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100 1 $aWallace, Max.
245 14 $aThe American axis :$bHenry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the rise of the Third Reich /$cMax Wallace.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2003.
300 $aix, 465 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 391-451) and index.
505 0 $aChronicler of the neglected truth -- The Führer's inspiration -- Superhero -- Strange bedfellows -- Hate by proxy -- History's stage -- The lonely eagle -- An arsenal of Nazism -- America first -- Fallen hero -- "Will it run?" -- Business as usual -- Redemption.
520 1 $a"Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh have long been exalted as two of the greatest American icons of the twentieth century. From Max Wallace comes revelations about the poisonous effect these two so-called American heroes had on Western democracy. In his wide-ranging investigation, Wallace goes further than any other historian to expose how Ford and Lindbergh - acting in league with the Nazis - almost brought democratic Europe to the verge of extinction." "With unprecedented access to declassified FBI and military intelligence files, Wallace reveals how the close friendship and ideological bond between automotive pioneer Ford and aviator Lindbergh culminated in an abuse of power that helped strengthen Hitler's regime and undermined the Allied war effort.
520 1 $aWallace traces Henry Ford's ties to Nazi Germany back as far as the 1920s, presenting compelling evidence of a financial paper trail proving that Ford subsidized the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, who described Ford as "my inspiration." For the first time, the genesis of Ford's notorious anti-Semitism is uncovered: The American Axis proves that Ford's private secretary and lifelong confidant was a German spy, who channeled his employer's Jew-baiting crusades to further the cause of the Third Reich." "Lindbergh's own anti-Semitism and white supremacist views captured the attention of the Nazis, who soon manipulated him in their clandestine Fifth Column efforts.
520 1 $aAs the first unauthorized biographer to gain access to the Lindbergh archives, Wallace paints a substantially more chilling portrait of Lindbergh's prewar activities than any previous historian and produces new evidence that the Nazis secretly plotted to install Lindbergh as the leader of the movement to keep America out of World War II." "The most controversial corporate investigation since IBM and the Holocaust, the book reveals that the Ford Motor Company's military and political complicity in the Third Reich war effort was considerably stronger than the company has acknowledged and that a U.S. Army postwar investigation concluded that the company had become "an arsenal of Nazism." Wallace disputes a recent internal investigation into the use of slave labor at Ford's German plant during World War II - which company officials claimed as a vindication of its wartime activities - and reveals that corporate president Edsel Ford was about to be indicted by the U.S.
520 1 $agovernment for "trading with the enemy" at the time of his 1943 death."--Jacket.
650 0 $aAntisemitism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAntisemitism$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
600 10 $aLindbergh, Charles A.$q(Charles Augustus).
600 10 $aFord, Henry,$d1863-1947.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations.
600 10 $aLindbergh, Charles A.$q(Charles Augustus),$d1902-1974.
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