After 10 years of intensive archival research, author and Harvard scholar Ben Urwand is tearing down the popular impression that the 1930s Hollywood community stood united in efforts to combat the Nazi regime with his new book "The Collaboration."

The Wall Street Journal sat down with Ben Urwand in its New York office where he discussed his new book The Collaboration, and how Nazi censors influenced the final cut of All Quiet on the Western Front, and not just in Germany.