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Hitler was influenced by Henry Ford: Book

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Adolf Hitler, who hated America, was influenced by none other than an American industrialist — Henry Ford, who revolutionised the world of automobiles, a new book has revealed. According to the book, Hitler’s Jewish Hatred: Cliché And Reality, it was Ford who was the inspiration for Hitler’s dream of a master race — and not the hocus-pocus of Teutonic legend or Wagner’s symphonies, the Daily Express reported. In fact, in his book, historian Ralf Georg Reuth, has explored in detail the spell that the entrepreneur, visionary and committed anti-Semite wove over the Nazi leader.

 

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First Published: Jul 21 2009 | 12:47 AM IST

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