Friday 24 July 2015

The Collaboration : Hollywood's Pact with Nazi Germany



Adolf Hitler considered Charlie Chaplin to be one of the greatest actors he had ever seen, even though Hitler assumed that Chaplin was a Jew.

Adolf Hitler banned The Great Dictator in Germany and in all countries occupied by the Nazis. Curiosity got the better of him though, and he had a print brought in through Portugal. History records that he screened it twice, in private, but history did not record his reaction to the film. 

Charlie Chaplin said, "I'd give anything to know what he thought of it." 

For political reasons in Germany, the ban stayed after the end of WWII until 1958.
The House of Rothschild (1934) from Spike EP on Vimeo.
This work is in the public domain.

"The film begins at the home of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) and his wife Guttle Schnapper (1770–1812). As one of their sons sees the taxman coming, they hurry and hide their wealth, including currency, silver, etc. However, the taxman finds some of it hidden in the basement, and decides to charge Rothschild less than the amount due, but keep the money with him. Later, as Mayer Amschel Rothschild is lying on his deathbed, he instructs his five sons to start banks in different countries across Europe: Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773-1855) in Germany, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774-1855) in Austria, Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836) in England, Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788-1855) in Italy, and James Mayer de Rothschild (1792-1868) in France.

As they fund the Napoleonic Wars of 1803–1815, they aim to gain respectability from the European nobility, which shuns them and refuses to treat them as equals because they are Jews.

However, at the end of film, the House of Rothschild buys when all of society sells their own country stock, and because of faith became the rich and respected through a moral decision to buy against the tyranny over Jews."

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