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The Fearless Four are a group of soldiers being transported to prison for various offenses when the Nazis attack. They escape during the chaos, only to stumble upon a German base. While sneaking around it to escape, they uncover a terrible secret: Josef Mengele himself is making Reich soldiers into werewolves! Now, four disgraced criminals are all that stand between the free world and lycanthropic destruction!

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The Fearless Four are a group of soldiers being transported to prison for various offenses when the Nazis attack. They escape during the chaos, only to stumble upon a German base. While sneaking around it to escape, they uncover a terrible secret: Josef Mengele UsefulNotes/JosefMengele himself is making Reich soldiers into werewolves! Now, four disgraced criminals are all that stand between the free world and lycanthropic destruction!

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After the war, Mengele lived not only in Argentinia, but also in other South American countries, e.g. Brazil (where he died)


* AntagonistTitle: The heroes must save the free world from the titular werewolves of the Third Reich.



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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mengele manages to escape to Argentina for 30 years like in RealLife, but Mad Dog hunts him down and murders him instead of the drowning that actually got him.]]

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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mengele manages to escape to Argentina South America for 30 years like in RealLife, but Mad Dog hunts him down and murders him instead of the drowning that actually got him.]]



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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Mad Dog sees killing Nazis as a sort of retribution for their atrocities. You can't really blame him for that.
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'''''Werewolves of the Third Reich''''' is a 2017 {{British|Films}} SciFiHorror {{war movie|s}}.

The Fearless Four are a group of soldiers being transported to prison for various offenses when the Nazis attack. They escape during the chaos, only to stumble upon a German base. While sneaking around it to escape, they uncover a terrible secret: Josef Mengele himself is making Reich soldiers into werewolves! Now, four disgraced criminals are all that stand between the free world and lycanthropic destruction!
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!!This film contains examples of:

* ActionPrologue: Mad Dog and Billy the Butcher getting into a shootout with some Nazis in a bar.
* AllGermansAreNazis: {{Averted}}, Mad Dog explicitly states that he only wants to kill Nazis, not Germans.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Josef Mengele and Ilse Koch were never married in real life. They probably never even met.
* AntagonistTitle
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler:Ilse Koch becomes a werewolf near the end of the film.]]
* BigBad: Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi MadScientist making Nazi werewolves.
* CardCarryingVillain: Ilse Koch mentions that she ''loves'' her nickname "the Bitch of Buchenwald."
* {{Conscription}}: Private Kane deserted because he got drafted, and he's fundamentally opposed to war.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Ilse Koch is gunned down near the end of the film. In RealLife, she survived the war, only to be tried for her crimes and spend the last two decades of her life in prison.]]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The US military is shown to be super racist, given that the film is set in 1944. In fact, Reggie got arrested for beating up a staff sergeant who tried to make him give up his seat for a captured Nazi officer.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mengele manages to escape to Argentina for 30 years like in RealLife, but Mad Dog hunts him down and murders him instead of the drowning that actually got him.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: While Mengele operates the camp with autonomy, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is funding it and gets regular updates.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Josef Mengele and Ilse Koch are both involved in the werewolf experiment. UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler gets a cameo when Mengele updates him on the experiment's progress.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: Ilse Koch is the exact same torture-happy Nazi she was in real life, but is shown to genuinely care about her lover, while the real Koch manipulated everybody she ever met, including her son.
* MadArtist: Ilse Koch makes art out of prisoners' bones. Mengele does not approve, [[PragmaticVillainy because it's a waste of test subjects]].
* NaziHunter: Mad Dog Murphy joined the Army to kill Nazis as opposed to any sense of patriotic duty. [[spoiler:He and the rest of the Fearless Four keep up the trade after the war.]]
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Mad Dog openly admits that he has absolutely no interest in helping his country, he just ''really hates'' Nazis and joined up to kill them.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: These are genetic chimeras made from human and wolf DNA. They're intended to be berserk super soldiers, but the experiments haven't gotten that far by the time of the film.
* ShoutOut:
** Twice in the movie, Mad Dog paraphrases Aldo Raine's Nazi killing speech from ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.
** Private Kane's sergeant paraphrases the steers and queers speech from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' while lecturing him for deserting.
* TheSociopath:
** Dr. Josef Mengele, who giddily experiments on humans and wolves to make werewolves for the Nazis to take over and only disapproves of other tortures because they're a waste of test subjects. He emotionally neglects his wife, only to order her adulterous lover become his first werewolf in a possessive rage. [[spoiler:Despite all this, he abandons her to be blown to Hell with the base when it's made clear he'll lose]].
** Officer Hess, a brutish thug who abuses the prisoners for his own amusement, and is introduced making a guy shoot himself under threat of killing his family, only to eliminate them the second his victim dies. He's a more low-functioning example, showing utter ignorance of all social mores down to the expectation of privacy when changing clothes.
* StupidJetpackHitler: Nazi werewolves, made by Mengele himself.
* SuicidalSadisticChoice: Officer Hess is introduced by forcing a scientist who went turncoat to kill himself by dangling his family's lives over his head. He kills said family anyways.
* SuperSoldier: The werewolves are supposed to be the Nazis' last hope for winning the war.
* UnholyMatrimony: Josef Mengele and Ilse Koch are married, and involved in sadistic Nazi experiments. Their relationship is incredibly strained due to Mengele's focus on his work keeping him away from Koch, who is having an affair with one of the camp's SS officers.
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