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Clockwise from top:
Fred and Patti Erlich of
Bloomfield Hills get their
book signed by author Neil
Baldwin.
Steve Passon of White Lake
Diana Honet of Franklin
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Essence of Jerusalem Cologne
ed from the production of vehicles for
the Nazi war effort in Ford plants in
Germany. The author answered that
he believed Ford did profit, both
before and during the war.
The company has stated there was
no complicity between it and the Nazi
regime, but Baldwin said he "questions
that." Last year, the company released
98,000 pages of documents respond-
ing to this subject and allegations of
"slave labor" in Ford's German plants.
The explanation was that the Nazis
simply took over the plants and their
employees during the war, leaving
Ford with no recourse at the time.
"I'd like to write a book about the
involvement of Ford, and all of corpo-
rate America, with Germany before
and during the war, but it would be
just too overwhelming and painful to
undertake at this time," said Baldwin.
Still, he praised Ford Motor
Company's technological and cultural
contributions to the world, and point-
ed out it was "tragic that the elder
Ford's anti-Semitic bias and flawed
character should mar the company's
technological advances."
Leonard Sahn of West Bloomfield
told Baldwin he doubted the author's
contention that Henry Ford II ordered
the shredding of all papers in the Ford
Archives relating to his grandfather
and even his father, Edsel Ford.
Baldwin mentioned to the audience
that he read about this incident in the
autobiography of Lee Iacocca, whom
Henry Ford II fired as the company
president in the 1970s — not exactly
an unbiased source. But Baldwin
affirmed later that his repeated
requests to see these papers were met
with replies that the documents were
destroyed at the request of Henry Ford
II.
Harry Ellman of Bloomfield Hills
told Baldwin he enjoyed the parts of
the book describing Ford's relationship
with such prominent Detroit Jews as
Rabbi Leo Franklin of Temple Beth
El, who was Ford's neighbor on
Detroit's Edison Street, and architect
Albert Kahn, who designed two of
Ford's Detroit-area plants.
Both Diana Honet of Franklin and
Edith Weiss of West Bloomfield said
Baldwin's lecture confirmed everything
they read and heard about Ford and
made them all the more eager to read
Henry Ford and the Jews.
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