Here is a review about a book by Max Wallace on Henry Ford and Lucky Lindy, and their anti-Semitism and strong attraction to Hitler. The name of the book is:
The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich:
Sunday, November 23
Review: How Ford, Lindbergh sided with the Fuhrer
By Tom Blackburn, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 16, 2003
The specifications against Ford start with his notorious anti-Semitism. His nasty, ghost-written The International Jew was one of Hitler's favorite books. Hitler displayed a photo of Ford in his office.
There's more. Wallace weighs the evidence that Ford contributed money to the young Nazi Party, although he doesn't prove the charge. Breaking new ground, he found a War Department document in the national archives citing Ford's longtime personal secretary as a German spy in 1918. The government seems to have lost interest, so Wallace can't say if the aide worked for Germany after the Kaiser abdicated, but his sympathies were clear.
The case against Lindbergh is well known. He swallowed inflated claims about Nazi air power, and concluded two things: 1) England and France couldn't beat Germany, so he favored appeasing Hitler, and 2) Germany represented the last, best hope for the white race against the world, so he tried to keep the United States out of the war. He became the voice of the America First movement, which eventually convinced itself so strongly of President Roosevelt's bad intentions it flirted with German agents who were eager to keep the U.S. out.
Lindbergh and Ford were consumed by racialist theory that was conventional wisdom early in the last century. It echoes through the prose of Winston Churchill, to name a non-perfidious believer. After Hitler, sensible people don't talk like that, but Ford and Lindbergh were depressingly part of their generation in putting stock in claptrap.
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