One month after Kristallnacht, in 1938, the Nazi film director Leni Riefenstahl was an honored guest at Walt Disney’s studio. While the degree to which Disney was himself an active anti-Semite is argued over, he wasn’t exactly reluctant to hang out with those who were; there was Riefenstahl, there was also his association with the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a famously Jew-hating organization.
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