Bush family not the only Nazi collaborationist-profiteers: Ford, too

[Mairead]

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new book published by St. Martin's Press reveals that the Ford Motor Company's military and political complicity in the Nazi war effort was considerably more extensive than the corporation has acknowledged, and that company president Edsel Ford, Henry's son, was about to be indicted for Trading With the Enemy -- America's most serious corporate crime -- at the time of his 1943 death.

In "The American Axis: Ford, Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich," veteran investigative journalist and Holocaust researcher Max Wallace -- who has worked for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project and contributed to the BBC and Sunday New York Times -- disputes a 2001 Ford internal investigation into the use of slave labor at its Cologne plant during World War II, in which Ford officials claimed they had lost control after Pearl Harbor. Wallace reveals the automaker knowingly amassed huge profits from its wartime business dealings with Nazi Germany and from the use of illegal slave labor at its German plant.

Drawing on thousands of pages of previously classified documents, Wallace discovered the company sanctioned military and business dealings with the Nazis even after Pearl Harbor and that a US government post-war investigation concluded the company had become "an arsenal of Nazism."

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