From The Chronicle of Higher
Education
"Largely
through the Third Reich's vice consul in Los Angeles, Georg Gyssling, the
Nazi-Hollywood relationship gave Hitler and his propaganda minister, Joseph
Goebbels, effectual power over what films got made, what scenes got cut, which
stars and filmmakers were blacklisted, and which Jewish studio employees in
Germany were fired. The Germans demanded say not just over American films shown
in Germany but over those shown anywhere. Nazi emissaries visited theaters
worldwide to report back on whether promised scene cuts had in fact been
carried out. If not, the officials scolded the studios and threatened to close
German production and distribution markets to them. The studios, year after
year, would promptly grovel and comply."
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