Henry Ford's Disturbing Link to Nazi Germany

Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford. These are not names you usually link together, but they both had a strange mutual understanding and admiration for each other.

It is common knowledge that Ford revolutionized the world of transportation and mass production with his Ford automobile plants that started in the United States and expanded into other parts of the world. What is not as well known is his fervent hatred towards Jewish people (a hatred shared by fellow super-financier J.P. Morgan) and Ford's flagrant financial and political backing of Adolf Hitler. As author Antony C. Sutton wrote in his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Henry Ford is something of an enigma, understanding his influence on the Western world is complicated and at times strange and sad.

Ford created the assembly line production of automobiles that revolutionized industrial production. The assembly line de-emphasized individual human creation and emphasized quick assembly of a machine with the help of humans in a machine-like, repetitive motion. For Ford people were labor, the abhorrent capitalism that Marx had railed against in his writings of the 1880's that inspired the Bolshevik revolution. Hitler believed in the master race as a similar cog in his machine in controlling Europe and then the world; both believed that Jews were not to be a part of either the master race or the new assembly-line human.