 Chaplin repeated use of the "Lohengrin" prelude near the conclusion, when the exiled Hannah listens to the Jewish barber's speech celebrating democracy and freedom.The music is interrupted during the dictator's dance but it is heard to climax and completion in the barber's pro-democracy speech.Commenting on this, Lutz Peter Koepnick writes in 2002,
Chaplin's film was released nine months after Hollywood's first parody of Hitler, the short subject "You Nazty Spy!"