The article makes this book sound a little bit hyperbolic and sensationalistic.  The book's title - "The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler" - certainly grabs my attention, but I'm wondering how well this new research will support the idea that the Hollywood studios actually made a pact with the Devil and did the Nazis' bidding.

I imagine that you could read the production, international distribution, and censor files for any picture and jump to all sorts of conclusions.  There's a lot of history from a lot of vantage points involved here, and I hope everything has been taken into context and considered by the author.

Uncle Carl did have a wide distribution network in Europe (and especially Germany) in the 1920s…and maybe into the 1930s?  But I'll need to see some proof before I'll believe that he bowed to every telegram from Berlin.  Same goes for M-G-M actively producing steel for German weapons and welcoming the invasion of Poland.

Also, if all Warner Bros. releases were banned in Germany in 1934, as the article states, why would Jack Warner care what they thought about THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA circa 1937?