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Toothbrush moustache

January 28, 2023

The toothbrush moustache is a style of moustache in which the sides are vertical (or nearly vertical) rather than tapered, giving the hairs the appearance of the bristles on a toothbrush that are attached to the nose. It was made famous by such comedians as Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy. The style first became popular in the United States in the late 19th century; from there it spread to Germany and elsewhere, reaching a height of popularity in the interwar years, before becoming unfashionable after World War II due to its strong association with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The association has become strong enough that the toothbrush has also become known as the "Hitler moustache".

Charlie Chaplin (pictured in 1921 as The Tramp) thought the moustache gave him a comical appearance.

In the post-war years, the style was worn by some notable individuals, including several Israeli politicians and American real-estate developer Fred Trump. From the 1960s onwards, it has appeared in works of popular culture, including cartoons, caricatures, and comedy—usually eliciting the association with Hitler.

19th century to World War II

In the United States

The toothbrush originally became popular in the late 19th century, in the United States.[1] It was a neat, uniform, low-maintenance style that echoed the standardization and uniformity brought on by industrialization, in contrast to the more flamboyant moustaches typical of the 19th century such as the imperial, walrus, handlebar, horseshoe, and pencil moustaches.[1]

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous wearers of the toothbrush moustache, first adopting it in 1914 after his first film, "Making a Living", for his Mack Sennett silent comedies.[1] In a 1933 interview, Chaplin said he added the moustache to his costume because it had a comical appearance and was small enough so as not to hide his expression.[a] Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was a fan of Chaplin films,[3] but according to cultural historian Ron Rosenbaum, "there is no evidence (though some speculation) that Hitler modeled his 'stache on [Chaplin's]".[4] Chaplin took advantage of the noted similarity between his onscreen appearance and that of Hitler in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, where he wore the moustache in a dual role, one of which parodied Hitler.[1][5]

Comedian Oliver Hardy also adopted the moustache style—using it at least as early as the 1921 film The Lucky Dog. Although Groucho Marx donned a larger moustache, novelty Groucho glasses (marketed as early as the 1940s)[6] often elicit the toothbrush. American film producer Walt Disney is sometimes claimed to have worn the style (1920s–1930s),[7][8][9] but his facial hair was a more traditional (i.e. notched) moustache limited to the width of the nose. Another prominent animation producer, Max Fleischer, had a toothbrush moustache.[10]

Clarence D. Martin, the 11th governor of Washington state (1933–1945), donned a toothbrush during his tenure.

In Germany

 
Adolf Hitler in 1937; his appearance was so defined by the toothbrush moustache that it became unfashionable after World War II.

The style was introduced in Germany in the late 19th century by visiting Americans.[1] Prior to the toothbrush, the most popular style was called the 'Kaiser moustache', perfumed and turned up at the ends, as worn by German emperor Wilhelm II.[1][5] By 1907, enough Germans were wearing the toothbrush moustache to elicit notice by The New York Times under the headline "'TOOTHBRUSH' MUSTACHE; German Women Resent Its Usurpation of the [Kaiser moustache]".[1][11] The toothbrush was taken up by German automobile racer and folk hero Hans Koeppen in the famous 1908 New York to Paris Race, cementing its popularity among young gentry.[1][12] Koeppen was described as "Six-feet in height, slim, and athletic, with a toothbrush mustache characteristic of his class, he looks the ideal type of the young Prussian guardsman."[12] By the end of World War I, even some of the German royals were sporting the toothbrush; Crown Prince Wilhelm can be seen with a toothbrush moustache in a 1918 photograph that shows him about to be sent into exile.[1] German serial killer Peter Kürten (1883–1931) took up the style and eventually reduced it to only the philtrum.[13][14]

Hitler originally wore the Kaiser moustache, as evidenced by photographs of him as a soldier during World War I.[15] There is no agreement as to what year he first adopted the toothbrush.[1] Alexander Moritz Frey, who served with Hitler during the First World War, claimed that the latter wore the toothbrush style in the trenches after he was ordered to trim his moustache to facilitate the wearing of a gas mask.[1][16] A 1914 photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann purports to show Hitler with a smaller moustache, but was probably doctored to serve as Nazi propaganda.[17][18] According to other sources, Hitler did not wear the style until 1919.[4][19][b]

Despite the photographic evidence of his much larger moustache during the First World War, Hitler's sister-in-law, Bridget Hitler, said she was responsible for giving Hitler his toothbrush moustache before the war[1]—considered by most scholars to be fiction designed to cash in on Hitler's notoriety.[21] Bridget claimed that Adolf spent a "lost winter" at her home in Liverpool in 1912–13.[1] The two quarreled a lot, mostly, she said, because she could not stand his unruly Kaiser moustache. He cut it, as she says in her memoirs, but that in doing so—as in most things—he went too far.[1][22]

Anton Drexler, a mentor of Hitler, wore a notched version of the toothbrush. Friedrich Kellner, a Social Democrat who campaigned against Hitler, also wore the style. Many notable Nazis besides Hitler donned it, including Heinrich Himmler, Karl Holz, Ernst Röhm and Hitler's chauffeur Julius Schreck. Additionally, an apparent body double of Hitler was found wearing the style in the aftermath of the dictator's death.

Other places

The toothbrush was quite popular in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century. A Chaplin-influenced clown named Karandash had a version of it. Many Soviet officers and soldiers wore it up until World War II. In more unique displays, Commander Pavel Dybenko paired the style with his beard and Major General Hazi Aslanov wore a variant covering only the philtrum.

English author George Orwell wore it during the early 1930s. Spanish general Francisco Franco, the dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975, had a toothbrush throughout the 1930s.

 
Fred Trump (c. 1950)

Post–World War II

After World War II, the style fell from favour in much of the world due to its strong association with Hitler,[1] but some notable people continued to wear it. American real-estate developer Fred Trump, the father of former U.S. president Donald Trump, sported it[23] from as early as 1940 until perhaps 1950, although during the war he began concealing his German ancestry.[24][25] Several politicians of Israel (formed as a state in 1948) flaunted the style, some for much of their careers. Austrian chancellor Julius Raab exhibited it in 1955 while negotiating for restored independence. Hitler's dentist, Hugo Blaschke (d. 1959),[26] wore a similar style—displaying an explicit toothbrush later in life.[27]

The style was utilized in cartoon works beginning as early as the 1960s. Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy manga and the anime series of the same name feature characters with the style, the latter including caricatures resembling nasal hair.[28][29] The early 1960s American animated sitcom The Jetsons features a character with the moustache style—George Jetson's boss, Cosmo Spacely. Additionally, American comic-book artist Steve Ditko's original design for Spider-Man supporting character J. Jonah Jameson sports a toothbrush moustache, apparently meant to make him seem Hitleresque and thus antagonistic; most subsequent comic and cartoon appearances of the character maintain the style or a variant thereof.[c] The British sitcom On the Buses (1969–1973) features a comedic villain who wears the style.

Inspired by Chaplin (and disregarding associations with Hitler), keyboardist Ron Mael of the American rock band Sparks maintained a toothbrush moustache throughout most of the 1970s and 1980s.[30][31] The band received mainstream attention in 1974 with "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us", popularized via British music television series Top of the Pops.[32] While watching this, John Lennon allegedly phoned his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr and referenced the similarity of Mael's appearance to Hitler.[d] The 1982 Sparks song "Moustache" includes the lyrics: "And when I trimmed it very small / My Jewish friends would never call," referencing the association with Hitler and his role in enacting the Holocaust. The band once had a booking to perform on a French television show cancelled due to Mael's moustache.[30] In later years, Mael wore a pencil-variant of the toothbrush.[31]

 
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's philtrum-covering variant

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe wore the philtrum-only style from as early as 1976 to as late as 2016.

Between 1985 and 1989, the British children's television drama series Grange Hill featured an authoritarian teacher played by Maurice Bronson (who also portrayed Hitler in several productions) wearing the toothbrush style.[5]

In a 1992 home movie, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain invoked a Hitler moustache (via fake eyelashes) while wearing a dress to mock a pejorative letter to the editor about his wife, Courtney Love. This was featured in the 2015 documentary Cobain: Montage of Heck and shared online to promote the film.[33][34][35]

In Mike Judge's 2006 comedy film Idiocracy, the society of a greatly dumbed-down future believes that Charlie Chaplin, not Hitler, led the Nazis.[36] In 2009, English comedian Richard Herring created a stand-up show titled Hitler Moustache in which he wears the facial-hair style in an attempt to "reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy – it was Chaplin's first, then Hitler ruined it."[37] Herring wore the moustache for about a week, during which time he was anxious about the judgements he thought were being made of him.[5]

In May 2010, American basketball star Michael Jordan appeared in a Hanes commercial sporting a hybrid of the toothbrush and pencil moustache,[38] along with a soul patch. This prompted Jordan's friend Charles Barkley to say, "I don't know what the hell he was thinking and I don't know what Hanes was thinking. I mean it is just stupid. It is just bad, plain and simple."[39]

In 2014, a photograph of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel provoked online amusement due to the former's pointing finger casting a Hitleresque shadow onto the latter's face.[40] Late that same year, Southern All Stars frontman Keisuke Kuwata briefly donned a toothbrush moustache during a televised performance, prompting online speculation as to the reason.[41]

The moustache has come to be a symbol of satire and protest, maligning people in power perceived to be acting like Hitler.[42][43][44] In 2021, Amazon changed its app logo following complaints that part of the design, meant to look like a piece of tape sealing a box, resembled a Hitler moustache.[45] Contrarily, some facial-hair media outlets have endorsed the moustache as being appropriate to wear again—especially variations diverging from the strictly rectangular version made famous by Hitler and emphasizing that many other notable individuals brandished it.[7][46]

Other notable wearers

Nazi Germany

Soviet Union

Israel

Others

See also

 
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References

Notes

  1. ^ Chaplin said: "It all came about in an emergency. The cameraman said put on some funny make-up, and I hadn't the slightest idea what to do. I went to the dress department and decided I wanted everything to be a mass of contradictions. So I took a bowler hat, an abnormally tight jacket, an abnormally loose pair of trousers, and some dirty, raggedy shoes. This was who I wanted my character to be; raggedy but, at the same time, a gentleman. I didn't know how I was going to do the face, but it was going to be a sad, serious face. I wanted to hide that it was comic, so I took a little toothbrush mustache. And that mustache was no concept of the characterization – only saying that it was rather silly. It doesn't hide my expression, after all, and is now my signature mustache."[2]
  2. ^ An official document dated 1921 shows Hitler with a more traditional moustache.[20]
  3. ^ In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy, Jameson (J. K. Simmons) instead wears a full or pencil moustache.
  4. ^ According to the 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers, Lennon said (referencing the resemblance of Mael's brother and Sparks lead vocalist Russell Mael to the lead singer of T. Rex), "Marc Bolan's doing a song with Adolf Hitler on the television!"

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The toothbrush moustache is a style of moustache in which the sides are vertical or nearly vertical rather than tapered giving the hairs the appearance of the bristles on a toothbrush that are attached to the nose It was made famous by such comedians as Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy The style first became popular in the United States in the late 19th century from there it spread to Germany and elsewhere reaching a height of popularity in the interwar years before becoming unfashionable after World War II due to its strong association with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler The association has become strong enough that the toothbrush has also become known as the Hitler moustache Charlie Chaplin pictured in 1921 as The Tramp thought the moustache gave him a comical appearance In the post war years the style was worn by some notable individuals including several Israeli politicians and American real estate developer Fred Trump From the 1960s onwards it has appeared in works of popular culture including cartoons caricatures and comedy usually eliciting the association with Hitler Contents 1 19th century to World War II 1 1 In the United States 1 2 In Germany 1 3 Other places 2 Post World War II 3 Other notable wearers 3 1 Nazi Germany 3 2 Soviet Union 3 3 Israel 3 4 Others 4 See also 5 References19th century to World War II EditIn the United States Edit The toothbrush originally became popular in the late 19th century in the United States 1 It was a neat uniform low maintenance style that echoed the standardization and uniformity brought on by industrialization in contrast to the more flamboyant moustaches typical of the 19th century such as the imperial walrus handlebar horseshoe and pencil moustaches 1 Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous wearers of the toothbrush moustache first adopting it in 1914 after his first film Making a Living for his Mack Sennett silent comedies 1 In a 1933 interview Chaplin said he added the moustache to his costume because it had a comical appearance and was small enough so as not to hide his expression a Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was a fan of Chaplin films 3 but according to cultural historian Ron Rosenbaum there is no evidence though some speculation that Hitler modeled his stache on Chaplin s 4 Chaplin took advantage of the noted similarity between his onscreen appearance and that of Hitler in his 1940 film The Great Dictator where he wore the moustache in a dual role one of which parodied Hitler 1 5 Comedian Oliver Hardy also adopted the moustache style using it at least as early as the 1921 film The Lucky Dog Although Groucho Marx donned a larger moustache novelty Groucho glasses marketed as early as the 1940s 6 often elicit the toothbrush American film producer Walt Disney is sometimes claimed to have worn the style 1920s 1930s 7 8 9 but his facial hair was a more traditional i e notched moustache limited to the width of the nose Another prominent animation producer Max Fleischer had a toothbrush moustache 10 Clarence D Martin the 11th governor of Washington state 1933 1945 donned a toothbrush during his tenure In Germany Edit Adolf Hitler in 1937 his appearance was so defined by the toothbrush moustache that it became unfashionable after World War II The style was introduced in Germany in the late 19th century by visiting Americans 1 Prior to the toothbrush the most popular style was called the Kaiser moustache perfumed and turned up at the ends as worn by German emperor Wilhelm II 1 5 By 1907 enough Germans were wearing the toothbrush moustache to elicit notice by The New York Times under the headline TOOTHBRUSH MUSTACHE German Women Resent Its Usurpation of the Kaiser moustache 1 11 The toothbrush was taken up by German automobile racer and folk hero Hans Koeppen in the famous 1908 New York to Paris Race cementing its popularity among young gentry 1 12 Koeppen was described as Six feet in height slim and athletic with a toothbrush mustache characteristic of his class he looks the ideal type of the young Prussian guardsman 12 By the end of World War I even some of the German royals were sporting the toothbrush Crown Prince Wilhelm can be seen with a toothbrush moustache in a 1918 photograph that shows him about to be sent into exile 1 German serial killer Peter Kurten 1883 1931 took up the style and eventually reduced it to only the philtrum 13 14 Hitler originally wore the Kaiser moustache as evidenced by photographs of him as a soldier during World War I 15 There is no agreement as to what year he first adopted the toothbrush 1 Alexander Moritz Frey who served with Hitler during the First World War claimed that the latter wore the toothbrush style in the trenches after he was ordered to trim his moustache to facilitate the wearing of a gas mask 1 16 A 1914 photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann purports to show Hitler with a smaller moustache but was probably doctored to serve as Nazi propaganda 17 18 According to other sources Hitler did not wear the style until 1919 4 19 b Despite the photographic evidence of his much larger moustache during the First World War Hitler s sister in law Bridget Hitler said she was responsible for giving Hitler his toothbrush moustache before the war 1 considered by most scholars to be fiction designed to cash in on Hitler s notoriety 21 Bridget claimed that Adolf spent a lost winter at her home in Liverpool in 1912 13 1 The two quarreled a lot mostly she said because she could not stand his unruly Kaiser moustache He cut it as she says in her memoirs but that in doing so as in most things he went too far 1 22 Anton Drexler a mentor of Hitler wore a notched version of the toothbrush Friedrich Kellner a Social Democrat who campaigned against Hitler also wore the style Many notable Nazis besides Hitler donned it including Heinrich Himmler Karl Holz Ernst Rohm and Hitler s chauffeur Julius Schreck Additionally an apparent body double of Hitler was found wearing the style in the aftermath of the dictator s death Other places Edit The toothbrush was quite popular in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century A Chaplin influenced clown named Karandash had a version of it Many Soviet officers and soldiers wore it up until World War II In more unique displays Commander Pavel Dybenko paired the style with his beard and Major General Hazi Aslanov wore a variant covering only the philtrum English author George Orwell wore it during the early 1930s Spanish general Francisco Franco the dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975 had a toothbrush throughout the 1930s Fred Trump c 1950 Post World War II EditAfter World War II the style fell from favour in much of the world due to its strong association with Hitler 1 but some notable people continued to wear it American real estate developer Fred Trump the father of former U S president Donald Trump sported it 23 from as early as 1940 until perhaps 1950 although during the war he began concealing his German ancestry 24 25 Several politicians of Israel formed as a state in 1948 flaunted the style some for much of their careers Austrian chancellor Julius Raab exhibited it in 1955 while negotiating for restored independence Hitler s dentist Hugo Blaschke d 1959 26 wore a similar style displaying an explicit toothbrush later in life 27 The style was utilized in cartoon works beginning as early as the 1960s Osamu Tezuka s Astro Boy manga and the anime series of the same name feature characters with the style the latter including caricatures resembling nasal hair 28 29 The early 1960s American animated sitcom The Jetsons features a character with the moustache style George Jetson s boss Cosmo Spacely Additionally American comic book artist Steve Ditko s original design for Spider Man supporting character J Jonah Jameson sports a toothbrush moustache apparently meant to make him seem Hitleresque and thus antagonistic most subsequent comic and cartoon appearances of the character maintain the style or a variant thereof c The British sitcom On the Buses 1969 1973 features a comedic villain who wears the style Inspired by Chaplin and disregarding associations with Hitler keyboardist Ron Mael of the American rock band Sparks maintained a toothbrush moustache throughout most of the 1970s and 1980s 30 31 The band received mainstream attention in 1974 with This Town Ain t Big Enough for Both of Us popularized via British music television series Top of the Pops 32 While watching this John Lennon allegedly phoned his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr and referenced the similarity of Mael s appearance to Hitler d The 1982 Sparks song Moustache includes the lyrics And when I trimmed it very small My Jewish friends would never call referencing the association with Hitler and his role in enacting the Holocaust The band once had a booking to perform on a French television show cancelled due to Mael s moustache 30 In later years Mael wore a pencil variant of the toothbrush 31 Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe s philtrum covering variant Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe wore the philtrum only style from as early as 1976 to as late as 2016 Between 1985 and 1989 the British children s television drama series Grange Hill featured an authoritarian teacher played by Maurice Bronson who also portrayed Hitler in several productions wearing the toothbrush style 5 In a 1992 home movie Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain invoked a Hitler moustache via fake eyelashes while wearing a dress to mock a pejorative letter to the editor about his wife Courtney Love This was featured in the 2015 documentary Cobain Montage of Heck and shared online to promote the film 33 34 35 In Mike Judge s 2006 comedy film Idiocracy the society of a greatly dumbed down future believes that Charlie Chaplin not Hitler led the Nazis 36 In 2009 English comedian Richard Herring created a stand up show titled Hitler Moustache in which he wears the facial hair style in an attempt to reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy it was Chaplin s first then Hitler ruined it 37 Herring wore the moustache for about a week during which time he was anxious about the judgements he thought were being made of him 5 In May 2010 American basketball star Michael Jordan appeared in a Hanes commercial sporting a hybrid of the toothbrush and pencil moustache 38 along with a soul patch This prompted Jordan s friend Charles Barkley to say I don t know what the hell he was thinking and I don t know what Hanes was thinking I mean it is just stupid It is just bad plain and simple 39 In 2014 a photograph of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel provoked online amusement due to the former s pointing finger casting a Hitleresque shadow onto the latter s face 40 Late that same year Southern All Stars frontman Keisuke Kuwata briefly donned a toothbrush moustache during a televised performance prompting online speculation as to the reason 41 The moustache has come to be a symbol of satire and protest maligning people in power perceived to be acting like Hitler 42 43 44 In 2021 Amazon changed its app logo following complaints that part of the design meant to look like a piece of tape sealing a box resembled a Hitler moustache 45 Contrarily some facial hair media outlets have endorsed the moustache as being appropriate to wear again especially variations diverging from the strictly rectangular version made famous by Hitler and emphasizing that many other notable individuals brandished it 7 46 Other notable wearers EditNazi Germany Edit Karl Maria Demelhuber image Sepp Dietrich image Irmfried Eberl image August Eigruber image Hermann Esser image Gottfried Feder image Edmund Glaise Horstenau image Ernst Robert Grawitz 47 Jakob Grimminger 48 Erich Koch image Hans Krebs image Hinrich Lohse image Emil Maurice image Artur Phleps image Lothar Rendulic image Gerd von Rundstedt image Fritz Sauckel image Otto Skorzeny image Julius Streicher image Franz Ritter von Epp image Christian Wirth image Kurt Zeitzler image Soviet Union Edit Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov image Ivan Bagramyan image Aleksandr Bezymensky image Naftaly Frenkel image Leonid Govorov image Vladimir Karpov Semyon Krivoshein image Bogdan Kobulov 49 Leonid Kubbel image Grigory Kulik image Genrikh Lyushkov image Vasil Mzhavanadze image Ivan Panfilov image Roman Ivanovich Panin image Pavel Rotmistrov image Minay Shmyryov image Genrikh Yagoda image Georgy Zhukov image Israel Edit Yitzhak Ben Aharon image Eliyahu Dobkin image Levi Eshkol image Yitzhak Shamir image Moshe Sharett image Zalman Shazar image Yisrael Yeshayahu image Others Edit Siad Barre image Hulusi Behcet image Dobri Bozhilov image Abdala Bucaram image Carlos Castillo Armas image Arthur Compton image Charles Culley image Dragisa Cvetkovic image Charles de Gaulle image Immanuvel Devendrar image Douglas Valder Duff image Alois Elias image Edward M Fram image Milan Gutovic image Sadegh Hedayat image Paolo Iashvili image Avetik Isahakyan image Ahmad Javad image Gustavo Jimenez image Amanullah Khan image Fumimaro Konoe image Yevhen Konovalets image Jean Marie Loret 50 Ludwig von Mises 51 Frank McGee image Davud Monshizadeh image Ihsan Nuri image Julius Nyerere image Hermann Obrecht image Waldemar Pabst image Wilhelm Pieck 52 Marcel Pilet Golaz image Abdul Karim Qassem image Sayyid Qutb image Ramakrishna Ranga Rao image Mahmud Salman image Ferdinand Sauerbruch image Walter H Schottky image Kurt Schuschnigg image Jean Sibelius 53 Bakr Sidqi image Mehmed Spaho image Rafael Trujillo image Georgios Tsolakoglou 54 Adolf Windaus image Yordan Yovkov image See also Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Toothbrush moustaches Cats That Look Like HitlerReferences EditNotes Chaplin said It all came about in an emergency The cameraman said put on some funny make up and I hadn t the slightest idea what to do I went to the dress department and decided I wanted everything to be a mass of contradictions So I took a bowler hat an abnormally tight jacket an abnormally loose pair of trousers and some dirty raggedy shoes This was who I wanted my character to be raggedy but at the same time a gentleman I didn t know how I was going to do the face but it was going to be a sad serious face I wanted to hide that it was comic so I took a little toothbrush mustache And that mustache was no concept of the characterization only saying that it was rather silly It doesn t hide my expression after all and is now my signature mustache 2 An official document dated 1921 shows Hitler with a more traditional moustache 20 In Sam Raimi s Spider Man film trilogy Jameson J K Simmons instead wears a full or pencil moustache According to the 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers Lennon said referencing the resemblance of Mael s brother and Sparks lead vocalist Russell Mael to the lead singer of T Rex Marc Bolan s doing a song with Adolf Hitler on the television Citations a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Cohen Rich November 2007 Becoming Adolf Vanity Fair Archived 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