How did Hitler react to Chaplin's The Great Dictator?

Four days separated the birthdays of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler, both occurring in April 1889. One ended up being a symbol of laughter; the other, a representation of industrialized terrorism. They both had the same mustache, but while Chaplin used it to help people relax, Hitler used it to create fear throughout whole countries.

This is what made The Great Dictator such a threatening movie to Hitler and Nazi Germany. By not using bombs or speeches against Hitler in this film, Chaplin was instead using ridicule to defeat him. Dictators usually do not succeed once a populace stops fearing them and begins to find them humorous.

Although there has never been confirmation as to whether Adolf Hitler ever saw The Great Dictator, there are unproven allegations that a pirated copy was sent to him and he viewed it twice alone. If true, the absurdity of such a view must have been incredible; here he was, the most feared person in all of Europe, silently watching Charlie Chaplin tear his entire image down with just some jokes and silly demeanour.

Almost immediately upon its release, the Nazi regime recognized the danger The Great Dictator posed and banned its distribution/Screening throughout all of occupied Europe; Charlie Chaplin was labeled an enemy of the state. Because once fear begins to fall apart, the dictators fall apart much more quickly. Terrorism is reliant upon a large public act of fear; when that fear is challenging, the act of tortured assassination ends quickly. While Chaplin could not defeat Hitler using military force, he provided critical evidence that there is an alternative means of eliminating a dictator from power.

What did Hitler think of India and Indian people?

 The Irreconcilability Which Could Not Be.

And the point is this, Adolf Hitler did not feel an ambivalent attitude towards India in general, he viewed it in a shattered way. And when it broke, all was predestined.

India piqued his mind, because he was obsessed with the word Aryan. Vein with ancient books--worn with ancient migrations--it all sounded useful. Then came the inconvenient of researchers such as Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, with Indians of features which fitted the so-called ideal. Strong bone structure. Sharp profiles. Not the story Hitler wanted.

Now he's cornered. Ideology does not correspond to reality. So what does he do? He bends reality.

He is a promoter of the Aryan invasion theory - foreigners came, left their print, and then they refused the mix. No solid science. A mere patching to keep the theory in circulation. That is the thing: when the facts do not work, rewrite the facts.

And out of there it becomes ugly quick. Modern India? In his view, "ruined" by mixture. Not capable. Not equal. Such a thought was not only on paper but it influenced policy, alliances and even his choice of British rule over Indian independence.

That is the way bad ideas circulate: You begin with a myth, advocate it to the limit, and dismiss all that is to the contrary.

And when that engine gets going, whole countries are lost--and millions are merely fortunate.