to be able to find transcripts of The Jewish Americans using Google, so I offer you this from 3QuarksDaily:

Yet Ford, genius or no, was a disreputable character. He was a vicious anti-Semite. He personally published a newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, whose attacks on Jews were circulated worldwide, particularly in prewar Germany, according to Robert Lacey in Ford: The Men and the Machine (Ballantine Books, 1986). He reprinted millions of copies of the fraudulent Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a pamphlet apparently authored by the Tsar’s secret police that claimed to reveal a secret Jewish conspiracy to destroy Christianity and take over the world. Textual analysis of Mein Kampf suggests that Hitler may have used Ford’s anti-Semitic articles in its drafting. Ford’s bid for national power via a presidential run foundered, as his incapacity in public speaking eventually did him in.

You can read more about this at Wikipedia, if you wish.