History Main / PuttingOnTheReich

* The vaguely ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}''-like setting of ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has a neo-Nazi militia, the Landwehr, who play this completely straight, even using the original ''Waffen-SS'' military ranks. Then there's a fascist LadyLand, who are a little more subtle about it. In a rare heroic example, the good guys themselves also do it to some extent -- not so much with their uniforms, but they admire everything Prussian, to the point of using quite a bit of GratuitousGerman.

* Episode 6 of ''Series/AmericanGods2017'' has Shadow and Mr. Wednesday visit Vulcan, Virginia, a small suburban town full of gun carrying citizens, wearing black uniforms and red armbands (although the armbands are adorned with the Vulcan name instead of swastikas).

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'': The Sovereign's regime in 'Roads Not Taken: Part 2' is policed by soldiers in brown shirts with armbands bearing his logo.

* Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy: The Sovereign's regime in 'Roads Not Taken: Part 2' is policed by soldiers in brown shirts with armbands bearing his logo.

* Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy: The Sovereign's regime is policed by soldiers in brown shirts with armbands bearing his logo.

* Enclave Officers from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' wear a uniform that feels like a scifi hybrid between a Nazi and Confederate uniform - both inspiration are fitting due to the Enclave being a xenophobic, ultra-nationalist organization seeking to purge 'mutants' and all things un-American.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' adds to the "reich" theme for the Empire with large red banners with the white hexagonal Imperial symbol hanging ''everywhere''.

* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':
** Enclave Officers from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' wear a uniform that makes them look like a Nazi mixed in with a Confederate soldier (with maybe even some ''Franchise/StarWars'' thrown in). [[TheDragon Colonel Autumn's]] uniform is especially Reich-ish. In both ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' and ''3'', they truly consider themselves and themselves alone to be the absolute master race, and who intended to kill off the entire population of America, who they perceive as "mutants", so their Putting on the Reich act becomes fitting. They also use overt imagery and rhetoric.
** The pre-War U.S. Military (from which the Enclave is [[TheRemnant directly descended]]) also used a version of Colonel Autumn's uniform. As evidenced by General Chase's overcoat and the US Army general outfit. (This ''was'' the army that violently annexed Canada.)
** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', Caesar patterned his totalitarian empire after bits and pieces of the real Roman Empire. [[ShownTheirWork He succeeded spectacularly]]. Partly subverted by the Great Khans, who engage mostly in drug-dealing and banditry; the Courier can point out how much like their namesake they're ''not''. [[spoiler:In one ending, they may decide to rectify this and start up a proper empire]].

** The Ekosians in ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]", a society deliberately modeled after Nazi Germany. Aliens cosplaying as Nazis would appear again, like the Hirogen in the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode 'The Killing Game' playing Nazis in a simulation of occupied France, or the Na'kuhl in the ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' episode 'Storm Front' travelling back in time to ally with the actual Nazis and joining their ranks.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]", the military of the Terran Empire uses the Roman salute (aka the Nazi salute) to greet one another.
** The Borg banners in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Descent'" have the Borg's black logo superimposed on red and white banners, echoing Nazi banners.
** Mirror-Odo's uniform in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Crossover" evokes this. Though still recognizably Bajoran, it is all-black and fitted with a high collar and a belt. Ironically, Rene Auberjonois' liked the mirror uniform's collar enough that he had it added to his main one later in the series.

* The power-made US president in obscure 1972 political satire ''Film/{{Hail}}'' creates his own StateSec and stages a fashion show of uniforms of historical authoritarian regimes to finalize their look. Upon seeing a Luftwaffe uniform: "I ''like'' those boots!" The disturbing final product is half Nazi, half ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, with a lightning bolt logo on their helmets.

* The dystopian America in 1983 Italian b-movie ''Endgame: Bronx Lotta Finale'' is policed by the Security Services, that has a very SS-inspired logo and whose soldiers wear black stahlhelms and leather trenchcoats.

* The obscure political satire ''Film/{{Hail}}'' (1972) features a sub-plot where the power-crazed US President creates his own StateSec. He personally designs the uniforms, staging a private fashion-show of authoritarian uniforms from history. Upon seeing a Luftwaffe outfit: "I ''like'' those boots!" The disturbing final product is half Nazi, half ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, with a lightning bolt logo on their helmets.

* The fascist state attempting to rule over the wasteland 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.

* The ambiguous fascist state attempting to rule over the wasteland scavengers in 1983 Italian b-movie ''2020: Texas Gladiators'' is ruled by the 'Black One', a commander wearing a SS uniform, right down to the same insignia.

** By ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', the First Order (reformed from what was left of the Empire's military) take this '''further''', down to the Riefenstahl imagery (''example pictured''). Their uniforms are more inspired by the infamous [[StateSec SS]] rather than the Prussian influences in the original trilogy, with Abrams even directly comparing them to [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand Nazis who fled to South America after the war]].

* The [[Ruritania unnamed authoritarian European country]] where the first half of 1987 French scifi film ''[[Film/Terminus1987 Terminus]]'' takes place in is guarded by soldiers wearing dark blue versions of WWII-era German uniforms, with caps resembling the older German/Austrian ski cap models.

* The titular movement in 1971 dystopian series ''The Guardians' wear black SS-style uniforms, with their logo being an angular red, white and black stylized 'G'.

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]", the military of the Terran Empire uses the Roman salute (aka the Nazi salute) to greet one another. When we see the Terran Empire again in the ''Enterprise'' episode 'In a Mirror, Darkly', their universe's equivalent to Starfleet's MACO has a skull logo evoking the infamous totenkopf.

In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Franchise/{{Superman}}'s troops in [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce's]] BadFuture [[NightmareSequence "Knightmare"]] give off a clear Waffen SS, right down to wearing Stahlhelm-like black helmets.

* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Zod's crew includes an inexplicably German-accented and longcoat-clad Mengele {{Expy}} who tries to experiment on Superman. In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Franchise/{{Superman}}'s troops in [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce's]] BadFuture [[NightmareSequence "Knightmare"]] give off a clear Waffen SS, right down to wearing Stahlhelm-like black helmets.

** The Borg banners in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode ''Descent'' have the Borg's black logo superimposed on red and white banners, echoing Nazi banners.

The titular movement in 1971 dystopian series ''The Guardians' wear black SS-style uniforms, with their logo being an angular red, white and black stylized 'G'.

* The Media Police in 1990 cyberpunk obscurity ''Megaville'' wear what seems to be a variety of German military surplus in an attempt to evoke this.

* Michael Radford's 1984 adaptation of Literature/NineteenEightyFour takes some visual cues from the fascist regimes that served as partial inspiration for Orwell's dystopia; Ingsoc's flag is an angular 'V' logo made up of red, white and black, and the Spies wear Hitler Youth-inspired uniforms.

* Played with in Peter Watkins' 1967 mockumentary ''Privilege''; the musician Steven Shorter has his logo be a suspiciously angular design showing off his initials, 'S. S', but by the end of the film the logos emblazoned on red and black banners as he's giving concerts to torchlit parades of uniformed Christian organizations.

*** In ''Film/RogueOne'' and ''Solo'' the Nazi comparisons are heightened, as now Imperial officers wear German-style greatcoats, and their immigration officers [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/aa36d502eaeabefc6537653f8f83b355/f5ea9cd22ba0deb4-1d/s640x960/bca339100785ba0f8b0a9425dc3e7483319056e4.jpg wear Brownshirt-style uniforms]].

* Kommander Nuveen Kroll in the 1985 series ''Otherworld'' is almost always sporting a futuristic riff on a Nazi-era German uniform.

* ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'' (2021): The Atreides wear very snazzy black dress uniforms (which, oddly enough, resemble those of Imperial officers from ''Franchise/StarWars''), and are also very fond of huge, brutalist construction projects, large formations of soldiers and similar displays of martial might. [[InvertedTrope They are also the good guys.]]

* In ''Film/JohnDoeVigilante'', John Doe's followers, the [=S4D=] movement, wear black clothes, white masks and red armbands making them look like a cut-rate S.S.

* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' gives us a rather unconventional example in the War Boys, who look like ''Neo''-Nazi skinheads and sport corpse paint like black metal musicians. Given their leader is obsessed with eugenically breeding the perfect son and has indoctrinated them into believing in a twisted interpretation of Norse paganism a la many neo-Nazis, this is probably intentional.

* Played with in Peter Watkins' 1967 mockumentary ''Film/Privilege''; the musician Steven Shorter has his logo be a suspiciously angular design showing off his initials, 'S. S', but by the end of the film the logos emblazoned on red and black banners as he's giving concerts to torchlit parades of uniformed Christian organizations.

* The obscure political-parody film ''Film/{{Hail}}'' (1972) features a sub-plot where the power-crazed US President creates a national police-force to serve as his personal Brownshirts. He personally designs the uniforms, staging a private fashion-show which displays various authoritarian samples from history. Upon seeing a Gestapo outfit: "I ''like'' those boots!" The disturbing final product is half Nazi, half ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.

*** In ''Film/RogueOne'' and ''Film/Solo'' the Nazi comparisons are heightened, as now Imperial officers wear German-style greatcoats, and their immigration officers wear early SS-style brown shirts and black caps and skirts.

* Norsefire in the FilmVForVendetta isn't an explicit neo-Nazi party like in the original comic, but it's hinted at with the party's red and black flag, and Lewis Prothero wearing a SS-esque red and black uniform that he wore when running a concentration camp.

** The Caretaker police officers in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers "Paradise Towers"]] all wear grey uniforms with peaked caps, with the Chief Caretaker even sporting a moustache like Hitler's. A mild subversion, as the Caretakers are bureaucratic rather than evil.

** The Master sports a SS uniform when meeting the Doctor in the second part of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall 'Spyfall']].
* The Peacekeepers from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' slightly follow this; they have a predilection for imagery involving red, white and black, though their logo was actually taken from El Lissitzky's pro-Bolshevik propaganda poster, 'Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge', but when it comes to uniforms the nearest they get to this trope is Bialar Crais' uniform, otherwise they wear futuristic jumpsuits or BDSM gear.

* By the end of ''Series/FirstWave'', the Gua seem to have adopted this style. In fact, when Mabus is trying to convince [[TheChosenOne Cade]] that the latter has been a ManchurianAgent from the get-go, he tries to put images in Cade's mind of Cade wearing a decidedly Nazi-like uniform and even giving a suspiciously similar salute (presumably, to Mabus).

* In Sergei Eisenstein's ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', the common soldiers of UsefulNotes/TheTeutonicKnights all wear identical [[FacelessGoons face-masking]] Stahlhelms. (The Stahlhelm itself was, in turn, probably based on a medieval German style of helmet called a ''Schallern''.) And the archbishop wears a miter [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Nevski5.jpg with swastikas!]] Quite possibly the [[OlderThanTelevision earliest example of the trope]] (five years after ThoseWackyNazis took power).

* ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'' features the Zig-Zag Division, a nationalist movement springing up in Zubrowka. They wear armbands with a double-zig-zag logo, and push a highly anti-immigrant agenda onto the local gendarmes. Subverted when ''actual'' Nazis show up near the end.

* In the {{dieselpunk}}ish 1995 film version of ''Film/RichardIII'' (starring Creator/IanMcKellen), the titular character's outfit is based off of an SS officer's uniform, with his troops wearing a variety of WWII German military uniforms, His regime's flag is basically the Nazi flag, but with his personal heraldic figure, a boar, in place of the swastika.

*** In ''Film/RogueOne'' and ''Solo'' the Nazi comparisons are heightened, as now Imperial officers wear German-style greatcoats, and their immigration officers wear early SS-style brown shirts and black caps and skirts.

* CLU of ''Film/TronLegacy'' is basically an EvilCounterpart of his creator, Kevin Flynn. He has [[LargeHam grandiose]] speeches about entering the human world to rid it of its imperfections, commits genocide on the [=ISOs=], has a HomageShot to Film/TriumphOfTheWill, black-clad secret police, etc. Judging by the GladiatorGames he favors, CLU leans towards the Ancient Rome-influenced end of the Most Definitely Not Hitler scale.

** The [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny "Republic of Great Britain"]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]] is protected by the [[StateSec "Republican Security Force"]] who wear brown shirts, black caps and have English translations of Nazi ranks. It's heavily implied that the regime is the [[DayOfTheJackboot result of Britain losing WWII]]
** The Scientific Reform Society in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]] seeks to overthrow democracy and replace it with a society ruled by a scientific elite; natch they all wear uniforms with armbands displaying the organization's logo, which itself is inspired by fascist symbolism.

** The government of Varos in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros ''Vengeance on Varos'']] is a militaristic dictatorship where almost all its denizens wear black or grey uniforms, a good deal of them being Prussian-influenced in style, especially the uniforms worn by the Governor and state torturer Quillam. Adding to this is that Varos' logo is a red, white and black design inspired also by the Ingsoc flag in the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Michael Radford 1984 adaptation]].
** The 'Caretaker' police officers in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers "Paradise Towers"]] all wear grey uniforms with peaked caps, with the Chief Caretaker even sporting a moustache like Hitler's. A mild subversion, as the Caretakers are more just bureaucratic rather than evil.
** Kane and his Iceworld security force in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire "Dragonfire"]] all wear stark-white Prussian style uniforms that are even worn with white pickelhaubes.
** A rare example of this in the 2005 series was the [[StateSec Memory Police]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand 'The Lie of the Land']], who sport a lighning bolt logo [[https://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/original/yp618c39d0110579.07338806/Doctor-Who-2017-Memory-Police-Medal-The-Lie-of-the-Land-5.jpg and their officers wear black SS-like uniforms]].

* In ''Series/TheStand1994'', Flagg's mass rally in Las Vegas features vexilloids resembling the Third Reich's flag: red, with a stylized black crow fimbriated in white. The treacherous [[spoiler: Harold Lauder starts the series a pimply awkward unkempt geek and slowly starts improving his appearance]]. By the time [[VirginSacrifice Nadine Cross]] seduces him, he's wearing a black shirt with roses on the back and tight brown trousers, with his pale-blonde hair slicked back, looking like a flamenco dancer joined the SA.

* Columbia in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', for all its pretensions of upholding "true" American values and culture, is shown to have taken more than a few influences from UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany and (thanks to the Tears) the Third Reich.

* The flag of the Tetragrammaton Council of Libria in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'''s totalitarian government is basically the Nazi flag with the swastika swapped for a crutch cross.

* ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'''s totalitarian government with distinct long black uniforms (its police officers frequently wear black motorcycle helmets while the Clerics simply wear LongCoats, with a flag consisting of four Ts, as a reference to the Tetragrammaton government (Tetrarammaton being a phrase referring to four letters and the name of god).

* In the 2010 ''Rajnikanth'' starrer ''[[Film/{{Robot}} Endhiran]]'', when the robot Rajnikanth becomes evil after being reprogrammed by Dr. Bohra, he starts wearing trenchcoats, like the ''StateSec'', and has an army of robots who too dress up like Schutzstaffel officers.

* [[AIIsACrapshoot David 8's]] dull grey uniforms and skull-like features (topped off with peroxide-blond hair) evoke this in ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. (Likewise [[spoiler:his 'sister',]] Meredith Vickers.)

*** In Film/RogueOne and ''Solo'' the Nazi comparisons are heightened, as now Imperial officers wear German-style greatcoats, and their immigration officers wear early SS-style brown shirts and black caps and skirts.

** By ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', the remnants of the Empire (since christened the First Order) take this '''further''', down to the Riefenstahl imagery (''example pictured''). Tellingly, they take more after the infamous [[StateSec SS]] in their uniforms than the Prussian influences in the original trilogy, with Abrams even directly comparing them to [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand Nazis who fled to South America after the war]].

* The Media Police in 1990 cyberpunk obscurity ''Film/Megaville'' wear what seems to be a variety of German military surplus in an attempt to evoke this.