History Main / ANazibyAnyOtherName

* "WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle1943": Tying in with the short's status as a WartimeCartoon, Foxy Loxy is written as a direct allegory for UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and its tactics, using propaganda to manipulate the masses and defame his opponents before literally devouring his subjects. The initial draft further accentuated the allegory by having Foxy Loxy read a copy of ''Literature/MeinKampf'' instead of a generic psychology textbook.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]]: A debatable example, but Mrs. Gillyflower's plan to wipe out everyone except the few who meet her rigorous standards in order to create a MasterRace and obsession with complete blind obedience from her subjects is quite reminiscent of Nazi dogma, especially since, while its not commented on, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything all of her perfect master race are white]]. She's also explicitly TheSocialDarwinist, planning to kill off all disabled and deformed people along with the others she seems imperfect, including her own daughter simply for being blind.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimson Horror "The Crimson Horror"]]: A debatable example, but Mrs. Gillyflower's plan to wipe out everyone except the few who meet her rigorous standards in order to create a MasterRace and obsession with complete blind obedience from her subjects is quite reminiscent of Nazi dogma, especially since, while its not commented on, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything all of her perfect master race are white]]. She's also explicitly TheSocialDarwinist, planning to kill off all disabled and deformed people along with the others she seems imperfect, including her own daughter simply for being blind.

* In the Dutch series ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'', which features humanized animals, the main character's nemesis is named Dolf. He founds a party called ''National Crows'', he takes power by staging a fascist-style coup, and if he proclaims himself Emperor and dresses in Napoleonic style, he's obviously a satire of Hitler. Oh, and he grows a ''characteristic'' mustache. Dolf also tries to enforce "racial purity" while he himself, like Hitler, is hardly up such standard - he's the son of a crow and a blackbird. [[WidgetSeries Yeah, it's a weird show.]] Calling Dolf, well, ''Dolf'' was considered too much in Germany, in fact, where the character went by the name Kraa instead.

* ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}: The 1967 episode "[[Recap/Dragnet1967S1E02TheBigExplosion The Big Explosion]]" features a Neo-Nazi named Donald Chapman who tries to blow up a racially integrated school.

From 1933 to 1945, [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Germany]] was ruled with an iron fist by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and his [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Party]]. They eventually used RefugeInAudacity [[FinalSolution to execute millions of people they found undesirable]], with about half (using the 12 million death figure) being Jewish, the rest being various other groups that often got picked on in Europe: political prisoners (especially communists), gay people (along with other perceived sexual deviants), UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}, Slavs, Jehovah's Witnesses, disabled and mentally ill people, etc. The Nazis were also one of the primary drivers in starting [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the most destructive war in human history]], which killed even more people. (Estimates range from 40 to 80 million, based on what you include. Typically reported as the midpoint, 60 million.) Under Nazi control, the German military committed widespread atrocities across Europe, from [[RapePillageAndBurn soldiers partaking in looting, burning, and killing civilians throughout occupied territory]], to [[SinkTheLifeboats pilots strafing crowds of fleeing refugees]]. The result is that they are considered by Western culture to be one of the most evil groups of people that ever lived, and therefore [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets easy and acceptable to make look bad]]. Even prior to World War II, the Nazis were easy targets for political satire.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', Mrs. Tweedy's cruel treatment of the chickens wouldn't more obviously resemble that of Nazis if the chickens were given Jewish names. She even has a ''gas oven''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', when [[BigBad Plankton]] enslaves all the citizens of Bikini Bottom, he turns Bikini Bottom into a totalitarian dystopia that appears to be eerily reminiscent of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.

TruthInTelevision given the existence of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism Neo-Nazism]], but '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' Referring to any individual, RealLife group or movement as this '''will''' cause a massive FlameWar. Also remember that [[HitlerAteSugar eating sugar does not make one Hitler]].

* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', particularly in [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse the Expanded Universe]], it's definitely possible to see TheEmpire as Nazi-like. It's not just the cut of the officers' uniforms (and Grand Moff Tarkin definitely acts the part of a Nazi official) or the fact that its FacelessGoons are called "stormtroopers". The Empire is also strictly, stridently [[FantasticRacism speciesist]], always putting humans before nonhumans, to the point where the nonhumans on the capital planet are restricted to a single sector. And it rose when a charismatic leader talked his way into a high position in a democratic government, created problems, then refused to let go.
** To make things even better, Emperor Palpatine gained power by first becoming Chancellor.

*** Sometimes a [[FreudianExcuse good movie is just a good movie]]!
** There is a shot of Trade Federation battle droids marching through an archway on Naboo in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' that is modeled on a famous shot of Nazi troops marching through the ''Arc de Triomphe'' in Paris.
*** Furthermore, it's specifically mentioned (though not shown) that the citizens of Naboo captured during the invasion were taken to Trade Federation concentration camps. And then there's the fact that little resistance is shown in the capital city when the battle droids arrive, evocative of (the story claiming that) French soldiers simply dropping their weapons and surrendering when the Nazis skirted around the Maginot Line. And Amidala leaving Naboo only to return later to take back control is similar to many European monarchs doing the same thing during World War II.
** Darth Vader's helmet shares a strong similarity to the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahlhelm Stahlhelm]]'' (It's also based on the samurai ''kabuto'').

* In ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' #112, Tomahawk battles a Hessian officer named Van Grote: a TortureTechnician who is rounding civilians sympathetic to the rebel cause and imprisoning them in them is prison camps (surrounded by anachronistic barbed wire). To further drive the point home he has adopted a good luck symbol stole from a local Indian chief as his personal symbol: the swastika[[note]]Never mind that the swastika was symbol of luck for the Navajo: a tribe located nowhere the original 13 colonies.[[/note]] His personal troops wear the symbol on an armband.
* Bob Heller, one of the presidential candidates in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', whose rhetoric is equal parts [[TheSocialDarwinist social Darwinism]] and PatrioticFervor. His campaign insignia is a black "H" in a white circle on a field of red, and other characters openly compare him to the Nazis and his campaign events to the Nuremberg rallies. (Just how much of a CrapsackWorld is ''Transmetropolitan''? Not only is Heller not the most evil candidate in the race, he's not even the most evil candidate ''in his party''.)

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard''': In an alternate timeline Earth government is a fascist xenophobic dictatorship named the Confederation that has ravaged the Ferengi, Cardassians, Romulans, Klingon, Borg, etc.

* ''Series/{{Picard}}''': In an alternate timeline Earth government is a fascist xenophobic dictatorship named the Confederation that has ravaged the Ferengi, Cardassians, Romulans, Klingon, Borg, etc.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Zamasu wants to wipe out all mortal life, believing that the universe would be better off without them and that gods are the only beings truly worthy of life. He also believes that the other gods are "useless" and therefore are no longer welcome in ''his'' utopia.

* The Principality of Zeon and its successor movement Neo Zeon from the UC ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' timeline. The most famous instance is where [[TheEvilPrince Prince Gihren Zabi]] turns a state funeral into a political rally, with the audience shouting "Sieg Zeon!" (Hail Zeon in the dub). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when King Degwin Zabi compares his son, Gihren, to Hitler and Gihren [[InsultBackfire accepts it as a complement]]. While the analogy had been in place since the series started, the [=1990s=] [=OVAs=] ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'' kicked it into overdrive by having Zeon start slapping German names on practically everything and using flags and banners that were literally just Nazi trappings with the Swastika replaced by their own emblem; the franchise has kept running with the theme and hasn't looked back since.
** However, the political and military actions taken by Zeon "liberating" other colonies from the Earth Federation are more akin to UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's actions of [[BlatantLies "liberating"]] Asian nations from Western influence.
** On the other side of the war, the Titans in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' also have an SS vibe.

* [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a ''perfect'' example of this. Belos has some extremely heavy Nazi undertones to his characters. For starters, he is the absolute authoritarian dictator of the Boiling Isles with his own Secret Police in the form of the Emperor's Coven, who lock away anyone who doesn't subscribe to his plans and or beliefs, primarily Wild Witches into the Conformitorium, not unlike the Gestapo arresting dissidents primarily Jews, and throwing them into concentration camps. Secondly, he makes sure to ban any sort of knowledge that he doesn't approve of so as to keep his rule unquestioned, all the while making sure to use this lack of knowledge to create a false image of himself. [[spoiler:To top it all off, Belos is even planning his very own Holocaust in the form of [[FinalSolution the Day of Unity]], which is meant to erase all of the Witches and Demons of the Boiling Isles, species that [[FantasticRacism he dosen't like]], purely because he holds beliefs that said species is inherently sinful and must be eradicated.]]

* [[spoiler: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos]]]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a ''perfect'' example of this. [[spoiler:Philip has some extremely heavy Nazi undertones to his characters. For starters, he is the absolute authoritarian dictator of the Boiling Isles with his own Secret Police in the form of the Emperor's Coven, who lock away anyone who doesn't subscribe to his plans and or beliefs, primarily Wild Witches into the Conformitorium, not unlike the Gestapo arresting dissidents primarily Jews, and throwing them into Concentration Camps. Secondly, he makes sure to ban any sort of knowledge that he doesn't approve of so as to keep his rule unquestioned, all the while making sure to use this lack of knowledge to create a false image of himself. To top it all off, Philip is even planning his very own Holocaust in the form of [[FinalSolution the Day of Unity]], which is meant to erase all of the Witches and Demons of the Boiling Isles, species that [[FantasticRacism he dosen't like]], purely because he holds beliefs that said species is inherently sinful and must be eradicated.]]

** Colonel Green, the WorldWarIII leader recreated in the episode "The Savage Curtain" as a symbol of evil, was portrayed this way in the ExpandedUniverse novel ''Literature/StarTrekFederation'', where he's the leader of the "Optimum Movement", and his symbols include geometric shapes (interlocked triangles, rather than the swastika) and black eagles. This portrayal was continued in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episodes dealing with Terra Prime, with the hate-group's admiration of Green reflecting the neo-Nazi attitude to Hitler. (The Terra Prime arc was partly written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who also wrote ''Federation''.) A loud thudding sound accompanied ''Federation'' making its [[BigBad villain]], [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Adrik Thorsen]] (presumably intended to be a German name, but it ended up more Scandinavian...still Middle-to-Upper Europe, though), be blonde and blue-eyed.
** The episode "Patterns of Force" avoids this by not having an alien culture coincidentally resembling Nazi Germany, but an alien culture who are consciously imitating Nazi Germany under the influence of a misguided human infiltrator who thought that he could culturally uplift them by [[TooDumbToLive replicating the, he thought, admirable social cohesion of Nazi Germany]] without the whole "racist, abelist and homophobic genocide" bit. Unfortunately his second-in-command sympathizes with Nazi racial ideals and quickly disposes of him before introducing the Nazi racial ideology and appointing himself as a Hitler-like dictator. Not unnaturally, this led to the episode being banned in Germany for almost thirty years.

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', The Cardassians are a clear analogue to a Fascist dictatorship, but as a whole, they're a mix of most of the major Fascist powers. Their actions during the Occupation of Bajor, however, have clear and distinct parallels to the Nazi regime - right down to the forced-labor camps and their treatment of prisoners. This is alluded to throughout the first season and then put clearly on display in its second-to-last episode, "Duet," which deals with the labor camp Gallitep and Kira's reaction to one of its [[spoiler:supposed]] former officers - the parallels to Auschwitz are undeniable. The parallel is never more clear than during this chilling monologue showing the Cardassian attitude toward Bajorans:

** The episode "Nothing Human" had The Doctor consulting a holographic recreation of the Cardassian Dr. Crell Moset, before being informed by a Bajoran crewmember that Moset was a war criminal who conducted "experiments" on Bajoran force-labor camp workers, not unlike those done on concentration camp prisoners during WWII.
** The two-parter "The Killing Game" featured the Hirogen taking over Voyager and forcing the crew to participate in a World War II recreation on the holodeck, with the Hirogen [[PuttingOnTheReich roleplaying as the Nazis]]. The Alpha Hirogen is dismissive of the Nazis' claims of superiority, warning an upstart SS officer hologram never to underestimate his "prey", but his [[NumberTwo Beta]] actually adopts the ideology ''for real'' after listening to a speech given by the same SS officer, seeing many similarities between his own [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Hunter]]-[[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Warrior]] culture and Nazi social darwinist ideas.

* Film/TheThreeStooges short ''Film/YouNaztySpy!'' (which came out a few months before ''The Great Dictator'') had Moe as Hailstone, leader of Moronica and Larry and Curly standing in for Goebbels and Goering respectively. It also spawned a sequel, ''[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesIllNeverHeilAgain I’ll Never Heil Again]].'' ("Quit yer Stalin!") With Film/TheThreeStooges being Jews in RealLife.

* ''Film/VForVendetta'': Norsefire is essentially the British version of the Nazi Party, complete with a Hitler-esque leader (he even has a very similar mustache plus last name), a swastika-like cross symbol, genocidal persecution of LGBT people and religious minorities (in their case Muslims instead of Jews, at least that we see), concentration camps and brutal feared secret police. They also came into power as the result of a crise which they'd engineered, not unlike some claims about the real Reichstag Fire, which helped the Nazi Party take over.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', when [[BigBad Plankton]] enslaves all the citizens of Bikini Bottom, he turns Bikini Bottom into a totalitarian dystopia that appears to be eerily reminiscent of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]]: The [[SdrawkcabName Kaleds]], ancestors of the Daleks, wear [[PuttingOnTheReich black military uniforms very close to the standard Nazi uniform]], complete with faux-Iron Crosses at the neck and give Roman salutes with heel clicking.

* In one episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Recess}}'', a particularly nasty villain, Dr. Slicer, is clearly meant to look like Heinrich Himmler, albeit {{bald|OfEvil}}. Seriously, he scares even TJ.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' features [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1730 SCP-1730]], a Foundation site from a parallel universe that was taken over by [[KnightTemplar the GOC]] and run very much like a concentration camp with the intent of destroying all anomalies sent there. The concentration camp-like nature of Site-13 is remarked upon in-universe.

A subtrope of FictionalPoliticalParty and DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything. Compare with PuttingOnTheReich, ScaryDogmaticAliens, and SpaceJews. Compare and contrast with GratuitousNazis, where actual Nazis are used (where one wouldn't expect to find them) just to have some villains that can be instantly identified as evil. Visit the scenic {{Reichstropen}} for more about ThoseWackyNazis and their imitators. For empire builders who consider themselves inherently superior to all other races/nations but don't necessarily partake of other Nazi ideology or imagery, see MasterRace. And if they're PlayedForLaughs, that's AdolfHitlarious. See CommieNazis for an evil political party that borrows elements (including just symbolic elements) from both the Nazis and the Communists (especially the Soviet Union).