Toothbrush moustache

{{Short description|Style of moustache}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}} [[File:Charlie face.JPG|thumb|Charlie Chaplin (pictured in 1921 as the Tramp) thought the moustache gave him a comical appearance.]]  The '''toothbrush moustache''' is a style of moustache in which the sides are vertical (or nearly so), often approximating the width of the nose and visually resembling the bristles on a toothbrush. First becoming popular in the United States in the late 19th century, it later spread to Germany and elsewhere. Comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy popularized it, reaching its heyday during the interwar years. By the end of World War II, the association with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler made it controversial, leading to it being colloquially termed the {{'}}'''Hitler moustache'''{{'}}.

After World War II, toothbrush variants were fashioned by a small number of notable people, e.g. American real-estate developer Fred Trump (who sported a split variant) and former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe (covering only the philtrum). Remaining strongly associated with Hitler over subsequent decades, the style was used satirically in works of popular culture and political imagery, including motion pictures, comic books, and 1970s-era rock and roll.

==19th century–World War II== ===In the United States=== The toothbrush originally became popular in the late 19th century, in the United States.<ref name="cohen">{{cite web |author=Cohen |first=Rich |author-link=Rich Cohen |date=November 2007 |title=Becoming Adolf |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/11/cohen200711 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221180319/http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/11/cohen200711 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |work=Vanity Fair |via=reprint in ''The Best American Essays'' 2008. |access-date=April 4, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was a neat, uniform, low-maintenance moustache that echoed the standardization and uniformity brought on by industrialization, in contrast to the more flamboyant styles typical of the 19th century such as the imperial, walrus, handlebar, horseshoe, and pencil moustaches.<ref name=cohen/>

English comic actor Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous wearers of the toothbrush style. Shortly after wearing a full moustache for his 1914 film debut (''Making a Living'' for Southern California's Keystone Studios), he sported a prop toothbrush moustache for his first film as the Tramp, ''Mabel's Strange Predicament'' (though ''Kid Auto Races at Venice'' was the first released).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kratz |first=Jessie |date=2022-09-02 |title=Facial Hair Friday: Charlie Chaplin |url=https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2022/09/02/facial-hair-friday-charlie-chaplin/ |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=Pieces of History |language=en-US |via=U.S. National Archives |archive-date=April 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410062840/https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2022/09/02/facial-hair-friday-charlie-chaplin/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ressell |first=Brooke |date=2023-01-12 |title=What Type Of Mustache Did Charlie Chaplin Wear? Controversial I 2023 |url=https://www.oglf.org/what-type-of-mustache-did-charlie-chaplin-wear/ |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=OGLF |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Walker |first=Brent E. |title=Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_icAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA290 |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2013 |pages=21; 290 |isbn=978-0-7864-7711-1}}</ref> After selecting a wardrobe, he added a moustache after recalling that producer Mack Sennett was expecting him to be older; Chaplin felt that the toothbrush had a comical appearance and was small enough not to hide his expression.{{efn|Chaplin said in 1933: "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. ... It doesn't hide my expression, after all."<ref>{{cite book |title=Charlie Chaplin: Interviews |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |last1=Chaplin |first1=Charlie |last2=Hayes |first2=Kevin |year=2005 |page=15 |isbn=978-1578067022 }}</ref>}}<ref>Chaplin, Charles (1964). ''My Autobiography'', p. 154. "I was undecided whether to look old or young, but remembering Sennett had expected me to be a much older man, I added a small mustache, which I reasoned, would add age without hiding my expression."</ref> Within a few years of the Tramp's debut, the look was being copied;<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 21, 2016 |title=When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest and Came in 20th Place |url=https://www.openculture.com/2016/06/when-charlie-chaplin-entered-a-chaplin-look-alike-contest-and-came-in-20th-place.html |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Open Culture |language=en-US |archive-date=January 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103163446/https://www.openculture.com/2016/06/when-charlie-chaplin-entered-a-chaplin-look-alike-contest-and-came-in-20th-place.html |url-status=live }}</ref> by 1920, Chaplin allegedly entered and lost a Chaplin look-alike contest, having omitted his signature moustache.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bose |first=Swapnil Dhruv |date=2022-12-29 |title=Charlie Chaplin once entered a Chaplin lookalike contest |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/charlie-chaplin-entered-lookalike-contest/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Far Out |language=en-US}}</ref> Chaplin incorporated the noted similarity between the Tramp and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler<ref name="warchap" />{{efn|name=news|Upon first seeing Hitler in newsreels, Chaplin assumed that his look alluded to the Tramp.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gopnik |first=Adam |date=2024-03-18 |title=The Forgotten History of Hitler's Establishment Enablers |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/25/takeover-hitlers-final-rise-to-power-timothy-w-ryback-book-review |access-date=2024-03-21 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref>}} in his 1940 film ''The Great Dictator'', playing both a Tramp-like Jewish barber and a parody of Hitler.<ref name="brody">{{Cite magazine |last=Brody |first=Richard |date=2014-01-03 |title=Charlie Chaplin's Talking Pictures |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/charlie-chaplins-talking-pictures |access-date=2023-04-10 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |archive-date=April 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410062838/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/charlie-chaplins-talking-pictures |url-status=live }}</ref> This was Chaplin's final appearance with the moustache.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=September 27, 2007 |title=The Great Dictator movie review (1940) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-great-dictator-1940 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Roger Ebert |language=en |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315091559/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-great-dictator-1940 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Oliver Hardy - 1938.jpg|thumb|upright|Comedian Oliver Hardy's defining toothbrush (1938)]] Prominent American animation producer Max Fleischer wore a toothbrush moustache {{Circa|1919}}.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/mopicwor40chal/page/n111/ |title=Moving Picture World |date=June 1919 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company |volume=40 |location=New York |pages=1497}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Curland |first=Richard |date=2016-08-06 |title=HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: The Hitler moustache was not always infamous |url=https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/local/2016/08/06/historically-speaking-hitler-moustache-was/27204840007/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=Norwich Bulletin |language=en-US}}</ref> Comedian Oliver Hardy also adopted the moustache, using it at least as early as the 1921 film ''The Lucky Dog''. American actor Fred Kelsey flaunted a toothbrush {{Circa|1925–1939|lk=off}},<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heath |first=Dave Lord |date=29 September 2020 |title=Fred Kelsey |url=https://www.lordheath.com/menu1_104.html |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=LordHeath.com |archive-date=September 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926082140/https://www.lordheath.com/menu1_104.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Efn|Kelsey's guise was spoofed in the 1943 Tex Avery cartoon ''Who Killed Who?''.}} while in the mid-1930s bit-part player Brooks Benedict thickened his mid-moustache, evoking the toothbrush style (flanked by pencil-thin sides).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heath |first=Dave Lord |date=29 January 2023 |title=Brooks Benedict |url=https://www.lordheath.com/menu1_957.html |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=LordHeath.com |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725215650/https://www.lordheath.com/menu1_957.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Although Groucho Marx wore a larger moustache, novelty Groucho glasses (sold {{Circa|1940s|lk=off}})<ref>{{cite web |last=Giddins |first=Gary |date=18 June 2000 |title=There Ain't No Sanity Claus |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/reviews/000618.18giddent.html |access-date=2022-03-31 |work=The New York Times |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305065416/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/reviews/000618.18giddent.html |url-status=live }}</ref> often elicit the toothbrush. It has been occasionally claimed that American film producer Walt Disney donned a toothbrush,<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mayo |first1=Jonathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVTzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT66 |title=Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute |last2=Craigie |first2=Emma |date=2015-04-09 |publisher=Short Books |isbn=978-1-78072-234-4 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-09-26 |title=The Case of the Missing Mustache |url=https://d23.com/walt-files-missing-mustache/ |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=D23 |language=en-US |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705190830/https://d23.com/walt-files-missing-mustache/ |url-status=live }}</ref> but his nose-width moustache lacked the characteristic steep sides. Frank Churchill, composer for a number of Disney films, sometimes styled one.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Churchill |url=https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/frank-churchill/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=D23 |language=en-US |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715152251/https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/frank-churchill/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

San Francisco mayor (and later California governor) James Rolph and Los Angeles mayor Frank L. Shaw sported toothbrushes in the 1920s and 1930s, as did Washington state governor Clarence D. Martin in the 1930s. American real-estate developer Fred Trump, the father of U.S. president Donald Trump, sported a variant (exposing his lower philtrum) as early as 1936, including in some apparent photomanipulations. The moustache appeared on some members of the German American Bund during a 1937 New York City parade. A number of associates of American condiment company Heinz were photographed wearing toothbrushes in 1940 (at a convention in Quebec).<ref>{{Cite AV media|first=Conrad|last=Poirier|author-link=Conrad Poirier|title=News. Heinz Convention|date=5 September 1940|medium=Negative film, black and white}}</ref> A split variant appears on a spoof of Hitler in Tex Avery's 1942 cartoon ''Blitz Wolf''.

===In Germany===

The toothbrush moustache was introduced to Germany in the late 19th century by visiting Americans.<ref name=cohen/> Previously, the most popular style was the imperial moustache, also known as the "Kaiser moustache", which was perfumed and turned up at the ends, as worn by German emperor Wilhelm II.<ref name=cohen/><ref name="mag">{{cite web |author=Geoghegan |first=Tom |date=August 25, 2009 |title=Is wearing a 'Hitler' moustache a good idea? |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8218726.stm |access-date=June 29, 2022 |work=BBC News Magazine |archive-date=January 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101170646/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8218726.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> 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]".<ref name=cohen/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50D11FF345A17738DDDA90A94D8415B878CF1D3 |title='TOOTHBRUSH' MUSTACHE.; German Women Resent Its Usurpation of the 'Kaiserbart' |work=The New York Times |date=October 20, 1907 |access-date=January 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520055159/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50D11FF345A17738DDDA90A94D8415B878CF1D3 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name=cohen/><ref name="nyt1908">{{cite web |date=July 18, 1908 |title=Germany Awaits Lieut. Hans Koeppen; From Emperor to Subaltern His Running of the Protos Car Has Aroused Enthusiasm |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50914FF395A17738DDDA00994DF405B888CF1D3 |access-date=January 1, 2020 |work=The New York Times |archive-date=May 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520061258/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50914FF395A17738DDDA00994DF405B888CF1D3 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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."<ref name=nyt1908/> 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.<ref name=cohen/> It was also fashioned by German Social Democratic politician and two-time chancellor of Germany (1920, 1928–1930) Hermann Müller, as well as German serial killer Peter Kürten (1883–1931), who eventually reduced it to only the philtrum.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-17 |title=El 'vampiro' Peter Kürten: el asesino serial que bebía sangre humana |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/vampiro-de-dusseldorf-peter-kurten-bebia-sangre-humana-631954 |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=El Tiempo |language=spanish |archive-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726064145/https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/vampiro-de-dusseldorf-peter-kurten-bebia-sangre-humana-631954 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-24 |title='Krwawy Peter'. Wstrząsająca historia Wampira z Düsseldorfu |url=https://kultura.onet.pl/fragmenty-ksiazek/jaroslaw-molenda-krwawy-peter-fragment-ksiazki/wntkbc6 |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=Onet Kultura |language=pl}}</ref>

[[File:Hitler as young man.jpg|upright|thumb|Adolf Hitler in 1923; his appearance was so defined by his moustache that it became unfashionable by the end of WWII.]]

There are dubious claims that Adolf Hitler began wearing the toothbrush prior to the early 1920s (when it was first reliably documented).<ref name=cohen/> His sister-in-law, Bridget Hitler, tenuously claimed that he spent the winter of 1912–13 at her home in Liverpool, England,<ref name="cohen" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamann |first1=Brigitte |url=https://archive.org/details/hitlersviennadic0000hama_j7f5/page/198/ |title=Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant As a Young Man |publisher=Tauris Parke Paperbacks |year=2010 |isbn=978-1848852778 |location=London |page=198 |author-link=Brigitte Hamann |orig-date=1999}}</ref> during which time the two quarrelled, mostly because she could not stand his Kaiser moustache; she reputedly persuaded him to cut it, resulting in him fashioning a toothbrush.<ref name="cohen" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hitler |first=Bridget |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ei5oAAAAMAAJ&q=moustache |title=The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler |publisher=Duckworth Books |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-7156-1356-6 |location=London |pages=44 |language=en}}</ref> A 1914 photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann purports to show Hitler with a toothbrush, but this was probably doctored to serve as Nazi propaganda.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kellerhoff |first=Sven Felix |author-link=Sven Felix Kellerhoff |date=14 October 2010 |title=Berühmtes Hitler-Foto möglicherweise gefälscht |language=de |work=Die Welt |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/article10284920/Beruehmtes-Hitler-Foto-moeglicherweise-gefaelscht.html |access-date=30 September 2011 |archive-date=December 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201031307/https://www.welt.de/kultur/article10284920/Beruehmtes-Hitler-Foto-moeglicherweise-gefaelscht.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.smh.com.au/world/famous-hitler-photograph-declared-a-fake-20101019-16sfv.html|title= Famous Hitler photograph declared a fake|newspaper= Sydney Morning Herald|date= 20 October 2010|access-date= 22 March 2022|archive-date= January 26, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220126094926/https://www.smh.com.au/world/famous-hitler-photograph-declared-a-fake-20101019-16sfv.html|url-status= live}}</ref> As evidenced by photographs, Hitler wore the Kaiser moustache as a soldier during WWI.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Rise of Hitler |url=http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/warone.htm |access-date=January 1, 2020 |work=The History Place |archive-date=December 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224041227/http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/warone.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Author Alexander Moritz Frey, who served as a medic in the same regiment as Hitler, claimed that the latter donned the toothbrush in the trenches after he was ordered to trim his moustache to facilitate the wearing of a gas mask;<ref name=cohen/><ref>{{cite web |last=Paterson |first=Tony |date=May 6, 2007 |title=Hitler was ordered to trim his moustache |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatfeedback/4203867/Hitler-was-ordered-to-trim-his-moustache.html |access-date=January 1, 2020 |work=The Daily Telegraph |url-access=registration |archive-date=April 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429162302/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatfeedback/4203867/Hitler-was-ordered-to-trim-his-moustache.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last= Smith |first= David Gordon |date= 30 April 2007 |title= Eye-Witness Account of Hitler's WWI Years Found |url= http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/rediscovering-alexander-moritz-frey-eye-witness-account-of-hitler-s-wwi-years-found-a-478359.html |publisher= Spiegel Online |accessdate= 18 November 2023 |archive-date= July 15, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180715020422/http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/rediscovering-alexander-moritz-frey-eye-witness-account-of-hitler-s-wwi-years-found-a-478359.html |url-status= live }}</ref> although Frey's story is unproven, Hitler indeed had a blinding encounter with poison gas during WWI—causing his hospitalization at the war's very end.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adolf Hitler wounded in British gas attack {{!}} October 14, 1918 |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-wounded-in-british-gas-attack |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=History |date=October 22, 2009 |language=en |archive-date=December 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210211207/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-wounded-in-british-gas-attack |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|The History program ''The World Wars'' embellishes the gas-mask story by omitting the commanding officer; executive producer Stephen David claimed that Hitler actually "shaved the mustache while he was in the hospital".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Molloy |first=Tim |date=2014-08-05 |title=How Hitler Got That Mustache, and What Else We Learned From 'World Wars' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/how-hitler-got-that-mustache/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=TheWrap |language=en-US |archive-date=December 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202091427/https://www.thewrap.com/how-hitler-got-that-mustache/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} Other sources claim Hitler wore it as early as 1919.<ref name="rosenbaum">{{cite book |author=Rosenbaum |first=Ron |url=https://archive.org/details/secretpartsoffor00rose/page/495/ |title=The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms |publisher=Random House |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-375-50338-2 |page=495 |author-link=Ron Rosenbaum |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Opportunist |series=Hitler |network=American Heroes Channel |date=2016 |season=1 |number=1 |minutes=22 |quote=Hitler, caught on camera here at a right-wing rally in May 1919 ...}}</ref>

Hitler is generally thought to have incorporated the toothbrush as a trademark of his appearance during the early meetings of the Nazi Party (formed in 1920).<ref name="cohen" /><ref>An official document dated 1921 shows Hitler with a traditional moustache. A very early depiction of him with the toothbrush is a photograph from c. 1923.</ref> According to cultural historian Ron Rosenbaum, "there is no evidence (though some speculation)" that Hitler modelled his moustache on Charlie Chaplin's.<ref name="rosenbaum" />{{efn|name=news}} In 1923, Hitler's future publicist Ernst Hanfstaengl advised Hitler to lose the toothbrush, to which he replied, "If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it." Hanfstaengl subsequently adopted the style.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-11-15 |title=Hitler Facts: 10 little-known facts |url=https://www.military-history.org/fact-file/hitler-facts-10-little-known-facts.htm |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=Military History Matters |language=en-US |archive-date=April 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429085200/https://www.military-history.org/fact-file/hitler-facts-10-little-known-facts.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="cohen" /> In 1932, Hitler wore the toothbrush narrower on bottom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adolf Hitler In Military Uniform |url=https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/adolf-hitler-in-military-uniform-nachrichtenfoto/613459904 |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Getty Images |date=October 7, 2016 |language=de |archive-date=December 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202092822/https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/adolf-hitler-in-military-uniform-nachrichtenfoto/613459904 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1933 (the year Hitler became chancellor), the Nazis began to lambast Chaplin as "non-Aryan" in anti-Semitic propaganda, though Chaplin was not Jewish.<ref name="warchap">{{Cite magazine |last=Menand |first=Louis |date=2023-11-13 |title=The War on Charlie Chaplin |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/charlie-chaplin-vs-america-scott-eyman-book-review |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X |access-date=2023-11-15 |archive-date=April 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404210658/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/charlie-chaplin-vs-america-scott-eyman-book-review |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Hitler's bodyguard Rochus Misch, Hitler "loved" Chaplin films, a number of which he watched at his teahouse near the Berghof (built {{Circa|lk=no|1936}}).<ref>{{cite book |author=Misch |first=Rochus |url=https://archive.org/details/hitlerslastwitne0000misc/page/69/ |title=Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard |publisher=Frontline Books |year=2014 |isbn=9781848327498 |location=London |pages=69–70 |orig-date=2008}}</ref> By the height of World War II, Hitler's toothbrush moustache was such a defining feature of his appearance that it was assumed he would be unrecognizable without it and that he could use this logic to evade capture by the Allies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Andy |date=2016-08-17 |title=The Wildly Misunderstood Photos of Hitler in Disguise |url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-wildly-misunderstood-photos-of-hitler-in-disguise |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Atlas Obscura |language=en |archive-date=April 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427052704/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-wildly-misunderstood-photos-of-hitler-in-disguise |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|name=scheisse}} In her posthumous memoir, Hitler's secretary Christa Schroeder ({{Died in|1984}}) claimed that Hitler said in the mid-1920s that the moustache offset his purportedly oversized nose.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schroeder |first=Christa |url=https://archive.org/details/hewasmychiefmemo0000schr/page/49/ |title=He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary |publisher=Frontline Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-84832-536-4 |location=London |pages=xii, 49 |translator-last=Brooks |translator-first=Geoffrey |orig-date=1985}}</ref> His nose was only notably engorged close to the end of WWII.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ullrich |first=Volker |url=https://archive.org/details/hitlervolume1asc0000ullr/page/382/ |title=Hitler. Ascent, 1889–1939 |publisher=The Bodley Head |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-84792-286-1 |publication-place=London |pages=382–383}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-03-30 |title=Geburtstagsempfang im Berghof auf demObersalzberg bei Berchtesgaden:... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/geburtstagsempfang-im-berghof-auf-demobersalzberg-bei-news-photo/545718707 |access-date=2025-07-23 |website=Getty Images |language=en-us}}</ref>

Politician Anton Drexler, a mentor of Hitler, wore a notched version of the toothbrush. Friedrich Kellner, a Social Democrat who campaigned against Hitler, also wore it. Various notable Nazis sported versions, including {{Nowrap|''Reichsführer-SS''}} Heinrich Himmler, politician Karl Holz, military officer Ernst Röhm and Hitler's chauffeur Julius Schreck.

Near the end of WWII in Europe, on the same day Hitler committed suicide, a U.S. Army private who searched Hitler's Munich apartment found his top hat and used a comb to mimic the moustache in a Chaplin routine from ''The Great Dictator'', to the laughter of his fellow soldiers (as recounted in a book of war stories).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Terry |date=2025-04-28 |title=Duty Calls: Hitler's hat added to Dachau exhibit at NY military museum |url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/duty-calls-hitler-s-hat-added-dachau-exhibit-20294808.php |access-date=2025-05-08 |work=Times Union |language=en}}</ref> In the days after Hitler's death in Berlin, the Soviet Union produced footage of a supposed body double wearing the style<ref>{{cite book |last1=Petrova |first1=Ada |title=The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives |last2=Watson |first2=Peter |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-393-03914-6 |pages=89–90 |authorlink2=Peter Watson (intellectual historian)}}</ref>—variously invoked in Soviet-bolstered claims that Hitler somehow escaped.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Baumann |first1=H. D. |url=https://archive.org/details/hitlersescape0000baum/ |title=Hitler's Escape |last2=Hansig |first2=Ron T. |publisher=Piscataqua Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-939739-90-2 |edition=revised |location=Portsmouth, NH |pages=38-39, 42, 63, 107, 133 |language=en |orig-date=2008}}</ref>

=== Other places === The toothbrush was quite popular in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century. A Russian-born, Chaplin-influenced clown named Karandash ('the pencil') had a version of it. During World War II, Karandash entertained Soviet troops by mocking the Axis powers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Московский Цирк на Цветном Бульваре |url=http://www.circusnikulin.ru/_en/ours/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210073218/http://www.circusnikulin.ru/_en/ours/ |archive-date=2007-02-10 |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=Circus Nikulin |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2019-12-10 |title=118 лет Карандашу: Главархив Москвы рассказывает о творчестве известного советского клоуна |trans-title=118 Anniversary of Karandash: Archives on Famous Soviet Clown |url=https://www.mos.ru/news/item/66643073/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814210143/https://www.mos.ru/news/item/66643073/ |archive-date=2020-08-14 |access-date=2023-11-04 |publisher=The official portal of the Moscow Mayor and Moscow Government |language=ru}}</ref> Amongst other Soviet military displays, Commander Pavel Dybenko paired the style with his beard and Major General Hazi Aslanov wore a variant covering only the philtrum.<ref>File:Aslanov AA.jpg - Wikimedia Commons</ref>

English writer George Orwell wore a toothbrush during the 1920s before adapting his more iconic pencil moustache.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 19, 2005 |title=Exploring Burma Through George Orwell |url=https://www.npr.org/2005/07/19/4761169/exploring-burma-through-george-orwell |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=NPR |archive-date=February 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229051034/https://www.npr.org/2005/07/19/4761169/exploring-burma-through-george-orwell |url-status=live }}</ref> The toothbrush is worn by the sidekick of English author Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Great Moments of Poirot's Moustache |url=https://www.agathachristie.com/characters/hercule-poirot/great-moments-of-poirots-moustache |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=AgathaChristie.com |language=en-US}}</ref> German Jew and anti-Nazi activist Alfred Wiener wore a similar style while living in Amsterdam in the mid-1930s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Responses – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools |date=October 5, 1933 |url=https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-collaboration/responses/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-GB |postscript=. See third gallery. |archive-date=May 23, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250523094820/https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-collaboration/responses/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Spanish general Francisco Franco (the dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975) wore it throughout the 1930s. In a 1936 political cartoon, New Zealand artist David Low portrayed Soviet leader Joseph Stalin forging a toothbrush (along with a regular haircut) to mirror Hitler.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=It's Queer How You Remind Me Of Someone, Josef... |url=https://www.alamy.com/its-queer-how-you-remind-me-of-someone-josef-in-1936-with-war-threatening-took-a-crack-at-stalin-with-stalin-lenins-successor-and-leader-of-soviet-russia-showed-that-by-monopoly-of-political-power-by-successive-purges-of-his-opponents-he-noted-the-ways-of-page-his-fascist-and-nazi-rivals-august-28-1936-image466726489.html |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Alamy |language=en}}</ref> On a 1941 poster, Russian artist Dmitry Moor depicted Hitler with a split toothbrush variant.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Everything in 'G', 1941, 51×70 cm by Dmitry Stakhievich Moore (Orlov): History, Analysis & Facts |url=https://arthive.com/artists/2169~Dmitry_Stakhievich_Moore_Orlov/works/541410~Everything_in_G |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Arthive |language=EN |archive-date=October 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241004215551/https://arthive.com/artists/2169~Dmitry_Stakhievich_Moore_Orlov/works/541410~Everything_in_G |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Post–World War II== [[File:FredTrump1950-02.png|thumb|upright=.63|Fred Trump with a split variant (exposing the philtrum) {{circa|1950}}]]

By the end of World War II, the toothbrush moustache had fallen out of fashion due to its strong association with Hitler,<ref name=cohen/> but it was still worn by the notable individuals Oliver Hardy and (until about 1950) Fred Trump.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blair |first=Gwenda |author-link=Gwenda Blair |date=February 8, 2018 |title=Fred Trump Slays the King of Cooperative Housing |url=https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/fred-trump-slays-the-king-of-cooperative-housing |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=The Gotham Center for New York City History |language=en-US |archive-date=January 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117080755/https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/fred-trump-slays-the-king-of-cooperative-housing |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Levine |first=Jon |date=2020-10-17 |title=How Trump's developer dad and a Brooklyn rabbi saved a synagogue |url=https://nypost.com/2020/10/17/how-trumps-developer-dad-and-a-brooklyn-rabbi-saved-a-synagogue/ |access-date=2025-12-22 |website=New York Post |place=See gallery |language=en-US |archive-date=December 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251228120422/https://nypost.com/2020/10/17/how-trumps-developer-dad-and-a-brooklyn-rabbi-saved-a-synagogue/ |url-status=live }}</ref> U.S. and Chile intelligence documented a number of Nazi émigrés with the style in South America in the decade after the war.<ref name="chile">{{Cite web |title=#77130 |url=https://www.archivonacional.gob.cl/616/articles-77130_recurso_1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220507045651/https://www.archivonacional.gob.cl/616/articles-77130_recurso_1.pdf |archive-date=2022-05-07 |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=National Archives of Chile}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nazi Networks in Chile: Declassified Documents |url=https://www.patrimoniocultural.gob.cl/en/other-institutions/national-archive/nazi-networks-chile-declassified-documents |access-date=2025-07-20 |website=Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural |archive-date=August 4, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250804160939/https://www.patrimoniocultural.gob.cl/en/other-institutions/national-archive/nazi-networks-chile-declassified-documents |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|According to a postwar report to the FBI, the allegedly escaped Hitler had shaved, with his exposed philtrum suggesting the appearance of buttocks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adolf Hitler Part 01 |url=https://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler/Adolf%20Hitler%20Part%2001 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=FBI.gov |language=en-us |pages=1–3 |archive-date=March 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321084954/https://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler/Adolf%20Hitler%20Part%2001/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Chile's probe photographed a ranking man with a philtrum toothbrush (lending a buttlike appearance).<ref name=chile/>|name=scheisse}}{{efn|A photograph purportedly taken in 1954 in Colombia (northern South America) depicts the supposedly living Hitler with his trademark moustache—possibly only a prop the dictator used in hiding.<ref>{{cite book |last=Basti |first=Abel |title=Las fotos de Hitler después de la guerra |date=2023 |publisher=Planeta Colombia |language=es}}</ref>}} It was donned by several politicians of Israel (formed as a state in 1948), some for much of their careers. Hitler's dentist, Hugo Blaschke ({{Died in|1959}}),<ref>{{cite book |last=Joachimsthaler |first=Anton |url=https://archive.org/details/lastdaysofhitler0000joac_o3a8/page/297/ |title=The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, The Evidence, The Truth |publisher=Brockhampton Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-86019-902-8 |location=London |pages=297 |language=en |translator=Helmut Bölger |author-link=Anton Joachimsthaler |orig-date=1995}}</ref> wore a similar style, displaying an explicit toothbrush later in life.<ref name="Blaschke">{{cite web |title=Blaschke, Hugo Johannes |url=https://ww2gravestone.com/people/blaschke-hugo-johannes/ |access-date=June 9, 2022 |website=WW2 Gravestone |archive-date=July 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240705124528/https://ww2gravestone.com/people/blaschke-hugo-johannes/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Armenian Soviet official Anastas Mikoyan upkept a similar style as late as 1962. French railway worker Jean-Marie Loret ({{Born in|1918}}) donned a toothbrush to publicize his {{Circa|lk=no|1980}} claim of being Hitler's son (since disproven).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Candace |date=February 21, 2012 |title=Did Hitler Have a Secret Son? Evidence Supports Alleged Son's Claims |url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/did-hitler-have-a-secret-son-evidence-supports-alleged-sons-claims |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=ABC News |language=en |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922010728/https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/did-hitler-have-a-secret-son-evidence-supports-alleged-sons-claims |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2008-04-28|title=Hitler had geen joods bloed en geen Franse zoon|url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf24042008_130|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319214620/https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf24042008_130|archive-date=2018-03-19|access-date=2025-11-12|website=Het Laatste Nieuws|language=nl}}</ref>

After the war, German artist Otto Dix finished his 1933 satirical painting of the seven deadly sins by adding a Hitleresque split toothbrush to a mask worn by Envy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Otto Dix Paintings, Bio, Ideas |url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/dix-otto/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=The Art Story |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310085801/https://www.theartstory.org/artist/dix-otto/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The moustache was utilized in popular cartoons, e.g. Harry Hanan's pantomime comic ''Louie'' (1947),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harry Hanan Louie Sunday Comic Strip Original Art Group of 2 (Press Features/Consolidated News Features, 1950s) |url=https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/comic-strip-art/harry-hanan-louie-sunday-comic-strip-original-art-group-of-2-press-features-consolidated-news-features-/a/122019-13502.s |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Heritage Auctions |quote=The little man with the toothbrush moustache and the flat hat (or cap) carries on with his silent misadventures ... |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212071817/https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/comic-strip-art/harry-hanan-louie-sunday-comic-strip-original-art-group-of-2-press-features-consolidated-news-features-/a/122019-13502.s |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1947-04-21 |title=The Press: Little Guy |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,853112,00.html |access-date=2023-02-12 |issn=0040-781X |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212071804/https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,853112,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007 |title=IOBA Standard: Volume 8(4) Addenda |url=http://www.ioba.org/newsletter/archive/8(4)/addenda.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501231556/http://www.ioba.org/newsletter/archive/8(4)/addenda.html |archive-date=2012-05-01 |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Independent Online Booksellers Association}}</ref> which narrates the everyday trials of a domestic loser.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Markstein |first=Donald D. |date=2007 |title=Louie |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/louie.htm |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=Don Markstein's Toonopedia}}</ref> It is worn by the father of the titular character of the British comic ''Dennis the Menace'' (1951).<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 11, 2021 |title=From the Archives: Dennis the Menace No. 1 |url=https://www.beano.com/posts/from-the-archives-dennis-the-menace-no-1 |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=Beano.com |language=en-GB |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310092323/https://www.beano.com/posts/from-the-archives-dennis-the-menace-no-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> The moustache also appears in the Warner Bros. cartoons ''Symphony in Slang'' (1951; dir. Tex Avery) and ''The Hole Idea'' (1955). It appears on a puppet in the 1958 Japanese animated film ''The White Snake Enchantress'' (which also features the toothbrush area–omitting Fu Manchu). Caricatures resembling outgrown nasal hair appear in ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' (1959–1964), Osamu Tezuka's ''Astro Boy'' ({{Circa|lk=no|1960s}}), and ''The Pink Panther'' (1964–1980).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tezuka |first=Osamu |url=https://archive.org/details/manga_AstroBoy-v08/page/n41/ |title=Astro Boy: Volume 8 |publisher=Dark Horse Comics |year=2002 |isbn=9781569717912 |location=Milwaukie, OR |pages=80}}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode |title=Zero, the Invisible Robot |series=Astro Boy |date=1963 |season=1 |number=7 |network=Mushi Production}}</ref> The early 1960s American animated sitcom ''The Jetsons'' features a character with the moustache—George Jetson's boss, Cosmo Spacely. It was worn by Spider-Man character J. Jonah Jameson, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Corvington |first=Joshua |date=2023-07-17 |title=Marvel: Why J. Jonah Jameson is actually a better man than most people think, explained |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/comics/marvel-why-j-jonah-jameson-actually-better-man-people-think-explained |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Sportskeeda |language=en-us |archive-date=December 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202090940/https://www.sportskeeda.com/comics/marvel-why-j-jonah-jameson-actually-better-man-people-think-explained |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|Later in life, Lee trimmed his own moustache nearly down to toothbrush width, ostensibly to keep from tickling his wife.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Stan |date=September 2, 2014 |title=My Mustache! - Stan's Rants |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnOpL4O5keQ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=MarvelousTV |via=YouTube |archive-date=December 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202090939/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnOpL4O5keQ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} The style appears in the animated films ''The Rescuers'' (1977) and ''Twice Upon a Time'' (1983), on an antagonist and a Chaplinesque character, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Twice Upon A Time|url=https://www.lucasfilm.com/productions/twice-upon-a-time/|website=Lucasfilm.com|access-date=2025-12-01|language=en-US}}</ref> In a 2002 episode of ''South Park'', a sleeping character is given the style as a prank. The 21st-century graphic memoir ''The Arab of the Future'' depicts a toothbrush being worn in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sattouf|first=Riad|title=The Arab of the Future|volume=3|year=2018|url=https://archive.org/details/araboffuturegrap0000satt_y9g4/page/81/mode/2up}}</ref>

In musical photography, the toothbrush appears (outside of France) on the cover of French composer Michel Legrand's debut album, ''I Love Paris'' (1954).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michel Legrand And His Orchestra - I Love Paris {{!}} Releases |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/341571-Michel-Legrand-And-His-Orchestra-I-Love-Paris/image/SW1hZ2U6MTAxMzA0OTUy |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Discogs |archive-date=February 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229051034/https://www.discogs.com/master/341571-Michel-Legrand-And-His-Orchestra-I-Love-Paris/image/SW1hZ2U6MTAxMzA0OTUy |url-status=live }}</ref> American comedian Ray Goulding is caricatured with one on the cover of Bob and Ray's 1958 album, ''A Stereo Spectacular''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bob And Ray Throw A Stereo Spectacular |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2191923-Various-Bob-And-Ray-Throw-A-Stereo-Spectacular |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=Discogs |archive-date=September 11, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250911183604/https://www.discogs.com/release/2191923-Various-Bob-And-Ray-Throw-A-Stereo-Spectacular |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1967, after omitting Hitler from the cover of ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leigh |first=Spencer |title=Love Me Do to Love Me Don't. |publisher=McNidder and Grace Limited |year=2016 |isbn=978-0857161352 |pages=192 |oclc=958455599}}</ref> the Beatles caricatured the style in the ''Magical Mystery Tour'' sleeve.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour |work=Discogs |date=December 6, 1967 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/464292-The-Beatles-Magical-Mystery-Tour/image/SW1hZ2U6NTcwNzQ4MQ== |access-date=2025-03-08 |language=en |archive-date=May 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250507213607/https://www.discogs.com/release/464292-The-Beatles-Magical-Mystery-Tour/image/SW1hZ2U6NTcwNzQ4MQ== |url-status=live }}</ref> John Entwistle, bassist for English band the Who, wore a split moustache omitting the toothbrush area {{Circa|1969|lk=no}}.<ref>{{Cite AV media |title=Melody Makers: Should've Been There |date=2016 |last=Coles |first=Leslie Ann |minutes=38}}</ref><ref name="forever">{{Cite web |last=Davé |first=Anil |date=2018-07-06 |title=Has Hitler Ruined Growing The Toothbrush Moustache Forever? |url=https://www.twistedmoustache.co.uk/hitler-toothbrush-moustache |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=Twisted Moustache |language=en |quote=... a reverse one ... grow a moustache and shave the middle where it would be}}</ref> In 1970, Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, donned the toothbrush for a sardonic photo shoot as a Nazi officer (with musician Vivian Stanshall).<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Epstein |first=Dan |date=2020-09-07 |title=Keith Moon's 10 Wildest Pranks |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/keith-moons-10-wildest-pranks-13041/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=November 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114095254/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/keith-moons-10-wildest-pranks-13041/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Around this time, violinist Papa John Creach wore a similar—but less steep—moustache.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-28 |title=Photo of American blues violinist Papa John Creach from Jefferson... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/photo-of-american-blues-violinist-papa-john-creach-from-news-photo/145479146 |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=Getty Images |language=en-us |archive-date=July 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724071148/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/photo-of-american-blues-violinist-papa-john-creach-from-news-photo/145479146 |url-status=live }}</ref> Roy Loney, {{Nowrap|co-founder}} of American rock band Flamin' Groovies, flaunted a toothbrush on the cover of a 1971 live album.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 24, 2017 |title=Historic Flamin' Groovies Live Date - Closing the Fillmore West 1971 |url=https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/historic-flamin-groovies-live-date-closing-the-fillmore-west-1971/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=No Depression |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/san-francisco-based-rock-band-flamin-groovies-tim-lynch-roy-news-photo/74031132|title= '60s Rock Band 'Flamin' Groovies'|website= Getty Images|date= April 30, 2007|access-date= 2023-10-30|archive-date= October 30, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231030100655/https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/san-francisco-based-rock-band-flamin-groovies-tim-lynch-roy-news-photo/74031132|url-status= live}}</ref> Inspired by Chaplin, keyboardist Ron Mael of American band Sparks wore a toothbrush;{{efn|Mael maintained a toothbrush throughout most of the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Trzcinski |first=Matthew |date=2022-12-12 |title=John Lennon Said a 1970s Star Looked Like 'Hitler Playing a Piano' |url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/john-lennon-said-1970s-star-looked-like-hitler-playing-piano.html/ |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=Showbiz Cheat Sheet |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=McCormick |first=Neil |date=2021-07-29 |title=The Sparks brothers, interview: 'I didn't grasp the impact of the Hitler business' |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/sparks-brothers-interview-didnt-grasp-impact-hitler-business/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-12-20 |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=December 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220052244/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/sparks-brothers-interview-didnt-grasp-impact-hitler-business/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}{{efn|Further, 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. The band once had a booking to perform on a French television show cancelled due to Mael's moustache.<ref name=":1" /> In later years, Mael wore a pencil-variant of the toothbrush.<ref name=":2" />}} the band gained attention in 1974 with "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us", featured on British music television series ''Top of the Pops''.<ref name="tops">{{cite web |author=Rees |first=Jasper |date=May 6, 2008 |title=Story of Their Lives: Sparks Will Fly |url=http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/story-of-their-lives |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141211040439/http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/story-of-their-lives |archive-date=December 11, 2014 |work=Intelligent Life}}</ref> While watching this, John Lennon reputedly phoned his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr and said he was watching Hitler perform (with the lead singer of T. Rex, to boot).<ref>{{cite AV media|title=The Sparks Brothers|year=2021|quote=Marc Bolan's doing a song with Adolf Hitler on the television!"}}</ref>{{efn|Before this occurrence, which took place during his so-called "lost weekend" with May Pang,<ref>{{cite book|last=Burlingame|first=Jeff|title=John Lennon: "Imagine"|year=2010|publisher=Enslow Publishers, Inc.|location=Berkeley Heights, NJ|isbn=978-0-7660-3675-8|edition=Library|url=https://archive.org/details/johnlennonimagin0000burl/page/124}}</ref> Lennon had demonstrated a fascination with Hitler,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Burks |first=Tosten |date=2018-04-23 |title=John Lennon's Self-Portrait Depicting Himself as Hitler Sells For $54,000 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/john-lennon-self-portrait-hitler-sells-8368104/ |access-date=2023-10-06 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US |archive-date=October 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007070705/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/john-lennon-self-portrait-hitler-sells-8368104/ |url-status=live }}</ref> e.g. requesting the dictator's inclusion on the cover of ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' (1967).<ref>{{cite video|title=It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond|last=Harry|first=Bill|publisher=Renoir Pictures|year=2017|author-link=Bill Harry|time=49 min.}}</ref>}}{{efn|''Intelligent Life'' editor Tim de Lisle gambols that "a whole generation ... saw Ron Mael's moustache, and ran out of the room, crying, 'Mum! Dad! Hitler's playing the piano on "Top of the Pops"!'"<ref name=tops/>}} The cover of the 1974 debut album by American art-rock band the Residents features a graffitied version of ''Meet the Beatles!'' with a toothbrush-moustachioed Lennon. The inner artwork for Billy Joel's ''Songs in the Attic'' (1981) spoofs the toothbrush,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/master/72028-Billy-Joel-Songs-In-The-Attic/image/SW1hZ2U6NTczNTMwNTY=|title=Billy Joel - Songs In The Attic | website=Discogs|date=1981 |access-date=October 22, 2024}}</ref> which can also be found on the cover of ''The Best of Talking Heads'' (2004).

In live-action motion pictures, Soviet actor Yevgeny Morgunov wore a toothbrush in the 1967 comedy film ''Kidnapping, Caucasian Style''. The live-action British sitcom ''On the Buses'' (1969–1973) features a comedic villain with it, while the British sketch comedy series ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' (1969–1974) invoked it on occasion, most notably on a lunatic class of characters known as Gumbys, who shout stupid phrases and commonly clap bricks;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Landy |first=Marcia |title=Monty Python's Flying Circus |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-8143-3651-9 |location=Detroit |pages=97 |oclc=755623810}}</ref> a version appears in 2014's ''Monty Python Live (Mostly)'', and in October 2019 (Python's 50th anniversary), a world record was attempted in London for the most people dressed as Gumbys.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gumby World Record 2019 |url=https://www.montypython.com/news_gwr2019/497 |access-date=May 2, 2023 |website=Monty Python - Official Site |archive-date=May 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502090620/https://www.montypython.com/news_gwr2019/497 |url-status=live }}</ref> The 1979 Italian film ''The Humanoid'' features an apparent Darth Vader rip-off with a blocky shadow in the toothbrush region.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bowman |first=Lisa Marie |date=2015-12-24 |title=Sci-Fi Film Review: The Humanoid (dir by Aldo Lado) |url=https://unobtainium13.com/2015/12/23/sci-fi-film-review-the-humanoid-dir-by-aldo-lado/ |access-date=2025-09-06 |website=Through the Shattered Lens |language=en |archive-date=December 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208125027/https://unobtainium13.com/2015/12/23/sci-fi-film-review-the-humanoid-dir-by-aldo-lado/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Amongst other spoofs of Hitler in his work, American Jewish comedian Mel Brooks donned the moustache (as Hitler) in the 1983 music video for "The Hitler Rap".{{Efn|In Brooks's 1967 film ''The Producers'', an actor (in an intentionally bad play) wears the moustache as the primary visual indicator that he is portraying Hitler.}}{{efn|A woman wears a toothbrush in one shot of the rap video, as an extension of her Nazi chic outfit.<ref>Event occurs at 2:20.</ref> Additionally, in ''Spaceballs'' (1987), a stunt double for Princess Vespa briefly appears with the moustache.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Kevin |date=May 3, 2023 |title=Spaceballs: 35 Things You Didn't Know About The Classic Star Wars Parody |url=https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/spaceballs-35-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-classic-star-wars-parody/2900-3529/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=GameSpot |language=en-US |archive-date=May 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520174834/https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/spaceballs-35-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-classic-star-wars-parody/2900-3529/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} Michael McKean's character briefly wears it in the American mockumentary ''This Is Spinal Tap'' (1984). Between 1985 and 1989, the British children's television drama series ''Grange Hill'' featured an authoritarian teacher played by Michael Sheard (who also portrayed Hitler in several productions) with a toothbrush.<ref name="mag" />

[[File:Mugabe 1979 a.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.79|Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's philtrum-covering variant]]

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

Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain jokingly invoked a Hitler moustache via fake eyelashes in a 1992 home movie; this was featured in the 2015 documentary ''Cobain: Montage of Heck'' and related promotion.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Logan |date=2015-01-25 |title=8 Things We Learned from the Kurt Cobain Doc at Sundance |url=https://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/kurt-cobain-documentary-sundance |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Esquire |language=en-US |archive-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208085017/http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/kurt-cobain-documentary-sundance |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lockett |first=Dee |date=2022-04-28 |title=Kurt Cobain Once Dressed Up As Hitler in a Dress to Defend Courtney Love Against Hate Mail |url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/04/kurt-cobain-dressed-up-as-hitler-in-a-dress.html |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Vulture |language=en-us |archive-date=April 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430074509/https://www.vulture.com/2015/04/kurt-cobain-dressed-up-as-hitler-in-a-dress.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rossignol |first=Derrick |date=April 27, 2015 |title=Kurt Cobain + Courtney Love Mock Hate Mail in '92 Home Video |url=https://diffuser.fm/kurt-cobain-courtney-love-hatemail-1992/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Diffuser.fm |language=en}}</ref> In ''Léon: The Professional'' (1994), Natalie Portman wears the style via face paint to mimick Charlie Chaplin. A villainous character in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2000) and its film adaptation wears the moustache.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rowling |first=J. K. |author-link=J. K. Rowling |title=Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |date=2000 |chapter=Bagman and Crouch |quote=... his narrow toothbrush moustache looked as though he trimmed it using a slide rule.}}</ref> It appears on a mad school principal in the animated series ''Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?''. In Mike Judge's 2006 comedy film ''Idiocracy'', the society of a greatly dumbed-down future believes that Chaplin, not Hitler, led the Nazis. In 2009, English comedian Richard Herring wore the toothbrush for a weeklong stand-up show in an attempt to "reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy [because] it was Chaplin's first, then Hitler ruined it".<ref name="guardian">{{cite news |author=Herring |first=Richard |date=July 31, 2009 |title='There isn't a "New Offensiveness"' |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/jul/31/richard-herring-standup-comedian-brian-logan |access-date=2022-04-09}}</ref><ref name="mag" />

In May 2010, American basketball star Michael Jordan appeared in a Hanes commercial sporting a hybrid of the toothbrush and pencil moustache,<ref name="jordan">{{cite web |author=Frissore |first=Michael |title=Michael Jordan's Hitler Moustache |url=http://www.slurvemag.com/magazine/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=478:michael-jordans-hitler-moustache&catid=138:basketball&Itemid=12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425150106/http://www.slurvemag.com/magazine/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=478:michael-jordans-hitler-moustache&catid=138:basketball&Itemid=12 |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |work=Slurve}}</ref> 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."<ref name="kerby">{{cite web |author=Kerby |first=Trey |date=June 9, 2010 |title=Charles Barkley says what we're all thinking about MJ's mustache |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Charles-Barkley-says-what-we-re-all-thinking-abo?urn=nba-246853&cp=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804021712/http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Charles-Barkley-says-what-we-re-all-thinking-abo?urn=nba-246853&cp=3 |archive-date=August 4, 2014 |access-date=2022-02-18 |work=Yahoo! Sports}}</ref> The moustache and Jordan's use of it are referenced in a 2015 ''Key & Peele'' sketch.

In the Australian comedy series ''Danger 5'' (2012–2015), the titular spies wear a patch with a moustachioed skull during their postwar pursuit of Hitler.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danger 5 |url=https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/698 |access-date=2025-08-10 |website=State Library of South Australia |language=en}}</ref> A silhouette of the style appears on posters for Hitler-related films such as ''Look Who's Back'' (2015) and ''The Last Laugh'' (2016), as well as the History Channel investigative series ''Hunting Hitler'' (2015–2018; 2020). In a 2016 episode of ''The Cyanide & Happiness Show'', Hitler only shoots off his moustache at the end of WWII, but chokes to death on it decades later. In a 2025 special, Australian-American comedian Jim Jefferies said he sometimes fashioned the style privately to mock Hitler,<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Sean L. |date=2025-08-12 |title='Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy' Netflix Special: Stream It Or Skip It? |url=https://decider.com/2025/08/12/jim-jefferies-two-limb-policy-netflix-review/ |access-date=2025-08-14 |language=en-US |archive-date=August 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250814145337/https://decider.com/2025/08/12/jim-jefferies-two-limb-policy-netflix-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref> but did not salute himself.

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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Edelman |first=Adam |date=25 February 2014 |title=Unfortunate lighting gives German chancellor a Hitler-style mustache in photo |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/unfortunate-lighting-german-chancellor-angela-merkel-hitler-mustache-viral-photo-article-1.1701516 |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=New York Daily News |language=en |archive-date=May 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509040836/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/unfortunate-lighting-german-chancellor-angela-merkel-hitler-mustache-viral-photo-article-1.1701516 |url-status=live }}</ref> Late that year, Southern All Stars frontman Keisuke Kuwata briefly sported a toothbrush moustache during a televised performance, prompting online speculation as to the reason.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Nevin |date=January 6, 2015 |title=Why did this man wear a Hitler mustache on Japanese TV? No one really knows |url=https://theworld.org/stories/2015-01-06/why-did-man-wear-hitler-mustache-japanese-tv-no-one-really-knows |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=Global Voices Online |language=en |via=The World |archive-date=July 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706081537/https://theworld.org/stories/2015-01-06/why-did-man-wear-hitler-mustache-japanese-tv-no-one-really-knows |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2025, far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones flaunted the style while arguing that Democrats are both far too quick to call others Nazis and also are Nazis.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moye |first=David |date=2025-09-25 |title=Alex Jones Makes Bold But Dubious Claim About New Mustache |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-makes-bold-dubious-211348038.html |access-date=2025-09-26 |website=HuffPost |language=en-GB |via=Yahoo! News |archive-date=September 25, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250925220916/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-makes-bold-dubious-211348038.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Alex |date=2025-09-25 |title=I am officially joining the Democratic Party as of today. In celebration of their wonderful work I have now adopted a hairstyle that matches their policies |url=https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1971206119197638709 |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=X.com |archive-date=September 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250928121459/https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1971206119197638709 |url-status=live }}</ref> Later that same year, while discussing a purported 1954 photograph of Hitler in Colombia, podcaster Joe Rogan suggested that it was incredulous that anyone would don the moustache after WWII.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Tim Dillon |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB8BcRimf78&t=8040s |series=The Joe Rogan Experience |date=2025-09-04 |number=2375 |time=2:14:00–2:20:00 |via=YouTube |access-date=2025-10-05 |archive-date=December 2, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251202102651/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB8BcRimf78&t=8040s |url-status=live }}</ref>

Into the 21st century, the moustache remained a symbol of satire and protest, maligning people in power perceived to be acting like Hitler.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Heller |first1=Steven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa4gEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT72 |title=The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters |last2=Anderson |first2=Gail |publisher=Quercus Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78067-993-8 |pages=72 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ziv |first=Stav |date=2017-10-19 |title=Trump photo with Hitler mustache was an 'unfortunate incident,' local Ohio paper apologizes |url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-photo-hitler-mustache-was-unfortunate-incident-local-ohio-paper-689024 |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=Newsweek |language=en |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331171903/https://www.newsweek.com/trump-photo-hitler-mustache-was-unfortunate-incident-local-ohio-paper-689024 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=TOI staff |date=28 February 2021 |title=T-shirts of Biden with Hitler mustache on sale at CPAC conference |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/t-shirts-of-biden-with-hitler-mustache-on-sale-at-cpac-conference/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=The Times of Israel |language=en-US |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707193844/https://www.timesofisrael.com/t-shirts-of-biden-with-hitler-mustache-on-sale-at-cpac-conference/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It is also commonly used to allude to Hitler without referencing him by name or to mock him, e.g. in a 2015 book by comedian Nick Offerman and the 2020 drama film ''Mank''. In 2026, a Slovenian magazine depicted Donald Trump with crude oil dripping from his nose, referencing the administration's intervention in Venezuela.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Beresford |first=Jack |date=2026-01-09 |title=Trump Depicted as Hitler by European News Magazine |url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-depicted-as-hitler-by-european-news-magazine-11328927 |access-date=2026-01-11 |website=Newsweek |archive-date=January 11, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260111203726/https://www.newsweek.com/trump-depicted-as-hitler-by-european-news-magazine-11328927 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bramwell |first=Michaela |date=2026-01-10 |title=Donald Trump Is Really, Really, Really Going To Hate This Slovenian Magazine's New Cover |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/viral-slovenia-magazine-cover-donald-trump |access-date=2026-01-11 |website=BuzzFeed |language=en |archive-date=January 11, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260111104102/https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/viral-slovenia-magazine-cover-donald-trump |url-status=live }}</ref>

The style remains legal in Germany, despite the country's general ban on Nazi symbols.<ref name="forever" /> Some facial-hair-themed websites attempted to reclaim it as acceptable to wear again—especially variations diverging from the strictly rectangular version made famous by Hitler—emphasizing that some notable individuals have worn it.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Barber |first=Anthony |date=2022-04-27 |title=Toothbrush Mustache - How To Grow and Style |url=https://beardoholic.com/toothbrush-mustache/ |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=Beardoholic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Reed |first=Joseph |date=2018-05-18 |title=28 Hitler or Toothbrush Mustaches That Are Back In 2022 |url=https://beardstyle.net/hitler-toothbrush-mustache/ |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=Beard Style |language=en-US |archive-date=August 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810014235/https://beardstyle.net/hitler-toothbrush-mustache/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Nevertheless, the toothbrush continued to be widely derided as eliciting the association with Hitler.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Last Guy to Wear a Hitler Mustache in America {{!}} Stuff That Must Have Happened |date=2011-11-04 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYHlxqQkXFg |access-date=2023-11-18 |website=Cracked.com |via=YouTube |language=en |quote=Your facial hair [style is worn] solely by clowns. |archive-date=November 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119072725/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYHlxqQkXFg |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rohrlich |first=Justin |date=2023-07-15 |title=LAPD Cops Accused of Drawing Hitler Mustache on Suspect Awarded $13 Million |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/lapd-cops-accused-of-drawing-hitler-mustache-on-suspects-face-awarded-dollar13-million |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=The Daily Beast |language=en |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725093049/https://www.thedailybeast.com/lapd-cops-accused-of-drawing-hitler-mustache-on-suspects-face-awarded-dollar13-million |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|A participant in the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack had a toothbrush;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cabral |first=Sam |date=2022-09-23 |title='Hitler moustache' Capitol rioter sentenced to four years |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63003568 |access-date=2023-07-25 |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725093043/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63003568 |url-status=live }}</ref> in 2021, tech company Amazon changed its app logo following complaints that part of the design—meant to look like tape on a box—resembled a Hitler moustache.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gartenberg |first=Chaim |date=2021-03-01 |title=Amazon shaves app icon mustache that raised eyebrows |url=https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/1/22307870/amazon-new-app-icon-mustache-shave-change-design-update |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=The Verge |language=en}}</ref> In 2022, professional wrestler Nash Carter was fired after a photo surfaced of him wearing a toothbrush and performing a Nazi salute.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gibbons |first=Aidan |date=2022-04-07 |title=Report: Nash Carter Released By WWE |url=https://cultaholic.com/posts/report-nash-carter-released-by-wwe |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=Cultaholic Wrestling |language=en |archive-date=March 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316120831/https://cultaholic.com/posts/report-nash-carter-released-by-wwe |url-status=live }}</ref>}}{{efn|In an episode of the 2023 Scooby-Doo spin-off ''Velma'', rain causes one of Fred's fake eyelashes to swim under his nose in a series of events making him resemble the Nazi dictator.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ham |first=Ally |date=2023-01-13 |title=Velma – Season 1 Episode 2 'Candy Man' Recap & Review |url=https://www.thereviewgeek.com/velma-s1e2review/ |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=The Review Geek |language=en-GB |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402044724/https://www.thereviewgeek.com/velma-s1e2review/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

==Other notable wearers==

==={{anchor|Europe}} Europe=== {{div col|colwidth=17em}} * Dobri Bozhilov (image) * Michael Collins (image) * Dragiša Cvetković (image) * Charles de Gaulle (image) * Douglas Valder Duff (image) * Alois Eliáš (image) * Milan Gutović (image) * Nestor Makhno (image) * Ludwig von Mises<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-07-28 |title=Ludwig von Mises |url=https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=Mises Institute |language=en |archive-date=November 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110153810/http://mises.org/page/1468/Biography-of-Ludwig-von-Mises-18811973 |url-status=live }}</ref> * Hermann Obrecht (image) * Waldemar Pabst (image) * Wilhelm Pieck<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dreetz |first1=Dieter |title=Bewaffnete Kämpfe in Deutschland 1918-1923 |last2=Gessner |first2=Klaus |last3=Sperling |first3=Heinz |publisher=Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik |year=1988 |isbn=3-327-00511-7 |edition=1. Aufl |location=Berlin |pages=between 176/177 |oclc=20041510}}</ref> * Marcel Pilet-Golaz (image) * Ferdinand Sauerbruch (image) * Walter H. Schottky (image) * Kurt Schuschnigg (image) * Jean Sibelius<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sibelius.fi/english/kuvituskuvat/1918_Jean_Sibelius_vedos_lasinegatiivista.gif|title=Jean Sibelius at sibelius.fi|access-date=August 8, 2022|archive-date=December 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206080844/http://www.sibelius.fi/english/kuvituskuvat/1918_Jean_Sibelius_vedos_lasinegatiivista.gif|url-status=live}}</ref> * Mehmed Spaho (image) * Georgios Tsolakoglou<ref>{{cite web|url=https://generals.dk/general/Tsolakoglou/Georgios/Greece.html|title=Biography of Lieutenant-General Georgios Tsolakoglou - (Γεώργιος Τσολάκογλου) (1886 – 1948), Greece|website=Generals.dk|access-date=July 25, 2022|archive-date=August 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806205446/https://generals.dk/general/Tsolakoglou/Georgios/Greece.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * Adolf Windaus (image) * Yordan Yovkov (image) * Szmul Zygielbojm (image) {{div col end}}

====Nazi Germany==== {{div col|colwidth=17em}} * 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alexautographs.com/auction-lot/dr.-ernst-robert-grawitz_EC845B4AF5|title=Lot - DR. ERNST-ROBERT GRAWITZ|website=www.alexautographs.com|access-date=August 8, 2022|archive-date=July 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719120640/https://www.alexautographs.com/auction-lot/dr.-ernst-robert-grawitz_EC845B4AF5|url-status=live}}</ref> * Jakob Grimminger<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hitler-archive.com/index.php?t=Jakob+Grimminger|title=Jakob Grimminger | Hitler Archive - Adolf Hitler Biography in Pictures|website=www.hitler-archive.com|access-date=August 8, 2022|archive-date=April 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407105212/https://www.hitler-archive.com/index.php?t=Jakob+Grimminger|url-status=live}}</ref> * Hanns Kerrl (image) * Erich Koch (image) * Hans Krebs (image) * {{ill|Ernst Kundt|de}} (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<ref>{{Cite web |title=Franz Epp |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/GERepp.htm |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=Spartacus Educational |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725090948/https://spartacus-educational.com/GERepp.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> * Christian Wirth (image) * Kurt Zeitzler (image) {{div col end}}

==={{anchor|Soviet Union}} Soviet Union and successor states=== {{div col|colwidth=17em}} * Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (image) * Ivan Bagramyan (image) * Aleksandr Bezymensky (image) * Naftaly Frenkel (image) * Leonid Govorov (image) * Paolo Iashvili (image) * Avetik Isahakyan (image) * Ahmad Javad (image) * Vladimir Karpov * Yevhen Konovalets (image) * Semyon Krivoshein (image) * Bogdan Kobulov<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stuklopechat.com/obrazovanie/86062-bogdan-kobulov-foto-nacionalnost-biografiya.html|title=Bogdan Kobulov: photo, nationality, biography|website=stuklopechat.com|access-date=August 8, 2022}}</ref> * 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) {{div col end}}

===State of Israel=== {{div col|colwidth=17em}} * Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (image) * Eliyahu Dobkin (image) * Levi Eshkol (image) * Pinchas Rosen (image) * Yitzhak Shamir (image) * Moshe Sharett (image) * Zalman Shazar (image) * Yisrael Yeshayahu (image) {{div col end}}

===Other regions=== {{div col|colwidth=17em}} * Ferhat Abbas (image) * Subhi Bey Barakat (image) * Siad Barre (image) * Hulusi Behçet<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Hulusi Behcet and Behcet's disease |url=http://www.hulusibehcet.net/ |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=HulusiBehcet.net |archive-date=January 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116185626/http://www.hulusibehcet.net/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * Gaston Browne (image) * Abdalá Bucaram<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dáger |first=Guillermo Castro |date=2017-06-14 |title=Abdalá Bucaram a la presidencia: A la tercera fue la vencida |url=https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2017/06/10/nota/6225001/abdala-bucaram-presidencia-tercera-fue-vencida |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=El Universo |language=es |archive-date=April 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240422024620/https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2017/06/10/nota/6225001/abdala-bucaram-presidencia-tercera-fue-vencida/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * Carlos Castillo Armas (image) * Arthur Compton (image) * Charles Culley (image) * Immanuvel Devendrar (image) * Edward M. Fram (image) * Ahmad al-Ghashmi (image) * Sadegh Hedayat (image) * Gustavo Jiménez (image) * Amanullah Khan (image) * Fumimaro Konoe (image) * Fuat Köprülü (image) * Frank McGee (image) * Davud Monshizadeh (image) * Justin Muturi (image) * Ihsan Nuri (image) * Julius Nyerere (image) * Abdul Karim Qassem (image) * Sayyid Qutb (image) * R. S. Ramakrishna Ranga Rao (image) * Mahmud Salman (image) * Bakr Sidqi (image) * Rafael Trujillo (image) *Jōsei Toda (image) {{div col end}}

==See also== {{Commonscat}} * Cats That Look Like Hitler! * Hitler teapot * List of facial hairstyles

==References== '''Notes''' {{Notelist}}

'''Citations''' {{Reflist}}

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