Henry Ford, Publisher.

Perpetuating Old Lies.

Response.

Continued Attacks.

Trial.

Ford's Problems.

Lingering Rumors of Anti-Semitism.

Charges that Ford was anti-Semitic declined in intensity but continued to circulate, as did copies of The International Jew. Rumors continued to link Ford to Hitler into the 1930s. In 1937 he once again apologized for publishing anti-Semitic material. He lost his credibility, however, when he accepted a medal from Hitler in 1938, the year of Kristallnacht, one of the worst pogroms of the century to that time. Many Jews could not forgive Ford for his part, direct or indirect, in contributing to the flood that swept away so many of their fellow Jews in Hitler's Holocaust.

Sources:

Carol W. Gelderman, Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist (New York- Dial, 1981);

David L. Lewis, The Public Image of Henry Ford (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976).