Showing posts with label Charlie Chaplin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlie Chaplin. Show all posts

Friday, December 19, 2014

How Far We Have Fallen

Ken O’Brien

In 1940 Charlie Chaplin released his film The Great Dictator. At the time of its first release, the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini's fascism, anti-Semitism, and the Nazis.

Can you imagine if this film had been withdrawn prior to release because Hitler objected to it?

What has happened to us?