February 26, 1974 –
A U.S. Senate report reveals Ford Motor’s involvement in Nazi Germany’s war efforts, for which CEO Henry Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle at the behest Adolf Hitler himself.
After the war, the car company was paid nearly $1M reparation by the U.S. government to compensate for one of its plants that was bombed within the Reich.
The Haus of Dcaligari 