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* Item 21 on the EvilOverlordList: "I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original uniforms for my Legions of Terror, as opposed to some cheap knock-offs that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my troops to have a more positive mind-set." One that the Nazis actually followed.

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* Item 21 on the EvilOverlordList: "I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original uniforms for my Legions of Terror, as opposed to some cheap knock-offs that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my troops to have a more positive mind-set." One Despite their shameless theft of Roman iconography almost everywhere else, the practical necessities of uniform design for twentieth-century warfare meant that the Nazis actually followed.mostly followed this rule and kept to Prussian or Wiemar-era design sensibilities.
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* The episode 'Usher II' in ''The Ray Bradbury Theater'' has a future where the SS-like 'Moral Climates' bans all art and imagination deemed repugnant, and natch their members wear black Prussian-inspired uniforms and their logo is inspired by the SS lightning bolts

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* The episode 'Usher II' in ''The Ray Bradbury Theater'' ''Series/TheRayBradburyTheater'' has a future where the SS-like 'Moral Climates' bans all art and imagination deemed repugnant, and natch their members wear black Prussian-inspired uniforms and their logo is inspired by the SS lightning bolts
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Note that this trope covers ''aesthetic'' similarities to Nazis. For ideological similarities, see ANaziByAnyOtherName. May result in CommieNazis.

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Note that this trope covers ''aesthetic'' similarities to Nazis. For ideological similarities, see ANaziByAnyOtherName. May result in CommieNazis.
CommieNazis. Don't confuse with SpringtimeForHitler (which may not involve Nazis at all per se).
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* The fascist state attempting to rule the wasteland in 1983 Italian b-movie ''2020: Texas Gladiators'' is commanded by the 'Black One', so-named for his uniform that's just a SS one with the same insignia.

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* The fascist state attempting to rule the wasteland in 1983 Italian b-movie ''2020: Texas Gladiators'' is commanded by the 'Black One', so-named for his uniform that's just a an SS one with the same insignia.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'': Alfred Jonathan Quack/Alfred Jodocus Kwak had the Crow party, led by a crow named ''Dolf'', whose logo was a red flag with a white circle in it, with a crow's foot (most likely a reference to the Germanic "Algiz" rune). Subtle it was not.
** It was nonetheless chilling to watch Dolf grow from a naughty schoolboy into a fascist dictator. Also notable for the little details it threw in: Dolf was actually ''not'' a crow, but the half-breed of a crow and a blackbird, who disguised his origin by darkening his yellow beak - a sly allusion to Hitler failing to live up to the Aryan virtues he espoused.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E32TheSafety "The Safety"]]", Darwin goes overboard about safety. "Overboard", meaning [[spoiler: monitoring everyone around town via security cameras, replacing police batons with blow-up replicas, and chaining people to their seats]]. When Gumball reaches his "evil lair" to stop him, [[http://imgur.com/EchW45z Darwin is dressed like this.]] He also has [[http://imgur.com/YYG0Ri2 these flags]] hanging, which look suspiciously similar to [[http://imgur.com/ovY34U7 a rather well-known]] piece of Nazi symbolism. A rare example in which it's PlayedForComedy. Disturbing comedy, but still comedy.
* Fire Nation troops on ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' wear Mongol-derived armour with designs that even include skull-shaped face plates. Bonus points for actually using the (somewhat silly) [[WhiteMaskOfDoom skull-face masks]] to further the plot, and for establishing that the Fire Nation isn't inherently worse than anyone else (the same way not AllGermansAreNazis, and other countries have dark pasts too).

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* ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'': Alfred Jonathan Quack/Alfred Jodocus Kwak had the The Crow party, led by a crow named ''Dolf'', whose logo was is a red flag with a white circle in it, with a crow's foot (most likely a reference to the Germanic "Algiz" rune). Subtle it was not.
** It was
is not. It's nonetheless chilling to watch Dolf grow from a naughty schoolboy into a fascist dictator. Also notable for the little details it threw throws in: Dolf was is actually ''not'' a crow, but the half-breed of a crow and a blackbird, who disguised disguises his origin by darkening his yellow beak - -- a sly allusion to Hitler failing to live up to the Aryan virtues he espoused.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E32TheSafety "The Safety"]]", The Safety]]", Darwin goes overboard about safety. "Overboard", meaning [[spoiler: monitoring [[spoiler:monitoring everyone around town via security cameras, replacing police batons with blow-up replicas, and chaining people to their seats]]. When Gumball reaches his "evil lair" to stop him, [[http://imgur.com/EchW45z Darwin is dressed like this.]] He also has [[http://imgur.com/YYG0Ri2 these flags]] hanging, which look suspiciously similar to [[http://imgur.com/ovY34U7 a rather well-known]] piece of Nazi symbolism. A rare example in which it's PlayedForComedy. Disturbing comedy, but still comedy.
* Fire Nation troops on in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' wear Mongol-derived armour with designs that even include skull-shaped face plates. Bonus points for actually using the (somewhat silly) [[WhiteMaskOfDoom skull-face masks]] to further the plot, and for establishing that the Fire Nation isn't inherently worse than anyone else (the same way not AllGermansAreNazis, and other countries have dark pasts too).



* ''WesternAnimation/ItEtaitUneFois''... Space: The military personnel of Cassiopeia carries armbands styled as Nazi ones except that have instead of a swastika a "W", that represents that constellation. In addition to this, General Pest is said to have been chosen as leader because of how the masses follow him, echoing Hitler.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ItEtaitUneFois''... Space: ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois: The military personnel of Cassiopeia in ''l'Espace'' carries armbands styled as Nazi ones except that have instead of a swastika a "W", that represents that constellation. In addition to this, General Pest is said to have been chosen as leader because of how the masses follow him, echoing Hitler.



* The first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}''. Ohhh boy. Future-Warden mixes it up a little, going for the Otto von Bismarck look.



* The first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' Ohhh boy. Future-Warden mixes it up a little, going for the Otto von Bismarck look.
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[[caption-width-right:319:[-Dressed up like a million [[BlackShirt Storm-y-troopers]]\\
Trying hard to look like Menschen {{Uber|mensch}}s! (super dupers!)-]]]

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[[caption-width-right:319:[-Dressed [[caption-width-right:319:[-[[Music/IrvingBerlin Dressed up like a a]] million [[BlackShirt Storm-y-troopers]]\\
[[Music/IrvingBerlin Trying hard to look like like]] Menschen {{Uber|mensch}}s! (super dupers!)-]]]
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** Done in an uncharacteristically subtle way (''especially'' for Creator/PaulVerhoeven) with Clarence Boddicker, whose gaunt, balding appearance, wire-framed glasses and dark wardrobe were intentionally evocative of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler Heinrich Himmler]].

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