Hitler, God, and the Bible by Ray Comfort

Author:Ray Comfort
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Firebrand Technologies
Published: 2012-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

OUTSIDE INFLUENCES

Several individuals helped to fuel Hitler’s hatred for the Jewish people and contributed to the rise of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany.

Henry Ford (1863–1947)

American automaker Henry Ford wrote a number of virulent anti-Semitic articles in his weekly paper, the Dearborn Independent. Under the banner “The International Jew: The World’s Problem,” Ford declared, “This people has ever been fouling the earth and plotting to dominate it. In order to eventually rule the Gentiles, the Jews have long been conspiring to form an international super-capitalist government.” This racial problem, the Independent said, was the “prime” question confronting all society.7

These ninety-one articles were published in book form as The International Jew, and translated into German as The Eternal Jew. Ford’s book was tremendously popular in Germany and became an effective piece of Nazi propaganda greatly influencing the people toward anti-Semitism.

An advocate of eugenics, Ford was convinced that the “German-Jewish bankers”—these “parasites, these sloths and lunatics…apostles of murder”—were responsible for society’s ills, ideas that resonated well with Hitler’s ideology.8

“I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration,” Hitler told a Detroit News reporter two years before becoming the German chancellor in 1933, explaining why he kept a life-size portrait of the American automaker next to his desk.9

Hitler’s office also held multiple copies of Ford’s book, and some argue that Hitler went so far as to paraphrase many passages from Ford’s writings in Mein Kampf. On his seventy-fifth birthday, Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, Germany’s highest honor, by his longtime admirer, the Führer.

Ford was extremely popular in the United States, and years after his articles were published, he issued an apology for his anti-Jewish sentiments. Most forgave him, but had he known the fire he was fueling in Germany, one must think that he would have at least kept his thoughts to himself.

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