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The Secret History of the Great Dictators Real-Life Accounts of History's worst tyrants Diane Low (2009) The underlying story somehow sounds almost the same. The will be a crisis, some one will come to the rescue, his policies will be praised, he will overstay his welcome and then things will only spiral downwards and would go down in history for all the wrong reasons. Most leaders try to create an enemy for them to stay as long as they can. Unfortunately the truth of these can only be ascertained in hindsight. Save for a few leaders who are genuinely sick in the head, most of the dictators are generally people who never really shined in their early part of their careers. This book gives a good review of some of the leaders that we have heard of but never really had the chance to learn in depth. Emperor Caligula was rated as the most heinous dictator  of all time in 'History Channel'. His unconventional childhood compounded by an episode of 'brain fever' s...

The Dictator (1940, B/W) Acted, written, music and directed by: Charlie Chaplin I always thought Charlie Chaplin only acted in silent movies. Obviously, I was wrong. Here, he stars in a dual role. It is actually a satire of Adolf Hitler. At the time of production and well anticipated time of screening, it was considered controversial as US had no bad blood with Germany and was not even involved in WW2 yet. It is interesting to note that years before the the end of Hitler's megalomaniac ambitions, these events and persecution of Jews are shown here. Of course, the non-believers of the existence of holocaust will say it is actually an orchestration by the Jews and Hollywood even before the world was at war! Absent minded barber shaving the whiskers of lady! Chaplin stars in dual role, in a way, to show off to the world of his his ability to  act in two worlds, the silent and the talkies. In the role of a Jewish barber (unnamed), he shows off his slapstick type of acting...