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Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator Speech + Hans Zimmer's "Time" (youtu.be)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Timely and timeless 84(!) years later.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Chaplin later said that he wouldn’t have made light of Hitler if he had known at the time how horrific the situation truly was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

fascinating,I hadn't heard they before and assumed he ...did know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah, the genocide wasn’t widespread public knowledge yet. As far as most Americans knew at the time, Hitler was just another power-hungry jackass ripe for parody.