SS: In the last article, I discussed how in the 1930s, Hollywood was reluctant to make any anti-Nazi movies for a variety of reasons — chiefly that the Nazi government might invoke Article 15 of their film quota law to ban the studio that made it in Germany.

So if you can’t make anti-Nazi movies, what about a pro-Jew movie? If you can’t build some animosity against Hitler then maybe you can build some sympathy for Jews. Article 15 said you couldn’t make Germany look bad but it didn’t say anything about making Jews look good. That was the thinking of the two philo-Semitic gentiles behind the creation of the 1934 film The House of Rothschild. The House of Rothschild would end up being the greatest unintentional antisemitic propaganda movie of all time. They Live has nothing on The House of Rothschild.