A Book: Hitler barred Hollywood from depicting Nazi Germany in negative shades

The powerful and the mighty makes everyone bow down. It has emerged in a book on Hollywood that traces its past during the Hitler days. In the book “The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler,” explores the US film industry's obvious contentious dealings with Nazi Germany during the 1930. It points at the influence that Nazi Germany had on the Hollywood and how Nazi rulers forced the film makers not to depict Germany in a negative way.

The book's author, a Harvard post-doctoral fellow Ben Urwand, plowed through archival documents which reportedly uncover negotiations between the two entities. The book notes that “collaboration” is A word that continually appears in their correspondence, giving details of agreements to minimize any unfavorable depictions of Germany or the Nazi Party in American movies. And the movie studios had to bow down since at that time Germany was the second largest film market in the world. And Germany had threatened to exclude American films that clashed with Nazi ideology.

The book details how Hollywood studios ran scripts and even finished movies past the German officials for approval. The book gives examples of movies as important as 1930's Best Picture winner "All Quiet on the Western Front". The movies were scrubbed for alleged anti-Germany content.

This is the second book this year that claims to document the negotiations between Hollywood and Hitler's camp. Another book “Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-39” by Thomas Doberty was released in April this year that deeply explores the same topic.