Posted on 08/16/2013 11:52:08 AM PDT by cowboy_code
LINK:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-hollywood-helped-hitler-595684?goback=%2Egde_38303_member_262328248
The Chilling History of How Hollywood Helped Hitler
In devastating detail, an excerpt from a controversial new book reveals how the big studios, desperate to protect German business, let Nazis censor scripts, remove credits from Jews, get movies stopped and even force one MGM executive to divorce his Jewish wife. This story first appeared in the Aug. 9 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
The 1930s are celebrated as one of Hollywood's golden ages, but in an exclusive excerpt from his controversial new book, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler (Harvard University Press, on sale Sept. 9), Harvard post-doctoral fellow Ben Urwand uncovers a darker side to Hollywood's past.
Drawing on a wealth of archival documents in the U.S. and Germany, he reveals the shocking extent to which Hollywood cooperated and collaborated with the Nazis during the decade leading up to World War II to protect its business.
The Nazis threatened to exclude American movies -- more than 250 played in Germany after Hitler took power in 1933 -- unless the studios cooperated. Before World War I, the German market had been the world's second largest, and even though it had shrunk during the Great Depression, the studios believed it would bounce back and worried that if they left, they would never be able to return.
"Gabriel Over the White House"- Walter Houston plays the president that disolves Congress. Is a Warner Brothers PRO-communist film. LINK: http://youtu.be/ZhDHqk7JIbM
Indeed, "collaboration" (and its German translation, Zusammenarbeit) is a word that appears regularly in the correspondence between studio officials and the Nazis. Although the word is fraught with meaning to modern ears, its everyday use at the time underscored the eagerness of both sides to smooth away their differences to preserve commerce
Paging Dr Godwin.
I await the follow-up on how Hollywood helped Lenin and Stalin. I won’t hold my breath.
See the movie “Red Star”. That will answer your question.
The biography, "The Dangerous Otto Katz" does a good job describing that.
While thinking they were donating to save the Germans from Hitler's fascism, the Hollywood elite had their money funneled to Russia whilst being indoctrinated by a Soviet operative
Or as the saying goes - Useful idiots.
Hard to believe Hollywood aided and abetted the Nazis, given the enormous Jewish influence in that industry.
That Hollywood aided and abetted Communists for decades before and after WWII is obvious, overwhelming, and undeniable.
“Gabriel Over the White House”- Walter Houston plays the president that disolves Congress.
Obama’s inspiration.
Hollywood has always been a cesspool of/for anti Constitutional persons. Of course I can’t tolerate the crap that is being fed the public these days either.However. there are many who disagree with me and would much better spend their money making poster millionaires.
Ah, yes. Hollywood helped Hitler right up to June 21, 1941. That’s when Stalen changed their . . . oops, his mind about Hitler.
More info please. I looked on IMDB and found an adult film, something about Mars, and a movie not yet released that wasn't described.
btw, I was being facetious with my post above. I'm well aware of the close links between Hollywood and the Soviet Union.
Can anyone recall a pro-Hitler or pro-Nazi film produced by Hollywood?
Chaplin?
Charlie Chaplin’s film-—The little Dictator-—I believe it was called-—mocked Hitler.
Heard about this book about how Nazi Germany tried to start their own cartoon studio to produce animation to rival
Disney, WB, etc.
>>Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, remained serious cartoon aficionados throughout their lives. They adored animation and their influence on German animation after World War II continues to this day. This study explores Hitler and Goebbels’ efforts to establish a German cartoon industry to rival Walt Disney’s and their love-hate relationship with American producers, whose films they studied behind locked doors. Despite their ambitious dream, all that remains of their efforts are a few cartoon shorts—advertising and puppet films starring dogs, cats, birds, hedgehogs, insects, Teutonic dwarves, and other fairy-tale ensemble. While these pieces do not hold much propaganda value, they perfectly illustrate Hannah Arendt’s controversial description of those who perpetrated the Holocaust: the banality of evil.
Yes I read somewhere that one of Hitler’s favorite movies was Snow White.
Actually, it's been done. Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930's and 1940's by Lloyd Billingsley (Rocklin, Calif.: Forum, 1998) covers the subject well. Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left (San Francisco: Encounter, 2005) has also been critically acclaimed, although I haven't read it.
Correction: the film Charlie Chaplin was in mocking Hitler was called The great Dictator.
It has been done. “Red Star over Hollywood” and “Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s.”
http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Party-Communism-American-Industry/dp/0761513760/ref=pd_sim_b_12
Elizabethan’s considered actors on a par with thieves, beggars, and whores. With a few exceptions, I think they might have had a point, especially today.
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