In Hitler's Mein Kampf, he is the only American mention

Ford was one of the most well-known and significant Americans of the period, and his anti-Semitic beliefs provided validity to numerous ideas that may not have had much otherwise. In addition to these achievements, Ford actively attempted to "Americanize" immigrants and utilized his employer's power to forcefully socially engineer workers' lives. Ford had a vehement dislike for labor unions, which he commonly referred to as a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. He did utilize his position as one of the most reputable and well-known businessmen in America to aggressively disseminate antisemitic conspiracy theories. He is the only American mentioned by name in Mein Kampf because of how well-known his anti-Jewish tirades became both domestically and overseas.

The International Jew was translated into German in 1922, and Baldur von Schirach, who later rose to the position of a national youth leader for the Nazi Party was among many who were influenced by it. According to Schirach, "I read it and developed antisemitism. My friends and I were so deeply affected by this book at the time because we saw in Henry Ford the embodiment of success.

In addition, Adolf Hitler, the head of the Nazi Party, only ever acknowledged Henry Ford as an American in his autobiographical book Mein Kampf. Only one brilliant guy, Ford, to their chagrin, still maintains full independence, according to what Hitler stated in his book: "Every year makes them (American Jews) more and more the controlling lords of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty million."