You Nazty Spy!

Beside banning sexual and violent content their was a political censorship as well. When Warner Bros. wanted to produce a movie about concentration camps in Germany, the production office forbade it with threats to take the matter to the federal government if the studio went ahead. This policy prevented a number of anti-Nazi films being produced in the time before the Second World War started.

In 1938, the FBI prosecuted a Nazi spy ring, subsequently allowing Warner Bros. to produce Confessions of a Nazi Spy being the first anti-Nazi film in Hollywood.

At the same time the short film " You Naszy Spy" were produced that openly satirized Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany months before Chaplin's controversial and more famous movie "The Great Dictator" came up.

You can see it as Propaganda work or the necessary discussion of a political threat in public. Definitely Hollywood here takes a political position within a period where the U.S. was still neutral about World War II.