I had read that Ford made equipment for the Germans, but I've never seen the pictures. Ford certainly was not alone in aiding the germans from this side of the pond. Up until Pearl Harbor, I'm sure that lots of people thought that it was an opportunity to make money, as the US was staying out of the 'european war'.

Pearl Harbor was a very polarizing event.. but I'm still surprised that Ford continued operations there. Not a bright spot in their history I'm sure. Maybe they were convinced the Germans were going to win Europe, and if you wanted to conduct business there in the 'future', you needed to.... um... show your support? Wasn't there an American Gov't embargo on Germany after Pearl Harbour?

Chris

Henry Ford was an American but wasn't too many generations away from his European ancestry. It could have been very possible for a relative to reside on and own property in Europe thus making a factory over there still operational after the post Pearl Harbor embargos.

well done... where do we go for more?

There is a book called "The Nazi Hydra in America."

It cost me $16 but I think you can still read it for free online.

I bought the book because on page 422 at the very top it mentions my Great Uncle's name. That's how I came across the book was because my Uncle was a member of the Secret Service who had gotten a battlefield commission prior to WWI as a volunteer ambulance driver. He was promoted from enlisted directly to captain, then remained in the reserves after WWI and joined the Secret Service and was incharge of a Secret Service office in Buffalo, New York, he was a body guard for the King and Queen of England when they visited the United States in the 1930's. After WWII was over and they were denazifying Germany they were recruiting people with law enforcement experience so my Uncle applied and was made a LT.Col. and sent to relieve Brig. Gen. Pappy Weems of duty from the CID (Criminal Investigations Division.) My Uncle debunked several attempts by Nazis to crash the economy by flooding Europe with counterfeit money. He was later made Colonel and was a military Governor in South Korea until relieved by Gen. McArthur. He retired in 1955.

Thank you so much,

my dad was a Major in the Canadian army and later Military Intel.. but we don't know anything. He passed away in 85.. but we know very little. I'm always interested.

I'm a pacifist by nature... but still fascinated with military history.

Chris

As a London schoolboy through WW2, I'm not much impressed, I saw much like it on a regular basis.

I doubt that Henry had any say in the matter after the USA entered the war, the factory would have been appropriated. I wonder though, if it was supplied with slave labor before Pearl Harbor, it would have been after the USA joined in.

300 US Companies were dealing with the Nazis before and during WWII. Some had their factories siezed by the Government. All the leadership of these companies were guilty of Treason but no one was prosecuted. Corporations are above prosecution.

The US Tribunals awarded Nazi War Criminals with light sentences and were release before 1950 no matter how atrociuos their crimes. The US also restored them to their former positions which wasn't supposed to happens as part of the terms for denazifying Germany. They were given light sentences because they knew all about the US support for the Nazi war movement and didn't want them blowing the whistle.

Many of the Nazi war criminals were recruited into our very one fledgling CIA, the Nazi Doctors were recruited into our very own Medical organizations.

George H.W. Bush was appointed Director of the CIA by President Ford for the sole purpose of thwarting the hunt for Nazi war criminals.

With the exception of Ike Eisenhower, practically all of our Republican Leaders were Nazi sypathizers and supporters. Any Democratic Nazi sympathizers were forced out of the party. It wasn't until about 1969 that the Republican and Democratic parties would be clearly defined as being a Conservative party or a Liberal Party.

George H.W. Bush was giving Eugenics lectures at Universities in the late 1960's.

I support the Conservative point of view. I believe in maintaining family values, however the Republican Leadership is using that platform as a smokescreen, while they are giving more power to the corporations in running our country. Republican Leadership is comprised of Fascists.

And for the Record, I do not support the Democrats. I do not support liberals. They are the leaches that soak up the hard labor of the hard working Conservative laborers who are being duped by their Republican leaders. I have no problem with the major cities in California falling off into the ocean because that would get rid of all our liberal parasites that are responsible for giving California a bad name.

I am a WWII navy veteran. Friends of mine in the Army's 8th Airforce returning from the war in Europe told me in 1943 that they were not permitted to bomb Ford factories in Germany.

This was confirmed by Charles Hugham forty years after the war through the Freedom of Information Act in his circa 1980s book: Trading With the Enemy. German submarines in the Atlantic were refueled with diesel fuel supplied by Standard Oil of New Jersey, owned by the Rockefellers.

Origo

...lookup the real background behind Ford's selection of DEARBORN as the name for his Ford plantsite area.