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** 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 From Hell]], from the 12th SS Division ''Hitlerjugend''.

* The [[Nazi Nobleman]] with a fancy aristocratic title and ancestral castle, who may overlap with any of these.

* The [[Mad Scientist|mad doctor]] obsessed with purifying the race, discovering immortality, etc., through horrifying [[Deadly Doctor|surgical]]/[[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|robotic]]/[[Ghostapo|occult]] means. May also overlap with "Frankenstein", above. Basically [[wikipedia:Josef Mengele|Mengele]], mixed with the [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|alien vampire robozombie]] stereotype.

* ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'': The Illinois Nazis (I hate those guys). All of them get to be the [[Butt Monkey]].

* Toht in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' is the torture master. His name is probably a play on the German words "Tod" (death) or "tot" (dead).

* The title character of ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]'', black gloves, shrill laugh and all. He's a sinister secret project leader. He's allegedly based on Werner von Braun.

* Major Koenig in ''[[Enemy at the Gates]]'', who seems like he's skirting the borders of sympathy until he pretty much catapults over the [[Moral Event Horizon]].

* ''[[Goldfinger]]''. While Goldfinger's German accent and reaction to Nazi gold lead many fans to assume Nazi roots, the character is specifically described as a Soviet agent in the book. Ironically, the actor Gert Frobe was a member of the Nazi party, causing the film to be banned in Israel until after his death, when it was discovered that he used his position to save a family of Jews, like a mini-[[Schindler's List|Schindler]].

** The German accent is an illusion. Gert Frobe didn't speak a word of English and had to be dubbed by English actor Michael Collins. Frobe was such a good actor that the dub is completely unnoticeable.

* In the future of ''[[Surf Nazis Must Die]]'', various criminal gangs rule the beaches of California and the strongest one is, well, Surf Nazis.

* In the 2012 film ''[[Iron Sky]]'', the Nazis who escaped Germany after [[World War Two]] ended up heading to ''the moon'' and establishing a base there to prepare for an earth invasion. For bonus points, their mothership is named the ''Götterdämmerung''.

* In ''Tarzan Triumphs''(1943), after Tarzan has defeated a Nazi invasion of Africa, Cheetah stumbles upon the German radio, and begins gibbering into the microphone. In Berlin, the radio operator believes he is finally receiving a message from the mission commander and summons the general. The general listens to Cheetah for a few seconds, then chews out the operator. "This isn't Colonel Von Reichart! IT IS THE FUEHRER!" All present snap to attention and give the Nazi salute.

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