Until the outbreak of World War II, between twenty and sixty new American titles hit German theaters every year; Hitler himself was a huge fan of Merian C. Cooper’s 1933 film King Kong.

Incidentally, Hitler destroyed the German film industry, a personal blow to Hitchcock. Thus, not only had Hitler furnished the plot and marketing, but he had just delivered the best and brightest ...

Meanwhile, a large Anglo-American ... downturn for the film industry that came with the outbreak of war, all of the experts left at Shepperton were drafted in to help defeat Hitler.

Leni Riefenstahl filmed the 1934 rally for her propaganda film Triumph of the Will. The most vivid event was an outdoor evening rally of party leaders. In 1935 Hitler's architect Albert Speer ...