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Ford Motor Company, Ltd. of England in Algeria, Tunisia, French Morocco, French
Equatorial, and French West Africa. North Africa was not accessible to British Ford so this
new Ford Company  registered in German-occupied France  was organized to fill the
gap. The directors were pro-Nazi and included Maurice Dollfuss (Edsel Ford's
correspondent) and Roger Messis (described by the U.S. Algiers Consul General as "known
to this office by repute as unscrupulous, is stated to be a 100 percent pro-German")18
The U.S. Consul General also reported that propaganda was common in Algiers about
... the collaboration of French-German-American capital and the questionable
sincerity of the American war effort, [there] is already pointing an accusing
finger at a transaction Which has been for long a subject of discussion in
commercial circles.19
In brief, there is documentary evidence that Ford Motor Company worked on both sides of
World War II. If the Nazi industrialists brought to trial at Nuremburg were guilty of crimes
against mankind, then so must be their fellow collaborators in the Ford family, Henry and
Edsel Ford. However, the Ford story was concealed by Washington  apparently like
almost everything else that could touch upon the name and sustenance of the Wall Street
financial elite.
Footnotes:
1
June 4, 1938, 2:2.
2
A list of these Gorki vehicles and their model numbers is in Antony G. Sutton,
National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union, (New York: Arlington
House Publishers, 1973), Table 7-2, p. 125.
3
The House of Morgan was known for its anti-Semitic views.
4
Page 2, Column 8.
5
Ibid.
6
Jonathan Leonard, The Tragedy of Henry Ford, (New York: G.P. Putnam's
Sons, 1932), p. 208. Also see U.S. State Department Decimal File, National
Archives Microcopy M 336, Roll 80, Document 862.00S/6, "Money sources of
Hitler," a report from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin.
7
On this see Keith Sward, The Legend of Henry Ford, (New York: Rinehart &
Co, 1948), p. 139.
8
New York Times, August l, 1938.
9
Ibid., December 1, 1938, 12:2.
10
Ibid., December 19, 1938, 5:3.
11
Elimination of German Resources, p. 656.
12
Elimination of German Resources, pp. 657-8.
13
Josiah E. Dubois, Jr., Generals in Grey Suits, (London: The Bodley Head,
1958), p. 248.
14
Ibid., p. 249.
15
Ibid., p. 251.
16
Ibid.
17
U.S. Army Air Force, Aiming point report No I.E.2, May 29, 1943.
18
U.S. State Department Decimal File, 800/61o.1.
19
Ibid.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
Who Financed Adolf Hitler?
The funding of Hitler and the Nazi movement has yet to be explored in exhaustive depth.
The only published examination of Hitler's personal finances is an article by Oron James
Hale, "Adolph Hitler: Taxpayer,1 which records Adolph's brushes with the German tax
authorities before he became Reichskanzler, In the 1920s Hitler presented himself to the
German tax man as merely an impoverished writer living on bank loans, with an
automobile .bought on credit. Unfortunately, the original records used by Hale do not yield
the source of Hitler's income, loans, or credit, and German law "did not require self-
employed or professional persons to disclose in detail the sources of income or the nature of
services rendered."2 Obviously the funds for the automobiles, private secretary Rudolf
Hess, another assistant, a chauffeur, and expenses incurred by political activity, came from
somewhere. But, like Leon Trotsky's 1917 stay in New York, it is hard to reconcile Hitler's
known expenditures with the precise source of his income.
Some Early Hitler Backers
We do know that prominent European and American industrialists were sponsoring all
manner of totalitarian political groups at that time, including Communists and various Nazi
groups. The U.S. Kilgore Committee records that:
By 1919 Krupp was already giving financial aid to one of the reactionary
political groups which sowed the seed of the present Nazi ideology. Hugo
Stinnes was an early contributor to the Nazi Party (National Socialistische
Deutsche Arbeiter Partei). By 1924 other prominent industrialists and
financiers, among them Fritz Thyssen, Albert Voegler, Adolph [sic] Kirdorf,
and Kurt von Schroder, were secretly giving substantial sums to the Nazis. In
1931 members of the coalowners' association which Kirdorf headed pledged
themselves to pay 50 pfennigs for each ton of' coal sold, the money to go to the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]