![]() ![]() So it's completely possible that Hitler was just succumbing to peer pressure and to the fashions of his time in his quest to be "the best stached dictator", a race he lost to Stalin and his glorious lip warmer. 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." By the end of World War I even some of the German royals were sporting the toothbrush William Hohenzollern (son of the Kaiser) can be seen with a toothbrush moustache in an 1918 photograph that shows him about to be sent into exile. The toothbrush was taken up by German folk hero Hans Koeppen in the famous 1908 New York to Paris Race, cementing its popularity among young gentry. The Wiki article itself says that the style was popular in Germany during that time:īy 1907 enough Germans were wearing the new trimmed down and simple toothbrush moustache to elicit notice by The New York Times under the headline "'TOOTHBRUSH' MUSTACHE German Women Resent Its Usurpation of the 'Kaiserbart'". Serious part of answer ends here, the following is just me being bored and trying to make some "mass murdering dictators with mustaches" jokes. "Chaplin adopted a little black crepe blot beneath the nose for his Mack Sennett silent comedies after 1915, Hitler didn't adopt his until late 1919, and there's no evidence (though some speculation) that Hitler modeled his 'stache on that other actor's." ![]() It was Chaplin's first, before Hitler's," he writes in an essay from The Secret Parts of Fortune. ![]() In the first source of the Wikipedia page, an article about Hitler's mustache in Vanity Fair, the author (Ron Rosenbaum) is quoted to write: There is no evidence, the author admits it himself. ![]()
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