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Would Donovan, the turncoat US industrialist in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade count?
Turkish Delight: I'm sure this is a trope, but something is wrong when there are nearly as many aversions and questionable examples as there are straight ones. Can anyone think of some more concrete examples?
I found many more examples where the trope is played straight; it's beginning to look like this might be on its way to becoming a dead horse trope, though- most of the examples were from works actually made during WWII. My hunch is that there are a lot of other examples of this in modern video games, but since I don't really play them, I wouldn't know where to look. If it is on its way out, this is probably reflective of the larger trend whereby the Nazis in general are becoming (very slightly) less prominent as villains as we get further away from World War Two. Nazi Germany is still a very popular adversary for works of fiction, but modern works, in contrast to older ones, tend to be less concerned with the politics of Nazism and more concerned with violently killing large numbers of faceless mooks in German uniforms, probably because nobody will complain.
