But by the time the film was released, the UK was at war with Germany and the film was welcomed in part for its obvious propaganda value.
V knjigi "Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s" Thomas Schatz zapiše, da je »Chaplinov "Potepuh" prenesen v revnega judovskega brivca«, Colin Shindler pa v "Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929-1939" zapiše, da je »Vsestranski "Potepuh" spremenjen s posebnim namenom v judovskega brivca, katerega država bo vsak čas posrkana v totalitarno kraljestvo Adenoida Hynkla«.