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Subject: Skeletons in Our Grandfathers' Closets
The American Axis:
Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and
the Rise of the Third Reich
(Hardcover)
By Max Wallace
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Ford, Lindbergh, and the Rise to Power of Adolf Hitler. Just the
facts sir, and that's what you get in this account of how of
America's two foremost role models of the 20th century helped the
rise to power of the Nazis.
Ford was a virulent anti-Semite, and Lindbergh admired the values
of the "Christian Nation" of Germany. But there's more, much more
in this revealing book that reveals so much.
Kirkus Reviews:
Whisper an antiwar sentiment today, and you're branded a traitor.
Hinder the Allied war effort and champion the Nazi cause, as did a
captain of industry and a pioneer of aviation, and you'll be
remembered as a hero.
So Wallace, a researcher for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project,
demonstrates in this eye-opening if sometimes circumstantial
account of automaker Henry Ford's and pilot Charles Lindbergh's
multifaceted dealings with the Hitler regime.
Ford was singularly instrumental, Wallace charges, with Hitler's
rise; not only did Hitler and other Nazis credit their conversion
to anti-Semitism in part to Ford's scurrilous The International
Jew, but Ford also funded the early Nazi party unstintingly and,
knowingly or not, gave Nazi operatives access to manufacturing
specifications and other documents at least until America entered
the war.
Hitler himself said, "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," not
least for providing a model of mass production for the Nazi killing
machine.
Direct evidence of Ford's financial role in bringing Hitler to
power is scanty, Wallace writes, "a significant amount of the [Ford
Motor] company's early days-particularly material pertaining to
Ford's anti-Semitism" having been carefully discarded.
Lindbergh, famed for his transatlantic solo flight, brought
pseudoscientific theories of eugenics to his own admiration for the
Nazi regime, and the Nazis reciprocated by depicting the blond,
blue-eyed Lindbergh as the exemplar of Aryan manhood.
Strangely, by Wallace's account, both men seemed mystified when the
Roosevelt administration did not court their services at the
outbreak of WWII, on which occasion Ford remarked, "The whole thing
has just been made up by Jewbankers."
Though Lindbergh served as a consultant to Ford in the development
of the B-24 bomber, he was unable to gain a military commission-and
for good reason, inasmuch as even in 1945 he was publicly lamenting
the destruction of Germany, a civilization that "was basically our
own, stemming from the same Christian beliefs."
A finely wrought, careful, and utterly damning case that ought to
prompt a widespread reevaluation of both Ford and Lindbergh.
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"Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh have long been exalted as two of
the greatest American icons of the twentieth century. From award-
winning journalist Max Wallace comes groundbreaking and astonishing
revelations about the poisonous effect these two so-called American
heroes had on Western democracy.
"In his wide ranging investigation, Wallace goes further than any
other historian to expose how Ford and Lindbergh-acting in league
with the Nazis-almost brought democratic Europe to the verge of
extinction.With unprecedented access to declassified FBI and
military intelligence files, Wallace reveals how the close
friendship and ideological bond between automotive pioneer Ford and
aviator Lindbergh culminated in an abuse of power that helped
strengthen Hitler's regime and undermined the Allied war effort.
"Wallace traces Henry Ford's ties to Nazi Germany back as far as
the 1920s, presenting compelling evidence of a financial paper
trail proving that Ford subsidized the rise to power of Adolph
Hitler, who described Ford as "my inspiration."
"For the first time, the genesis of Ford's notorious Anti-Semitism
is uncovered: The American Axis proves that Ford's private
secretary and life-long confidante was a German spy, who channeled
his employer's Jew-baiting crusades to further the cause of the
Third Reich.
"Lindbergh's own anti-Semitism and white-Supremacist views captured
the attention of the Nazis, who soon manipulated him in their
clandestine Fifth Column efforts. As the first unauthorized
biographer to gain access to the Lindbergh archives, Wallace paints
a substantially more chilling portrait of Lindbergh's pre-war
activities than any previous historian and produces new evidence
that the Nazis secretly plotted to install Lindbergh as the leader
of the movement to keep America out of World War Two.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Axis-Henry-Charles-Lindbergh/dp/
B0009YAXEA
Dubya's Grandpa was a Nazi, October 20, 2003
Reviewer: Robin Kellin (Madison, Wisconsin)
This book is about the Nazi affiliations of Henry Ford and Charles
Lindbergh, and that material is indeed fascinating. But the part
of the book that really blew me away was the revelation that George
W. Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush was a Nazi whose assets were
seized by the US government after Pearl Harbor for Trading With the
Enemy and helping Nazi front companies launder money. A former US
government Nazi War Crimes prosecutor is quoted in this book as
saying, "The fortune that put two members of the Bush family in the
White House can be traced directly to the Third Reich." I remember
during the first George Bush presidential campaign when a whole
bunch of Nazis were exposed by USA Today as working on Bush's
campaign and forced to resign. More recently, Vanity Fair exposed
the close ties between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family.
It's time for the American media to start probing a little deeper
into the Bush dynasty so that voters can evaluate the skeletons in
Dubya's closet before November, 2004.
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