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He was also a complete nutjob who believed the Jews were destroying the world, a big admirer and crony of Hitler's. He bought and ran a newspaper at great expense just to expose the Jew menace. All of his knowledge about the Jews came from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a masterpiece of conspiracy crackpottery which even while Ford was plagiarizing it in his newspaper had already been exposed as a complete forgery of a forgery of a forgery of what started out as a book of satire by a French writer.
You can't take away his genius for business and industry but he was also an ignorant uneducated imbecile. Ford sued the Chicago Tribune for libel, they had published an editorial calling him what he was, a kook, an anarchist and a danger. The Tribune's lawyer had no problem getting Ford to reveal the truth about himself in front of the entire country, a pathetic old fool, albeit a rich and powerful one.
Lawyer: You call yourself an educator. Now I shall inquire whether you were a well informed man, competent to educate people
Lawyer:Have there ever been any revolutions in this country?
Henry Ford:There was, I understand.
Lawyer:When?
Henry Ford:In 1812.
Lawyer: Did you ever hear of Benedict Arnold?
Henry Ford:I have heard the name.
Lawyer:Who was he?
Henry Ford:I have forgotten just who he is. He is a writer; I think.
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