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The '''toothbrush moustache''' is a [[List of facial hairstyles|style of moustache]] in which the sides are vertical (or nearly so), often approximating the width of the nose and visually resembling the [[bristle]]s 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|World War&nbsp;II]], the association with [[Nazi]] leader [[Adolf Hitler]] made it unfashionable, leading to it being colloquially termed the ''''Hitler moustache'''{{'}}.
The '''toothbrush moustache''' is a [[List of facial hairstyles|style of moustache]] in which the sides are vertical (or nearly so), often approximating the width of the nose and visually resembling the [[bristle]]s 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|World War&nbsp;II]], the association with [[Nazi]] leader [[Adolf Hitler]] made it unfashionable, leading to it being colloquially termed the "'''Hitler moustache'''".


After World War II, the toothbrush was worn by some notable individuals, including several [[Israelis|Israeli]] politicians and American real-estate developer [[Fred Trump]]. Remaining strongly associated with Hitler over subsequent decades, it was used [[satirically]] in works of popular culture and political imagery, including motion pictures, comic books, and even 1970s-era [[rock and roll]]; a&nbsp;number of variants also developed during the 20th century.
After World War II, toothbrush variants were worn by a small number of notable individuals, e.g. several [[Israel]]i politicians, American real-estate developer [[Fred Trump]] (who wore a split variant), and former president of Zimbabwe [[Robert Mugabe]] (covering only the [[philtrum]]). Remaining strongly associated with Hitler over subsequent decades, it 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==
==19th century–World War II==
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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:80/culture/features/2007/11/cohen200711 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |via=reprint in ''[[The Best American Essays]]'' 2008.}}</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 moustache|imperial]], [[walrus moustache|walrus]], [[handlebar moustache|handlebar]], [[horseshoe moustache|horseshoe]], and [[pencil moustache|pencil]] moustaches.<ref name=cohen/>
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:80/culture/features/2007/11/cohen200711 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |via=reprint in ''[[The Best American Essays]]'' 2008.}}</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 moustache|imperial]], [[walrus moustache|walrus]], [[handlebar moustache|handlebar]], [[horseshoe moustache|horseshoe]], and [[pencil moustache|pencil]] moustaches.<ref name=cohen/>


English comic actor [[Charlie Chaplin]] was one of the most famous wearers of the toothbrush style. 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 next film, ''[[Kid Auto Races at Venice]]'' (1914)—the debut of his [[The Tramp|Tramp]] character.<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]]}}</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> Chaplin said he chose the toothbrush because it 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. And that mustache was no concept of the characterization – only saying that it was rather silly. It doesn't hide my expression, after all, and is now my signature mustache."<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>}} 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}}</ref> by 1920, Chaplin purportedly 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 (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 news |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 |work=[[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 [[Adolf Hitler in popular culture|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}}</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}}</ref>
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]]}}</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.&nbsp;... 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 (Chaplin book)| 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}}</ref> by 1920, Chaplin purportedly 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 (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 [[Adolf Hitler in popular culture|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}}</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}}</ref>


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 |issue=10 |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}}</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-mustache, 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}}</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]]}}</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}}</ref> but [[:File:Walt Disney 1935.jpg|his nose-width moustache]] lacked the characteristic steep sides.
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 |issue=10 |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}}</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-mustache, 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}}</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]]}}</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}}</ref> but [[:File:Walt Disney 1935.jpg|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 (Disney)|D23]] |language=en-US}}</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. A number of associates of American company [[Heinz]] were photographed wearing a toothbrush moustache at a 1940 convention in [[Montreal]], Quebec.<ref>{{Cite AV media|first=Conrad|last=Poirier|author-link=Conrad Poirier|title=[[:File:News. Heinz Convention BAnQ P48S1P05620.jpg|News. Heinz Convention]]|date=5 September 1940|medium=[[Negative (photography)|Negative film]], black and white}}</ref> American real-estate developer [[Fred Trump]], the father of U.S. president [[Donald Trump]], sported a variant (exposing his lower [[philtrum]]) as early as [[:File:FredTrump1940.jpg|1940]]. Animation director [[Tex Avery]] applied a split variant to his spoof of Hitler in his 1942 film ''[[Blitz Wolf]]''.
[[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. The moustache appeared on some members of the [[German American Bund]] during a [[:File:German American Bund NYWTS.jpg|1937 parade]] in New York City. A number of associates of American company [[Heinz]] were photographed wearing toothbrushes in 1940 (at a convention in [[Montreal]], Quebec).<ref>{{Cite AV media|first=Conrad|last=Poirier|author-link=Conrad Poirier|title=[[:File:News. Heinz Convention BAnQ P48S1P05620.jpg|News. Heinz Convention]]|date=5 September 1940|medium=[[Negative (photography)|Negative film]], black and white}}</ref> American real-estate developer [[Fred Trump]], the father of U.S. president [[Donald Trump]], sported a variant (exposing his lower [[philtrum]]) as early as [[:File:FredTrump1940.jpg|1940]]. Animation director [[Tex Avery]] applied a split variant to his spoof of Hitler in his 1942 film ''[[Blitz Wolf]]''.


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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 quarreled, 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&nbsp;1914 photograph by [[Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)|Heinrich Hoffmann]] purports to show Hitler with a toothbrush, but this was probably [[Photograph manipulation|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}}</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}}</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}}</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}}</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}}</ref> although Frey's story is unproven, Hitler indeed had a blinding encounter with [[Chemical weapons in World War I|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 |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|The [[History (American TV network)|History]] program ''[[The World Wars (miniseries)|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}}</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>
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 quarreled, 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&nbsp;1914 photograph by [[Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)|Heinrich Hoffmann]] purports to show Hitler with a toothbrush, but this was probably [[Photograph manipulation|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}}</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}}</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}}</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}}</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}}</ref> although Frey's story is unproven, Hitler indeed had a blinding encounter with [[Chemical weapons in World War I|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 |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|The [[History (American TV network)|History]] program ''[[The World Wars (miniseries)|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}}</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 [[:File:Hitler 1921.jpg|shows Hitler]] with a traditional moustache. A very early depiction of him with the toothbrush is [[:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00204, Bayern, Hitler auf Propagandafahrt.jpg|a photograph from c.&nbsp;1923]].</ref> According to cultural historian [[Ron Rosenbaum]], "there is no evidence (though some speculation)" that Hitler modeled 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}}</ref><ref name="cohen" /> In [[:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-02287, Berlin-Tempelhof, Hitler und Göring.jpg|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}}</ref> In 1933 (the year Hitler became [[Chancellor of Germany]]), the Nazis began to lambast Chaplin as "non-[[Aryanism|Aryan]]" in [[Antisemitism in Nazi propaganda|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}}</ref> According to Hitler's bodyguard [[Rochus Misch]], Hitler "loved" Chaplin films, a number of which he watched at his [[Teahouse on Mooslahnerkopf Hill|teahouse]] near the [[Berghof (residence)|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|World War&nbsp;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 of World War II|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}}</ref> 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> in fact, his nose was only [[:File:Hitler1945.jpg|visibly engorged]] during the final months of [[European theatre of World War II|WWII in Europe]].<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>
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 [[:File:Hitler 1921.jpg|shows Hitler]] with a traditional moustache. A very early depiction of him with the toothbrush is [[:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00204, Bayern, Hitler auf Propagandafahrt.jpg|a photograph from c.&nbsp;1923]].</ref> According to cultural historian [[Ron Rosenbaum]], "there is no evidence (though some speculation)" that Hitler modeled 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}}</ref><ref name="cohen" /> In [[:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-02287, Berlin-Tempelhof, Hitler und Göring.jpg|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}}</ref> In 1933 (the year Hitler became [[Chancellor of Germany]]), the Nazis began to lambast Chaplin as "non-[[Aryanism|Aryan]]" in [[Antisemitism in Nazi propaganda|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}}</ref> According to Hitler's bodyguard [[Rochus Misch]], Hitler "loved" Chaplin films, a number of which he watched at his [[Teahouse on Mooslahnerkopf Hill|teahouse]] near the [[Berghof (residence)|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|World War&nbsp;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 of World War II|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}}</ref> 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> in fact, his nose was only [[:File:Adolf Hitler, 20. april 1945.jpg (2).jpg|visibly engorged]] during the final months of [[European theatre of World War II|WWII in Europe]].<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>


Politician [[Anton Drexler]], a mentor of Hitler, wore a notched version of the toothbrush. [[Friedrich Kellner]], a [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democrat]] who campaigned against Hitler, also wore it. [[#Nazi Germany|Many notable Nazis]] besides Hitler donned it, including [[Heinrich Himmler]], [[Karl Holz (Nazi)|Karl Holz]], [[Ernst Röhm]] and Hitler's chauffeur [[Julius Schreck]]. Near the [[end of World War II in Europe]], the [[Soviet Union]] produced footage of a supposed [[Alleged doubles of Adolf Hitler|body double of Hitler]] 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.&nbsp;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 [[Conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler's death|claims that Hitler somehow escaped]].{{efn|In an alleged sighting of his arrival [[Ratlines (World War II)|in Argentina]], Hitler was claimed to have shaved the toothbrush, with his unusually exposed philtrum lending his upper mouth area the appearance of bare [[buttocks]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stilwell |first=Blake |date=December 13, 2022 |title=The FBI had evidence Hitler might have escaped the Red Army and fled to Argentina |url=https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/hitler-argentina/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=We Are The Mighty |language=en}}</ref>}} Some [[Nazism in Chile|Nazis in Chile]] [[:File:Nazi assembly in Chile.jpg|wore the moustache]] around the end of World War&nbsp;II.{{efn|According to a purported [[:File:Adolf Schüttelmayor.png|1954 photograph]], the allegedly escaped dictator ostensibly reclaimed his moustache in [[Colombia]], northwestern South America.}}
Politician [[Anton Drexler]], a mentor of Hitler, wore a notched version of the toothbrush. [[Friedrich Kellner]], a [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democrat]] who campaigned against Hitler, also wore it. Various [[#Nazi Germany|notable Nazis]] sported versions, including {{Nowrap|''Reichsführer-SS''}} [[Heinrich Himmler]], politician [[Karl Holz (Nazi)|Karl Holz]], military officer [[Ernst Röhm]] and Hitler's chauffeur [[Julius Schreck]]. Near the [[end of World War II in Europe]], the [[Soviet Union]] produced footage of a supposed [[Alleged doubles of Adolf Hitler|body double of Hitler]] 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.&nbsp;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 [[Conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler's death|claims that Hitler somehow escaped]].{{efn|In an alleged sighting of his arrival [[Ratlines (World War II)|in Argentina]], Hitler was claimed to have shaved the toothbrush, with his unusually exposed philtrum lending his upper mouth area the appearance of bare [[buttocks]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stilwell |first=Blake |date=December 13, 2022 |title=The FBI had evidence Hitler might have escaped the Red Army and fled to Argentina |url=https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/hitler-argentina/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=We Are The Mighty |language=en}}</ref>}} Some [[Nazism in Chile|Nazis in Chile]] were photographed [[:File:Nazi assembly in Chile.jpg|wearing the moustache]] around the end of World War&nbsp;II.{{efn|According to a purported [[:File:Adolf Schüttelmayor.png|1954 photograph]], the allegedly escaped Hitler ostensibly reclaimed his moustache in [[Colombia]], northwestern South America.}}


=== Other places ===
=== 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&nbsp;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>[[c:File:Aslanov_AA.jpg|File:Aslanov AA.jpg - Wikimedia Commons]]</ref>
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&nbsp;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>[[c:File:Aslanov_AA.jpg|File:Aslanov AA.jpg - Wikimedia Commons]]</ref>


English writer [[George Orwell]] wore a toothbrush [[:File:OrwellBurmaPassport.jpg|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]]}}</ref> The toothbrush is worn by [[Arthur Hastings|the&nbsp;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> Spanish general [[Francisco Franco]] (the [[Francoist Spain|dictator of Spain]] from 1939 to 1975) wore it [[:File:José Moscardó, Francisco Franco, Ramón Serrano Súñer (1938).jpg|throughout the 1930s]]. In a 1936 [[political cartoon]], New Zealand artist [[David Low (cartoonist)|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>
English writer [[George Orwell]] wore a toothbrush [[:File:OrwellBurmaPassport.jpg|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]]}}</ref> The toothbrush is worn by [[Arthur Hastings|the&nbsp;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> Spanish general [[Francisco Franco]] (the [[Francoist Spain|dictator of Spain]] from 1939 to 1975) wore it [[:File:José Moscardó, Francisco Franco, Ramón Serrano Súñer (1938).jpg|throughout the 1930s]]. In a 1936 [[political cartoon]], New Zealand artist [[David Low (cartoonist)|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}}</ref>


[[File:FredTrump1950-02.png|thumb|upright=.63|[[Fred Trump]] wearing a toothbrush {{circa|1950}}]]
[[File:FredTrump1950-02.png|thumb|upright=.63|[[Fred Trump]] wearing a split variant (exposing the [[philtrum]]) {{circa|1950}}]]


==Post–World War II==
==Post–World War II==


By the end of World War II, toothbrush moustaches had all but fallen out of fashion due to its strong association with Hitler,<ref name=cohen/> but some notable people continued to wear it. American real-estate developer Fred Trump upkept his until {{Circa|lk=no|1950}}, despite beginning to obfuscate his German ancestry during the war.<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}}<!-- includes clearer version of 1950 portrait --></ref><ref name=blair>{{cite book |last=Blair |first=Gwenda |title=The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate |date=2015 |orig-date=2000 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=978-1501139369 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJifCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 |pages=159, 493}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news|last=Rozhon|first=Tracie|date=1999-06-26|title=Fred C. Trump, Postwar Master Builder of Housing for Middle Class, Dies at 93|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/26/nyregion/fred-c-trump-postwar-master-builder-of-housing-for-middle-class-dies-at-93.html|access-date=July 3, 2022|others=[[John Whitney Walter|John Walter]]|quote=He had a lot of Jewish tenants and it wasn't a good thing to be German in those days.}}</ref>{{efn|In particular, although Fred Trump spoke in a [[German accent]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barrett |first=Wayne |author-link=Wayne Barrett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItkJAQAAMAAJ |title=Trump: The Deals and the Downfall |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-06-016704-2 |location=New York |pages=35, 44, 55}}</ref> he denied that he spoke the language, claimed he was of [[Swedes|Swedish]] origin and aligned himself with Jewish causes.<ref name=blair/><ref name=nyt/> (He further claimed he was born in [[New Jersey]], not New York.)<ref>{{cite news |title=A builder looks back—and moves forward |work=The New York Times |first=Alden |last=Whitman |date=January 28, 1973 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/28/archives/a-builder-looks-backand-moves-forward-builder-looks-back-but-moves.html |access-date=October 8, 2018}}</ref> Donald Trump sustained Fred's heritage-related deceptions in ''[[The Art of the Deal]]'' (1987),<ref>{{cite web |date=April 3, 2019 |title=Fact Check: Trump's dad was not born in Germany |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/03/politics/fact-check-trumps-dad-was-not-born-in-germany/index.html |access-date=April 3, 2019 |work=[[CNN]]}}</ref> but as U.S. president, insisted that his father was born in Germany.<ref>{{cite news |last=Blake |first=Aaron |date=April 2, 2019 |title=Analysis &#124; Trump wrongly claims his dad was born in Germany – for the third time |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/02/trump-wrongly-claims-his-dad-was-born-germany-third-time/ |access-date=April 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Riotta |first=Chris |date=April 3, 2019 |title=Donald Trump just claimed for fourth time that his father was born in Germany. He was wrong, again |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-father-fred-trump-born-germany-false-claim-new-york-city-nato-jens-stoltenberg-a8851946.html |access-date=September 3, 2022 |website=[[The Independent]] |language=en}}</ref> During his last year in office, Trump reputedly once uttered while disparaging [[Angela Merkel|the German Chancellor]], "I&nbsp;know the fucking [[kraut]]s." Pointing to his father's (toothbrush-free) portrait,<ref>{{Cite web |last=D'Antonio |first=Michael |date=2019-01-23 |title=Trump's parents are still watching him |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/opinions/fred-mary-trump-presidential-influence-dantonio/index.html |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> he avowed, "I&nbsp;was raised by the biggest [[kraut]] of them all,"<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Leonnig |first1=Carol |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVo5EAAAQBAJ&pg=PG384 |title=I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year |last2=Rucker |first2=Philip |publisher=[[Penguin Press]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-593-29894-7 |location=New York |pages=384 |language=en |author-link=Carol D. Leonnig |author-link2=Philip Rucker}}</ref> invoking an ethnic slur for a German soldier of either world war.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kraut Definition & Meaning |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/kraut |publisher=[[Dictionary.com]] |access-date=June 12, 2022}}</ref>}} [[#State of Israel|Several politicians]] of [[Israel]] ([[Israeli Declaration of Independence|formed as a state in&nbsp;1948]]) wore it, some for much of their careers. [[Austria]]n chancellor [[Julius Raab]] exhibited it in [[:File:Molotov, Raab April 1955.jpg|1955]] while negotiating for [[Austrian State Treaty|restored independence]]. 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}}</ref> Armenian [[Communist]] activist [[Anastas Mikoyan]] upkept one as late as [[:File:John F. Kennedy, Anastas Mikoyan.jpg|1962]]. French railway worker [[Jean-Marie Loret]] ({{Born in|1918}}) donned a toothbrush to publicize his claim ({{Circa|lk=no|1980}}) of being Hitler's son.<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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Maser |first=Werner |date=February 1978 |title=Adolf Hitler: Vater eines Sohnes ("Adolf Hitler: Father of a Son") |url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?apm=0&aid=ztg&datum=19770003&seite=00000173 |access-date=25 March 2013 |work=Zeit Geschichte |pages=173–202 |language=de}}</ref>
By the end of World War II, toothbrush moustaches had all but fallen out of fashion due to its strong association with Hitler,<ref name=cohen/> but some notable people continued to wear it. American real-estate developer Fred Trump upkept his split variant until {{Circa|lk=no|1950}}, despite beginning to obfuscate his German ancestry during the war.<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}}<!-- includes clearer version of 1950 portrait --></ref><ref name=blair>{{cite book |last=Blair |first=Gwenda |title=The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate |date=2015 |orig-date=2000 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=978-1501139369 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJifCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 |pages=159, 493}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news|last=Rozhon|first=Tracie|date=1999-06-26|title=Fred C. Trump, Postwar Master Builder of Housing for Middle Class, Dies at 93|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/26/nyregion/fred-c-trump-postwar-master-builder-of-housing-for-middle-class-dies-at-93.html|access-date=July 3, 2022|others=[[John Whitney Walter|John Walter]]|quote=He had a lot of Jewish tenants and it wasn't a good thing to be German in those days.}}</ref>{{efn|In particular, although Fred Trump spoke in a [[German accent]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barrett |first=Wayne |author-link=Wayne Barrett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItkJAQAAMAAJ |title=Trump: The Deals and the Downfall |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-06-016704-2 |location=New York |pages=35, 44, 55}}</ref> he denied that he spoke the language, claimed he was of [[Swedes|Swedish]] origin and aligned himself with Jewish causes.<ref name=blair/><ref name=nyt/> (He further claimed he was born in [[New Jersey]], not New York.)<ref>{{cite news |title=A builder looks back—and moves forward |work=The New York Times |first=Alden |last=Whitman |date=January 28, 1973 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/28/archives/a-builder-looks-backand-moves-forward-builder-looks-back-but-moves.html |access-date=October 8, 2018}}</ref> Donald Trump sustained Fred's heritage-related deceptions in ''[[The Art of the Deal]]'' (1987),<ref>{{cite web |date=April 3, 2019 |title=Fact Check: Trump's dad was not born in Germany |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/03/politics/fact-check-trumps-dad-was-not-born-in-germany/index.html |access-date=April 3, 2019 |work=[[CNN]]}}</ref> but as U.S. president, insisted that his father was born in Germany.<ref>{{cite news |last=Blake |first=Aaron |date=April 2, 2019 |title=Analysis &#124; Trump wrongly claims his dad was born in Germany – for the third time |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/02/trump-wrongly-claims-his-dad-was-born-germany-third-time/ |access-date=April 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Riotta |first=Chris |date=April 3, 2019 |title=Donald Trump just claimed for fourth time that his father was born in Germany. He was wrong, again |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-father-fred-trump-born-germany-false-claim-new-york-city-nato-jens-stoltenberg-a8851946.html |access-date=September 3, 2022 |website=[[The Independent]] |language=en}}</ref> During his last year in office, Trump reputedly once uttered while disparaging [[Angela Merkel|the German Chancellor]], "I&nbsp;know the fucking [[kraut]]s." Pointing to his father's (toothbrush-free) portrait,<ref>{{Cite web |last=D'Antonio |first=Michael |date=2019-01-23 |title=Trump's parents are still watching him |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/opinions/fred-mary-trump-presidential-influence-dantonio/index.html |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> he avowed, "I&nbsp;was raised by the biggest [[kraut]] of them all,"<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Leonnig |first1=Carol |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVo5EAAAQBAJ&pg=PG384 |title=I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year |last2=Rucker |first2=Philip |publisher=[[Penguin Press]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-593-29894-7 |location=New York |pages=384 |language=en |author-link=Carol D. Leonnig |author-link2=Philip Rucker}}</ref> invoking an ethnic slur for a German soldier of either world war.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kraut Definition & Meaning |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/kraut |publisher=[[Dictionary.com]] |access-date=June 12, 2022}}</ref>}} [[#State of Israel|Several politicians]] of [[Israel]] ([[Israeli Declaration of Independence|formed as a state in&nbsp;1948]]) wore it, some for much of their careers. [[Austria]]n chancellor [[Julius Raab]] exhibited it in [[:File:Molotov, Raab April 1955.jpg|1955]] while negotiating for [[Austrian State Treaty|restored independence]]. 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}}</ref> Armenian [[Communist]] activist [[Anastas Mikoyan]] upkept one as late as [[:File:John F. Kennedy, Anastas Mikoyan.jpg|1962]]. French railway worker [[Jean-Marie Loret]] ({{Born in|1918}}) donned a toothbrush to publicize his claim ({{Circa|lk=no|1980}}) of being Hitler's son.<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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Maser |first=Werner |date=February 1978 |title=Adolf Hitler: Vater eines Sohnes ("Adolf Hitler: Father of a Son") |url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?apm=0&aid=ztg&datum=19770003&seite=00000173 |access-date=25 March 2013 |work=Zeit Geschichte |pages=173–202 |language=de}}</ref>


After the war, German artist [[Otto Dix]] finished his 1933 painting of the [[seven deadly sins]] by adding a 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}}</ref> The moustache was utilized in popular cartoons, e.g. [[Harry Hanan]]'s [[Silent comics|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 ...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1947-04-21 |title=The Press: Little Guy |language=en-US |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,853112,00.html |access-date=2023-02-12 |issn=0040-781X}}</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 focuses on 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 and Gnasher|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}}</ref> The 1955 [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|Warner Bros.]] cartoon ''[[The Hole Idea]]'' features characters with it; caricatures resembling outgrown [[nasal hair]] appear in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' (1959–1964)<!-- opening titles -->, [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''[[Astro Boy]]'' ({{Circa|lk=no|1960s}}), and ''[[List of The Pink Panther cartoons|The Pink Panther]]'' (1964–1980)<!--on the Little Man-->.<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|J.&nbsp;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}}</ref> (Later in life, Lee trimmed his own moustache nearly down to toothbrush width 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]]}}</ref>
After the war, German artist [[Otto Dix]] finished his 1933 painting of the [[seven deadly sins]] by adding a 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}}</ref> The moustache was utilized in popular cartoons, e.g. [[Harry Hanan]]'s [[Silent comics|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 ...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1947-04-21 |title=The Press: Little Guy |language=en-US |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,853112,00.html |access-date=2023-02-12 |issn=0040-781X}}</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 focuses on 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 and Gnasher|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}}</ref> The 1955 [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|Warner Bros.]] cartoon ''[[The Hole Idea]]'' features characters with the moustache, and it also appears on a puppet in the 1958 Japanese animated film ''[[The White Snake Enchantress (film)|The White Snake Enchantress]]''<!-- at 26: or 30: --> (which also features the toothbrush area–omitting [[Fu Manchu moustache|Fu&nbsp;Manchu]]). Caricatures resembling outgrown [[nasal hair]] appear in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' (1959–1964)<!-- opening titles -->, [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''[[Astro Boy]]'' ({{Circa|lk=no|1960s}}), and ''[[List of The Pink Panther cartoons|The Pink Panther]]'' (1964–1980)<!--on the Little Man-->.<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|J.&nbsp;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}}</ref> (Later in life, Lee trimmed his own moustache nearly down to toothbrush width 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]]}}</ref>


The toothbrush appears (outside of France) on the cover of French composer [[Michel Legrand]]'s debut album, ''I&nbsp;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]]}}</ref> 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 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755623810 |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}}</ref>
The toothbrush appears (outside of France) on the cover of French composer [[Michel Legrand]]'s debut album, ''I&nbsp;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]]}}</ref> 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 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755623810 |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}}</ref>


A number of [[rock and roll]] musicians dabbled with the moustache around the early 1970s. [[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}}</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}}</ref> Inspired by Chaplin, keyboardist [[Ron Mael]] of American band [[Sparks (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}}</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=[[1843 (magazine)|Intelligent Life]]}}</ref> While watching this, [[John Lennon]] reputedly phoned his former [[Beatles]] bandmate [[Ringo Starr]] and said he was watching Hitler perform (with [[Marc Bolan|the&nbsp;lead singer]] of [[T. Rex (band)|T.&nbsp;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}}</ref> e.g. requesting the dictator's inclusion on [[List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|the cover]] of ''[[Sgt.&nbsp;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|''[[1843 (magazine)|Intelligent Life]]'' editor [[Tim de Lisle]] gambols that "a&nbsp;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 [[Meet the Residents|the 1974 debut album]] by American art-rock band [[the Residents]] features a graffitied version of ''[[Meet the Beatles!]]'' with a toothbrush-moustachioed Lennon.
A number of [[rock and roll]] musicians dabbled with the moustache around the early 1970s. [[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}}</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}}</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}}</ref> Inspired by Chaplin, keyboardist [[Ron Mael]] of American band [[Sparks (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}}</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=[[1843 (magazine)|Intelligent Life]]}}</ref> While watching this, [[John Lennon]] reputedly phoned his former [[Beatles]] bandmate [[Ringo Starr]] and said he was watching Hitler perform (with [[Marc Bolan|the&nbsp;lead singer]] of [[T. Rex (band)|T.&nbsp;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}}</ref> e.g. requesting the dictator's inclusion on [[List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|the cover]] of ''[[Sgt.&nbsp;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|''[[1843 (magazine)|Intelligent Life]]'' editor [[Tim de Lisle]] gambols that "a&nbsp;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 [[Meet the Residents|the 1974 debut album]] by American art-rock band [[the Residents]] features a graffitied version of ''[[Meet the Beatles!]]'' with a toothbrush-moustachioed Lennon.


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


Former [[Zimbabwe]]an president [[Robert Mugabe]] wore a philtrum-only version from as early as [[:File:Mugabe76Romania (cropped).jpg|1976]] to as late as [[:File:Robert Mugabe and Shinzo Abe 20160328 1 (cropped).jpg|2016]].
Former [[Zimbabwe]]an president [[Robert Mugabe]] wore a philtrum-only version from as early as [[:File:Mugabe76Romania (cropped).jpg|1976]] to as late as [[:File:Robert Mugabe and Shinzo Abe 20160328 1 (cropped).jpg|2016]].


An antagonist wears a toothbrush in the 1977 Disney animated film ''[[The&nbsp;Rescuers]]''. 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 (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>}} 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) wearing a toothbrush.<ref name="mag" />
An antagonist wears a toothbrush in the 1977 Disney animated film ''[[The&nbsp;Rescuers]]''. 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 (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}}</ref>}} 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) wearing a toothbrush.<ref name="mag" />


In a 1992 home movie, [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] lead singer [[Kurt Cobain]] invoked a Hitler moustache (via fake eyelashes) while wearing a dress to mock a pejorative [[letter to the editor]] about his wife, [[Courtney Love]]. This was featured in the 2015 documentary ''[[Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck|Cobain: Montage of Heck]]'' and shared online to promote the film.<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 (magazine)|Esquire]] |language=en-US}}</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.com|Vulture]] |language=en-us}}</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 a 1992 home movie, [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] lead singer [[Kurt Cobain]] invoked a Hitler moustache (via fake eyelashes) while wearing a dress to mock a pejorative [[letter to the editor]] about his wife, [[Courtney Love]]. This was featured in the 2015 documentary ''[[Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck|Cobain: Montage of Heck]]'' and shared online to promote the film.<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 (magazine)|Esquire]] |language=en-US}}</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.com|Vulture]] |language=en-us}}</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 [[Mike Judge]]'s 2006 comedy film ''[[Idiocracy]]'', the society of a greatly [[dumbed-down]] future believes that Charlie Chaplin, not Hitler, led the Nazis. In 2009, English comedian [[Richard Herring]] created a stand-up show titled ''Hitler Moustache'' in which he wears the toothbrush in an attempt to "reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy{{snd}}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> Herring wore the moustache for about a week, during which time he was anxious about the judgements he thought were being made of him.<ref name="mag" />
[[Barty Crouch Senior|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 Charlie Chaplin, not Hitler, led the Nazis. In 2009, English comedian [[Richard Herring]] wore the toothbrush for a weeklong stand-up show in a feeble attempt to "reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy [because] it was Chaplin's first, then Hitler ruined&nbsp;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>
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>
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* [[Dobri Bozhilov]] <small>([[:File:Dobri Bozhilov1.png|image]])</small>
* [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] <small>([[:File:Michael_Collins_1921.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Dragiša Cvetković]] <small>([[:File:Dragiša Cvetković (1).jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Dragiša Cvetković]] <small>([[:File:Dragiša Cvetković (1).jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Charles de Gaulle]] <small>([[:File:De Gaulle-OWI (cropped)-(d).jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Charles de Gaulle]] <small>([[:File:De Gaulle-OWI (cropped)-(d).jpg|image]])</small>
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* [[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}}</ref>
* [[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}}</ref>
* [[Jakob Grimminger]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hitler-archive.com/index.php?t=Jakob+Grimminger|title=Jakob Grimminger &#124; Hitler Archive - Adolf Hitler Biography in Pictures|website=www.hitler-archive.com|access-date=August 8, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Jakob Grimminger]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hitler-archive.com/index.php?t=Jakob+Grimminger|title=Jakob Grimminger &#124; Hitler Archive - Adolf Hitler Biography in Pictures|website=www.hitler-archive.com|access-date=August 8, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Hanns Kerrl]] <small>([[:File:Hans Kerrl.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Erich Koch]] <small>([[:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H13717, Erich Koch.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Erich Koch]] <small>([[:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H13717, Erich Koch.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Hans Krebs (SS general)|Hans Krebs]] <small>([[:File:Hans Krebs.jpg|image]])</small>
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* [[Ferhat Abbas]] <small>([[:File:Ferhat Abbas - algerischer Staatspräsident.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Subhi Bey Barakat]] <small>([[:File:Subhi barkat.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Subhi Bey Barakat]] <small>([[:File:Subhi barkat.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Siad Barre]] <small>([[:File:Siabar 003.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Siad Barre]] <small>([[:File:Siabar 003.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Justin Muturi]] <small>([[:File:Justin Muturi (MUS1515) (cropped).jpg|image]])</small>
* [[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}}</ref>
* [[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}}</ref>
* [[Abdalá Bucaram]] <small>([[:File:Bucaram foto.png|image]])</small>
* [[Gaston Browne]] <small>([[:File:10 06 2022 Segunda Sessão Plenária da IX Cúpula das Américas (52137201805) (cropped).jpg|image]])</small>
* [[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}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Castillo Armas]] <small>([[:File:Carlos Castillo Armas (LOC 98512008, low-res).jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Carlos Castillo Armas]] <small>([[:File:Carlos Castillo Armas (LOC 98512008, low-res).jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Arthur Compton]] <small>([[:File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|image]])</small>
* [[Arthur Compton]] <small>([[:File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|image]])</small>

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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 unfashionable, leading to it being colloquially termed the "Hitler moustache".

After World War II, toothbrush variants were worn by a small number of notable individuals, e.g. several Israeli politicians, American real-estate developer Fred Trump (who wore a split variant), and former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe (covering only the philtrum). Remaining strongly associated with Hitler over subsequent decades, it 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

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In the United States

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The toothbrush originally became popular in the late 19th century, in the United States.[1] 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.[1]

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).[2][3][4] 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.[a][6] Within a few years of the Tramp's debut, the look was being copied;[7] by 1920, Chaplin purportedly entered and lost a Chaplin look-alike contest, having omitted his signature moustache.[8] Chaplin incorporated the noted similarity between the Tramp and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler[9][b] in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, playing both a Tramp-like Jewish barber and a parody of Hitler.[11] This was Chaplin's final appearance with the moustache.[12]

Prominent American animation producer Max Fleischer wore a toothbrush moustache c. 1919.[13][14] 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 c. 1925–1939,[15][c] while in the mid-1930s bit-part player Brooks Benedict thickened his mid-mustache, evoking the toothbrush style (flanked by pencil-thin sides).[16] Although Groucho Marx wore a larger moustache, novelty Groucho glasses (sold c. 1940s)[17] often elicit the toothbrush. It has been occasionally claimed that American film producer Walt Disney donned a toothbrush,[18][19][20] but his nose-width moustache lacked the characteristic steep sides. Frank Churchill, composer for a number of Disney films, sometimes styled one.[21]

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. The moustache appeared on some members of the German American Bund during a 1937 parade in New York City. A number of associates of American company Heinz were photographed wearing toothbrushes in 1940 (at a convention in Montreal, Quebec).[22] American real-estate developer Fred Trump, the father of U.S. president Donald Trump, sported a variant (exposing his lower philtrum) as early as 1940. Animation director Tex Avery applied a split variant to his spoof of Hitler in his 1942 film Blitz Wolf.

In Germany

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The toothbrush moustache was introduced to Germany in the late 19th century by visiting Americans.[1] 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.[1][23] 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]".[1][24] 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.[1][25] 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."[25] 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.[1] German serial killer Peter Kürten (1883–1931) eventually reduced it to only the philtrum.[26][27]

Adolf Hitler in the early 1920s; his appearance was so defined by his moustache that it became unfashionable by the end of World War II.

There are dubious claims that Adolf Hitler began wearing the toothbrush prior to the early 1920s (when it was first reliably documented).[1] His sister-in-law, Bridget Hitler, tenuously claimed that he spent the winter of 1912–13 at her home in Liverpool, England,[1][28] during which time the two quarreled, mostly because she could not stand his Kaiser moustache; she reputedly persuaded him to cut it, resulting in him fashioning a toothbrush.[1][29] A 1914 photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann purports to show Hitler with a toothbrush, but this was probably doctored to serve as Nazi propaganda.[30][31] As evidenced by photographs, Hitler wore the Kaiser moustache as a soldier during WWI.[32] 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;[1][33][34] 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.[35][d] Other sources claim Hitler wore it as early as 1919.[37][38]

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).[1][39] According to cultural historian Ron Rosenbaum, "there is no evidence (though some speculation)" that Hitler modeled his moustache on Charlie Chaplin's.[37][b] 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.[40][1] In 1932, Hitler wore the toothbrush narrower on bottom.[41] In 1933 (the year Hitler became Chancellor of Germany), the Nazis began to lambast Chaplin as "non-Aryan" in anti-Semitic propaganda, though Chaplin was not Jewish.[9] According to Hitler's bodyguard Rochus Misch, Hitler "loved" Chaplin films, a number of which he watched at his teahouse near the Berghof (built c. 1936).[42] 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.[43] In her posthumous memoir, Hitler's secretary Christa Schroeder (d. 1984) claimed that Hitler said in the mid-1920s that the moustache offset his purportedly oversized nose;[44] in fact, his nose was only visibly engorged during the final months of WWII in Europe.[45]

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 Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, politician Karl Holz, military officer Ernst Röhm and Hitler's chauffeur Julius Schreck. Near the end of World War II in Europe, the Soviet Union produced footage of a supposed body double of Hitler wearing the style[46]—variously invoked in Soviet-bolstered claims that Hitler somehow escaped.[e] Some Nazis in Chile were photographed wearing the moustache around the end of World War II.[f]

Other places

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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.[48][49] 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.[50]

English writer George Orwell wore a toothbrush during the 1920s before adapting his more iconic pencil moustache.[51] The toothbrush is worn by the sidekick of English author Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot.[52] 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.[53] On a 1941 poster, Russian artist Dmitry Moor depicted Hitler with a split toothbrush variant.[54]

Fred Trump wearing a split variant (exposing the philtrum) c. 1950

Post–World War II

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By the end of World War II, toothbrush moustaches had all but fallen out of fashion due to its strong association with Hitler,[1] but some notable people continued to wear it. American real-estate developer Fred Trump upkept his split variant until c. 1950, despite beginning to obfuscate his German ancestry during the war.[55][56][57][g] Several politicians of Israel (formed as a state in 1948) wore it, some for much of their careers. Austrian chancellor Julius Raab exhibited it in 1955 while negotiating for restored independence. Hitler's dentist, Hugo Blaschke (d. 1959),[66] wore a similar style—displaying an explicit toothbrush later in life.[67] Armenian Communist activist Anastas Mikoyan upkept one as late as 1962. French railway worker Jean-Marie Loret (b. 1918) donned a toothbrush to publicize his claim (c. 1980) of being Hitler's son.[68][69]

After the war, German artist Otto Dix finished his 1933 painting of the seven deadly sins by adding a split toothbrush to a mask worn by Envy.[70] The moustache was utilized in popular cartoons, e.g. Harry Hanan's pantomime comic Louie (1947),[71][72][73] which focuses on the everyday trials of a domestic loser.[74] It is worn by the father of the titular character of the British comic Dennis the Menace (1951).[75] The 1955 Warner Bros. cartoon The Hole Idea features characters with the moustache, and it also 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 (c. 1960s), and The Pink Panther (1964–1980).[76][77] 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.[78] (Later in life, Lee trimmed his own moustache nearly down to toothbrush width to keep from tickling his wife.)[79]

The toothbrush appears (outside of France) on the cover of French composer Michel Legrand's debut album, I Love Paris (1954).[80] 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.[81] 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.[82]

A number of rock and roll musicians dabbled with the moustache around the early 1970s. John Entwistle, bassist for English band the Who, wore a split moustache omitting the toothbrush area c. 1969.[83][84] In 1970, Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, donned the toothbrush for a sardonic photo shoot as a Nazi officer (with musician Vivian Stanshall).[85] Around this time, violinist Papa John Creach wore a similar—but less steep—moustache.[86] Roy Loney, co-founder of American rock band Flamin' Groovies, flaunted a toothbrush on the cover of a 1971 live album.[87][88] Inspired by Chaplin, keyboardist Ron Mael of American band Sparks wore a toothbrush;[h][i] 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.[91] 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).[92][j][k] 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.

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.

An antagonist wears a toothbrush in the 1977 Disney animated film The Rescuers. 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".[l][m] 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) wearing a toothbrush.[23]

In a 1992 home movie, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain invoked a Hitler moustache (via fake eyelashes) while wearing a dress to mock a pejorative letter to the editor about his wife, Courtney Love. This was featured in the 2015 documentary Cobain: Montage of Heck and shared online to promote the film.[98][99][100]

A villainous character in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) and its film adaptation wears the moustache.[101] 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 Charlie Chaplin, not Hitler, led the Nazis. In 2009, English comedian Richard Herring wore the toothbrush for a weeklong stand-up show in a feeble attempt to "reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy [because] it was Chaplin's first, then Hitler ruined it."[102][23]

In May 2010, American basketball star Michael Jordan appeared in a Hanes commercial sporting a hybrid of the toothbrush and pencil moustache,[103] 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."[104]

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.[105] Late that same year, Southern All Stars frontman Keisuke Kuwata briefly donned a toothbrush moustache during a televised performance, prompting online speculation as to the reason.[106]

Into the 21st century, the moustache remained a poignant symbol of satire and protest, maligning people in power perceived to be acting like Hitler.[107][108][109] 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.[18][110] Nevertheless, the toothbrush continued to be widely derided as eliciting the association with Hitler.[111][112][n][o] Even shadows cast down by the nose are generally considered to sully portraits.[117] One moustache website, acknowledging efforts to reclaim it, concludes:[84]

I'm pretty sure Hitler ruined it forever! Bastard!

Other notable wearers

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Nazi Germany

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Soviet Union and successor states

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State of Israel

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Other regions

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See also

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References

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Notes

  1. ^ 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."[5]
  2. ^ a b Upon first seeing Hitler in newsreels, Chaplin assumed that his look alluded to the Tramp.[10]
  3. ^ Kelsey's guise was spoofed in the 1943 Tex Avery cartoon Who Killed Who?.
  4. ^ 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".[36]
  5. ^ In an alleged sighting of his arrival in Argentina, Hitler was claimed to have shaved the toothbrush, with his unusually exposed philtrum lending his upper mouth area the appearance of bare buttocks.[47]
  6. ^ According to a purported 1954 photograph, the allegedly escaped Hitler ostensibly reclaimed his moustache in Colombia, northwestern South America.
  7. ^ In particular, although Fred Trump spoke in a German accent,[58] he denied that he spoke the language, claimed he was of Swedish origin and aligned himself with Jewish causes.[56][57] (He further claimed he was born in New Jersey, not New York.)[59] Donald Trump sustained Fred's heritage-related deceptions in The Art of the Deal (1987),[60] but as U.S. president, insisted that his father was born in Germany.[61][62] During his last year in office, Trump reputedly once uttered while disparaging the German Chancellor, "I know the fucking krauts." Pointing to his father's (toothbrush-free) portrait,[63] he avowed, "I was raised by the biggest kraut of them all,"[64] invoking an ethnic slur for a German soldier of either world war.[65]
  8. ^ Mael maintained a toothbrush throughout most of the 1970s and 1980s.[89][90]
  9. ^ 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.[89] In later years, Mael wore a pencil-variant of the toothbrush.[90]
  10. ^ Before this occurrence, which took place during his so-called "lost weekend" with May Pang,[93] Lennon had demonstrated a fascination with Hitler,[94] e.g. requesting the dictator's inclusion on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967).[95]
  11. ^ 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"!'"[91]
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ A woman wears a toothbrush in one shot of the rap video, as an extension of her Nazi chic outfit.[96] Additionally, in Spaceballs (1987), a stunt double for Princess Vespa briefly appears with the moustache.[97]
  14. ^ E.g., a participant in the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack had a toothbrush;[113] 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.[114] In 2022, professional wrestler Nash Carter was fired after a photo surfaced of him wearing a toothbrush and performing a Nazi salute.[115]
  15. ^ 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.[116]

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