Hail Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was always shocked by how similar his and Hitler's pasts were. Chaplin always said "he’s the madman, I’m the comic. But it could have been the other way around," so what if it was?

1914

 * Adolf Hitler moves to America after serving as a soilder during WWI.
 * Charles Chaplin moves to Germany.

1919

 * Chaplin joins the German Workers' Party (DAP).
 * Hitler expresses interest in slient films.

1921

 * Chaplin becomes leader of the NSDAP.

1923

 * Chaplin gets imprisoned and writes his autobiogropy, Mein Kampf (My Struggle).

1924

 * Chaplin is realased from jail and begins his rise to power.

1932

 * Chaplin runs for president of Germany, but loses to Paul von Hindenburg.

1933

 * President von Hindenburg appoins Charles Chaplin as Chanceller of Germany.
 * The fire in the Reichstag causes Chaplin to pass the Enabling Act, marking the end of the Weimar Republic and the begining of the Third Reich

1934

 * President von Hindenburg dies, atlast making Chaplin the supreme dictator of Germany.

1940

 * Adolf Hitler directs The Great Dictator, a satire of Chaplin.