1.10.00 EXTENSIVE Collaboration With Nazi Regime By Ford Motor If you oppose Nazism, Hitler, as well as anything and everything the Third Reich stood for, then DON'T but a Ford. Ford Motor Company, though it has not joined in a recent reparations agreement along with many other corporations that profited from Nazi slave labor throughout World War 2, was in fact more deeply involved in direct significant collaboration with the Nazi regime than many of those companies which have agreed to pay out reparations. Ford Motor Company in recent years has consistently refused to acknowledge in the least the nature and extensiveness of their treasonous activities in Germany before and during World War 2. According to research, as of 1942 at LEAST one-third of all vehicles used by the Nazis were made by Ford Motor Company. Also noted is that even after Ford's German plant was seized by the Nazis in 1942, the American parent company retained a majority interest in the profit-making operation. In fact, by this point the United States was ALREADY at WAR with Nazi Germany! Doesn't something seem a little OUT OF WHACK with this picture?? Ford Motor Company had actually begun producing military vehicles for the Nazis BEFORE World War 2 broke out, and by 1941 was producing nothing BUT military vehicles--expressly for the Nazi military--at their German plant. Henry Ford was without doubt a supporter in every sense of the word of the Nazis and of their most fundamental principles. Ford's vitriolic hatred towards non-white (non-"Aryan") races and non-Christian religious groups is well-known and legendary. Inversely, Hitler also admired Ford, whose deeply racist beliefs--as voiced in an article Ford wrote called "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem"--brought him to Hitler's attention as far back as the early 1920s. Indeed, Henry Ford accepted from Hitler the highest honor Nazis could bestow upon a foreigner--the Grand Cross of the German Eagle. In our view Ford Motor Company not only must pay reparations for Nazi-era slave labor profits as other companies have agreed to do, but must ALSO make amends for the outright treason they committed against the AMERICAN PEOPLE, due to the company's actions during World War 2! NewsHawk� Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- WIRE:01/10/2000 15:28:00 ET Report Cites Ford-Nazi Collaboration NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co., which has not joined scores of other companies in a $5.1 billion reparations agreement for factory slave laborers in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, collaborated more extensively with the Third Reich than previously thought, The Nation weekly newsmagazine reported. It cited documents from lawsuits and wartime U.S. government and Army files at the National Archives in a report published in its Jan. 24 edition released this week. The Nation reported that Ford profited from making military trucks for Hitler's army and that its cooperation continued until at least August 1942, eight months after the United States entered the war. Ford Motor Co. said in a statement that the Dearborn, Mich., headquarters "lost all contact with and control over the plant during the war years, had no role in employing foreign labor and did not benefit from wartime operations." Its German plant, Ford Werke in Cologne, was confiscated by the Nazis, the statement said. Ford said its participation in the reparations agreement of last month led by the U.S. and German governments to provide relief for victims was "inappropriate" because "Ford did not do business in Germany during the war." The statement said, however, that Ford wanted to participate in a humanitarian effort to help the victims and was working with the U.S. government on the best way to do that. Last September, a federal court in New Jersey dismissed a forced labor lawsuit against Ford, ruling that it was an issue to be resolved between governments. REPORT SAYS FORD HAD MAJORITY SHARE The article, written by Ken Silverstein, said that the U.S. company controlled the majority share even after the Nazis seized it in 1942. It said that Ford also did business with the Germans in France following the Nazi occupation of 1940. Ford began producing military vehicles before the war and by 1941 had stopped making passenger vehicles and was building military trucks, the report said. It said that as of 1942, about a third of the 350,000 trucks used by the German Army were Ford-made. In December, the government of Germany and about 70 major corporations, including DaimlerChrysler AG, a subsidiary of General Motors Corp., Bayer, DaimlerChrysler AG, Volkswagen AG and BMW AG agreed to compensate slave laborers. The German government and German companies negotiated the $5.1 billion agreement with governments, survivor groups and lawyers representing former workers. Meetings were scheduled this month to discuss how the money would be disbursed among the mostly Jewish survivors, whose average age is mid-80s. Hitler was an admirer of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford, whose pamphlet, "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem" and his anti-Jewish opinions brought him to the attention of Hitler in the early 1920s. Henry Ford accepted from Hitler the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest honor the Nazis could bestow upon a foreigner. </XMP> =====
1.10.00 EXTENSIVE Collaboration With Nazi Regime By Ford Motor If you oppose Nazism, Hitler, as well as anything and everything the Third Reich stood for, then DON'T but a Ford. Ford Motor Company, though it has not joined in a recent reparations agreement along with many other corporations that profited from Nazi slave labor throughout World War 2, was in fact more deeply involved in direct significant collaboration with the Nazi regime than many of those companies which have agreed to pay out reparations. Ford Motor Company in recent years has consistently refused to acknowledge in the least the nature and extensiveness of their treasonous activities in Germany before and during World War 2. According to research, as of 1942 at LEAST one-third of all vehicles used by the Nazis were made by Ford Motor Company. Also noted is that even after Ford's German plant was seized by the Nazis in 1942, the American parent company retained a majority interest in the profit-making operation. In fact, by this point the United States was ALREADY at WAR with Nazi Germany! Doesn't something seem a little OUT OF WHACK with this picture?? Ford Motor Company had actually begun producing military vehicles for the Nazis BEFORE World War 2 broke out, and by 1941 was producing nothing BUT military vehicles--expressly for the Nazi military--at their German plant. Henry Ford was without doubt a supporter in every sense of the word of the Nazis and of their most fundamental principles. Ford's vitriolic hatred towards non-white (non-"Aryan") races and non-Christian religious groups is well-known and legendary. Inversely, Hitler also admired Ford, whose deeply racist beliefs--as voiced in an article Ford wrote called "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem"--brought him to Hitler's attention as far back as the early 1920s. Indeed, Henry Ford accepted from Hitler the highest honor Nazis could bestow upon a foreigner--the Grand Cross of the German Eagle. In our view Ford Motor Company not only must pay reparations for Nazi-era slave labor profits as other companies have agreed to do, but must ALSO make amends for the outright treason they committed against the AMERICAN PEOPLE, due to the company's actions during World War 2! NewsHawk� Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- WIRE:01/10/2000 15:28:00 ET Report Cites Ford-Nazi Collaboration NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co., which has not joined scores of other companies in a $5.1 billion reparations agreement for factory slave laborers in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, collaborated more extensively with the Third Reich than previously thought, The Nation weekly newsmagazine reported. It cited documents from lawsuits and wartime U.S. government and Army files at the National Archives in a report published in its Jan. 24 edition released this week. The Nation reported that Ford profited from making military trucks for Hitler's army and that its cooperation continued until at least August 1942, eight months after the United States entered the war. Ford Motor Co. said in a statement that the Dearborn, Mich., headquarters "lost all contact with and control over the plant during the war years, had no role in employing foreign labor and did not benefit from wartime operations." Its German plant, Ford Werke in Cologne, was confiscated by the Nazis, the statement said. Ford said its participation in the reparations agreement of last month led by the U.S. and German governments to provide relief for victims was "inappropriate" because "Ford did not do business in Germany during the war." The statement said, however, that Ford wanted to participate in a humanitarian effort to help the victims and was working with the U.S. government on the best way to do that. Last September, a federal court in New Jersey dismissed a forced labor lawsuit against Ford, ruling that it was an issue to be resolved between governments. REPORT SAYS FORD HAD MAJORITY SHARE The article, written by Ken Silverstein, said that the U.S. company controlled the majority share even after the Nazis seized it in 1942. It said that Ford also did business with the Germans in France following the Nazi occupation of 1940. Ford began producing military vehicles before the war and by 1941 had stopped making passenger vehicles and was building military trucks, the report said. It said that as of 1942, about a third of the 350,000 trucks used by the German Army were Ford-made. In December, the government of Germany and about 70 major corporations, including DaimlerChrysler AG, a subsidiary of General Motors Corp., Bayer, DaimlerChrysler AG, Volkswagen AG and BMW AG agreed to compensate slave laborers. The German government and German companies negotiated the $5.1 billion agreement with governments, survivor groups and lawyers representing former workers. Meetings were scheduled this month to discuss how the money would be disbursed among the mostly Jewish survivors, whose average age is mid-80s. Hitler was an admirer of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford, whose pamphlet, "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem" and his anti-Jewish opinions brought him to the attention of Hitler in the early 1920s. Henry Ford accepted from Hitler the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest honor the Nazis could bestow upon a foreigner.
