German leaders. This is about 50 minutes. Our next speaker is holger herwig. He earned his phd in the United States and resides in canada where he holds a position at the university of calgary and is the chair of the institute for research studies. His list of awards and appointments are staggering. Fellow of the Royal Society of canada, a grant recipient from the Alexander Von Humboldt foundation and he has held numerous distinguished visiting appointments such as the visiting professor of strategy at the naval war college, newport, rhode island. Dr. Herwig has an impressive publication list and many of his projects have been transformed into television documentaries. He has published more than a dozen books, inclusive of the First World War germany and austria hungary, 19141918 that won the norm lynn e. Tomlinson prize for best book. Another important book is the marne 1914. Dr. Herwig will speak to us did about battle of the marne. Of that engagement he writes he wanted to write abo
Famously formed rabbi rabbi franklin, leo franklin. In the middle of the whole series of antisemitic articles, what do you think franklin did when he got a free card from henry ford . Returned it. You know. You must have the wrong person here. Youre just accusing jews of all sorts of things, how can you offer mo a gift . Henry ford was deeply surprised. Im talking about the jews, im not talking about you. And even though this is humorous to us it does remind us of an important theme in the scholarship, which we talked about early on. The mythical jew and the jew next door. To henry ford, hes the jew next door. Hes highly respected, honorable, an important religious leader. I want to be on good terms with him. Hes an important figure. Ill send him a card. From franklins point of view, if youre writing all of these negative things about jews, then i side with them. But its an interesting k356r78. An interesting example how in the antisesemitic mind you can simultaneously sometimes, you k
15 minutes. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Last time, we looked broadly at the rise of hatred during world war i and we looked at immigration restriction, which was in some ways related to that, and a little bit about the activities of the ku klux klan and we spent a lot of time on the translation of the forgeries known as the protocols of the elders of lyon. And we mentioned some of the antiimmigrant rhetoric connected with prohibition. What i want to do today is focus on the person who really did more than anyone else to fan the flames of antisemitism in the 1920s, and that was none other than the famous american industrialist henry ford. Henry ford is a great hero to many americans. There were lots of people who wanted henry ford to run for president in 1924. But as we will see, jews, for understandable reasons perceived henry ford to be an enemy. Now i trust many of you know at least something about henry ford. Let me give a little bit of background on henry ford. He is in e
When he says let us work until we build the south, because hes here making a critique of those who are arguing that part of the reason why reconstruction failed was because of africanamerican decent did not participate fully the way that they should have. Washington doesnt even address that argument. He simply says let us work and well help rebuild thew south. When he says that, he plays into perhaps this whole notion of blacks as workers and thats all that they really are. So the atlantic exposition address is at the top of the list list. Second we know that booker twa supported plessy vs. Ferguson that established separate but equal in American Society. In fact, strengthened segregation. It was past one year after the atlanta exposition address and many blame the passage of plessy vs. Ferguson on booker t. Washington. He was summoned and asked o to testify before congress about plessy vs. Ferguson and he gave his blessing, you might say to a separate but equal arena or policy by the
And distribute the deerborn independent. So it is going to be a much more important newspaper than you know had he just remained a very local newspaper in deerborn, and he buys the paper and sets it up, gets going in 1919. Its called the deerborn independent but honestly it wasnt independent at all. Its a free country call it whatever you like, independent but it was actually totally dependent on the Ford Motor Company. And not surprisingly if you were to read a run of the paper, its views and the views of henry ford are remarkably similar. That shouldnt surprise us. You know, that would be true of any newspaper that reflects the views of its owners. But the paper is very much in favor of pacifism. It likes prohibition, meaning thateih n its in favor of limiting alcohol, which ford thought was wicked. It supports all sorts of old traditions. One of the most Interesting Articles and the title of the article tells you a lot about the outlook of henry ford is an editorial that was entitle