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"They were the polite front of an ideology that led to mass murder, and they expected Kazan to honour their gentleman’s agreement."

You are part of the gentleman's agreement - no matter how repulsive the ideology, no matter how dangerous the artist, you will help propogate the message by supporting it financially and through word of mouth, because some aspect tickles your particular artistic tastes. The saddest part is that you are obviously intelligent enough to see what is behind it, but you won't break through the conformity of art appreciation to simply reject the prettily wrapped package they present you.

Praising their talents lends support to their efforts and helps spread their message - "Hey, that Reifenstal movie was great, did you catch it?" "Wow, Adolf is a truly powerful public speaker, you should hear him".

Thus, many others were indoctrinated into the Nazi party, some to the point of doing Hitler's dirty work. Many were swayed by the immersion in Nazi ideology promoted by Reifenstal's great movies and Adolph Hitler's political theatre which you celebrate.

- Thus the whole point of the article, which you appear to have missed and are now condescendingly telling ME to focus.