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TIL That the Motion Picture Production Code not only censored things like profanity and sexuality, it also prevented a number of anti-Nazi movies from being made in the 1930’s due to it’s prohibition of “another country’s institutions and prominent people” being depicted “in an unfavorable light”.

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