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> In 1938, Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, a medal given to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Honors_and_recognit...

By US standards, Musk is pretty good. And I doubt there'll be any economic consequences for him no matter what ideologies he holds. The literal next line on Wikipedia is "The United States Postal Service honored Ford with a Prominent Americans series (1965โ€“1978) 12ยข postage stamp".



I'm not going to research historical Nazi's to try and what, understand???, why current day nazi's aren't so bad. Fuck all Nazi's.


Actually before WW2 many Americans were somewhat sympathetic to the Nazis; Hitler didn't seem so bad until he started invading other countries and stepped up his persecution of the Jews and Roma in 1938. Other recipients of that award were Charles Lindburgh and the chairman of IBM.




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