Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America

Winston Churchill said of World War II that, "This is a war of the unknown warriors." Nowhere was this truer than in the little-known story of attorney Leon Lewis and others who thwarted internal and external threats to the security of America during this era. Ross (history, Univ. of Southern California; Working Class Hollywood) brings his knowledge of both history and Hollywood to weave information from the considerable archives of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles. From 1933 until the end of the war in 1945, Lewis and his fellow agents risked their lives to counter Nazi and homegrown nationalist forces plotting sabotage and mass murder. Little has been written about Lewis and his network, despite that they helped the FBI capture and contain these forces. Because state and federal law enforcement were more focused on anti-Communist efforts, several plots came quite close to fruition.