The Nazi rhetoric was echoed in the National Socialist newspaper, Der Angriff, edited by Goebbels, which called him the ‘Jew Chaplin’ whose ‘typically Jewish screen figure was leading German youth away from the heroic ideal of the manly German Siegfried’, thus ‘undermining the future of the German race’.8 Such was the virulence of the Nazi campaign that Chaplin left Berlin early, missing the premiere of his film.
