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minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up13·5 months agoChaplin later said that he wouldn’t have made light of Hitler if he had known at the time how horrific the situation truly was.
minus-squarecrawancon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agofascinating,I hadn’t heard they before and assumed he …did know.
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 months agoYeah, 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.
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.
fascinating,I hadn’t heard they before and assumed he …did know.
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.