In September 1941, isolationist Senator Gerald Nye charged Hollywood, many of whose studios were headed by Jews, with producing pro-war movies “to drug the reason of the American people, set aflame their emotions, turn their hatred into a blaze, and fill them with fear that Hitler will come over here and capture them.” In truth, it was just the opposite. With Europe a big consumer of American. cinema, studios were afraid to offend the Nazis. That changed in December 1941, after Pearl Harbor, when Hollywood enlisted in the war cause by producing combat films with major stars and patriotic cartoons with Disney characters. Read more about Hollywood and WWII in A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (see NOVELS).
