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* This may fall partially under tech rather than magic, but ''{{Outpost}}'' has a mercenary team of ex-Royal Marines trying to hold off the seemingly immortal bodies of resurrected SS. There's a half-century old machine within the bunker they were originally hired to search, and it's revealed to have the power to negate the Nazis' immortality when activated. The mercenaries turn it on [[spoiler:[[only for it to promptly break down, the last of the mercenaries (the captain) to die holding the Nazis off, and the scientist to try and escape through the ventilation shafts only to be met by the Nazis' commanding officer and a cut-to-black death.]]

** In 1992's ''Wolfenstein3D'', the player also encounters fireball-throwing Hitler "ghosts" as minibosses leading up to the final encounter with MechaHitler. Furthermore, in the prequel, ''SpearOfDestiny'', the player must recover the titular Spear from Hitler's grasp, and encounters a supernatural protector called the Angel of Death.

* The video game ''ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' has you trying to prevent the Nazis from resurrecting an ancient Germanic warrior as an [[SuperSoldier invincible superweapon]], while fighting off [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cybernetic zombie Super-Soldiers animated by dark magic]]. You actually fail. The supposedly invincible demigod, however, reveals himself surprisingly weak to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu minigun bullets]]...
** 2009 sequel ''{{Wolfenstein}}'' takes this even further with extra-dimensional travel, Nazi mages, energy guns and yes, Nazis with jetpacks. The special occult unit, like a smaller and creepier SS, are called the ''Gegengeist Gruppe'', or GGG.

* The first ''{{Bloodrayne}}'' game is loaded with Nazi occultists (named "Gegengeistgruppe", a good couple of years before the new ''Wolfenstein''), [[PunkPunk dieselpunk]] mecha, and [[TheBaroness leather-clad Aryan temptresses with sharp objects]]. Yes, there were [[StupidJetpackHitler jetpack-using Nazis]].

* David Brin's really rather dark AlternateHistory short story ''[[http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html Thor Versus Captain America]]'', later adapted into comic form as ''The Life-Eaters'', has... well, that would be telling. (But don't expect any trademark-infringing.) The Author has said this was an attempt to make Holocaust have some actual sense for the Nazis.

* And of course, [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie adaptation of]] ''Film/{{Hellboy}}.'' See above. There's also Kroenen, previously a Nazi assassin and now the undead servant of Rasputin--it's unclear whether he's still sentient enough to have party loyalties.

* ''IndianaJones'' of course. Not one, but two of the movies and the cinematic [[IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis adventure game]] feature Nazis trying to recover an ancient artifact that will grant them untold magical power.

* ''IndianaJones'' of course. Not one, but two of the movies and one of the [[IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis video games]] feature Nazis trying to recover an ancient artifact that will grant them untold magical power.
** One of the comic books features Indy searching for the Spear of Destiny and having to battle both Nazis and druids to get it. Ultimately, of course, it ends up with the US military, and since ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the destiny of the world lies with the Spear]]'' Hiroshima is nuked almost immediately afterward.

* ''IndianaJones'' of course. Not one but two of the movies feature Nazis trying to recover an ancient artifact that will grant them untold magical power.

* In the {{Elseworld}}s story ''[[JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]: The GoldenAge'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:an American supervillain with a gimmick for switching his brains into other bodies replaced an American superhero and ran for Senate... and secretly transferred ''Hitler's'' brain into a FlyingBrick to help him take over America.]]

** So. . . that stops Batman?

* This may fall partially under tech rather than magic, but ''The Outpost'' has a mercenary team of ex-Royal Marines trying to hold off the seemingly immortal bodies of resurrected SS. There's a half-century old machine within the bunker they were originally hired to search, and it's revealed to have the power to negate the Nazis' immortality when activated. The mercenaries turn it on [[spoiler:[[only for it to promptly break down, the last of the mercenaries (the captain) to die holding the Nazis off, and the scientist to try and escape through the ventilation shafts only to be met by the Nazis' commanding officer and a cut-to-black death.]]

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* The ''[[TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' strip ''Caballistics, Inc.'' makes mention of Nazi Germany's occult warfare division, Sonderkommando Thule, very frequently. When the titular Caballistics, Inc. was still functioning as a secret department in the British Government, as Q Department, Sonderkommando Thule was their biggest enemy. [[spoiler: [[TokenEvilTeammate Solomon Ravne]]]] is revealed to have been a former part of the occult warfare division working for the Nazis.

* In TheHollowEarthExpedition the HollowEarth is equated with Thule, so the Thule society, and therefore Nazis, are thoroughly interested in it, and trying to use the orichalcum found there as an energy source and/or extremely powerful explosives.

** Actually a subversion: [[spoiler:while the Nazis woke the first (and weakest) of the Pillar Men, it was to study him and find a way to destroy his kind, since the other three much stronger Pillar Men were already slowly waking up by themselves, and even the Nazis realised that they could bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, leading later on to an EnemyMine with the heroes]]. Yes, really.

*** Actually, IIRC, that 1958 thing was only in TheMovie.
**** Which Mignola fully supported. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome?

*** [[FridgeLogic So what was Batman doing then?]]
**** Fighting Nazi spies, of course.

* The article picture comes from a Russian comic parodying WWII tropes in which Stalin fights Hitler with their respective magical powers. Eventually, Stalin harnesses Hitler's corruption against him and Hitler runs away in an airplane, which Stalin makes crash.
** [[http://dsss.be/hitler-vs-stalin/ Here it is.]]

* Subverted in {{Atomic Robo}} - while Robo fights lots of Nazis with supernatural and/or superscientific powers, and first encounters his archenemy Baron Helsingard during WWII, Helsingard's evil actually predates the Nazis and his mooks use his family crest rather than Nazi imagery.

** ''Dead Snow'' seems to be a SpiritualSuccessor to the 1977 film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076704/ Shock Waves]]''. Other films with Zombie Nazis include Jesse Franco's ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086486/ Oasis of the Zombies]]'' (1983), Jean Rollins' ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081027/ Zombie Lake]]'' (also 1983, and produced by the same folks who did ''Oasis''), and the obscure ''[[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0082815/ Night of the Zombies]]'' (1981). Zombie Nazis isn't a subtrope yet?
*** ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892899/ Outpost]]'' kind of fits as well, though the Nazis aren't quite zombies.

* David Brin's really rather dark AlternateHistory short story ''[[http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html Thor Versus Captain America]]'', later adapted into comic form as ''The Life-Eaters'', has... well, that would be telling. (But don't expect any trademark-infringing.)
** The Author has said this was an attempt to make Holocaust have some actual sense for the Nazis...

** And as a ShoutOut to its predecessor BuffyTheVampireSlayer, the method by which they were planning to accomplish this goal was very similar to the brain chip put in Spike by the Initiative in season 4.
*** In fact, the agency that sent Angel was the Demon Research Initiative

** Which actually doesn't make any sense in the context of the show because it was well established that the gate was in the US during WWII. I guess the writers of the RPG didn't bother to watch the show?

* The Fifth Column, one of the original villain groups in ''CityOfHeroes'', were Nazis who'd been underground in the US since being sent there to strike from within during World War II. A mid-level story arc had the Fifth Column as modern allies for a Nazi soldier who time-travelled to 21st century [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed Paragon City]] to learn about Allied plans during World War II and bring the information back to ensure the victory of the Axis. At the higher levels, there were [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically-engineered]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] among their ranks, complete with a vampiric archvillain named Nosferatu. Then they got retaken by the Council, the organization it split off from, which has [[strike:different]] zero philosophical boundaries.
** A recent time-travel arc indicates that the original Fifth Column will soon return. [[spoiler:They do, in the Imperious Task Force -- led by Requiem and some splintered Nictus.]]
** And now, information about Issue 15 indicates an old foe is returning...
** As of Issue 16, the Fifth Column is back fighting the Council in the streets of Paragon.

* [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two Words]]: [[NaziZombies Nazi. Zombies]].

This actually more plausible than it sounds. Nazism's roots are arguably traceable to an occult group called the Thule Society, depending on which rumours you listen to, and a lot of the senior Nazis (including Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS) were intensely interested in the occult. Culturally the country was hip deep in Teutonic tradition: senior Nazis apparently planned to gradually abolish German Christianity in favor of Norse gods after the war, while in direct contradiction to the above (but hey, they're Nazis!), AdolfHitler tried to get his hands on the [[PublicDomainArtifact Spear of Destiny]]. This last one was purely for the symbolic value, however -- contrary to popular belief, Hitler himself actually pooh-poohed the mystical notions associated with occultism, but he certainly appreciated the power and ideological value these myths possessed and took advantage of them however he could.

** On the contrary, there's plenty of supernatural politics involved in the WorldOfDarkness's version of World War Two on both sides of the war. They just made very sure to point out that the Nazi high leadership were all normal humans, and all free of signifigant supernatural influence. The horrors of World War Two were all ''human-made'' atrocities. This does not invalidate the above troper's point however.

This actually more plausible than it sounds. Nazism's roots are arguably traceable to an occult group called the Thule Society, depending on which rumors you listen to, and a lot of the senior Nazis (including Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS) were intensely interested in the occult. Culturally the country was hip deep in Teutonic tradition: senior Nazis apparently planned to gradually abolish German Christianity in favor of Norse gods after the war, while in direct contradiction to the above (but hey, they're Nazis!), AdolfHitler tried to get his hands on the [[PublicDomainArtifact Spear of Destiny]]. This last one was purely for the symbolic value, however -- contrary to popular belief, Hitler himself actually pooh-poohed the mystical notions associated with occultism, but he certainly appreciated the power and ideological value these myths possessed and took advantage of them however he could.

* The Panzer Elite tankcrews in Sabatton's "Ghost Division" are made up of both live and {{undead}} soldiers and [[EmotionEater feed on the fear the Nazis generate]].

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* The Panzer Elite tankcrews in Sabatton's "Ghost Division" are made up of both live and [[undead]] soldiers and [[EmotionEater feed on the fear the Nazis generate]].