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Part One: How Hollywood Helped The Nazis

Behind the Bastards

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The Nazis Aren't Getting Their Whole Way Yet

Hollywood reached an accord with the Nazis. They put up lists each studio of their best Jewish employees in Germany and the German government would grant those employees exemptions. The collaboration basically credits the delay to the fact that because the Germans had fired all of the Jewish people from their own film production company, they weren't able to make enough movies. In 1932, before Hitler was in power, they'd sold 54 films to Germany. In 1933, they sell 65 pictures. Because they're the only people making movies that German citizens can get.

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