Hitler also worked to expand his international links. These were partly designed to secure funding. One of the figures of whom Hitler had high hopes was the American automobile tycoon and Democratic Party Congressional candidate Henry Ford, who not only symbolized the kind of national productive capitalism he so admired but was an active anti-Semite into the bargain. His book, translated as Der internationale ]ude (1921), had been a great success in Germany. It was well known at the time that Hitler kept a portrait of Ford in his office, and there was talk of inviting the American to speak.
His overtures to Ford were a failure. According to Robert D. Murphy, US vice consul in Munich, who met Hitler in early March 1923, ‘Mr Ford’s organization had so far made no money contributions to the party’ and ‘his funds were principally contributed by patriotic Germans living abroad’. Press reports spoke of Nazi hopes for ‘America’ and a joint struggle against Jews and capitalism. At the end of August 1923, Hitler travelled to Switzerland in search of financial backing. ‘Hitler is very engaging,’ one of the ladies of the house of a wealthy Swiss supporter noted in her diary, ‘his whole body trembles when he speaks,’ which he did ‘wonderfully’. Hitler told the Swiss general Wille: ‘I will strike in the autumn’…
Hitler tried to win over the Americans through a series of interviews. In mid-August 1923 he gave a fire breathing interview to the New York World promising a ‘fascist dictatorship’ and demanding that ‘officialdom must be reduced to a minimum’, perhaps a sop to the ‘small government’ preferences of his American readers.
These overtures suggest that Hitler’s overwhelmingly negative image of Anglo-America had given way to a more positive attitude. This was partly tactically motivated, because he realized that his domestic aims could only be achieved with the support or at least the toleration of London and Washington.
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Have you ever noticed that the only Europeans who cared about race and had it be part of their culture at this time are Germanic peoples? Germans, Swedes, Americans, British, and Australians only had places dedicated to racial research and laws against race-mixing and for the last 1,000 years Germanic influences and control over countries like France (Franks) and Spain (Visigoths) had laws and regulations against race-mixing?
White Nationalists want to believe that all Europeans are racially aware but only the Germanic people have shown this. Slavs, especially Russians, Southern Europeans, Spain, and other Non-Germanic parts of Europe do not have race as a part of their culture. Also the country that are being overwhelmed with mass immigration are mostly Germanic countries and these countries have the last resistance to it because they don’t have their original culture to protect them like Hungary and Poland. Just something to think about.