Every day, at dinner time, a servant presented Adolf Hitler with a list including different feature films; sometimes even cartoons. Der Führer would choose a film which would be viewed after dinner at the Music Room by all interested; even staff members were allowed to attend the screening (Kershaw, 101). In the prologue to the most horrific war of the century, Hitler's, and therefore Nazi Germany's, interest in cinema appears to be of major importance to the world's largest film industry: Hollywood. In The Collaboration, Ben Urwand argues that Hollywood's relationship with Nazi Germany was one of tolerance and cooperation; Hollywood studios turned a blind eye to the brutalities committed by the Nazi regime. This essay, however, will argue that Urwand's depiction of pre-war Hollywood is unfair due to the lack of implementation of Warner Bross' anti-fascist attitude in the 1930s and ignorance of several sentiments of American society. In The Collaboration, Urwand offers a vision of Hollywood as a mercenary enterprise that meekly obeyed the orders of German authorities in order to safeguard Germany as an export market for its films. According to Urwand, Hollywood studios entered into a partnership with the Germans after the Hollywood production All Quiet on the Western Front – a film about the post-war suffering of a German soldier – caused several riots in German cities. Hollywood studios and the Nazi regime agreed that Hollywood productions would only be welcome in Germany if German honor, prestige, and, over time, their Nazi ideals were not portrayed in any way. unfavorable manner. If a Hollywood production did not comply with the agreement, it would not be released...... middle of paper ......te, 1999. 409-412.Ross, Steven J. “Confessions of a Nazi - Spy: Warner Bros., Anti-fascism and the politicization of Hollywood. Warner's War: Politics, Pop Culture, and Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood. Ed. Martin Kaplan and Johanna Blakley. Los Angeles: Norman Lear Center Press, 2004. 48-59. Snow, Nancy. “Confessions of a Hollywood Propagandist: Harry Warner, FDR, and CelluloidPersuasion.” Warner's War: Politics, Pop Culture, and Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood. Ed. Martin Kaplan and Johanna Blakley. Los Angeles: Norman Lear Center Press, 2004. 61-71. Urwand, Ben. Collaboration: Hollywood's pact with Hitler. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. Wilson, Woodrow. “Declaration of war.” A Twentieth-Century American Reader. Ed. Jack Lane and Maurice O'Sullivan. Washington: US Department of State, 1999. 125-128.