Georg Gyssling

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Georg Gyssling (16 June 1893 – 8 January 1965) was German consul to the United States from 1927 until 1941, since 1933 in Los Angeles. He was member of the Nazi Party from 1931.^{[citation needed]}

He was also a bobsledder who competed in the early 1930s; he finished seventh and last in the four-man event at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Hitler’s man in Hollywood

The Third Reich’s diplomatic representative in Los Angeles, Georg Gyssling, who has been referred to as ‘Hitler’s Hollywood consul’, had a specific brief to monitor the activities of the studios. By all accounts he was extremely diligent in his duties.

According to Harvard scholar Ben Urwand in his book, The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler, the Nazis could also prevent movies from being made. He claims a Hollywood film about Hitler’s treatment of the Jews was never produced because of Nazi pressure. “In 1933 the great Hollywood screenwriter, Herman Mankiewicz, who wrote Citizen Kane, came up with a script about Hitler’s persecution of the Jews in which he predicted that this would lead to the killing of the Jews. The Nazi German consul told studio executives that if any studio made this picture then all of the Hollywood studios would be banned from the German market.”

But why would the studio heads, most of whom were Jewish, so willingly agree to shape their movies to please Nazi sensibilities? Urwand suggests it was all about maintaining access to the German market.

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Name	Gyssling, Georg
Alternative names
Short description	German bobsledder
Date of birth	June 16, 1893
Place of birth	Walce
Date of death	January 8, 1965
Place of death	Benidorm

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