HOW ADOLF HITLER AND THE NAZIS HELPED TO PROMOTE AND SHAPE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOLLYWOOD AND AMERICAN LITERATURE!
By Mansor Puteh
(This is the second and final part of the essay which was first posted a few days earlier.)
I am also certain, if not for the Nazis, too, Hollywood would not bothered to come up with films dealing with the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis since there won’t be any story of this sort that they could produce anyway?
No ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Yentl’ and the others of this type will ever be produced. And the producers of these and the others of this nature can indeed thank the Nazis for inspiring them to come up with their films.
So what are they without the Nazis and Nazism for helping them to create their award-winning works? They were all hailed because of the Nazis.
In other words, without the Nazis and Nazism, Hollywood and American literature, too, won’t be what it is today. They are the reasons why Hollywood and American literature had been so shaped and defined.
Yet, the film historians and critics in America have all failed to acknowledge this fact, because they have been looking elsewhere, and are in a state of denial.
But my guess is that they are poor quality film historians and critics whose perspective of the cinema in America is so narrow.
What would Hollywood end up doing is to continue to produce films of the other type, which portray the Arabs as ‘romantic heroes’ in the style of Rudolf Valentino as can be seen in films such as ‘The Sheik’ and ‘The Son of Sheik’.
These are wonderful films made in the ‘silent era’ of Hollywood, the films that many American film historians want to silence and put aside for good.
It is an interesting era in the early development of the American cinema, but unfortunately, it is an era that has been swept under the carpet, simply because the Arabs which are being portrayed as romantic heroes in such films simply cannot be allowed to be given their due recognition these days.
Isn’t the remake of ‘The Sheik’ and ‘The Son of Sheikh’ long overdue? The production of such films can spell the new beginning of Hollywood, which is now in its dark ages. It is the Old Hollywood that had been left in the state of limbo. A New Hollywood has to emerge out of it, for the betterment of the American cinema and America.
Even American literature was greatly inspired by the persecution of the Jews and the others by the Nazis. Most of the major literary works created by their authors and other writers were all inspired by the treatment of the Nazis.
So Hollywood and American literature is nothing without the Nazis.
The also thanks and no thanks to the Nazis America was forced to become a nuclear power with its large arsenal of all sorts of nuclear arms in their haste to become the most powerful country in the world.
The Soviet Communists had their own scientists who could develop their nuclear program and send their rockets to space, while the Americans had to depend on the support of the smart Jewish scientists most of whom had to flee from Europe where they were persecuted by the Nazis.
If not for the Nazis again, America would not have become a nuclear power. The Soviets could have easily outwitted them on all scores.
So America has to ‘thank’ the Nazis again for this.
Unfortunately, in their haste to react to the Nazis and Nazism, America had also adopted some of the ways used by them by using the same means and methods to inflict harm and pain on the others who do not fall in like with the way they think.
They do not need to have the own versions of the ‘gas chambers’ which Hitler and the Nazis had introduced; they can just bomb the Arabs and Afghans to smithereens?
How sad. And how true!
What’s the point in writing the title of this essay and the essay itself by using other literally method? The impact will be less and not dramatic; even if it may mean that one is not an intellectual or a serious political and historical analyst, but a write-up with shallow ideas.
The truth of the matter is, the ends justify the means, as this case is.
That’s the point, since it is the intention of this essay which is to shock and bring everybody especially those people back to their senses, if they still have any left in them?
They had been living in such a suspended state of existence for far too long now, so there is no other way for anyone to bring them back to reality using historical facts more than anything even if they do not look quite real. But they are the truth.
And I’m not saying that America and Israel ought to appreciate what the Nazis had done in the Second World War, especially with their gas chambers and the atrocities that they had been said to have committed, although I was not there to witness it with my own eyes. I have read some of it and also seen it in many Hollywood films.
But the strange and funny thing is that both, America and Israel are behaving very much like the Nazis of old, yet they are not charged for being Neo-Nazis.
This is what I have heard and read; it is not a statement which I would be happy to come up with on my own. As always, there are other ways which I can express this, but they are all less dramatic and effective. This is.
I am writing this because our historians and political scientists have been sleeping or looking elsewhere, mostly those in America. Some of them have become propagandist because they have selective recall of historical events with some directors in Hollywood having a very narrow and blinkered view of things.
If not because of the Nazis, America would not have many of their top brains in all fields of endeavor today because they would still remain in their original countries in Europe and also Russia today, especially if they were given the best treatment and respect by their host countries and also in Germany.
If there was no Nazi Germany, can America be what it is now? Can the Zionist state of Israel exist? Would there be need for it to be created and continue to exist till today?
I doubt it.
The only reason why America is what it is today and why the Zionist state was created from lands that had been seized from the Palestinians is because of Nazism.
It is as weird as it sounds, but in many ways, America and Americans ought to ‘thank’ and be ‘grateful’ for the Nazis for taking it out of their stupor.
It was the Nazis which had forced many to flee Europe to go to America to start a new life and bringing with them a large group of Jews who were trained in many fields, which had made America what it is today.Even Hollywood was later on developed by the Jews, and till today, they continue to control it and also the entertainment industry as well as journalism and the modern media as well as literature and academia.
What if there was no Nazi Germany? Would the Jews of Germany and Europe want to come to America?
Why would they, when they were being treated cordially that allowed them to prosper economically and intellectually?
It was only after the Nazis appeared in Germany that the Jews started to become uncomfortable and worse, fearful of their lives so much so that they began to flee from the Continent, after seeing so many of their relatives and friends dead in the hands of the ruthless Nazis and their ‘gas chambers’.
Without the Nazis, Israel, too, would not have been created, since the Jews would still be where they were, all over Europe and in many other countries in Africa, where they lived comfortably and being protected by Arab and Muslim leaders.
What if the Jews in Germany were not persecuted? And what if there were no gas chambers? And no Auschwitz, too?
What if the Jews were not forced to flee from Germany and Europe? Would America be what it is today? Would the Zionist state exist today? Would Zionism have been created?
Were all these entities created purely because of their abhorrence of the Nazis and Nazism?
And coincidentally, would American attitudes have been so shaped today because of all these, and their abhorrence of Communism?
Unfortunately, it was because of the Nazis and Nazism which had caused the Palestinians to suffer all this while. And it is also because of the Nazis and Nazism which has turned the rest of the world upside down, especially after America and its allies started to readily adopted their own brand of Nazism in another more ‘friendly and cultured form’.
How America had truly benefited from the Nazis and Nazism while the others had been ruined by them.
It is unbeknownst to them that it is so. How sad. And how true!
(This is the second and final part of the essay which was first posted a few days earlier.)
I am also certain, if not for the Nazis, too, Hollywood would not bothered to come up with films dealing with the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis since there won’t be any story of this sort that they could produce anyway?
No ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Yentl’ and the others of this type will ever be produced. And the producers of these and the others of this nature can indeed thank the Nazis for inspiring them to come up with their films.
So what are they without the Nazis and Nazism for helping them to create their award-winning works? They were all hailed because of the Nazis.
In other words, without the Nazis and Nazism, Hollywood and American literature, too, won’t be what it is today. They are the reasons why Hollywood and American literature had been so shaped and defined.
Yet, the film historians and critics in America have all failed to acknowledge this fact, because they have been looking elsewhere, and are in a state of denial.
But my guess is that they are poor quality film historians and critics whose perspective of the cinema in America is so narrow.
What would Hollywood end up doing is to continue to produce films of the other type, which portray the Arabs as ‘romantic heroes’ in the style of Rudolf Valentino as can be seen in films such as ‘The Sheik’ and ‘The Son of Sheik’.
These are wonderful films made in the ‘silent era’ of Hollywood, the films that many American film historians want to silence and put aside for good.
It is an interesting era in the early development of the American cinema, but unfortunately, it is an era that has been swept under the carpet, simply because the Arabs which are being portrayed as romantic heroes in such films simply cannot be allowed to be given their due recognition these days.
Isn’t the remake of ‘The Sheik’ and ‘The Son of Sheikh’ long overdue? The production of such films can spell the new beginning of Hollywood, which is now in its dark ages. It is the Old Hollywood that had been left in the state of limbo. A New Hollywood has to emerge out of it, for the betterment of the American cinema and America.
Even American literature was greatly inspired by the persecution of the Jews and the others by the Nazis. Most of the major literary works created by their authors and other writers were all inspired by the treatment of the Nazis.
So Hollywood and American literature is nothing without the Nazis.
The also thanks and no thanks to the Nazis America was forced to become a nuclear power with its large arsenal of all sorts of nuclear arms in their haste to become the most powerful country in the world.
The Soviet Communists had their own scientists who could develop their nuclear program and send their rockets to space, while the Americans had to depend on the support of the smart Jewish scientists most of whom had to flee from Europe where they were persecuted by the Nazis.
If not for the Nazis again, America would not have become a nuclear power. The Soviets could have easily outwitted them on all scores.
So America has to ‘thank’ the Nazis again for this.
Unfortunately, in their haste to react to the Nazis and Nazism, America had also adopted some of the ways used by them by using the same means and methods to inflict harm and pain on the others who do not fall in like with the way they think.
They do not need to have the own versions of the ‘gas chambers’ which Hitler and the Nazis had introduced; they can just bomb the Arabs and Afghans to smithereens?
How sad. And how true!
What’s the point in writing the title of this essay and the essay itself by using other literally method? The impact will be less and not dramatic; even if it may mean that one is not an intellectual or a serious political and historical analyst, but a write-up with shallow ideas.
The truth of the matter is, the ends justify the means, as this case is.
That’s the point, since it is the intention of this essay which is to shock and bring everybody especially those people back to their senses, if they still have any left in them?
They had been living in such a suspended state of existence for far too long now, so there is no other way for anyone to bring them back to reality using historical facts more than anything even if they do not look quite real. But they are the truth.
And I’m not saying that America and Israel ought to appreciate what the Nazis had done in the Second World War, especially with their gas chambers and the atrocities that they had been said to have committed, although I was not there to witness it with my own eyes. I have read some of it and also seen it in many Hollywood films.
But the strange and funny thing is that both, America and Israel are behaving very much like the Nazis of old, yet they are not charged for being Neo-Nazis.
This is what I have heard and read; it is not a statement which I would be happy to come up with on my own. As always, there are other ways which I can express this, but they are all less dramatic and effective. This is.
I am writing this because our historians and political scientists have been sleeping or looking elsewhere, mostly those in America. Some of them have become propagandist because they have selective recall of historical events with some directors in Hollywood having a very narrow and blinkered view of things.
If not because of the Nazis, America would not have many of their top brains in all fields of endeavor today because they would still remain in their original countries in Europe and also Russia today, especially if they were given the best treatment and respect by their host countries and also in Germany.
If there was no Nazi Germany, can America be what it is now? Can the Zionist state of Israel exist? Would there be need for it to be created and continue to exist till today?
I doubt it.
The only reason why America is what it is today and why the Zionist state was created from lands that had been seized from the Palestinians is because of Nazism.
It is as weird as it sounds, but in many ways, America and Americans ought to ‘thank’ and be ‘grateful’ for the Nazis for taking it out of their stupor.
It was the Nazis which had forced many to flee Europe to go to America to start a new life and bringing with them a large group of Jews who were trained in many fields, which had made America what it is today.Even Hollywood was later on developed by the Jews, and till today, they continue to control it and also the entertainment industry as well as journalism and the modern media as well as literature and academia.
What if there was no Nazi Germany? Would the Jews of Germany and Europe want to come to America?
Why would they, when they were being treated cordially that allowed them to prosper economically and intellectually?
It was only after the Nazis appeared in Germany that the Jews started to become uncomfortable and worse, fearful of their lives so much so that they began to flee from the Continent, after seeing so many of their relatives and friends dead in the hands of the ruthless Nazis and their ‘gas chambers’.
Without the Nazis, Israel, too, would not have been created, since the Jews would still be where they were, all over Europe and in many other countries in Africa, where they lived comfortably and being protected by Arab and Muslim leaders.
What if the Jews in Germany were not persecuted? And what if there were no gas chambers? And no Auschwitz, too?
What if the Jews were not forced to flee from Germany and Europe? Would America be what it is today? Would the Zionist state exist today? Would Zionism have been created?
Were all these entities created purely because of their abhorrence of the Nazis and Nazism?
And coincidentally, would American attitudes have been so shaped today because of all these, and their abhorrence of Communism?
Unfortunately, it was because of the Nazis and Nazism which had caused the Palestinians to suffer all this while. And it is also because of the Nazis and Nazism which has turned the rest of the world upside down, especially after America and its allies started to readily adopted their own brand of Nazism in another more ‘friendly and cultured form’.
How America had truly benefited from the Nazis and Nazism while the others had been ruined by them.
It is unbeknownst to them that it is so. How sad. And how true!
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