"In every town, large and small, even where the Jewish community consists of a few, 30 or 75 souls, there is a leading Jew, be he rabbi, merchant, or public officeholder, who is in constant touch with headquarters. What is done in New Orleans or Los Angeles or Kansas City is known in New York with surprising dispatch." - Henry Ford, The International JewI understand they all wear secret decoder rings.
I've been working my way through Henry Ford's hideously anti-Semitic tome, "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem." As you may know, Ford not only wrote this book, he had thousands and thousands (I'd read 700,000, per one account) printed and sent to all of his dealerships around the country, so they could distribute them to the American public for free.In addition to being incredibly offensive, the book is actually quite frightening. I remember learning in school about the "great" Henry Ford creating the world's first assembly line. I grew up thinking this man was a hero. No one ever told me what a dangerous lunatic the man was.
Reading this book is absolutely horrifying. It's clear from the passages why Hitler was such a fan, of the book and Ford, and vice versa. Chapters and chapters are devoted to, as Ford calls it, "The Jewish Question" (we've heard that term used before). Then there's the chapters and chapters and chapters devoted to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake document thought to have been created by the Russian secret police to demonize the Jews, the "Protocols" spell out the Jews' secret plan for world domination.
The other creepy thing is that it's very easy, when reading the book, to overlook the word "Jew" and replace it with "gay" or "black" or any other hated minority. The irony to me has been how much this book reads like something the religious right would embrace, if only you struck the word "Jew" and replaced it with "gay," or at the very least simply added the word "gay."
Anyway, as I've said before, my intent in educating you all about this book is not to suggest that Ford Motor Company is still the Hitler-loving enterprise it was just decades ago. But rather to impress upon us all the magnitude of just how much a pro-Nazi and pro-Hitler sympathizer Henry Ford was, to educate folks to what degree Ford used his company to promote this devastating bigotry, and finally to remind us all of the incredible historical burden Ford will always have to ensure that such bigotry never rears its head again.
Unfortunately Ford seems to have to forgotten the lessons of the past and the scar it will always bear. Ford's ugly bigotry for economic gain rises from the ashes yet again.
Those are the lessons of "The International Jew," and that is why AMERICAblog will be excerpting key passages from the book each and every evening until Ford remembers its burden and renounces its bigoted embrace.
