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Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator Speech + Hans Zimmer's "Time" (youtu.be)
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Timely and timeless 84(!) years later.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 2 months 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.

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 8 points 2 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.

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