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'''Kaplan:''' I created one last ritual. With these hands I strangled him.
'''Heller:''' It didn't bring them back from the dead.
'''Kaplan:''' No, it brought me back from the dead!
|''The Amateur'' (1981)}}
{{quote|We will be doing one thing and one thing only...killin' Nazis!
|'''Lt. Aldo Raine''', ''[[Inglorious Basterds]]''}}
Someone who dedicates their life to hunting down ex-Nazis, or is dedicated to hunting down one particular Nazi because of what they did in [[World War Two]] (Note: this trope doesn't apply just because the antagonist happens to be an ex-Nazi). Often a [[Badass Israeli]] who might be working for Mossad, a result of the high-profile kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann from Argentinia in 1960. In reality Mossad stopped chasing war criminals not long after this event, as more urgent threats to Israel took priority.
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Very common in [[Nazisploitation]] films.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], [[Silver Sable]]'s father did this, with the Wild Pack originally being established as a Nazi hunting group. In the modern era, Silver and the Pack have become little more than mercenaries as there are much fewer surviving Nazis, but when they ''do'' show up, they still hunt them down.
* There was an extended comic story in ''National Lampoon'' magazine about "Gunnar Von Weissen," [[Refuge in Audacity|an ex-Nazi who hunted former concentration camp prisoners]], ''a la'' Wiesenthal.
* There was an indie comic called ''Manimal'' (no, not [[Manimal|that one]]) about a [[Superhero]] who tracks down and slays the Nazis responsible for turning him into a freak. This comic was reviewed by [[The Cinema Snob]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]].
* [[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]] tracked down Nazis after the war and even killed [[Adolf Hitler]] himself. Some of these Nazis are still around and he expresses his digust of Nazis everytime he sees them.
* [[Captain America (comics)]] himself continues to do this to this day, thanks to the [[Red Skull]] being [[Joker Immunity|very hard to kill]].
* Rebeccah's sister in ''[[Requiem Chevalier Vampire]]''. She kills Otto (an old Nazi hiding in Argentina at that point), sending him to Resurection.
* In the 80's, [[X-Men|Magneto]] joined the ranks of several Marvel villains in the ''Acts of Vengeance'' [[Crossover]] simply so that he could get close to the Red Skull and bury him alive. Magneto was a Holocaust survivor so there was no love lost between him and the Skull.
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* A back-up story in an issue of ''[[Savage Dragon]]'' involved the [[Captain Patriotic|Super Patriot]] tracking down a cult of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|ninja cyborg Nazis]]. Since he was a WWII vet, he took great pleasure in blowing them apart.
== [[Film]] ==
* Erik Lensherr (AKA Magneto) is this in the beginning of ''[[X-Men:
* ''[[Night Gallery]]'' pilot film, episode "Escape Route". A Nazi war criminal living in South America is pursued by Israeli agents, including a man he tortured at Auschwitz.
* ''[[Inglorious Basterds]]'' features a squad of JEWISH-AMERICAN-SOLDIERS! killin' Nazi officials and soldiers during [[WW 2]] as opposed to after it. One of their member also happens to be a [[Hunter of His Own Kind]], a former German soldier that developed a taste for killing Nazis himself.
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* ''[[Walk on Water]]''
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Odessa File]]'' by [[Frederick Forsyth]]. Has Simon Wiesenthal as a cameo character.
* ''[[The Boys from Brazil]]'' by Ira Levin. The protagonist is an obvious Wiesenthal [[Expy]].
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* Subverted in "The Statement" by Brian Moore. The [[Villain Protagonist]] (a [[Les Collaborateurs|former member of the Vichy police]]) is not being hunted down by Jewish assassins as he thinks, but his own colleagues (now high-ranking police officers) who have hired the men ([[False-Flag Operation|common criminals with Jewish backgrounds]]) so he won't be arrested and testify against them.
== [[Live
* ''Kessler'', the sequel to ''[[Secret Army]]'', in which the title character is pursued by a German police officer, and a young Israeli woman seeking revenge for her roommate being killed by neo-Nazi thugs.
* ''[[Airwolf]]'' ("Fight Like a Dove"). The daughter of a Nazi hunter murdered by an ex-Nazi [[Arms Dealer]] gets their help to attack the [[Big Bad]] in his fortress in Paraguay.
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* Sue Sylvester's mother Doris on ''[[Glee]]''.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[wikipedia:Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal]]
** The Simon Wiesenthal Center has recently started to realize that Nazi war criminals are soon going to be all dead, so they've redirected toward hate groups, and toward anybody accused of antisemitism, except, oddly, Argentine dictators who openly praise Adolf Hitler.
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