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* 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.
* A female officer in the mold of [[The Baroness]]. In more salacious productions she'll be a [[Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS|sadistic dominatrix]] who tortures prisoners and forces them to perform sex acts for her own (and presumably, the audience's) amusement.
* [[Old Soldier|The old guy]] who is constantly saying "This is not the Germany I fought for in the Great War," (pulls out medal from [[World War
* A bumbling Luftwaffe sergeant in direct charge of the American prisoners of war. May or may not be more devious than he appears. May have visited one city in America, and claims to have loved it ("I vas in New York, you know. I love America! Vhen ze var is over, ve vill all be friends.")
* The [[Noble Demon|officer with a consience]], usually based on Erwin Rommel.
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* The mindless drone who [[Punch Clock Villain|simply does what he is told]] out of ignorance and lack of ambition. This stereotype isn't completely unfounded because German soldiers in WWII were trained to be extremely obedient, sometimes to a fault because they would at times not act unless given orders.
** Actually, at the NCO and Officer level, soldiers of the Wehrmacht were very autonomous in how to act out orders, as the Wehrmacht was one of the few professional armies ever to use [[wikipedia:Mission-type tactics|Mission-type tactics]], which required a great deal of creativity and initiative from the troops. Wehrmacht training would train obedience, but also initiative and self-reliance in the absence of orders from higher up.
** Sub-trope: the [[Blond Guys Are Evil|blond]] and [[Cute and Psycho|innocent looking young]] recruit able to do the worst atrocities without [[Stiff Upper Lip|slightest flinching]], like a perfect robot. Common in [[Sven Hassel]] novels. Possibly inspired by the later war SS recruits subject to [[Training
* The mindless drone [[Exclusively Evil|who does anything he is told]], [[For the Evulz|with a certain lack of ignorance]] but ''not'' ambition.
* The [[Nazi Nobleman]] with a fancy aristocratic title and ancestral castle, who may overlap with any of these.
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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> [[You Have to Have Jews|is predominantly Jewish]], and [[World War II]] was still a recent memory for most people, it's not surprising that any Nazi character would be denied even the tiniest human characteristic. As well, some German or Jewish actors who played Nazis, notably John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) and Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) on ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' insisted that their character ''never'' succeed (in fact neither character was a party member, and Schultz sided with the prisoners on several occasions).
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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* ''[[Binder of Shame]]'' features the appropriately-named Psycho Dave, who apparently turned to the white supremacist philosophy when he failed the fireman's entrance exam and decided to blame affirmative action. One of his game campaigns turned out to involve the player characters being summoned to get the Wand of Orcus so Hitler could win the war with it, much to the horror of [[Only Sane Man]] Ab3. Another player saw it as an opportunity for a [[Pun]]: "This is cool, kind of like a 'Schindler's Lich'!"
* The most common villains in the [[Global Guardians PBEM Universe|Global Guardians]] [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] campaign were these. The specific villains ranged from Baron Maltus, the head of the Nazi [[Super Soldier]] Program, to Herr Doktor Ubrist, Adolph Hitler's personal astrologer and a powerful mystic, and pretty much all the other stereotypical Nazi villains in between.
* ''[[Reds!]]'': Currently the primary villains of the [[
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