Book Review: The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler.
I mentioned this book before, and I just finally was able to finish it
The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler is a book that will piss you off and at the same time, will not surprise you in the light of current events. It seems the Nazis were the original Cancel Culture and exercised power enough to change movie scripts, make Hollywood edit already finished productions because it may affect the sensibilities of the German people. Oscar winning movies like All Quiet on the Western Front were actual shells of the original movie before it was gutted under the demand of the Nazis. Why? Germany was the top consumer of Hollywood films outside the US and the Hollywood machine did not want to lose that income. It was so bad that there was an actual member of the Nazi government dedicated to go to the studios and push the studios to do as the Nazi Party censors wanted
Was a Jew the star or main character of a movie? Verbotten! Jews who worked in the film received no credit least have the movie prohibited from exhibition in Germany And it that was not enough, the Nazis “convinced” Hollywood magnates to have a say so in the approval of scripts before thy made it to pre-production. If something was amiss, a correction was demanded under the threat of banning movies from a studio to be banned forever in the Reich. But that was snot enough: Studios were told to get rid of the Jews working for them, first in in their Germany offices and then in most Europe. The studios complied. Jews were not acceptable to any product that might end up in front of the German people this they were cancelled.
Sounds recently familiar?
