defilmtv1-3, Exercise 3: The exiles

Model answer:

Many leading figures left, some because they were Jewish, some as political opponents and some because they did not want to work under the regime. The group includes Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Peter Lorre, the producer Erich Pommer and Marlene Dietrich. Many worked in Hollywood, in Britain and elsewhere, which transferred skill to other national cinemas. Others were killed in the persecution.

The story of Lang and Goebbels is better treated as an anecdote because it is often repeated, Lang himself told it in a way that other accounts dispute, and the evidence is not firm enough to state as fact.