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Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department
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Henry Ford (1863-1947)

American automobile industrialist; major NSDAP funder from 1922; International Jew book translated into German and circulated by Hitler's NSDAP press. Hitler awarded Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle 1938 (Ford's 75th birthday). Per Sutton WSRH Ch 20-23: Ford Motor Company's German subsidiary built military vehicles for the Wehrmacht throughout WWII; the German Ford operations were recovered by Ford Motor Company after the war with US government compensation for damage caused by Allied bombing. Died April 7, 1947. (Claim SUT-WSRH-005.)