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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Creator/EdAsner, who was Jewish, played a Nazi who hid as a Holocaust survivor in the episode "Yahrzeit".

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Creator/EdAsner, who was Jewish, played a Nazi who hid as a Holocaust survivor in the episode "Yahrzeit"."[[Recap/CSINYS05E22 Yahrzeit]]".
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* Creator/PeterLorre plays the Nazi Sergeant Berger in the wartime film ''The Cross of Lorraine''.
* ''Film/TheDesertFox'' casts Luther Adler, a Russian-American Jew, as Adolf Hitler.

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* Creator/PeterLorre plays as the Nazi Sergeant Berger in the wartime film ''The Cross of Lorraine''.
* ''Film/TheDesertFox'' casts had Luther Adler, a Russian-American Jew, as Adolf Hitler.



* ''Film/OperationDaybreak'': Creator/AntonDiffring plays SS official UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich, architect of the Holocaust and target of the film's assassination plot. Differing, being both gay and Jewish, had to flee Nazi Germany to avoid persecution in the 1930s.

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* ''Film/OperationDaybreak'': Creator/AntonDiffring plays SS official UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich, architect of the Holocaust (though that aspect is not brought up in the film) and target of the film's assassination plot. Differing, Diffring, being both gay and Jewish, had to flee Nazi Germany to avoid persecution (and eventually death) in the 1930s.
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** In ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E10JudgementNight Judgement Night]]'', Jewish American actor Creator/NehemiahPersoff plays Carl Lanser, [[spoiler:a submarine captain in the Kriegsmarine]].

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** In ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E10JudgementNight "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E10JudgementNight Judgement Night]]'', Night]]", Jewish American actor Creator/NehemiahPersoff plays Carl Lanser, [[spoiler:a submarine captain in the Kriegsmarine]].
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** In ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E10JudgementNight Judgement Night]]'', Jewish American actor Creator/NehemiahPersoff plays Carl Lanser, [[spoiler:a submarine captain in the Kriegsmarine]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'': Creator/RonPerlman voices the Podestà, a government official who runs a fascist training camp.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'': Creator/RonPerlman voices the Podestà, a government official who runs a fascist training camp.
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* ''Film/{{Borat}}'': The eponymous Borat Sagdiyev, a virulent antisemite from Kazakhstan, is played by Creator/SachaBaronCohen.

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* ''Film/{{Borat}}'': The eponymous Borat Sagdiyev, a virulent antisemite from Kazakhstan, is played by Jewish comedian Creator/SachaBaronCohen.
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* In ''Film/AnOfficerAndASpy'', Creator/MathieuAmalric (who's of Jewish descent) played Alphonse Bertillon, an antisemitic graphology "expert" who uses some InsaneTrollLogic to accuse Alfred Dreyfus.
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** Most of the Nazis were played by Jews as they made up a good chunk of the German actors available in Hollywood during World War II.

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** Most of the Nazis were played by Jews for practical reasons, as they made up a good chunk of the German actors available in Hollywood during World War II.
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A subtrope of IronyAsSheIsCast. Compare BritishNazis, CastingGag, FakeNationality, and ThoseWackyNazis; see also Main/WorksSetInWorldWarII and WorksSetInWorldWarII/WorksAboutTheHolocaust. Contrast ActorSharedBackground. Not to be confused with characters who are both Jewish and Nazis or anti-Semites, which would fall under BoomerangBigot.

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A subtrope of IronyAsSheIsCast. Compare BritishNazis, CastingGag, FakeNationality, and ThoseWackyNazis; see also Main/WorksSetInWorldWarII and WorksSetInWorldWarII/WorksAboutTheHolocaust.WorksSetInWorldWarII/TheHolocaustInMedia. Contrast ActorSharedBackground. Not to be confused with characters who are both Jewish and Nazis or anti-Semites, which would fall under BoomerangBigot.

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