Prints of Hitler in a shop window in Germany

Robert Gessner was born on October 21, 1907 in Escanaba, MI. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1929 and a M.A. from Columbia University in 1930. He started teaching at New York University in 1930. He married Doris Lindeman on May 27, 1938 and had two children, Peter and Stephen. Mr. Gessner was a screen playwright and the author of several books, including"Massacr" (1931);"Broken Arro" (1933);"Some of My Best Friends are Jew" (1936);"Treaso" (1944);"Youth is the Tim" (1945). He was a pioneer educator in motion pictures as an art form. Gessner founded the Motion Picture Department (now Cinema Studies) at NYU in 1941, the first four-year film curriculum leading to a B.A. degree in motion picture studies in the United States. He finished his book"The Moving Image, A Guide to Cinematic Literac" before he died in June 1968. 

Prints of Hitler in a shop window in Germany 

Various sizes of framed prints of Adolf Hitler. Somewhere in Germany. German soldier standing in street wearing the spiked helmet. Nazi soldiers marching through the streets. Trolley cars move past soldiers on horseback. 

Robert Gessner published a book in 1936 about his overseas travels called"Some of my Best Friends Are Jew"