Must be a quiet news day. Chaplin wrote and starred in the film 'The Great Dictator' a film which ridiculed the Nazi's, so the fact that Hitler was not a fan is hardly news
At that time Hitler, to entertainists, was a person screaming out loud to be made fun of. Plus, it's not like people werent making fun of Roosevelt or Churchill...
Chaplin made a fiction film but the fiction turned into reality a few years later: he mentionned the invasion of Austria, the Ghettos, the camps etc....
Yes Hitler had the movie "the little dictator" banned, but Hitler had a private copy of his own and according to some he loved the movie, it was the only time Hitler did not take himself to seriously. Also there is a quote and it goes like this. "Half the lies in the paper aren't true", never believe what the papers say, especially the Murdoch Press.
It is interesting when you look back at all the little things that the big dictators took seriously Mussolini, for example, banned the Marx bros. film, "Duck Soup" in Itlay because he considered it to be a personal insult.
Really that's interesting? I can't imagine Hitler watching the Great Dictator while having a (non alcohol) beer.
You know I had never noticed that, if you hadn't pointed that out I might have missed it... The moustache was actually quite common throughout the world at that time, loads of people had them.
Of course if you look at the picture in my signature you can see that style is still favored by the Neo-Nazi gits today LOL
Some of his characters (specifically the Tramp) wore that mustache. He did not wear the "Hitler" mustache as regular practice in his daily life and there are ample photographs that indicate this.
