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During the 1930s, Nazi Germany sponsored a secret propaganda war to transplant Nazism to the United States. Los Angeles was a particular hotbed for this extremist political activity. Secret systems were created to infiltrate, monitor and report on the political activities of these groups. Hidden from history for 80 years, the story of Hollywood's spies and the role they played in defeating American Nazism can now be told. Join Laura Rosenzweig to learn more about the Nazi past in Los Angeles and the role that Hollywood's spies played in defeating it.

Laura Rosenzweig is an American Jewish historian. She lives in the Bay Area and has taught American Jewish history at both San Francisco State University and at UC Santa Cruz, where she received her doctorate in U.S. History in 2013. Laura currently works for the University of California Office of the President. Her book, Hollywood’s Spies:  Jewish Surveillance of Nazi Groups in Los Angeles, 1933-1941 was a National Jewish Book Award finalist in 2017 and made the Los Angeles Best Seller’s list that year as well.  Laura holds a BA in History from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and an MA in Education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education