Chaplin was always a strong opponent of racism...one of the issues I admired him for. He decided to create a film (ahead of its time in many regards) to attack fascism. He was determined to bring Hitler into the spotlight...a parody of a leader meant to be laughed at. Watched the movie tonight and have to say I was amazed at the foresight this man had and his ingenuity.
The film is unusual for its period, in the days prior to American entry into World War II, as the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, the latter of whom he excoriates in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts".
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