The Secrets of Disneyland

[Strangler Lewis]

Many of the character designs for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came from an unsolicited artist's submission by Adolf Hitler. Disney initially liked the grossly antisemitic caricatures of the dwarfs because he thought they poked fun at the Hollywood studio heads who mocked him, but he decided not to work with Hitler because of Hitler's insistence that Snow White be a blonde man. Despite Disney's having kept Hitler's suggestion that the climax occur on a cliff a la Leni Riefenstahl mountaineering movies, Snow White was ultimately shown on a continuous loop at the Nazi exhibition on degenerate art.