Thread: Did Hitler copy his mustache style?

Well it might sound absurd but , since both of them practically were of same age., who copied whose style of keeping the mustache or it was the trend back then?

Chaplin had it first. I've seen a photo of Hitler with a more generic mustache style, but Chaplin's little tramp first appeared in 1913 (maybe 14), and was world famous by 1916/17 the latest.

According to imdb trivia, Hitler specifically copied Chaplin: "Although Adolf Hitler was not at all a fan - in fact he had been misinformed that Charlie was Jewish, and therefore despised him - he was also well aware of how beloved Charlie was throughout the world at that time, and that was the reason he grew the Chaplin moustache: he thought it would endear him to the people. (Source: The Tramp and the Dictator)"