FACT CHECK · TROPES
Claim: Henry Ford had nothing to do with the Nazis
FALSETHE ANSWER
Ford's paper ran 'The International Jew', based largely on the Protocols, to ~1 million readers. Hitler, 1931: "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration." In 1938 Ford took the Nazis' Grand Cross.
SOURCE
USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia; Detroit News 1931
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