An historian argues that Hollywood helped Adolf Hitler with his propaganda efforts. This is a subject that I will be watching to see how Urwand's book is reviewed. The New York Times quotes some critics, but it also indicates there are documents supporting Urwand. Harvard Press did publish it and it is not noted for publishing "conspiracy" literature.
But now a young historian says that in the years before the war,
Tinseltown was marching to a very different tune. Ben Urwand, 35 has
written a book, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler, in
which he cites documents that prove, he says, US studios acquiesced to
Nazi censorship of their films actively cooperated with the regime's
world propaganda effort.
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