Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Useful Jewish Idiots, Movie Mogul Division

A new book details a shocking and little-know fact about Jewish Hollywood movie moguls--they had no qualms about doing business with Hitler:
Urwand has titled his riveting book The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler, and as you turn its pages you realize with dismay that collaboration is the only fitting word for the relationship between Hitler and Hollywood in the 1930s. Using new archival discoveries, Urwand alleges that some of the Hollywood studio heads, nearly all of whom were Jewish, cast their lot with Hitler almost from the moment he took power, and that they did so eagerly—not reluctantly. What they wanted was access to German audiences. What Hitler wanted was the ability to shape the content of Hollywood movies—and he got it. During the ’30s, Georg Gyssling, Hitler’s consul in Los Angeles, was invited to preview films before they were released. If Gyssling objected to any part of a movie—and he frequently did—the offending scenes were cut. As a result, the Nazis had total veto power over the content of Hollywood movies. 
What is shocking and new about Urwand’s account is its blow-by-blow description of Hollywood executives tailoring their product to meet the demands of the Nazi regime...
Granted, this was before the Holocaust, but surely any Jew with a passing familiarity with Mein Kampf and Hitler's persecution of the Jews in the 1930 (hello, Kristallnacht) should have had the sensitivity, morality and backbone to tell the Nazis to eff off.

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