Chapter 5

Henry Ford, The International Jew & the Gold Standard

The industrialist who built the American middle class also published the most controversial newspaper series in American history — and his warnings about the gold standard proved prophetic.

Veritas Worldwide · March 2026 · 1920–1971

Henry Ford was the most powerful industrialist in American history. He was also the most prominent anti-Semite in the Western world, and his writings directly influenced Adolf Hitler.

man, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. Adolf Hitler kept a portrait of Henry Ford on his desk in Munich and cited Ford's writings as an influence in Mein Kampf. [1] Ford's central argument was that a network of Jewish financiers — centered on the Rothschild family and their associates — controlled the world's banking systems, manipulated wars for profit, and used their financial power to corrupt governments and culture. He presented this argument as documented fact, citing real events and real people, but embedding them in a framework of ethnic conspiracy theory that attributed to "the Jews" as a group what was, at most, the behavior of specific individuals who happened to be Jewish.