In 1938 Disney personally showed a Nazi his studio...

On December 8, exactly one month after the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, Disney gave Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a three-hour tour of his studio and showed her storyboards for Fantasia.4Hollywood Reporter.

In Detroit, the publicly known anti-Semite Henry Ford gave her a tour of his factories. Once she arrived in Hollywood—most of whose studios were run by Jews—only one studio head would meet with her: the non-Jewish, but cautious Walt Disney. She disparages this encounter as “an appointment with a mouse.” · “In November 1938 there was public outcry about Germany, but full details were not yet known,” says McCray.

In November of 1938, Third Reich director Leni Riefenstahl, who had wowed the cinematic world with her Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will (1935) and her body-fascist account of the Berlin Olympic Games, Olympia (1938), was scheduled to ...

The Disney representative quickly hid the remaining prints of Disney films, saving them from Nazi destruction. According to a later recollection by Feignoux’s sister Jacqueline Vieuille, “Wally had been brought up by our parents that you have to do your duty no matter the circumstances. He was proud to represent Disney and felt passion for his work.” Disney’s Paris offices on the Champs-Elysée were ironically, according to Vieuille, in the same building as the occupying Germans’ propaganda office. Walt Disney corroborated parts of the Feignoux story in his interviews with Pete Martin.

When Walt Disney received word that the Disney studio lot in Burbank had been requisitioned as an Army anti-aircraft base after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, he and his staff pledged to support the war effort without hesitation—and without profit.

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Disney also personally hosted Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl when she came to promote her film Olympia in 1938, a month after the infamous assault on Jews known as Kristallnacht. Disney gave the propagandist a grand tour of his studio, and Riefenstahl even commented that it was “gratifying to learn how thoroughly proper Americans distance themselves from the smear campaigns of the Jews.” This is documented in the Steve Bach biography about the filmmaker titled Leni.

German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, whose documentaries helped glorify the Nazis and was a favorite of Adolf Hitler, was allowed to visit the Disney Studios and meet with Walt in December 1938 when she was in Los Angeles promoting her movie Olympia, ...

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