Henry Ford publishes the last issue of his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent.
Ford used the paper as a platform for his
anti-Semitic views. Ford was “an unapologetic bigot”, hating labor unions,
immigrants and everything Jewish, blaming Jewish bankers with everything that
was wrong with the world, and convinced that the Jewish population would take
over the world by way of commerce and exchange. He believed wars were started
by Jews just so they could profit from them.
In 1927 a Jewish lawyer sued him for defamation. Ford faked an auto accident to
avoid testifying and ended up settling out of court. He issued an insincere
apology: “--"to
my great regret," he wrote, "I have learned that Jews...resent this
publication as promoting anti-Semitism.”
Many of its articles and essays were collected and published in a book
called "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem." It was
a bestseller in Nazi Germany and remains in print today. In January 1937, a Ford statement to the Detroit Jewish Chronicle
disavowed "any connection whatsoever with the publication in Germany of a
book known as theInternational Jew."
Hitler even quoted the Dearborn
Independent in Mein Kampf and Henry Ford was the only American that
Hitler specifically named.
On Ford’s 75th birthday, the German
Consul gave Ford the award of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest
medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner.
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