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Ford Motor Company

American car maker founded by Henry Ford in 1903.

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Ford signed an agreement with the Soviet government in 1929, and owned most of Ford-Werke in Germany; see the Ford–Soviet agreement of 1929.

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  • Henry Ford Scholarship & press 34

    The Holocaust Museum on the company’s German subsidiary is quoted here to keep owner and subsidiary apart.

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owns a stake in

  • Ford-Werke 81%, as of 1939 Self-published 1

    Ford’s own report.

  • Ford-Werke 52%, as of Dec 1941 Scholarship & press 2

    The Washington Post’s figure for December 1941. The figures differ by source and date.

  • Ford-Werke 56.575%, as of 1965 Self-published 1

    The share Ford used in its 1965 U.S. war-damage claim, per its own report.

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  1. Research Findings About Ford-Werke Under the Nazi Regime, Ford Motor Company (report prepared by Ford Motor Company Archives, December 2001), Dec 2001. Self-published
    In 1939, Ford Motor Company owned a total of 81 percent of Ford-Werke
    the claim reduced in keeping with Ford’s 56.575 percent ownership of Ford-Werke
    Although Ford owned a majority interest in Ford-Werke, the Dearborn company’s control over Ford-Werke’s operations was constrained by Nazi policies aimed at limiting foreign influences in German businesses.
    The record reveals that communication between the American parent and the German subsidiary ceased by November of 1941, before the use of forced or slave labor began.
  2. U.S. Dealings With Nazi Germany -- Did Ford, GM Boost Nazi War Effort?, The Washington Post, by Michael Dobbs, as reprinted by The Seattle Times, 30 Nov 1998. Scholarship & press
    By the time of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the American stake in German Ford had declined to 52 percent
    there appear to have been indirect contact. In June 1943, the Nazi custodian of the Cologne plant, Robert Schmidt, traveled to Portugal for talks with Ford managers.
    The investigation ended without charges being filed.
  3. The International Jew: 1920s Antisemitism Revived Online, Anti-Defamation League, 30 Jan 2017. Scholarship & press
    As founder and owner of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Sr. made a positive, lasting contribution to American industry and culture
    Ernest Liebold, Henry Ford Sr.'s personal secretary, began to collect antisemitic material.
  4. Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
    Ford Werke used forced laborers, including prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates, in its operations.
    Henry Ford had no influence at Ford Werke.
    Ford auto dealerships were required to distribute copies of The Dearborn Independent as well.
    Ford made a policy that everyone who bought a Model T car from the Ford Motor Company would automatically subscribe to The Dearborn Independent.
  5. Ford Motor Company's Foundry at Molotov Avtozavod, Gorky, USSR, 1935, The Henry Ford (museum collection record). Scholarship & press
    In 1929, Ford Motor Company signed an agreement with the Soviet government to help open two plants in the U.S.S.R. at Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.
    Ford provided detailed drawings of factory buildings and equipment, and it sent engineers and foremen to oversee construction and startup.
  6. A Titan of Industry and a Bigot, by Hardy Green, Business Week, 21 January 2002, Business Week (as reprinted by the Center for Online Judaic Studies), 21 Jan 2002. Scholarship & press
    Ford car dealers were required to meet a quota for subscription sales
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