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== Literature ==
* British woriter Dennis Wheatley (The Devil Rides Out, among numerous others) used the Ghostapo trope in at least one of his novels: First, in Strange Conflict, in which the Nazis used the services of a Haitian Witch Doctor to get the routes for Allied convoys from the minds of the people who knew about them. The Duke de Richleau and his companions put a stop to it.
* David Brin's really rather dark [[Alternate History]] short story ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110605030414/http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html Thor Versus Captain America]'', later adapted into comic form as ''The Life-Eaters'', has the Nazis murder almost 17 million people as part of a gigantic Necromantic ritual intended to bring the Norse Gods to life, fighting on the side of Hitler. And it works. The Author has said this was an attempt to make Holocaust have some actual sense for the Nazis.
* [[Charles Stross]]'s ''[[The Laundry Series|The Atrocity Archives]]'' portrays the Holocaust as a gigantic necromantic experiment, ''Operation Jotunheim'', to summon an [[Eldritch Abomination|Infovore]], a being of near-infinite cold that feeds on energy and information; the titular archives store the particular artifacts that the public should never find out about. It also features an [[Alternate Universe]] where the Nazis ''succeeded'' in their goal; unfortunately for them, they weren't in control of it and didn't realize what they'd unleashed until it was much, ''much'' too late. As a result, that universe is nearing its [[Apocalypse How|entropic heat death]] in the present days, and the laws of physics themselves were being distorted.
** A particularly nasty bit involves the description of Nazi necromantic practices, or as Stross dubs it, Algemancy - the magic of pain.
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* ''Reign Of The Gargoyles'' from the [[Syfy]]: The Nazis make a pact with stone-winged killers.
* In the live-action adaptation of ''[[Witchblade (TV series)|Witchblade]]'', it is mentioned that not only was Hitler a collector of objects of power, including the titular Witchblade, but he was a wielder of the Lance of Longinus/Spear of Destiny, as well.
* [[The Burning Zone]]: “Midnight of the Carrier”: Neo-Nazis plan to use special lenses that can see energy signatures as a weapon. [http://www.tv.com/shows/burning-zone/midnight-of-the-carrier-713709/\], [
* a Season 5 ''[[Angel]]'' episode had a flashback to the 1940s, where it is revealed that the Nazis have been experimenting with the creation of a vampire army.
** And as a [[Shout-Out]] to its predecessor ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the method by which they were planning to accomplish this goal was very similar to the brain chip put in Spike by the Initiative in season 4.
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*** "Nazi science sneers at historical accuracy!"
*** They explained this [http://irregularwebcomic.net/2263.html here]. [[Alternate Universe]], big time.
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* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Hitler inexplicably appears in [[Dracula]]'s moon base. Though that might just be because Dracula apparently collects historical figures.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110224182923/http://www.comics.aha.ru/rus/stalin/1.html Stalin vs. Hitler]'' does this a great deal both for both Hitler and Stalin.
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', this is how the first ''ubermenschen'' were made.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20161117050803/http://strangeaeons.comicdish.com/ Strange Aeons]'' is a [[Dieselpunk]] themed webcomic where the Nazi villains are planning to use the Necronomicon for some yet-unknown evil purpose.
* ''[[Spinnerette]]'' has Kugelblitz, a former member of the "Third Reich's Sorcery Batallion" who planned to infuse a [[You Cloned Hitler|Hitler clone]] with the soul of the real deal.
* ''[[The Unspeakable Vault of Doom]]'' had "the Reich's favorite esoteric research institute" trying to find a way of using Necronomicon as their superweapon. Handed to them by Nyarly himself for the lulz. It worked [[I'm a Humanitarian|in a rather predictable way]].
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== Web Original ==
* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', Heinrich Himmler (who is still alive and kicking in 2010) is a member of the Thule Society, an [[Ancient Conspiracy]] of sorcerers intent on releasing [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhoid horrors]] back into Earth's dimension. World War II, and especially the Holocaust, was just one small part of the plan...
* The notorious Flash adventure game ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131105130854/http://www.atrianglemorning.com/games/flash.php Which Way Adventure]'' (you know, the one with the manticores) contains a scene where Hitler steals your time-traveling helmet and flamethrower and proceeds to fill the world with zombies. Er.
* In ''[[Marble Witch]]'' the Nazis use warwitches and dragons. Then again, so do most of the belligerents.
* In the [[Whateley Universe]], supervillain The Necromancer has actually reminisced about doing occult evil for the Nazis. Although he didn't get that unstoppable zombie army up and running (shambling?) in time.
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