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Charles Lindbergh, Alexis Carrel, Henry Ford:
Mass Murderers of the 'Unfit'
Each of these men -- Lindbergh, Carrel, Ford, --- were 'heroes' in their way
They were also sociopaths whom hated their fellow man (at least they hated the non-'Nordic" race fellows). They were full partners and partisans in the holocaust. Extensive documentation exists showing these three were common collaborators with each other, and with the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler.
Hitler struggled to write Mein Kampf, but his struggle was made less by the generous body of anti-Jewish literature that Henry Ford had created. Hitler quoted Ford's The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem extensively in Mein Kampf, thereby suffering less struggle to fill blank pages with writing. For most of his life Hitler had a life-size portrait of Ford in his office.
Alexis Carrel was an early eugenist of the worst sort. He believed in elimination of the inferior races through forced sterilization, through forcible imprisonment ("confinement" = prison = camps or reservations), and through euthanasia.
Carrel published a book in 1935 suggesting publicly the use of lethal gas to exterminate the unworthy. Carrel owned an otherwise uninhabited island, and sold a piece for the Lindberghs to build a house. In Anne Lindbergh's diaries she discloses the racial purification philosophy of Carrel and her husband, the many conversations on the subject.
Charles Lindbergh chose to defuse public opposition the rise of the Third Reich through conspicuous trading on his fame. He was the most public of this trio, scaring Britain and the US into appeasement of Hitler by falsely claiming the Luftwaffe was more powerful than it actually was at the time. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Lindbergh resigned his commission as a colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps on September 14, 1939 to campaign as a private citizen for the antiwar America First Committee. He served as the public figurehead for mass movements to remain neutral from the war in Europe, giving Hitler time to consolidate his gains.
Beyond these three men were many others: rich, powerful, connected. IBM, ITT, General Motors, Du Pont, International Harvester, Standard Oil -- many more industrialists were enlisted for war profiteering. The "common plan" was racism at home to divert from racism over there: the Ku Klux Klan made a resurgence with terrorism and anti-immigration laws. Jews were denied immigration, and had nowhere to flee the holocaust.
Nazi recruiters worked openly in Ford's Detroit factory right up to the eve of America's entry into the war. Agents of the wealthy, such as John McCloy, Allen and John Foster Dulles, worked to erase evidence before, during and after the war. McCloy was instrumental in keeping allied bombers from disrupting Auschwitz or rail service to it during the war, then afterwards pardoned I.G. Farben executives convicted at Nuremberg. The Dulles brothers set up I.G. Farben partnerships with US bankrollers, concealed treason, erased records, went on to fame and power in the US government.
 Hitler's ghost is present in the assembly lines of America's automotive manufacturers. From 1939 to 1942, Ford Motor Company produced thousands of combat vehicles for the Nazi's at its |
If "ordinary men" could become butchers and mass murderers, why do you believe that the rich and powerful cannot?
Throughout the 1930's, The Ford Motor Company was notorious for its ruthless practices. Ford's chief investigator, Harry Bennett, had emerged as a major influence on company policy. Bennett created a Gestapo-like agency of thugs and spies to crack down on potential threats to Ford, such as union men. "To those who have never lived under a dictatorship," reflected one employee, "it is difficult to convey the sense of fear which is part of the Ford system."
"That Henry Ford, the famous automobile manufacturer gave money to the National Socialists directly or indirectly has never been disputed," said Konrad Heiden, one of the first biographers of Hitler. Novelist Upton Sinclair wrote in The Flivver King, a book about Ford, that the Nazis got forty-thousand dollars from Ford to reprint anti-Jewish pamphlets in German translations, and that an additional $300,00 was later sent to Hitler through a grandson of the ex-Kaiser who acted as an intermediary. The US Ambassador to Germany, William E. Dodd, said in an interview that "certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy." At the time of Dodd's criticisms, the general public was aware that he was speaking of Ford because the press made a direct association between Dodd's statements and other reports of Ford's anti-Semitism.
It is true that the Ford Motor Company was a haven for Nazi sympathizers. Detective Casmir Paler wrote to Professor Nathan Isaacs in 1937 that "Henry Ford and his subordinates Ernest G. Liebold, WJ. Cameron, and others have turned the Ford Motor Company Chemical Department into the headquarters of the Nazis here". Ford tool and die maker; John T. Wiandt, distributed literature of the pro-Nazi National Worker's League to his fellow Ford workers. "I have an audience every lunch hour," he proudly told an interviewer. Signs were left in various employee areas which proclaimed that "Jews are traitors to America and should not be trusted- Buy Gentile," "Jews destroy Christianity," and "Jews Control The Press. The American Nazi Party's first president, Heinz Spanknöbel, had been an employee at the Ford Motor Company. Fritz Kuhn, leader of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund, worked at Ford off and on from 1928 until 1936. Harry Bennett once confessed to the FBI that Kuhn had been caught during work hours "practicing speeches in a dark room".
To combat growing public criticism, The Ford Company issued a statement in 1937 which declared "that inasmuch as Mr. Ford has always extended to Ford employees the fullest freedom from any coercion with respect to their views on political, religious, or social activities, they cannot be reproved by us for exercising such liberties". Ford's active anti-Semitism had been quite disturbing throughout the 1920's; he paid for copies of the racist hoax Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to be deposited in major U.S. libraries. However, he was equally unsettling in the 1930's due to his passive behavior towards its consequences.
Ford courted further controversy through his business ventures in Germany. In 1938, The German Ford Motor Company opened a plant in Berlin whose "real purpose," according to U.S. Army Intelligence, was producing "troop transport-type" vehicles for the German Army. Ford, however; refused an offer to build aircraft engines in England. According to Harry Bennett, Ford became anti-British after he overheard Winston Churchill ridicule farming. However; he considered the German people to be "clean, thrifty, hard-working, and technologically advanced" and he admired them for that. The German Ford worker's employee publication contained such propaganda as: "At the beginning of this year we vowed to give our best and utmost for final victory, in unshakable faithfulness to our Führer. Today we say with pride that we succeeded".
Hitler had created the award himself as the highest honor a foreigner could receive from the Nazi government. The award consisted of a Maltese cross studded with four eagles and four swastikas, and came with Hitler's personal congratulations.
The presentation was made in Ford's Dearborn office by the German Counsul on Cleveland, Karl Kapp, and Consul Fritz Hailer of Detroit. The decoration was given "in recognition of [Ford's] pioneering in making motor cars available for the masses."
Cover of the Berliner Illustrirerte Zeitung |
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On Hitler's birthday in 1939, the German Ford Company sent him a gift of 50,000 Marks as a token of its loyalty.
Ford is actually the only American that Hitler even mentions in his book Mein Kampf. In his book, Entnazifizierung in Bayern the German author, Niethammer, suggests that the "failure" of the Americans to bomb the Ford car plant outside Cologne, was all a part of a "capitalist plot" of some kind. Many other well-researched authors have since drawn exactly the same conclusion. By 1941, the Ford Werke plant became one of the largest suppliers of military vehicles to the German Army.
In that same year, James Mooney, the General Motors executive in charge of European operations also received the Grand Service Cross of the Golden Eagle award. Coincidentally, his firm had also invested very heavily in Germany. In 1929, General Motors had bought up 80% of the German automobile firm of Opel. The same Golden Eagle award was presented by Herman Göring to the wildly popular (and coincidentally, very wealthy, and highly politically 'connected') American aviation hero, Charles Lingbergh, in October, 1938, during his third visit to Germany.
The Nazis were an Organized Crime ring of thugs, whose worship of the God of Gold is no different from Industrialists. The sociopathic serial murders and mass murders are merely differences of slight degree. It took a Henry Ford to teach Hitler how to put murder on an assembly line basis, and provide him with one third of all the trucks used by the Nazi war machine.
Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defence is set up by all liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued, he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism to America.
Former U.S. ambassador to Germany William Dodd in 1938