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Posted - 02/13/2014 : 17:14:35
Hitler and Hollywood
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-Hitler-1933-1939-Culture-Series/dp/0231163924
The Collaboration
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collaboration-Hollywoods-Pact-Hitler/dp/0674724747/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1392311653&sr=1-1&keywords=the+collaboration
Theres a couple of recent Books that examine the relationship between Hollywood and Nazi Germany in the 1930's. They are fascinating and paint a rather too cosy relationship in which Hollywood continued screening in Germany until 1940!
Some studios come off better than others - Warners got banned early on ( around 1933 ) but the rest comtinued to screen films in Germany through the 1930's. This isn't the whole picture though. Germany passed a law that allowed them to nix ALL a studios films in Germany if the Nazi Party disapproved. It's easy to forget that Germany was the major foreign territory and a huge earner.
The studios, mostly run by Jewish Businessmen, had to toe the line or face the loss of a major export market. That this was not more of a problem to the Studio Execs is examined in these Books.
Perhaps the most interesting nuggets include the role of the Nazi Consul in LA. He acted like a Nazi Hays Office and his "suggestions" got films altered or never made. In fact, the much lambasted Hays Office were the only ones who made half an effort to stop the shameful practices.
Anyway, its an interesting if somewhat painful area of Hollywood that they would prefer to forget. |
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