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{{trope}}
[[File:illinois-nazis.jpg|link=The Blues Brothers|frame|Illinois Nazis.<ref>We ''hate'' Illinois Nazis!</ref>]]
{{quote|''When der Fuehrer says "Ve ist der Master Race",''
''Ve'' '''Heil!''' * Raspberry* '''Heil!''' * Raspberry* ''right in der Fuehrer's face!''
''Not to love der Fuehrer is a great disgrace,''
''So ve'' '''Heil!''' * Raspberry* '''Heil!''' * Raspberry* ''right in der Fuehrer's face!''
|'''[[Spike Jones]]'''|''Der Fuehrer's Face''}}
'''Those Wacky Nazis''' covers a variety of Nazi stereotypes.
Before we get on with the list, we also suggest you take a look at [[Nazi Germany]], [[Adolf Hitler]] ([[Captain Obvious|closely associated with Nazis]]), [[World War II]], [[Ghostapo]],
* The [[Cultured Warrior|"cultured"]] [[Wicked Cultured|one]] who stands around in vest, braces and lederhosen listening to classical music on a gramophone, who says "You see, Herr Captain, ve are not all animals."
* The loud one who is usually on the phone shouting "Get me ze Führer!".
* The kinky, leather-coated Gestapo officer who is typically a [[Camp Gay]]; possibly inspired by Ernst Röhm and many of the high-ranking members of the SA, Hitler's original personal guard. By the time of their destruction on Hitler's orders, the SA was populated by numerous homosexuals or suspected homosexuals. Also possibly inspired by [https://web.archive.org/web/20120726050102/http://etd.auburn.edu/etd/bitstream/handle/10415/889/BRODIE_MARK_43.pdf?sequence=1 Rudolph Hess, known in some circles as "Fraulein Anna"] and Hermann Göring, whose appearance was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luqTw9QB4dQ evidently rather campy].
* The tight-assed [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] who goes through the trouble of donning his entire uniform - including jodhpurs and wellington boots - before talking to someone (even if said someone is on the phone and unable to see what he is wearing). Ends every conversation with a "Heil Hitler!" and a loud click of his heels.
* The round-spectacled, black-gloved [[Torture Technician|torture master]] who emits a shrill giddy laugh after every sentence. May or may not overlap with "Gay Nazi" above.
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Then there are neo-Nazis. Generally today they tend to be somewhat stereotypical skinhead punks, covered with tattoos, listening to rage rock, with no real agenda besides anger and violence, and generally representing a particularly nasty strain of disaffected youth, often led on by calculating hatemongers with more cynical motives. These are common in cop shows, and are given a particularly chilling representation in the film ''[[American History X]]''. Other films, like ''The 51st State'' portrays them as asinine thugs, dumber than a box of rocks. It's also important to note that not ''all'' skinheads are Neo-Nazis, and making such an association around a traditional or anti-racist skin [[Berserk Button|tends to invite a reaction]].
On the other hand, during the earlier days of the [[Cold War]], spy shows, such as ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' or ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'', the protagonists would occasionally take a break from battling the commies in order to put a stop to someone's attempt to reinstate the "The Fourth Reich." These Nazi wannabes would invariably be vaguely Germanic, paranoid, arrogant, obsessed with "discipline," and usually very morally rigid (such as announcing that in the New Order, women would be limited to making babies, their "proper function"). In short, such characters were little more than broadly drawn cartoons. Given that the entertainment industry <s>was</s> is [[You Have to Have Jews|
Another with some (increasingly small) currency today is the fugitive Nazi war criminal, who may well be hiding out in [[Latin Land]] or even the continental United States. [[Marathon Man|Perhaps he's working as a dentist...]]
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Any low-ranking Nazi [[Mook]] will have a limited vocabulary, consisting solely of these phrases uttered in rapid succession, also called "[[A Worldwide Punomenon|voice achtung]]". In real life, the Wehrmacht did not print phrase books to its troops, essentially because most Germans already know a little English and French, and on the Eastern Front, the only words a German soldier needed to know was "Ruky Vverkh!" ("hands up!").
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Brockenman and Brocken Jr. from ''[[Kinnikuman]]''. Brockenman could actually ''breathe poison gas'', as it happens.
** Notable in that Brocken Jr. is a HEROIC Nazi.
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* ''[[Lupin III]]'' had an entire second series episode dedicated to locating Hitler's lost treasure, which naturally played largely into this trope.
* Even ''[[Bleach]]'' of all things can't escape from them nazis! While not quite ''Nazis'' per say, the newest threat to befall our heroes, the ''Vandenreich'' (German for "hidden kingdom") are a very Nazi-esque bunch, from the Germanic theme, to the dress code, to holding down their own Arrancar concentration camps, to even one of their guys being an [[Expy]] of ''Heinrich Himmler''!
== Comic Books ==
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* Almost any [[Frank Miller]] comic (''[[Sin City]]'', ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]'', ''[[Ronin (comics)|Ronin]]'', etc.) will feature at least one Nazi henchman or gang member who gets killed off in a violent and/or hilarious way.
* ''[[Give Me Liberty]]'' has the Aryan Thrust, a group of gay white supremacists.
* A staple of [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'s [[Rogues Gallery]]. He was hardly alone, as pretty much any comic book hero during [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]] would fight them sooner or later.
* A less common but still present staple of the [[Justice Society of America]] owing to its [[World War II]] origins but carrying to the present day blending with [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]] and [[Disco Dan]].
* [[Alpha Flight]] founding member Puck (who is much [[Older Than He Looks]]) relates fighting Nazis among his accomplishments, claiming how "In Spain, I fought bulls and fascists -- and I let the bulls live."
== Film ==
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== Literature ==
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel ''Just War'' features a "cultured" Nazi who's quick to say he ''loathes'' [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]].
* The third book of the ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' series was allegedly focused on the discovery of Max's parentage. [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Roland ter Borcht]], however, stole the show by answering the question: what would happen if [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] had been a mad doctor of this type?
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* In [[Andrew Vachss]]' ''Burke'' books, neo-Nazis are recurring antagonists and occasional partners in an [[Enemy Mine]] situation, although how important they are runs the gamut.
* In ''Gentlehands'' by M. E. Kerr, {{spoiler|Grandpa Trenker}} is the "cultured" one who tortured Italian Jews by playing opera to make them homesick.
* In Herman Wouk's ''The Winds of War'' and ''War and
**Roon wasn't a Nazi in the sense of a signed on member, and he was not one of the most evil characters. He was exceedingly obnoxious however. But the best picture of what a Nazi would be like was when two of them had an elegant meeting to discuss the contradictory "needs" of killing more innocent people and getting rid of the corpses of those already buried, and one generously offers to delay the elimination of the next batch of victims so they can do slave labor. They discuss this as casually as any librarian would discuss sorting books which makes it more chilling then the stereotyped monocled and jackbooted thug. In the process one of them congratulates himself on doing his duty, a harder duty then the guys at the Russian Front have of course.
**The Auschwitz Commandant who is either Rudolf Hoss or a combination of him and several others is a craftsman at the art of mass murder. He does not really have an emotional investment in the cause or a particular hatred of his victims but he turns out corpses like Henry Kaiser turns out Liberty Ships.
* In Ian Fleming's ''Moonraker'', Hugo Drax is the classic cold-war era fictional neo-Nazi. (The movie gives him an obsession with a race of perfect physical specimens, but eliminates all specific reference to Germany or the N.A.S.D.P.)
== Live
* In the comedy ''[['Allo 'Allo!|Allo Allo]]'', there's a Nazi for every stereotype.
** Although the Kinky Sex Nazi, the Gay Nazi and the Gestapo members are three different people.
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== Music ==
* [[Steely Dan]]'s "Chain Lightning" is about two former Nazis returning to the site of Hitler's Nuremberg speech.
* Many of [[Gackt]]'s musical performances, including Requiem et Reminiscence, Ghost, and more.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* Jack Adkisson and Walt Seiber made a name for themselves in the 1950s and '60s as Fritz and Waldo Von Erich, a pair of unrepentant Nazi [[heel]]s.
== Radio ==
* Radio 7's ''Play and Record'' has the Time Nazi - basically a parody of this trope and Per Degaton from ''DCU''. He travels back in time to defeat his opponent, before they become a threat. Eventually he ends up fighting the past, present and future versions of himself
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Doctor (and later Colonel) Elizabeth Klein from the audios "Colditz", "A Thousand Tiny Wings", "Klein's Story", "Survival of the Fittest" and "Architects of History". She's from a parallel universe where because of something Ace did the Nazis won. She's not naive, she knows the Nazis have done terrible things, but she does believe in the "survival of the fittest" ideology of the Nazis. She is a medical doctor and as compassionate as the Doctor, but she's also cold-blooded enough to abandon the Doctor, steal the TARDIS and edit history to the point where the Nazis have a Moonbase and have beaten the Daleks (think about that for a second).
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Freedom Force]] vs. The Third Reich'' involves the most gratuitous references to the most awesome of wartime comics. Including Nazi gorillas with machine guns.
* The ''[[Medal of Honor]]'' video games, although supposed to be serious WWII shooters, often are filled with prime examples. For instance, in ''Allied Assault'', the Nazi guards on the submarine who salute every five seconds.
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* ''[[Laura Bow|Laura Bow: The Dagger Of Amon Ra]]'' features tall, hot-tempered, sadistic martinet security guard [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Wolf Heimlich]] working at the Leyendecker Museum. Apart from being ridiculously strict and dressed in military uniform, he has a suspicious-looking [[Silly Walk|goose step]], his dialogue is interspersed with stock German phrases (often shouted/in capital letters), and the game frequently draws attention to the [[Gun Porn|arsenal of weapons in his office]]. The game does take place in 1926 - three years after the infamous Beer Hall Putsch which put the Nazis on the map, but a considerable amount of time before Hitler's rapid rise to power.
* ''Dino D-Day'': The year is 1942. Adolf Hitler has succeeded in resurrecting dinosaurs. The reptilian horde has trampled Europe and the Mediterranean. Can nothing stop the Nazi’s dinosaur army?
== Web Comics ==
* ''Roswell, Texas'': The "A Bit Gay" stereotype is brought to its logical extreme in this [[Alternate History]] webcomic. where the standard SS uniform is ''pink''. Bondage gear also makes an appearance.
* ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'': [[Nazi Germany]] is actually an entirely separate character from modern-day Germany, and completely opposite to him as well: Nazi Germany is a greedy demanding [[Jerkass]] who keeps Greece's art, whips Poland, and demands Denmark make him sex dolls, while modern Germany is [[The Atoner]] who [[Apologizes a Lot]] and fears showing [[Patriotic Fervor]].
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* Lipatov's [http://dsss.be/hitler-vs-stalin/ Hitler vs. Stalin] is a perfect example of trope deconstruction.
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', the ''[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-55/ Übermenschen]'' represent several of the stereotypes listed above.
== Web Original ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Blitzwing from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' manages in some way to be an example of a number of the above stereotypes with his Multiple Personality Disorder. In fact, even single faces manage to involve various stereotypes.
* [[Donald Duck]] '''(!)''', in the [[Wartime Cartoon|anti-Nazi propaganda short]] "[[Der Fuehrer's
* ''[[ReBoot]]'':
** Megabyte's minion Herr Doktor
** There's also the fourth-season [[Shout-Out|Mainframe Neo-Virals]]. "I ''hate'' [[The Blues Brothers|Mainframe Neo-Virals]]!"
* [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] in the wartime short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lNbXkSlZ4k Daffy the Commando] with their own take on a [[Hogan's Heroes|Schultz]].▼
* Pretty much ''any'' cartoon character (most [[Disney]] characters, [[Looney Tunes]] characters, [[Popeye]], etc ) who was around at the time fought the Nazis in one or more propaganda cartoons. Some examples:
* The old [[Looney Tunes|Merrie Melodies]] WWII short "Russian Rhapsody" has der Fuhrer himself fly a plane to Moscow to bomb it but gets foiled by Russian gremlins. At the end, after crashing, he declares: "Nazis is the craaaziest peoples!"▼
▲** [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] in the wartime short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lNbXkSlZ4k Daffy the Commando] with their own take on a [[Hogan's Heroes|Schultz]].
▲** The old [[Looney Tunes|Merrie Melodies]] WWII short "Russian Rhapsody" has der Fuhrer himself fly a plane to Moscow to bomb it but gets foiled by Russian gremlins. At the end, after crashing, he declares: "Nazis is the craaaziest peoples!"
** In "Spinach Fer Britain", Popeye's trip to donate spinach as war rations hits a snag when he's targeted by a German U-boat; [[Mugging the Monster| turned out to not be their wisest choice]].
* In the fourth season of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', the nazis bring Rusty a dog who is the reincarnation of Hitler, asking him to clone Hitler back to human form.
{{quote|'''Doc Venture:''' Clone Hitler, that's all you nazis ever want to do!}}
* In one episode of [[Hey Arnold!]], Grampa tells the story of how, during his days as a soldier in World War II, he was caught by a Nazi panzer division while looking for a place to dump some bad meet. [[No Swastikas|In addition to having smiley faces in place of swastikas]], the CO of the division uses [[I Know You Know I Know|highly convoluted]] logic to decide that Phil's earlier warning ("Don't! It's bad meat!") to mean that the meat is good. Phil recognizes that his best hope for survival is letting the CO think he's the smarter of the two. The result is the Nazis becoming sick from food poisoning.
== Real Life ==
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