Hateful articles against Jewish people (anti-semitic) were published in Ford's Dearborn Independent newspaper, distributed through Ford's dealerships.  The Dearborn Independent also published The International Jew which had a big influence on the Nazis.

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He received the "Grand Service Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle", the highest honor of Nazi Germany to a foreigner.

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"Only a single great man, Ford, [who], to [the Jews'] fury, still maintains full independence...[from] the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions."
  - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

It hurt the Ford Motor Company.

People of all religions objected to Ford's anti-semitism, including President Woodrow Wilson, and many boycotted Ford. He shut down the paper in 1927, and apologized in a public letter.