LATimes | Hitler didn’t have to set foot out of Germany for his
malign plans to be felt beyond the Reich’s borders — even here in Los
Angeles. Through the depths of the Depression right into World War II,
Nazi Germany was ginning up support in Southern California, where its
agents plotted everything from attacks on National Guard armories to
murdering Hollywood’s Jewish moguls and filmmakers.
USC history
professor Steven J. Ross has unearthed the story of sunshine Nazism,
from picnic rallies in a La Crescenta park to a compound planned for
Pacific Palisades as Hitler’s White House on the Pacific. Ross’ book,
“Hitler in Los Angeles, How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and
America,” is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the
California Reich came to succeeding.
