Hollywood ,Adolf Hitler And The Book 'The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler'The Young Historian Ben Urwand: The Movies Nazis Loved and Hated [SLIDESHOW]

Adolf Hitler loved Hollywood movies. Every night at about 9:00, after the Fuehrer had tired out his listeners with his hours-long monologues, he would lead his dinner guests to his private screening room.

The lights would go down, and Hitler would fall silent, probably for the first time that day. He laughed heartily at his favorites Laurel and Hardy and Mickey Mouse, and he adored Greta Garbo: Camille brought tears to the Fuehrer's eyes. Tarzan, on the other hand, he thought was silly.

As it turns out, Hitler's love for American movies was reciprocated by Hollywood. A forthcoming book by the young historian Ben Urwand, to be published by Harvard University Press in October, presents explosive new evidence about the shocking extent of the partnership between the Nazis and major Hollywood producers. Urwand has titled his riveting book 'The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler', and as you turn its pages you realize with dismay that collaboration is the only fitting word for the relationship between Hitler and Hollywood in the 1930s.

Let us check out the movies Nazis Loved and Hated:

'Susannah of the Mounties'
'Tarzan'
Mickey Mouse in 'Funny Factory'
'The House of Rothschild'
'All Quiet on the Western Front'
'Let Freedom Ring'
'The Eternal Jew'

Hitler saw himself as a cinematic hero, a matinee idol who overwhelmed the adoring crowds awestruck by his power. He stepped in on occasion and edited the Nazi newsreels himself; he realized that film swayed the masses. Hitler knew he had to feed people fantasy in order to get them to follow his evil vision, and he knew that the movies had taught him how to exploit fantasy's power: how to seduce on the grandest possible scale. The movies he found most inspiring, most magical in the spell they cast on an audience, were made in America. As Neal Gabler argued in An Empire of Their Own, the Hollywood Jews invented the America of our dreams, a place of high excitement, courage, laughs, compassion, family feeling, and true love. Hitler's dream was different, and it found a terrible fulfillment in mass murder and war. Hollywood could have helped awaken the world to the looming danger of Nazism, but instead the Jewish dream-makers cast their lot with the world's-and the Jews'-greatest enemy.