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The Toothbrush moustache (also called Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 moustache, Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
 moustache or 1/3 moustache) is a bushy moustache
Moustache

A moustache is facial hair grown on the upper lip. Often the term implies that the wearer grows only upper-lip hair while shaving the hair on his chin and cheeks....
, shaved at the edges, except for three to five centimetres above the centre of the lip. The sides of the moustache are vertical rather than tapered.

This moustache is most famous for having been worn by German dictator Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
, although it was already well-recognised due to movie star Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
 wearing it as part of his iconic Little Tramp
The Tramp

The Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era....
 costume.






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The Toothbrush moustache (also called Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 moustache, Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
 moustache or 1/3 moustache) is a bushy moustache
Moustache

A moustache is facial hair grown on the upper lip. Often the term implies that the wearer grows only upper-lip hair while shaving the hair on his chin and cheeks....
, shaved at the edges, except for three to five centimetres above the centre of the lip. The sides of the moustache are vertical rather than tapered.

This moustache is most famous for having been worn by German dictator Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
, although it was already well-recognised due to movie star Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
 wearing it as part of his iconic Little Tramp
The Tramp

The Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era....
 costume. Chaplin did not wear the moustache in daily life. In a 1933 interview, Chaplin said he added the moustache to his costume because it had a comical appearance and was small enough so as not to hide his expression. Chaplin took advantage of the noted similarity between his on-screen appearance and that of Adolf Hitler in his 1940 film The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator is a comedy film Film director by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940 in film, it was Chaplin's first true talking picture, and more importantly was the only major film of its period to bitterly satirise Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism....
, where he again wore the moustache as part of two new characters that parodied Hitler.

The style is now unpopular in the West due to its strong association with Hitler. Less well known is that Hitler originally sported a longer, "Kaiser"-style moustache. While historians have long assumed that Hitler adopted a toothbrush moustache to follow the style of the time, a recently-recovered essay by writer Alexander Moritz Frey suggests that Hitler was ordered to trim his moustache during World War I—a long moustache would have interfered with the fit of respirator masks worn to protect soldiers from mustard gas attacks..

In China a trimmer version of this moustache is viewed as a stereotype of Japanese people, especially of Japanese soldiers from the Second World War. An extreme variant of the toothbrush moustache narrows it to the philtrum
Philtrum

The philtrum , also known as the infranasal depression is the vertical groove in the upper lip, formed where the nasomedial and Maxillary_prominence processes meet during embryonic development....
 only. Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the List of Presidents of Zimbabwe of Zimbabwe. He has held power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987....
 is noted for this style.

Notable people known to sport a toothbrush moustache
Toothbrush moustache

The Toothbrush moustache is a bushy moustache, shaved at the edges, except for three to five centimetres above the centre of the lip. The sides of the moustache are vertical rather than tapered....
 include:
  • Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov
    Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

    Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was a Russian SovietUnion composer, the founder of the Red Army Choir, who wrote the music for the national anthem of the Soviet Union, which in 2001, became the anthem of Russia ....
  • Merle Allin
    Merle Allin

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  • Reynir Axelsson
  • Hovhannes Bagramyan
    Hovhannes Bagramyan

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  • Abdalá Bucaram
    Abdalá Bucaram

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  • Sepp Dietrich
    Sepp Dietrich

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  • Levi Eshkol
    Levi Eshkol

    served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a myocardial infarction in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office....
  • Tav Falco
    Tav Falco

    Tav Falco is an United States-born performer, performance artist, actor, filmmaker, and photographer. He has led the psychedelic music rock and roll group Tav Falco's Panther Burns since 1979....
  • Gottfried Feder
    Gottfried Feder

    Gottfried Feder was an economist and one of the early key members of the NSDAP. He was their economic theoretician. Initially, it was his lecture in 1919 that drew Hitler into the party....
  • Max Fleischer
    Max Fleischer

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  • Otto Frank
    Otto Frank

    Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, and arranged for the publication of her The Diary of a Young Girl in 1947....
  • Adolf Galland
    Adolf Galland

    Adolf "Dolfo" Joseph Ferdinand Galland was a World War II Germany fighter aircraft pilot and commander of Germany's fighter force from 1941 to 1945....
  • Oliver Hardy
    Oliver Hardy

    Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 31 years, 1926-1957 ....
  • Martin Heidegger
    Martin Heidegger

    Martin Heidegger was an influential Germany Philosophy. His best known book, Being and Time, is generally considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century....
  • Richard Herring
    Richard Herring

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  • Heinrich Himmler
    Heinrich Himmler

    Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a Nazi Germany German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, competing with Hermann G?ring, Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels....
  • Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
  • Friedrich Kellner
    Friedrich Kellner

    August Friedrich Kellner was a mid-level official in Germany who worked as a justice inspector in Mainz and Laubach. During the First World War, Kellner was an infantryman in a Hesse regiment....
  • Fumimaro Konoe
    Fumimaro Konoe

    Prince Fumimaro Konoe was a Japanese politician and the 34th , 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan....
  • Ron Mael
    Ron Mael

    Ron Mael , is an United States musician and songwriter. He and his younger brother Russell Mael, make up the pop duet Sparks . Ron plays Electronic keyboard and songwriter most of the songs....
  • Zoltán Meskó
    Zoltán Meskó

    Zolt?n Mesk? de Sz?plak was a leading Hungary Nazi during the 1930s....
  • Kevin Millar
    Kevin Millar

    Kevin Charles Millar is a Major League Baseball first baseman with the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Millar played college baseball at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, Texas, where he continues to reside in the off-season....
  • Robert Mugabe
    Robert Mugabe

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  • Julius Kambarage Nyerere
  • Hermann Obrecht
    Hermann Obrecht

    Hermann Obrecht was a Switzerland politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council .He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on April 4, 1935 and handed over office on July 31, 1940....
  • Marcel Pilet-Golaz
    Marcel Pilet-Golaz

    Marcel Pilet-Golaz was a Switzerland politician.He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 13, 1928 and handed over office on December 31, 1944....
  • Karl Plagge
    Karl Plagge

    Major Karl Plagge was a Germany officer and National Socialist German Workers Party member who during World War II employed some 1,240 Jews?500 men, the others women and children? for Forced labor in Germany during World War II, thus giving them a better chance to survive the nearly total annihilation of Lithuania?s Jews that took place bet...
  • Sayyid Qutb
    Sayyid Qutb

    Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptians author, Islamist, and the leading intellectual of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and '60s. He is best known in the Muslim world for his work on what he believed to be the social and political role of Islam, particularly in his books Social Justice and Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq ....
  • Fritz Sauckel
    Fritz Sauckel

    Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic slavery of millions from lands occupied by Nazi Germany....
  • Julius Schreck
    Julius Schreck

    Julius Schreck was an early Nazi Party member and also the first commander of the Schutzstaffel ....
  • Yitzhak Shamir
    Yitzhak Shamir

    was Prime Minister of Israel of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992....
  • Moshe Sharett
    Moshe Sharett

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  • Jan Syrový
    Jan Syrový

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  • Ludwig von Mises
    Ludwig von Mises

    Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economics, philosopher, and liberalism who had a major influence on the modern libertarianism movement....


Well-known fictional characters who sport a toothbrush moustache include:
  • Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp
    The Tramp

    The Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era....
  • Fred the Baker
    Fred the Baker

    Fred the Baker was a popular advertising character portrayed by actor Michael Vale in commercials for Dunkin' Donuts from 1982 to 1997. He was best known for his catchphrase "Time to make the donuts!" and the commercial that introduced the phrase was named one of the five best television commercial of the 1980s by the Television Bureau of A...
  • Bartemius Crouch Sr
  • J. Jonah Jameson
    J. Jonah Jameson

    John Jonah Jameson is a fictional supporting character featured in various Marvel Comics, most prominently the Spider-Man title. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #1 ....
  • Inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake, in the British comedy series On the Buses
    On The Buses

    On the Buses is a British situation comedy created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers had enjoyed successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife for the BBC....
  • The Gumbys
  • Roderick Spode
    Roderick Spode

    Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup, often known as Spode or Lord Sidcup, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P....
  • Sam Waldron
    Postman Pat

    Postman Pat is a United Kingdom stop-motion animated television series children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. It is aimed at pre-school children, and concerns the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the fictional village of Greendale ....
    , mobile shop owner in Postman Pat
    Postman Pat

    Postman Pat is a United Kingdom stop-motion animated television series children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. It is aimed at pre-school children, and concerns the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the fictional village of Greendale ....
  • Sergeant Hans Schultz in the television series Hogan's Heroes
    Hogan's Heroes

    Hogan's Heroes is an American television situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network....