The Hollywood-Hitler-Spielberg Connection

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Steely writes:

> At last, the Harvard--Hitler--Souza Nexus:
[...]
> that was played by the brown-shirt columns as they marched through the
> Brandenburger Tor on the day he took over power.  Rah, rah, rah! became
> Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil! but that is the origin of it and I suppose I must
> take my share of the blame."

And then there's Goebbel's fascination with the old Hollywood epics, 
and his subsequent exploitation (and further development) of Hollywood 
conventions in films such as Jud Suess. And then, of course, in the 
next logical evolutionary step, the enthusiastic adoption and further 
refinement of propaganda tricks by the post-war (and then post-sixties) 
ad industry and by such contemporary masters as Stephen Spielberg....

hg
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