Perhaps a bit reckless in his time, but the Great Dictator show that Charlie Chaplin is an intelligent comedian who has a sociological abiliity to see the possible birth of fascism and antisemitism, even before most people realize it.
In The Great Dictator, Chaplin leveled his comedy arsenal at Der Fuehrer by playing the dual roles of Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel and unnamed Jewish barber and private fighting for the Central Powers in the army of the fictional nation of Tomainia. After a plane crash in which he survive and had been hospitalized for the past twenty years (but having suffered memory loss), the Jewish private and barber returns to his barbershop in the Jewish ghetto.
Briefly, the Jewish barber, who has assumed Adenoid Hynkel's identity because of their resemblance, is taken to the Tomainian capital to make a victory speech. In contrast, "Hynkel" declaring that Tomainia and Osterlich (a corruption of Österreich, the German name for Austria) will now be a free nation and a democracy.
At the time when the film released to public (October 15, 1940), the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Even the British government announced (when the film was in production) that they would prohibit The Great Dictator exhibition in keeping with its appeasement policy concerning Nazi Germany.
Here is a scene from the film The Great Dictator when the Jewish barber, who has assumed Der Fuehrer Adenoid Hynkel, make speech:
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) Charlie Chaplin (IMPORT HIGH QUALITY FOR ALL REGIONS)
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