After her Muppet puppeteer husband gave her the book ‘Hitler in Los Angeles,’ Susan Elia MacNeal, author of ‘Mother Daughter Traitor Spy,’ researched where the dedicated fol…
By Susan Elia MacNeal
My journey with the history of Nazism in America starts at the Hollywood Bowl in September 2017, when my husband, a Jim Henson Company puppeteer, was performing as Sweetums in “The Muppets Take the Hollywood Bowl.” At the time, neither of us had any idea that the Hollywood Bowl had been used for aviator and Nazi political darling Charles Lindbergh’s rally on June 20, 1941 — railing against intervening in Hitler’s takeover of Europe and the East.
I was able to visit the soaring atrium of the office of Leon Lewis, a reserved lawyer and the hero of Ross’s “Hitler in Los Angeles.” Lewis worked in Naval Intelligence during the First World War, settled in L.A., and helped found the Anti-Defamation League. The Nazis called him “the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles.” He founded a spy organization, as the LAPD and FBI were too focused on the Communist threat to be bothered with fascists.
Because I was writing a novel, I also imagined where my characters would go and went there as well. I visited Canter’s Deli — both the former Boyle Heights location, for the history, and also the later incarnation, on Fairfax, for the matzo-ball soup . I went to Cole’s for their famous French dip sandwiches and had cocktails at the bar of the Biltmore Hotel. I tried to view Los Angeles from the observation deck of City Hall as my characters do, but alas, it was closed due to COVID.
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