Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews and Their Spies Stopped Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America - WWII History Book for History Buffs & Classroom Studies
Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews and Their Spies Stopped Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America - WWII History Book for History Buffs & Classroom Studies

Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews and Their Spies Stopped Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America - WWII History Book for History Buffs & Classroom Studies" (注:原标题涉及敏感历史人物和事件,建议谨慎使用。此优化版本保持了原标题核心信息,增加了SEO关键词"WWII History Book"和使用场景说明,同时将中文部分翻译为英文)

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No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations. Plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast.US law enforcement agencies were not paying close attention--preferring to monitor Reds rather than Nazis--and only Leon Lewis and his daring ring of spies stood in the way. From 1933 until the end of World War II, attorney Leon Lewis, the man Nazis would come to call "the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles," ran a spy operation comprising military veterans and their wives who infiltrated every Nazi and fascist group in Los Angeles. Often rising to leadership positions, this daring ring of spies uncovered and foiled the Nazi's disturbing plans for death and destruction.Featuring a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Lewis's daring spy network in a time when hate groups had moved from the margins to the mainstream.

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A must-read for historians of American cultural and political history in the 1930s, this wonderfully interesting book reveals Nazi plans for assassinations, sabotage, espionage, and political subversion throughout the Los Angeles area in the 1930s and 1940s, and how an intrepid group of courageous operatives, Jewish and gentile, repeatedly foiled their plans. Especially shocking is how many officials on the local and national level consistently refused to take seriously the internal fascist/Nazi threat, remaining fixated on supposed internal Communist dangers instead, until the attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into World War Two.
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