Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator Speech + Hans Zimmer's "Time"

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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