Nazi Nobleman: Difference between revisions

 

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* Prince Gihren Zabi of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' is what happens when this trope meets [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]. He's a [[Social Darwinist]] who sees [[Adolf Hitler]] as someone to look up to, going so far as to take being compared to him as a complement ("I'll show you what a man who follows in Hitler's footsteps can accomplish). He's also [[The Evil Prince]] and a member of the ruling Zeon nobility.

 

** This could just as well fit in the [[Real Life]] section below, as the Captain really did exist; he was a well-known Austro-Hungarian war hero in World War I, commander of several U-boats (yes, Austria-Hungary did have a navy, based in the Adriatic) in which he executed several highly successful war patrols.

* Averted big-time in ''[[Valkyrie]]'' (for [[Real Life|real-life]], see below) which depicts a Swabian Catholic Aristocrat and army officer who masterminds a plot to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler]]. A huge portion of the other plotters depicted are also aristocrats, both Protestant and Catholic, and from a variety of different parts of Germany.

* ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'' features as its main villain a "Field Marshall von Kluck" (Carl Reiner), whose surname, in combination with his starched-and-pressed uniform and neatly shined boots, suggest a probable aristocratic background. He is also an enthusiastic Nazi, referring to the heroine's family as members of an "inferior race", and trying to destroy the Third Reich's enemies long after the war has ended.

** It may be worth mentioning that von Kluck was an actual German general in [[World War I]], whose inability to coordinate with von Bülow's signaled the failure of the Schlieffen Plan and led to the extended trench warfare of that conflict.