Many of the other demands from Nazis concerned removing all Jewish references from movies. For example, Warner Bros. agreed to remove every instance of the word "Jew" from 1937's The Life Of Emile Zola ... which tells the true story of a famous controversy centered around a Jew. A couple of proposed pictures were scrapped altogether, including a 1936 satire called It Can't Happen Here and 1933's Mad Dog Of Europe, about a Jewish family suffering under Hitler. For a long time, the latter film's cancellation was thought to be due to concerns from Jewish groups fearing retaliation, but documents show that MGM had their German profits in mind when they made the call.
The researcher who made that discovery, Ben Urwand, has attracted some controversy for calling Hollywood's relationship with the Nazis "collaboration," because it makes it seem like executives of the time took part in the goose-stepping themselves. But what Hollywood did do was pretty shitty and greedy. And it went further than artistic choices ...
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