Automaker Henry Ford was the only American mentioned in Hitler’s Mein Kampf.  Hitler admired many of Ford’s theories about auto-making and also some anti-semitic articles that were published under Ford’s name in a weekly newspaper The Dearborn Independent.  In 1924, Hitler even sent a representative to Ford’s house to ask him for a contribution to the Nazi movement.  Ford declined.  Once his anti-semitic views became more widely known, Ford retracted many of his statements.  In 1927, he issued a public apology, and history text books pretty much swept it all under the rug. 

On another note, Henry Ford was also a big proponent of hiring the handicapped (I sincerely hope it wasn’t an act of exploitation).  In 1919, more than 20% of  Ford’s employees had some form of disability.

That’s very respectable.  And also something you don’t really want to hear coming from your car company.

Nazi Germany initiated the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history.  Hitler smoked in his younger years, but unfortunately gave it up when he got older.  He viewed smoking as “the wrath of the red man against the white man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.”  Could also be the highly addictive nicotine, but whatever.  Hitler expressed that “so many excellent men have been lost to tobacco poisoning.”  Wow, what a humanitarian.  Inversely, many cigarettes felt that too many good men had been lost to Hitler poisoning.

The Charlie Chaplin mustache, also known as the toothbrush mustache, or perhaps, (who are we kiddin’?) the Hitler mustache, was actually a popular style of facial hair in the 1920s.  The mustache pretty much lost its appeal as it became increasingly connected with Adolf Hitler.  It is rumored that Hitler wore the ‘stache because it properly fit under a gas-mask. Perhaps he should have ditched the gas-mask instead of ditching 66% of a normal mustache.   Hitler ruined a once totally acceptable style.  It’s similar to how hipsters ruined everything truckers, farmers, and old men in general like to wear.