Newspaper clipping: Headline: Why Hitler hated the Three Stooges Article: There are those who say the first clown to poke fun at Nazi nabob Adolf Hitler was Charlie Chaplain. They're dead wrong, says one expert—it was Moe Howard of the Three Stooges! "Most film historians had given Charlie Chaplain credit in The Great Dictator for being the first," says Prof. Don Morlan of the University of Dayton communications department. "Actually, Moe Howard was the first comedian to portray Hitler and satirize him," says Morlan. Nine months before Chaplain's movie was released in 1940, Moe and the boys appeared in You Nazty Spy. Howard played Moe Hailstone, big dictator of a country called Moronika, where he burned books and sent enemies to "concentrated camps." —Boston Herald
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