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Author of The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler, and a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University
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Ben Urwand
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FROM Ben Urwand
Which Way, L.A.?
Hitler and Hollywood Two new books, one published and the other still under way, tell two different stories about LA's Jewish studio heads in the 1930's -- as Adolph Hitler was taking power and creating Germany's anti-Semitic Nazi regime. They agree on one thing: Hitler thought Hollywood had created the world's greatest propaganda machine.
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