A Lesson For The BNP From Charlie Chaplin

The Great Dictator was made in 1940 and stared Charlie Chaplin who also directed and wrote the film and it was the first US film to denounce the Nazis although they are never mentioned.

As a direct satire aimed at Nazi Germany Charlie plays a Jewish Barber who is mistaken for a Hynkel the fascist leader of a make believe country. At this time America was at peace with Germany and many in America considered Germany to be a friend to America and that Nazi Germany was a shining example of European industrialisation.

The film openly condemns the character of Hynkel (Hitler) and the fascist and anti-Semitic ideology of the third Reich,

On release it was largely a success however later in life Chaplin admitted that the slapstick sections that involved the stormtrooper type character would have been omitted from the film if he had know of the atrocities the Nazis actually carried out.

The section in this video is when the Jewish Barber who is now mistaken as the fascist leader Hynkel has to make a speech to his nation.
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Rather than hiding his true nature the Jewish barber makes a political reversal speech thereby freeing the nation of being a totalitarian state and making it a democracy and denouncing the evil of fascism and anti-Semitism