Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00088)

Etzion:

Although there is no direct connection I am aware of between 
Theosophists and Nazis, there was an interesting report on NPR the 
other day which connected Henry Ford with Nazis. It turns out Ford 
was the one who has THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION 
translated into English and published it as a serial in a newspaper 
he owned. The narrator of the story says Ford's motivation was fear 
and mistrust of the East Coast bankers he had to deal with to get 
funding for his company. Since he had to deal with them on a 
continuing basis, that seems like a strange thing for him to do. The 
text was then taken into the Nazi ideology and Hitler had a picture 
of Ford hanging in his office. The company did well in trade with 
Germany afer Hitler took power, but it is not clear whether pandering 
was the cause of that or not. In fairness it must be said that when 
the Nazis lost the war and Nazism became unpopular, the Ford Motor 
Company did everything possible to dissociate itself from Bazism and 
continues that policy.

So Henry had a dark side most people today know nothing about.