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Rodriguez might be considered an unfortunate incident for which
Ford could not be held responsible. This would be a reason
able assumption if the Nazi-Rodriguez-Ford tie-up in Mexico
were an isolated case. The facts, however, show it is not.
The
national leader of the Nazi propaganda machine in this
country has been on the Ford pay roll. Kuhn was supposed
Ford as a chemist, but while on Ford s pay roll he
traveled around the United States conferring with other secret
Nazi agents and actively directing Nazi work in this country.
Ford has a highly developed and exceedingly efficient espion
age system of his own which, among other things, watches what
his employees do even to their home life. Kuhn s activities were
known to Harry Bennett, head of the Ford secret service or
"Personnel Department," as it is called, and Bennett reports to
Ford. Furthermore, Kuhn s Nazi connections had been pub
licized in both the American and the Nazi press and were no
secret. Jews and Christians alike protested to Ford about his
employee s anti-democratic work while on the motor magnate s
pay roll, but Kuhn was left undisturbed to travel around organ
izing Nazi groups. In 1938 Ford was given the highest medal of
honor which Hitler can give to a foreigner. No statement was
ever made as to just what Henry Ford had done for the Nazi
Fuhrer to merit the honor.
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Simultaneously with
Kuhn s
intensified work,
Ford s
confi
William J. Cameron, became active again.
Cameron was editor of Ford s Dearborn Independent when that
dential
secretary,
newspaper published the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" after
they had been proved to be forgeries. When a nation-wide pro
test arose from Jews and Christians who were shocked at seeing
one of the richest and most powerful men in the country use
his wealth to disseminate race hatred, and when the protest
grew into a boycott of
his cars,
Ford apologized and discontinued