One of the greatest speeches.

[Mr Khan]

Augen said:
The fact that Chaplin made this (he wrote, directed and starred in it) when it was not popular to call out Hitler at the time (1940) in the states is what makes it so extraordinary to me.

It was quite popular to call Hitler out before World War II. Those who didn't agree with him (of which there were many, including some in the House of Windsor and at least one US Senator by the name of Fish) derided him much like modern dictators are derided, but the issue is that many of the comics who mocked him before the War (like Chaplin and also the Three Stooges) would not have done so had they known what he was really after, what he was capable of. Chaplin said that he would not have made the Great Dictator at all had he known.