Originally Posted By: Spazdog
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: Spazdog
No, that's irony.
Ford sent Hitler 50,000 Deutsch Marks every year on Hitler's birthday. That's verifiable.
First I've ever heard of it.....
Do you have any references to it other than this book:
Quote:
Who Financed Hitler; The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power 1919-1933, James Pool and Suzanne Pool,
As it is the only one referenced in both links that were posted.
Also, found this quote from the 2nd link posted:
Quote:
Thomas Edison, the famous electrical inventor, and Henry Ford were friends who saw eye to eye on anti-Semitic issues, and Thomas Edison's widow was an ethusiastic supporter of Frank Buchman's groups. She was often quoted by the Buchmanites as saying, "MRA, like my husband's light, must go to every home in the world."
So I guess we need to hate him now too?
I don't hate him. Just an ironic bit of history. "Here's your birthday check Adolph...oh, and we are turning out one bomber per hour to [mess] your [stuff] up."
Ford was able to ship precision machining equipment from neutral Switzerland through Nazi occupied France to Manchester, England during the war.
They ultimately built more supercharged V12 engines than Rolls Royce as a result.
I suppose it is a bit ironic. However before Hitler's attempt to take over the world and the subsequent global conflict that followed, they shared a common anti-semitic view, which was, as much as we perhaps don't like to admit, fairly popular during that time period with many famous people like, apparently, as noted above in that quote I cited, Thomas Edison for example.
It is, IMHO, however a rather large leap from disliking a specific ethnic group (for whatever reason) and exercising genocide against them. Ultimately this resulted in the Nazi's being viewed differently by people who were perhaps their fans or at least could identify with their cause/views before the war.
Also, if the cheque thing
is true, did it carry on after the Americans were involved in the conflict that would become WWII? I would wager that it didn't. Things changed once the Nazi party started getting extreme and even as loopy and prejudice as Ford was, I don't think he was an advocate of genocide.
I could be wrong of course though.