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Henry Ford was born near Dearborn, Michigan on 30 July 1863. He grew up on a farm and might easily have remained in agriculture.

Ford demonstrated incredible stamina and drive—he knew what he wanted. He experimented widely in mechanical devices and eventually designed an engine that would work on a “horseless carriage”, an invention which led to the organization of the Ford Motor Company in 1903. As the head of his company, Ford was known to be a strong authoritarian. As time went on he wanted his workers to live as he thought they should live. Ford, however, also began to encroach into his workers’ personal lives.

Ford surrounded himself with a very small, tight circle of advisors. Access to this inner circle was strictly controlled by Ford’s long-time personal secretary, Ernest G. Liebold, who would protect his “Boss” for many years to come. This type of management style may have been conducive for getting things done, but it also alienated Ford from what his workers were thinking and created an isolationism that proved hard to bridge. This sense of “being out of touch” partially explains Ford’s later actions.

Ford was against large corporations, in that they were seen to undercut the hard-working man.

Henry Ford published a newspaper called The Dearborn Independent from 1919 through 1927. It was noted for its sensationalist content, including many anti-Semitic references, and its publication of the fraudulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The paper’s xenophobic bias condemned the assimilation of new immigrants.
It was around this time that a book, titled The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, was brought to Ford’s attention by Boris Brasol, a Russian émigré. The book contained the supposed minutes of a secret Zionist meeting in Switzerland, where Jews had plotted to take control of the world, with the goal of enslaving all non-Jews, and it warned of an upcoming final battle between Jews and Anglo-Saxons. The book turned out to be a forgery made by the Russian secret police, but that did not alter the effect it had on people already suspicious of Jews and other immigrants. The Dearborn Independent’s articles began to take on a more paranoid tone, regulating the Jews to being the scapegoats of America’s woes—especially responsible for the rising unemployment rate and faltering economy.

Starting on 22 May 1922, the first of 91 successive articles on “The International Jew: The World’s Problem” was published. Pipp had left the paper by this time, leaving Liebold and Cameron in charge, both of whom had deep-rooted prejudices against Jews specifically and immigrants generally. Ford’s overseas empire had grown enormously and he feared threats to it, as he was convinced that it was in the meddling, “international bankers’” interests to want war (supposedly to be able to sell armaments) and that they desired to control the money flow of various nations. They were gaining too much influence, which added fuel to Ford’s belief that “the Jews caused the war.”

The Third Reich regime awarded Henry Ford the Verdienstkreutz Deutscher Adler (the Grand Service Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle) on 30 July 1938, on Ford’s seventy-eighth birthday. This award was given to him by the German government in recognition of his pioneering work in the auto industry and in making the car available to the masses. Seeming oblivious to the fact that Hitler’s medal was one of an openly belligerent country that desired the conquest of a large part of Europe, the man who launched the “Peace Ship” twenty-three years earlier seemed pleased to receive it. Neil Baldwin later wrote that

Ford told E.G. Liebold when Hitler’s award was first proposed that he would readily accept “anything the German people have to offer.” Having long respected the Germans for their frugal, enterprising and industrious attributes of character, Ford was certain “they were not as a whole in sympathy with their rulers in their anti-Jewish policies.”

Henry Ford died on 7 April 1947, leaving his grandson, Henry Ford II, in charge of the Ford Motor Company and a troubled legacy.

For much of this century, Henry Ford left an ugly legacy of hatred and bigotry that is still felt today. More than anyone, he is responsible for the widespread influence of anti-Semitism in the United States. Not once did he issue a genuine retraction for his Jewish attacks. All of his excuses and disclaimers were self serving. He surrounded himself with sordid characters and ignored the pleadings of reason. He was a prime influence on the Nazis— the most notorious group of mass murderers in the history of mankind. It is doubtful that the Jewish Community will ever forgive him for the horrible wrongs that he inflicted on both the Jewish people and the truth.

Henry Ford II was president from 1945 until 1960 and chief executive officer from 1945 until 1979. He was chairman of the board of directors from 1960 until 1980, and remained as chairman of the finance committee from 1980 until his death in 1987.

Now, at the beginning of its second century, another Ford family member has been named CEO of Ford Motor Company, the first family member to hold the position in more than 20 years. William Clay Ford, Jr. is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Company. Mr. Ford began his employment with the Company in 1979 and was elected a Company director in 1988. He held a number of management positions at Ford, including international assignments, culminating in vice president, Commercial Truck Vehicle Center in 1994-1995. In 1995, he became chair of the Board's Finance Committee, a position he held until becoming Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He was named chair of the Board's Environmental and Public Policy Committee in 1997. Mr. Ford became Chairman of the Board of Directors January 1, 1999. He was named Chief Executive Officer October 30, 2001. Ever since he has taken over the reins, the Ford Motor Company has been going downhill. On September the 5th 2006, Bill Ford Jr. stepped down as chief executive but remain chairman of the troubled automaker. Alan Mulally, previously executive vice president of Boeing Co. and president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, has been named president and CEO at Ford.