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EXPLORE Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

More than 800 film professionals fleeing Nazi Germany escaped to Hollywood between 1933 and 1939. From Sunset Boulevard to The Bride of Frankenstein, their influence shaped the history of American cinema.

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Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze
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Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago
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Bracero History Archive
Bracero History Archive
Adolf Hitler presents Hermann Goering with The Falconer (1880) by Hans Makart
The Rape of Europa
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
1870 census, Becks family records from the African-American Families Database
African-American Families Database
EDSITEment
EDSITEment
Rock Island locomotive 627, photograph by William Edward Hook
Railroads and the Making of Modern America