The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich

3559 Pages·2015·5.61 MB·English

by  Max Wallace

TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT
THE GOOD FIGHT
Heroes are created
by popular demand,
sometimes out of the
scariest materials, or
none at all.
—GERALD
WHITE JOHNSON
Table of
Contents
Title Page
Epigraph
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 -
CHRONICLER OF THE
NEGLECTED TRUTH
CHAPTER 2 - THE
FÜHRER’S
INSPIRATION
CHAPTER 3 -
SUPERHERO
CHAPTER 4 - STRANGE
BEDFELLOWS
CHAPTER 5 - HATE BY
PROXY
CHAPTER 6 -
HISTORY’S STAGE
CHAPTER 7 - THE
LONELY EAGLE
CHAPTER 8 - AN
ARSENAL OF NAZISM
CHAPTER 9 - AMERICA
FIRST
CHAPTER 10 - FALLEN
HERO
CHAPTER 11 - “WILL IT
RUN?”
CHAPTER 12 -
BUSINESS AS USUAL
CHAPTER 13 -
REDEMPTION
CONCLUSION
ALSO BY MAX
WALLACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PRIMARY SOURCES
NOTES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Copyright Page
PREFACE
Twelve years had passed
since Germany was
compelled to sign the Treaty
of Versailles when Annetta
Antona arrived at 17 Brienner
Strasse on the afternoon of
December 28, 1931, to
interview a rising politician
named Adolf Hitler. Thirteen
years of stewing in the bile of
defeat. Thirteen years of
Germany’s pondering a
suitable scapegoat for its
capitulation in World War I
and humiliation at the peace
conference. Thirteen years of
longing to reinvigorate Aryan
pride.
A longtime Detroit News
columnist, Antona was part of
a team dispatched by the
paper to tell the story of how