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* 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. Calling Dolf, well, ''Dolf'' was considered too much in Germany, in fact, where the character went by the name Kraa instead.

* ''Series/{{Inazuman}}'': The Neo-Human Empire believe in the superiority of mutants and seek to totally exterminate humanity so as to prevent a future famine and struggle for resources with them. The similarity is punctuated by how the Neo-Humans [[PuttingOnTheReich incorporate a lot of thinly-veiled Nazi imagery]].

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. Similar imperialists who exploit the local people may also fall under EvilColonialist. 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). See also {{Trumplica}} for expies of a far more recently-relevant authoritarian arsehole.

** The [[MoralGuardians Mothers Against Canada]] from ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''. An early draft of the script even has it made explicitly clear that the "Happy Camps" are purely Sheila Broflovski's idea.

*** Also Voyager's episode "Counterpoint" shows an authoritarian nazi-like Devore Imperium bent on eliminating every single telepath species, even children, which forces the Voyager to secretly smug refugees. The Devore military not only uses black uniforms and nazi-like symbology, the alien commander is AffablyEvil and enjoys [[MusicToInvadePolandTo Tchaikovsky]].

** Then there's the new British government that shows up in the ForWantOfANail timeline of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]". By the time the immigrants are being shipped off to "labour camps", WWII survivor Wilf knows ''exactly'' where it's going.

** The best example is "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]", which has Creator/DennisHopper as a Neo-Nazi figure who's advised by Hitler (He's alive meaning AsLongAsThereIsEvil; Hitler lives on intolerance).
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E42TheEyeOfTheBeholder Eye of the Beholder]]", the Leader is based on UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. In his speech, he continually stresses the importance of ensuring "glorious conformity" and abiding by a single norm. He says that all that is different must be cut out like a cancerous filth as differences weaken the state.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E65TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]", the State is based on various totalitarian regimes. In his opening narration, Rod Serling says that "it has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time." The Chancellor himself says that the State had predecessors who had the right idea such as UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and UsefulNotes/JosefStalin but they did not go far enough in eliminating the undesirables such as the elderly, the sick, the maimed and the deformed.

* In the Whole Cake Island arc from ''Manga/OnePiece'', we're introduced to the nation of Germa and its army of Germa 66 (pronounced "Double Six"). Germa itself borrows heavily from Nazi imagery, with one of its national symbols being similar to the Reichsadler (the Nazi eagle) and prides itself on scientific progress and conquest.

** The Peacekeepers are basically Nazis [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]], being fascist overlords who keep the peace through usually violent means with [[PuttingOnTheReich uniforms heavily inspired by Nazi attire]]. There's also the zealous obsession with keeping [[HumanAliens Sebacean]] bloodlines "pure". Any cross-breeding between Sebaceans and non-Sebacean aliens is viewed as an abomination and usually destroyed. That said, they are willing to make exceptions for non-Sebaceans who show particular talent at weapons development. Scorpius, who is the result of MedicalRapeAndImpregnate between a Sebacean woman and a Scarran (the Sebaceans' arch-enemies) male, is made a high-ranking commander due to his utter ''hatred'' of the Scarrans and his extreme intelligence.

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. Similar imperialists who exploit the local people may also fall under EvilColonialist. 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).

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]].

** While the Fire Nation is definitely paralleling Nazi Germany, its main parallel was UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan, which had all of the above.

* The {{Animesque}} web-series ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has [[TheSociopath Adam Taurus]]. Adam's entreaty to Sienna Khan consists of him declaring the Faunus to be a superior race, better than humans in every way, and stating that humanity should be made to serve the Faunus instead of simply respecting them. In Volume 5, his clothing is changed from a black and red Asian-themed suit to a [[PuttingOnTheReich militarised grey suit]] that resembles a Nazi uniform. He has built a cult of personality around himself that he uses to inflame and radicalise Faunus against humanity. [[spoiler:In a scene reminiscent of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire Reichstag Fire]], he murders Sienna Khan with the intention of fabricating a story about her being murdered by humans to cement his authority as the new leader and deliberately radicalise the White Fang against humanity.]]

* ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse probably fall here. Somewhat like Norsefire below, HYDRA started off as an actual Nazi organization during World War II which became independent when the actual Nazis, well, ''lost''. When your founders are Nazis it's no stretch that your organization end up Nazi-like. In the Fifth Sleeper story from ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', the Red Skull tells Captain America that HYDRA was always a front for "the true force supreme, NAZIISM!" It says a lot for how hated the Nazis are that HYDRA is, by comparison, a SlaveToPR.

* In [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara's review]] of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'', he spends a good portion of the beginning calling out people who would try to say that ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} are not Nazis by pointing out they the organization uses Nazi tactics, worked with the Nazis, its founder and many of their employees were Nazis and that all HYDRA needed to really do was do a find-replace on a Nazi pamphlet replacing "Nazi" with "HYDRA".

Of course, since the Nazis themselves stole symbolism, slogans, and rituals from other historical sources (and racism ''looooong'' predates their existence), much of what is associated with them today is actually far OlderThanTheyThink. (In some cases such as the UsefulNotes/NonNaziSwastika, the symbols may even have had a perfectly innocent connotation before the Nazis got their dirty hands on it.) So a few examples commonly given merely reflect generic totalitarian, cult-of-personality, and/or dictatorship elements. {{Manga}}, {{Anime}}, and other forms of Japanese entertainment will also borrow from UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan: for example, the killing of surrendering soldiers, or attempts to stamp out culture. Further justification for this trope in more recent years has been the [[NoSwastikas outlawing of Nazi swastikas]] and related imagery in Germany and other places, leading to the use of [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute similar-looking symbols]] that weren't previously associated with fascism.

-->-- '''Wilf''' (as he watches an army truck full of foreigners drive off to a "labour camp"), ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]]

*** In Book 4 [[spoiler:Kuvira and her Earth Empire not only employ re-education camps for dissenters and traitors but proceed to send any "non-Earth Empire" citizens to prison camps, specifically targeting anyone not of direct Earth Kingdom descent]].

* 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 doesn't like]], purely because he holds beliefs that said species is inherently sinful and must be eradicated.]]

* The Great Diamond Authority from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is the head of an intergalactic fascist dictatorship, who's leader is obsessed with gem perfection to the point of shattering gems who are overcooked, labeling them as ''off color.''
* The episode "Absolute Power" from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' brought Superman to an alien planet that had been conquered by Jax-Ur and Mala, two Kryptonian criminals that had escaped from the PhantomZone. The parallels with Nazi Germany are present but vague in the beginning; there are stories told of economic depression and social unrest that were corrected when a new discipline-obsessed regime came to power, but it becomes patently hard to miss the symbolism when they start using the ''Hitlergruß'' (Nazi Salute).

* Borduria in the ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' franchise - first played straight by dictator Müsstler [[spoiler: Mussolini + Hitler]] and later subverted by "Taschism" by [[CommieNazis dictator Kurvi-Tasch]] [[spoiler: in the original French "Plekszy-Glasz", referring to Plexiglas, implying being "transparently Nazi"]].

* "Arctic Nation", from the eponymous edition of the French-Spanish comic book ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'', consists of rich, influential white animals (as in, with white fur), who wear early Nazi-style trenchcoats, have a flag which substitutes a stylized snowflake for the swastika, and wear armbands, but in their actual workings they're instead the [=KKK=], complete with sheet robes and burning crosses.

* ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} from Marvel probably fall here. Somewhat like Norsefire below, HYDRA started off as an actual Nazi organisation during World War II which became independent when the actual Nazis, well, ''lost''. When your founders are Nazis it's no stretch that your organisation end up Nazi-like. In the Fifth Sleeper story, the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] tells Characters/{{Captain America|TitleCharacter}} that HYDRA was always a front for "the true force supreme, NAZIISM!" It says a lot for how hated the Nazis are that HYDRA is, by comparison, a SlaveToPR.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''ComicBook/{{Static}}''. When caught doing research on the MalcolmXerox supervillain Commando X and lectured by his parents, Virgil claims that [[AngryBlackManStereotype black people can't be racist if they don't have the power to oppress anyone]]. His ReasonableAuthorityFigure father explains that anybody is capable of using violence and fear to oppress others and that people like X are no different from the Nazis. Sure enough, X himself begins targeting Jews after Jewish executives have his tv show ScrewedByTheNetwork.

* In Creator/GrantMorrison's penultimate arc of ''Comicbook/NewXMen'', "Planet X", [[RefugeeFromTime Holocaust survivor]] Magneto goes more and more mindlessly berserk as the arc wears on, culminating in his beginning to herd all surviving baseline humans in New York into crematoria. One of his servants even points out that he's acting like a Nazi. This caused a bit of fan outcry, and Marvel execs were so horrified that they [[AuthorsSavingThrow immediately said that wasn't Magneto]]. This is [[OlderThanTheyThink hardly the first time]] Magneto has been compared to the Nazis, nor the first instance of someone pointing it out to him, or even Magneto acknowledging it himself.

** In "Operation Rebirth" from ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Logan explains the super soldier program used to turn Steve Rogers into Characters/{{Captain America|TitleCharacter}}. Xavier's reply? "A master race?" Logan gets the hint and claims it was the good guys behind the project.
** It's hardly just Magneto - extremists who hate and fear mutants want them wiped out in a manner similar to ethnic cleansing. There are numerous Elseworld stories (like ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'') in which this has come true and Mutants are enslaved and imprisoned. Magneto's main motivation is to make sure this doesn't happen. [[WellIntentionedExtremist By wiping out]] [[DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs the humans first.]]

** In the ''Comicbook/{{Magneto}}'' solo series, he admits to using techniques he learned firsthand from Nazis in his crusade against anti-mutant bigots.

** Replaced by The New Church in the [[ComicBook/StrontiumDog SD]] story arc aptly titled ''The Final Solution.''

* The villains in ''Comicbook/{{Grandville}}: Noel'' have a swastika flag and spout rhetoric very similar to British neo-Nazis. Their chosen target is "doughfaces" ... the human underclass of the WorldOfFunnyAnimals.

** Wanda alludes to telling [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto her father]] to his face that he was no better than the Nazis and similar - and given that she's Romani on her mother's side, and was raised by her mother's family, it's not just a Godwin's Law comparison. As she notes with a certain degree of satisfaction, he took it badly.

* ''Fanfic/InkopolisChaos'''s Lt. Rebecca Obsidian climbed the ranks of [[Characters/SplatoonOctarians the Octarian army]] via sheer intimidation, sets up [[POWCamp concentration camps]] to hold those she captures, callously executes innumerable Octolings to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem make an example of deserters]], and [[AbsoluteXenophobe desires a world where only her most loyal followers remain alive]].

* ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'' features the mutant-hating group of the Friends of Humanity as recurring adversaries of the heroes. Characters/{{Captain America|TitleCharacter}} straightly tells Graydon Creed that his bigotry is the kind that died out when Hitler committed suicide, or ''should have'', at least. Interestingly invoked by [[spoiler:General Zod]] when he is accused for being "another racist tyrant" by Magneto; however, [[spoiler:Zod]] states that his comparison to Hitler is inaccurate because while Hitler's claim to supremacy was based on pseudoscience, whereas [[spoiler:Zod]] has the might of an entire civilization behind him.

* 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, ''Film/IllNeverHeilAgain''. ("Quit yer Stalin!") Film/TheThreeStooges were Jews in RealLife.

** One-off villain [[MadScientist NamTar]] from season one is explicitly compared to Dr. Mengele by [[FishOutOfWater John Crichton]]. When Crichton explains Mengele's ForScience motivations [=NamTar=] [[InsultBackfire responds]] that the man sounds like a ''visionary''.

* In ''Series/{{Lexx}}'', the Divine Order are a fascist empire who often wear leather, greet each other with salutes, [[HumanResources and repurpose the flesh of executed prisoners.]] One scene in the pilot movie even has a group of Hitler Youth-esque brainwashed kids who subsequently get [[BlackComedy eaten by giant worms.]]

* The ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' episode "Eyes" tries to paint Nicholas Chaput, one of two candidates for UN Secretary-General, as this. The emblem of his political party is four "E"s placed in a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything vaguely swastika-like arrangement]], he is [[InformedAttribute described as "far right"]], and [[spoiler:his thwarted assassin asks West "what if someone had got to Hitler before he rose to power?"]] Ends up being a bit of [[spoiler:BaitAndSwitchTyrant]]--Chaput [[spoiler:tells West his political rival's [[MegaCorp corporation]] may have instigated war with the Chiggs]].

*** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce 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, ableist 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.

*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of the King]]" gives us Kodos the Executioner, who culled people based on his eugenics theories, and has lived under an assumed name to escape punishment for his crimes decades later. The comparisons to the Nazis (especially in the '60s when knowledge of the many fugitives living underground became prominent after the capture of Adolf Eichmann) are probably intended.

* [[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 doesn't like]], purely because he holds beliefs that said species is inherently sinful and must be eradicated.]]

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Recess}}'':

* In Creator/GrantMorrison's penultimate arc of ''Comicbook/NewXMen, Planet X,'' [[RefugeeFromTime Holocaust survivor]] [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] goes more and more mindlessly berserk as the arc wears on, culminating in his beginning to herd all surviving baseline humans in New York into crematoria. One of his servants even points out that he's acting like a Nazi. This caused a bit of fan outcry, and Marvel execs were so horrified that they [[AuthorsSavingThrow immediately said that wasn't Magneto.]] This is [[OlderThanTheyThink hardly the first time]] Magneto has been compared to the Nazis, nor the first instance of someone pointing it out to him, or even Magneto acknowledging it himself.

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** HYDRA in the MCU seems to be something of an inversion, as despite being formed from a Nazi-splinter faction, they lack the nationalism and racial purity associated with Nazism and are borderline TerroristsWithoutACause. The Agents of HYDRA/Framework arc of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD' has them in full force, however, having taken over the United States on an anti-Inhumans party line... and pulling no stops on the "racial purity" issue, as a result.

* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', one of the first things Loki does on earth is to force a crowd of Germans to [[KneelBeforeZod kneel before him]] while giving [[NewEraSpeech a speech]] about how humans "were born to be ruled". One [[BadassBystander old German]] -- who is confirmed by WordOfGod to be a Holocaust survivor -- calls him out on this while refusing to kneel:
-->'''Old German:''' Not to men like you.\\
'''Loki:''' [[AGodAmI There are no men like me.]]\\
'''Old German:''' There are ''always'' [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler men like you.]]

* The 1972 version of ''Film/Bluebeard1972'' with Creator/RichardBurton provides an odd example, due in part to its observance of NoSwastikas. For all intents and purposes it's set during the Nazi era - the characters have Germanic names, one scene depicts an anti-Jewish pogrom, Hitler and Reinhard Heydrich are even mentioned by name - yet the setting's never explicitly identified as Germany. Which granted, is the least of the movie's problems.
* HYDRA from ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' are explicitly stated to have started as a Nazi deep science division, but move away from the Reich after the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] plans on bombing Berlin as part of his plan for world conquest. He even states that due to his deformity, he no longer fits with Hitler's perfect Aryan ideal. Despite this, HYDRA still uses a "Hail HYDRA!" cry and salute that seems suspiciously close to the "Heil Hitler!" salute. Note that HYDRA seems to have at least moved away from the racial purity angle of the Nazi regime, as [[spoiler:Jasper Sitwell, a brown-skinned Latino man, is seen as a HYDRA agent in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'']]. This is given a big fat LampshadeHanging in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
-->[[spoiler:'''Ward''']]: I'm not a Nazi!
-->'''Skye:''' Yes you are! That is exactly what you are! It's in the ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} handbook, chapter 1! The Red Skull, founder of HYDRA, was a big, fat, freaking Nazi!
** HYDRA in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] seems to be something of an inversion, as despite being formed from a Nazi-splinter faction, they lack the nationalism and racial purity associated with Nazism and are borderline TerroristsWithoutACause. The ''Agents of HYDRA''/''Framework'' arc has them in full force, however, having taken over the United States on an anti-Inhumans party line... and pulling no stops on the "racial purity" issue, as a result.
* Creator/JohnFord's ''Film/CheyenneAutumn'' features Karl Malden as a German-accented cavalry officer named Wessels. When a group of Cheyenne show up to his fort looking for shelter, he locks them up concentration camp-style in a warehouse. He even sports a Hitler mustache and claims, when called out for his cruel treatment of the Indians, that he's JustFollowingOrders.

* ''Film/TheTestamentOfDrMabuse'' might be the TropeCodifier. Director Creator/FritzLang recasts DiabolicalMastermind Dr. Mabuse as an evil visionary promoting an "Empire of Crime" [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil dedicated to sowing chaos and destruction]]. Unsurprisingly, Joseph Goebbels saw Mabuse as a Hitler analogue and promptly banned the film. Of course, Lang's earlier film ''Film/{{M}}'' made a similar analogy, comparing Berlin's underworld to the Nazi Party.
* TheFilmOfTheBook for ''Literature/{{Fahrenheit 451}}'' gave the Firemen Nazi-like outfits along with an overall fascistic feel to their system, and a German actor was cast as Montag. This is kind of at odds with the book which makes the dystopian society very "All-American" and rightly or wrongly, Creator/RayBradbury attributed its start to [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil political correctness]], with the idea being that people will be much happier "protected" from "upsetting" ideas, something which is far from the Nazi motivation for BookBurning.

* The 1995 film adaptation of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Film/RichardIII'' (starring Creator/IanMcKellen) gives us a SettingUpdate, with GenteelInterbellumSetting Britain gradually PuttingOnTheReich and turning into a Nazi-esque/Orwellian state. Richard's heraldic boar is even incorporated into an exact copy of the Nazi flag ''in the place of a swastika''. Surprisingly, the movie works quite well - both as a Shakespeare adaptation and as a satire on the inter-war period's nonchalance toward the rise of authoritarian regimes.

** Though Nazi Germany took this motive to the extreme, it was by no means the only country to use this kind of practice (at least partially). It would actually be the most... ''logical'' method of extermination.
* 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, ''[[Film/IllNeverHeilAgain I’ll Never Heil Again]].'' ("Quit yer Stalin!") With Film/TheThreeStooges being Jews in RealLife.

* An ''ABC Series/AfterschoolSpecial'', titled ''Film/TheWave1981'' ([[RippedFromTheHeadlines mostly based on]] [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3559727/The-Wave-the-experiment-that-turned-a-school-into-a-police-state.html the "Third Wave" experiment in a Palo Alto, California high school]]), sees a high school history teacher conduct an unusual experiment to illustrate the chilling reality of the Holocaust and Nazi-ism by dividing his class into three social groups with strict rules stressing that an individual is part of something more important than himself. Things are fun and games at first, but eventually it becomes all too real as the lesson's unintended consequences turns the school into a regimental, regressive state of fascism and one of the groups becoming virtual Nazis. A German-language feature film inspired by the experiment, ''Film/TheWave2008'', was produced in 2008.

** The Night Watch in ''Series/BabylonFive'' had a number of Nazi/Brownshirt parallels (notably pro-Earth jingoism and anti-alien xenophobia), with Zack Allan as an example of a sympathetic character who gets swept up in it. [[spoiler: He turns against Night Watch when the chips are down.]] Lampshaded in one episode when a shopkeeper asks members of the Nightwatch if they were "late for their Bund meeting", invoking the Nazi collaborationist German/American Bund.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Stormfront's more fantastical racism comes from her view of Supes and creating more of them with Compound V (she's also a regular racist toward Black and East Asian people). Of course she turns out to be an actual Nazi from Hitler's time, made ageless in appearance thanks to early experiments by the Nazi scientist who invented Compound V (and then defected to the United States when she saw which way the wind was blowing).
* The season 2 [[BigBad villain]] of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', Fulcrum, used a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FulcrumSymbol2.JPG symbol]] that greatly resembles the Iron Eagle used by the Nazis. It also uses the Nazi colors of red, white, and black. However, the show offers no insight into Fulcrum's motivations except for a desire to preserve America's "rightful place" in the world.

** The Daleks, of course. They're very fond of shouting, violent threats and talk about racial purity and "extermination". More overt Nazi references come in 1965's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"]], where the Daleks refer to the destruction of the human race as "the Final Solution" and greet each other by jerking their plungers upwards. It was nicely {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the 2008 episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]] where Martha teleports to Germany (on-screen text specifies 60 miles away from ''Nuremberg'' no less) to play her part in activating the Osterhagen Key, and Daleks can be heard shouting in German "[[AC:Exterminieren!]]"
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]]: Despite advertising themselves as using scientific principles to make the world a better place, the Scientific Reform Society is in actuality a blatantly fascist organization, right down to wearing blackshirt uniforms and armbands with stylized sigils. The receptionist for the group casually tells Sarah about the group's eugenicist desire to have "superior" people control "inferior" ones in all aspects of their lives, and the one meeting of theirs that gets shown on-screen deliberately mirrors one of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's rallies.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]]: The 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.
** Then there's the new British government that shows up in the ForWantOfANail timeline of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]]. By the time the immigrants are being shipped off to "labour camps", WWII survivor Wilf knows ''exactly'' where it's going.
** The Saxon incarnation of the Master, who already displayed some PoliticallyIncorrectVillain tendencies, shows even more shades of this in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] when he becomes blonde, turns every human on the planet into himself, and calls this new race "the Master Race".
** [[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 it's 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 deems imperfect, including her own daughter simply for being blind.

* The Wesenrein in ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' a centuries old group of extremist Wesen that oppose "race-mixing" (a Wesen marrying a Wesen from another bloodline) and befriending Grimms (traditional enemies of the Wesen in general), even their flags look disturbingly similar to the Third Reich's flag.

** Nathan is responsible for starting a similar initiative in Volume 4, where Evolved Humans are rounded up into camps to either suppress their powers or be experimented on... leading to the question, how much of what happened in the BadFuture from Volume 1 [[spoiler: was actually Nathan's doing ''before'' Sylar [[KillAndReplace stole his identity]]]]?

* In the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' short "Mr hiilter and the North Minehead Bi-election" Hitler flees to England and tries to become the mayor of North Minehead by disguising himself as "Mr Hilter". He is joined by Ron vibbentrop and Heinrick Bimmler
-->[[VoxPops Man on the street]]: I don't think I like the sound of these "boncentration bamps"
* ''Series/TheOrville'': The Regorians in "All the World is a Birthday Cake" are an advanced society who dress like fascists and seclude a section of their population to concentration camps. Being a sci-fi series, the spin is that their target group is based on ''astrology'', with all people who are born under a bad sign from their own history (Gilia, which collapsed into a black hole millennia ago) considered subhuman. By the same token, children born to Giliacs under a different sign are considered normal citizens.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' gave us the [[spoiler:Eurondans]], who were a white supremacist nation locked in a bunker with most of the planet occupied by their enemies (called “Breeders”, because they [[FelonyMisdemeanor had children without regard for race]]) who they tried to kill with poison gas. Also [[PuttingOnTheReich put on the Reich]]. There's a moment when Adar, the leader, expresses that he does not wish for Teal'c to return to his world. Initially it seems that he is uncomfortable because Teal'c is [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Jaffa]], but it's soon made apparent the reason he states Teal'c is "not like us" is because he is black.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
** Colonel Green, the WorldWarIII leader recreated in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain 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 "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce 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.
** The whole concept of [[BewareTheSuperman genetic augmentation]] is presented to reflect this trope in ''Franchise/StarTrek''. The first Eugenics Wars in which a bunch of superpowered dictators, (i.e. a "master race") conquered the Earth until they were deposed. Then after you had the Augments who fancied themselves a master race.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of the King]]" gives us Kodos the Executioner, who culled people based on his eugenics theories, and has lived under an assumed name to escape punishment for his crimes decades later. The comparisons to the Nazis (especially in the '60s when knowledge of the many fugitives living underground became prominent after the capture of Adolf Eichmann) are probably intended.
* 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, "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet 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:
-->'''Darhe'el''' [[spoiler: (actually Marritza)]]: Oh, no, no, Major, you can't dismiss me that easily. I did what had to be done. My men understood that, and that's why they loved me. I would order them to go out and kill Bajoran scum, and they'd do it! They'd murder them! They'd come back covered in blood, but they felt clean! Now why did they feel that way, Major? Because they ''were'' clean!
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E8NothingHuman 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 "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E17TheKillingGame 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.
* A significant portion of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'''s first season revolves around the Terran Empire of the Mirror Universe, the Federation's EvilCounterpart. The Terrans are fascist, rabidly xenophobic human supremacists with spiffy uniforms, a very Hitleresque salute, and a CultOfPersonality centered on their supreme leader, the Emperor. Anything nonhuman is mercilessly hunted down and either enslaved, killed or ''[[SapientEatSapient eaten]]''.
* ''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.

* The Visitors of [[Series/{{V1983}} the miniseries]] (and [[Series/{{V2009}} subsequent series]]) ''V'' were thinly-veiled Nazi stand-ins, complete with extermination camps (meat-processing plants) and an almost-swastika logo (the show was even originally conceived as a straight adaptation of the above mentioned ''Literature/ItCantHappenHere'' before being changed to scifi). In the original miniseries, a Jewish Holocaust survivor acknowledged the parallels.

* ''LightNovel/TheHeroLaughsWhileWalkingThePathOfVengeanceASecondTime'': Just like Adolph, [[VillainousPrincess Princess Alessia]] genuinely believes that she has a divine mandate to exterminate all the "lesser" beings, everyone with less than 100% human blood, and those from other worlds or countries, even if they're all 100% human, purely for the repulsive "crime" of daring to exist in her sight.

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' has the Rosenkruez Orden, who are a group of vampires (and one evil human) who are terrorists bent on bringing about [[OmnicidalManiac the end of the world]]. They are led by Aryan {{Ubermensch}} Cain Nightroad and most dress in clear black suits that very strongly resemble SS uniforms.

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 everyone (including ''both'' Western and Soviet history) 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' has the Highbreed, a species of genocidal aliens who consider themselves the MasterRace and wish to wipe all other "inferior" species out of existence, to the point of enslaving humans and forcing them to work hard labor on their warp gates. Heck, one Highbreed even has a German-sounding name. [[spoiler:Although it turns out that their entire reason for doing is because their obsession with genetic purity has made their entire species sterile due to generations of inbreeding, so the current generation of Highbreed is in fact the last. They can't stand the thought of any "inferior" species outliving them, so they've gone on a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum to make sure that everyone else dies before they do]].

* [[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.]]