Timely and timeless 84(!) years later.

  • magnetosphere
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    136 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.

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        86 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.