Henry Ford's Controversial Beliefs and Legacy

This is Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company,

and he believed that Jews controlled international banking, the

media, Hollywood, and he even believed that international

Jewish bankers were responsible for the United States' entry into World

War I, where over one hundred and sixteen

thousand Americans died. Overall, the war claimed twenty-two

million lives worldwide. But how did he come to this

conclusion? Henry Ford's theory claimed

that World War I

was artificially engineered by a hidden network of

international Jewish bankers to generate massive wealth and

global control. In his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent,

he explicitly named New York financier Jacob Schiff,

but also Warburg and the Rothschild banking families.

Ford argued that these individuals used the newly created US

Federal Reserve to manipulate the money supply,

allowing them to finance both the Allied and Central

Powers simultaneously. According to his theory, the

bankers accumulated billions of dollars in compound interest

from wartime government debts, then used the chaos to

bankroll the 1917 Russian Revolution, and later

crashed the European currencies to buy up valuable national

assets for pennies on the dollar. And all of this at the

cost of twenty-two million lives.

To many, Henry Ford was a working-class hero, brave enough

to expose the hidden elites. When The Dearborn Independent

named powerful financiers like Jacob Schiff and the

Rothschilds, many saw that as a brave working-class man

fighting back against the global elites.

They also saw World War I as a rich man's war,

engineered by international bankers who used the Federal Reserve to

fund both sides and profit from the national debt.

But Ford was about to face a legal challenge that would put an end to his

newspaper and the sharing of ideas that many embraced.

And that legal challenge would come from Aaron Sapiro, a

prominent Jewish attorney and agricultural organizer who would sue

him for libel. As a result, Ford was forced to shut down his

publication to avoid testifying.

The lawsuit cost Henry Ford millions in today's money, but it

damaged his reputation as well. They even claimed that Ford

staged a car accident to avoid testifying and force him to

sign a humiliating public apology, a signature that he

maintained for the rest of his life had been forged and that he had

never signed the document. Ford had planned to run for president

because before this, he was extremely popular.

But in a coordinated effort in mainstream American newspapers

and magazines, they heavily criticized him.

This, of course, damaged his reputation and forced him to

abandon his dream of running for US president.

In the years leading up to his death, Ford opposed America's entry

into World War II and privately insisted

that the conflict was

not caused by Adolf Hitler, but was instead engineered by

international bankers, a term the Jewish community

insisted was a well-known code used to blame the Jewish

people for global war once again. Henry Ford's

closest friends say that he maintained his beliefs until the

very end.