Introduction -- Infection (1929/1937): Weimar-era filmmaking and the disease taking root in Germany -- Rage (1938/1941): as Nazi aggression spreads across Europe, voices of defiance are finally heard -- Inferno (1942/1945): America enters World War II as the combatants attack each other on-screen as well as off -- Final solutions (1946/1954): postwar Hollywood and Washington continue to ignore the Holocaust even as Nazi war criminals are hunted down on-screen -- Airbrush (1955/1962): both Hollywood and Germany rewrite history as it condemns Nazism while praising "good Germans" in war-themed films -- Meshugannah (1963/1980): mad doctors, Nazi zombies, attempts to revive Hitler, death camp perverts and Ships of fools -- Ghosts (1981/2015): concentration camp children appear as next-door neighbors, we find out what it's like to be Hitler's secretary, and Nazi zombies return (with a vengeance!).
Summary:
"Drawing on studio files, Production Code office correspondence and the writings of noted historians and critics, this book describes the making of many films produced in Hollywood, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations. Biographies of several military and political figures who served as the basis for Nazi characters compare the cinematic and real-life versions"-- Provided by publisher.
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