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* In Sergei Eisenstein's ''[[Alexander Nevsky]]'', the common soldiers of [[The Teutonic Knights]] all wear identical [[Faceless Goons|face-masking]] Stahlhelms. (The Stahlhelm itself was, in turn, probably based on a medieval German style of helmet called a ''Schallern''.) And the archbishop wears a miter [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Nevski5.jpg with swastikas!] Quite possibly the [[Older Than Television|earliest example of the trope]] (five years after [[Those Wacky Nazis]] took power).

* In the movie adaptation of ''[[Quo Vadis]]?'', the scene where the troops march before Nero, who watches from a balcony and salutes them, is directly choreographed from ''Triumph of the Will''.

* The Chancellor of the unnamed country in ''[[9 (Animation)|Nine]]'' was obviously inspired by the Nazis. The flags, uniforms of the soldiers, hell even their [[Mini Mecha|combat robots]] look like stahlhelms with legs.

* ''Damn near everyone'' in the low-budget movie ''[[Warrior of the Lost World]]''. The villains (from the "Omega" political party) dress in snappy black uniforms with [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|an inverted red triangle, with a white disc and a black omega]]. Prosser, their leader, dresses in a black leather trenchcoat. However, even the good guys, [[La Résistance|freedom fighters struggling against Omega]] have people dressed ''in actual Nazi uniforms.'' Including a black guy in SS uniform.

* Good guy example: the Furoia Army forces in ''Madou Souhei Kleinhasa" wear SS-style uniforms, reinforced by the fact that all of the named Furoian soldiers have [[Gratuitous German|vaguely German-]][[As Long As It Sounds Foreign|sounding names]].

* An interesting version of this occurs in ''[[Metro 2033 (Video Game)|Metro 2033]]'', combined with [[No Swastikas]]. The Nazis use a flag with the same red foreground and the white circle in the middle, but instead of a swastika, there is a big Gothic capital letter C.

* ''[[Akatsuki Blitzkampf]]'''s main ''hero'' pus Akatsuki, Kanae, Adler, Elektrosoldat and Murakumo.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'', the Galbadian army has elements of this. While the enlisted men and noncommissioned officers primarily consist of soldiers in red and blue uniforms with fairly high-tech looking helmets and gear, General Caraway wears a black uniform with long coat. Ironically, he's one of the ''good guys''.

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