Anti-Semitism Did Not Start With the Nazis

In 1934, a former Warner Brothers employee named Darryl Zinnuk got his hands on the script for a movie called The House of Rothschild. Since he wasn't Jewish himself and was the co-founder of his own studio, 20th Century Pictures, he felt free to produce whatever the hell he wanted. He saw this movie as a critique of anti-Semitism and a carefully veiled attack on Hitler. Only a non-Jew at this point in Hollywood could have gotten away with making a film that directly addressed anti-Semitic violence.