1. The medal Hitler gave him was a low-class award the Reich gave to “Auslander,” (foreigners” who supported the Nazis. Even Adolf looked down on the cheap jewelry, regarding it as being the kind of award that was fit for the foreigners he held in contempt.

Hitler had no friends, only acolytes, and when they served him no purpose, he would lash out at them — even Goering, Ribbentrop, Himmler, and Speer. The only ones from his inner circle that he seemed to respect were Goebbels and Bormann, both of whom stayed in the bunker.

2. Shortly after the war, Ford viewed the films the US Army Signal Corps and British Royal Army Signal Corps took of the liberated concentration camps in Western Germany. These were not even the worst camps liberated, but they were horrific enough and the footage is familiar to everyone today.

Ford, a lifelong pacifist, was so appalled by the ghastly tableaux presented to him, that he suffered the stroke that ultimately killed him in 1948.

I consider that poetic justice.

Let’s see:

“Ford actually made things that improved people’s lives.”

He hung on to the Model-T long after it was obsolete, and his cars wiped out the far more effective mass transit systems of America. However, the B-24 Liberator bombers he built in his Willow Run plant absolutely did a perfect job of destroying whole cities.

“Living off usury.”

Jews were barred from all professions in the medieval period by the Catholic-dominated governments, and as Catholics could not act as moneylending or recognize it as a profession, they let Jews undertake it — and the Christians quickly wound up in debt to Jewish moneylenders for all of their idiotic programs, ranging from the Crusades to the Reformation wars to the Spanish Inquisition (what show).

“Selling garbage movies, music, and pornography to the masses.”

If you don’t like the movies, don’t go. Nobody’s breaking into your mother’s basement and ordering you to watch “Amadeus,” which is about one of the world’s greatest German composers, by the way. Or “The Godfather.” Or “Gone With The Wind.” I’d like to hear your reviews of those.

On music: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, and Brahms are as popular as ever, and still broadcast regularly. Nobody’s censoring them. It’s your fault if you aren’t listening to it. And, no, “Skinhead Oi!” music does not count as great music.

On pornography: Same as movies. Don’t read it. But I’m sorry that’s as close as you come to actually meeting the man of your dreams, “Susan.”

On your oft-hurled quote “Do Jews ever look at themselves and ask why everyone hates them?” my answer is: Do anti-Semites ever do anything positive to improve the world or do they (and you) just wallow in useless hatred, fury, paranoia, cliches, and internet flame wars?”

You’re most welcome and Happy New Year to you too!
S.N.

Thanks, Susan! Happy New Year.

I (Snarly) decided to allow this comment as a response to those who think anti-Semitism is no longer a big problem. Hello.

Ford actually made things that improved people’s lives instead of living off usury and selling garbage movies, music, and pornography to the masses.

Do Jews ever look at themselves and ask why everyone hates them?

Better no apology, than a craptastic one, maybe?
Honestly. It’s getting to where I really believe that.