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11->'''Major Eaton:''' I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this.\
12'''Brody:''' Oh, yes. The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the Ark before it... is invincible.
13-->-- ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''
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15Pretty much everyone agrees that the Nazis were very, '''very''' bad. So, how do you make them even more intimidating? Why, by giving them BlackMagic and EldritchAbomination allies (or have them [[SummoningRitual summon some]], with [[EvilIsNotAToy various results]]), of course!
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17This is actually more plausible than it sounds. The Swastika is one of the [[UsefulNotes/NonNaziSwastika oldest symbols]] in many religions, including Hinduism, and also became significant in some occult groups. Nazism's roots are arguably traceable to an occult group called the Thule Society. A primary focus of the Thule Society was a claim concerning the origins of the Aryan race, as the descendants of {{Atlantis}} (sometimes called Thule), depending on which rumour you listen to. A lot of the senior Nazis, most notoriously SS head UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler, were intensely interested in the occult. Himmler followed a religion called Armanenschaft which was, according to its believers, the original religion of the ancient Aryans, which later evolved into Myth/NorseMythology and Hinduism.
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19Culturally, the country was also hip-deep in Teutonic tradition. Some senior Nazis apparently wanted to gradually abolish the Jewish-originated Christianity in favour of bringing back Germanic/Norse paganism, while others just wanted the state to absorb all the qualities of a religion instead, while another faction endorsed so-called "Positive Christianity", an attempt to create a national church that removed "Jewish" elements from Christianity, including the entirety of the Old Testament. In the present day, there exist factions in the neo-Nazi movement who also endorse a pagan revival, sometimes mixing [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche]] in their rhetoric: Christianity was a fraud of "[[DumbIsGood Slave Morality]]" that had resulted in the degeneration of the "[[ProudWarriorRace racial traditions]]" and "[[TheSocialDarwinist master morals]]" of the Aryan race, and had been foisted upon Europe by the Jews.
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21UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself was pretty skeptical of the occult and notions of mystical powers, and restricted secret societies out of fear that they would threaten the power of the Nazi Party, but nevertheless tried to get his hands on TheSpearOfDestiny mostly for propaganda value. Hitler's own religious beliefs are a matter of intense debate, not least because of contradictions in his own writings, not helped by [[HitlerAteSugar how both sides of the debate tried to portray Hitler]] as either an atheist (when in fact, he absolutely hated them and ordered for them to be killed) or a religious fanatic (when he privately disparaged both Christianity and Himmler's paganism). The consensus is that Hitler never really cared about participating in any religious activity, but still believed in and spoke of [=God/Providence/Fate/Nature=] in a [[UsefulNotes/{{Pantheism}} pantheistic manner]].
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23One other benefit to including magic Nazis in your story is that within your fantastical world, the true horrors of the Third Reich can "keep up" with your everyday fantastical horrors, rather than being overshadowed. The downside is that it can be a bit, well, [[ThoseWackyNazis silly,]] which can diminish the impact of the factual events; indeed, the Nazis are a common source of EvenEvilHasStandards from more fantastic evils.
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25Alternatively, you can give the Nazis technology ahead of their time, resulting in StupidJetpackHitler. Or leave that to SovietSuperscience, making the Eastern Front the front line of MagicVersusScience.
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27May also overlap with {{Nazisploitation}}, TheKlan and NinjaPirateZombieRobot. SubTrope of WeirdHistoricalWar. SuperTrope to NaziZombies.
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35* One of the movies in the ''Urotsukidoji''/''Legend of the Overfiend'' {{Hentai}} anime series has our hero squaring off against a mad scientist whose father was deeply involved in trying to bring occult science to the Nazis. In one scene, Hitler himself is seen upbraiding the father for his failure to produce immediate results.
36* A zombified Hitler and his army appears in the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZFusionReborn Fusion Reborn]]''. Not mentioned by name, but it couldn't be more obvious who they are.
37* In the backstory of ''Literature/FateApocrypha'', Nazi Germany intervenes in the third Holy Grail War after Darnic informs them about the existence of the Holy Grail and convinces them to try and acquire it with his help. Wehrmacht commits a full scale invasion of Fuyuki city and defeats The Three Families as well as the Imperial Army that tries to stop them. After the war ends inconclusively, Darnic stabs the Germans in the back and steals the Greater Grail for himself.
38* ''Anime/FirstSquad'' a joint Russo-Japanese [[{{Animesque}} anime-style]] movie about the Eastern Front, features the knights of [[UsefulNotes/TheTeutonicKnights the Teutonic Order]], as lovingly resurrected by the SS. They're opposed by a Soviet equivalent, military intelligence Division 6.
39* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'' had the Thule Society using TheSpearOfDestiny to open a portal to the Fullmetal universe to retrieve weapons for the Nazis. Notable in how one character ends up helping the Thule Society...
40* The ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}: Ultimate'' {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs and the original ''Hellsing'' manga features one of the most terrifying examples of this trope, Millennium: which has vampire Nazis en masse, as well as the more specialized Nazi werewolf, a [[ImprobableAimingSkills magical flintlock]] [[TheGunslinger sharpshooter]], a MadScientist/[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doktor]], a [[SinisterScythe scythe-wielding]] [[MasterOfIllusion mesmerist]], and a quantum catboy fighter. For extra points, they ''also'' get [[StupidJetpackHitler advanced technology and weaponry]] in the form of advanced attack zeppelins armed with V-1 bombs and V-2 rockets, heavy weapons and armor, and microchips which can be used to monitor the location and progress of their troops from afar, and remotely incinerate them with blue fire when they've [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness served their purpose]].
41* Averted in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' - it's England who's obsessed with magic and the occult, not Nazi Germany.
42* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency:'' Nazis resurrect four ancient super-vampires who become the main bad guys for the arc. Played with, however, in that the Nazis pretty much immediately decided the Pillar Men were way too powerful and dangerous to be controlled, and when the Pillar Men inevitably break out, the Nazis have been working for some time on how to ''kill'' them permanently, rather than foolishly try to put a leash on such monsters.
43* In ''Anime/{{K}}'', the superpower-granting Slates were discovered in a church in Dresden in that time, unlocked by Nazi scientists, and brought to Tokyo after the war by a Japanese soldier sent there to help using his knowledge of Japanese magic. Notable in that the teenaged head scientist working on it was ''horrified'' at the idea of his work being used for war, and seemed to have no idea what was actually going on in the world. And that he gets powers, becomes immortal, [[spoiler: and ends up being the main character seventy years later]].
44* The first season of ''Anime/KnightHunters'' has a pack of enemies called the SS whose leaders are obvious Nazi analogues. Their evil plot revolves around the occult powers of black magic and the main character's sister.
45* Mentioned in the background of ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear AXZ''. During the war, Nazi Germany began extensively working to acquire the {{Magitek}} relics that have been commonplace throughout the setting. They would exchange some of these relics with their Japanese allies, which ended up being the reason why Gungnir and Ichaival (Hibiki and Chris's relics, both of which originate from Myth/NorseMythology) along with the Nehustan Armor ended up in Japan in the present day. After the war's end, the [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Nazis who fled to South America]] wound up taking several of their relics with them to avoid them falling into Allied hands, among which includes Tiki, the personal homunculus of the season's BigBad Adam Weishaupt.
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49* In a ''Comicbook/TwoThousandAD'' issue imagining what the book would be like if it had a ComicsMerger with ''Comicbook/BattleAction'', the latter's more conventional war stories have been given a fantastic overlay. ''Major Eazy'' is now about the title character teaming up with a British Museum archeologist to stop occult items falling into the hands of the Nazis, while ''Hellman of Hammer Force'' has been renamed ''Hellman of Hell Force'', and is about the Nazis ''invading Hell''.
50* ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'': During World War II, Nazis have worked alongside with Carpathian vampires to further their goals. This particular bloodline also shares their supremacist views and consider themselves superior to other vampire species, having [[ANaziByAnyOtherName committed their own genocide against their "inferiors" centuries before the Nazis' ascension]]. In addition, their Japanese counterparts also made experiments on the Pacific theater with a particularly virulent and dangerous vampire bloodline which they intended to deploy in the war.
51* In ''ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire'', the [[SupernaturalFiction supernatural elements]] and the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi-fighting elements]] of the series aren't ''always'' intertwined, they often are; the Nazis are after some sort of occult advantage, and need to be thwarted. The Thule Society is a prominent antagonist, and never seems to learn that EvilIsNotAToy.
52* The second volume of the ''Literature/{{Baltimore}}'' comic (set in an AlternateHistory version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI) has an [[NoNameGiven anonymous]] evil sorcerer heavily implied (and [[http://www.cbr.com/mignola-golden-reach-beginning-of-baltimores-end-in-cult-of-the-red-king/ confirmed]] by WordOfGod) to be a young Hitler. Most readers won't realize this at first because he has a different mustache and name. The mustache is a nice bit of [[ShownTheirWork historical accuracy]]; Hitler ''did'' have this style of mustache early in World War I. The German army made him trim it down to a toothbrush in order for his gas mask to fit and he liked it so much he wore it that way for the rest of his life.
53* ''ComicBook/CaballisticsInc'' 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 at its peak during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, as Q Department, Sonderkommando Thule was their biggest enemy. [[spoiler:[[TokenEvilTeammate Solomon Ravne]]]] is revealed to have been a former member.
54* ''Captain Gravity and the Power of Vrill'': The Nazis are [[spoiler:looking for {{Atlantis}}]]! It's actually pretty awesome.
55* In "Army of the Walking Dead" from ''Magazine/CreepyMagazine'' #35, a Nazi MadScientist uses then-current technology to create a bunch of zombies that obey only his verbal commands. This ends up biting him in the butt when he breaks his jaw during a plane crash.
56* ''ComicBook/DangerGirl'' has The Hammer, a terrorist group led by a Nazi war criminal, who collect magical artifacts in order to revive an ancient {{Atlant|is}}ean "Aryan superman". Of course, when said being actually appears, he kills most of them.
57* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
58** The question of "Why didn't ComicBook/{{Superman}} [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=35%3Apropaganda-index&id=841%3Asuperman-on-top-of-the-world&option=com_content&Itemid=24 kick Hitler's ass?"]] was {{retcon}}ned by [[HandWave explaining that]] Hitler had used [[PublicDomainArtifact the Spear of Destiny]] to brainwash any American hero who entered Germany's borders (in some stories, this extends to the entire Eastern Hemisphere) and send them off to attack the US.
59** In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica and Hippolyta are rather unsettled that the magical protections of the Spear of Destiny seem to have been lowered around Nazi-controlled space. They discover that the protections were lowered temporarily in order to facilitate a magical experiment by Paula von Gunther that involved her reading from an Eldrich Tome in order to transform herself into a powerful monster.
60** ''ComicBook/WhomGodsDestroy'' is an {{Elseworld}}s story featuring ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/WonderWoman showing an alternate universe where the Third Reich won the war and is backed by the Greek pantheon, having mythological monsters at their disposal.
61* Part of the premise of ''ComicBook/DeathDefyingDoctorMirage'' is that the US government had a secret program to recruit former Nazi occultists.
62* Even ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' has to get in on the action. One flashback issue told of Bigby Wolf as a commando in WWII, stopping the Nazis for creating an army of FrankensteinsMonster and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf]] soldiers. Which raises some serious questions about the quality of their {{Masquerade}}. Bigby comments once on his general apathy towards being discovered.
63-->'''Bigby:''' Even if they saw a man transforming into a wolf, I'm sure their first thought probably wouldn't be, "What, a collection of former storybook characters from our collective subconscious has set up a nation-in-exile in the heart of New York City to escape from a dimension-spanning evil empire!"
64* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'':
65** The titular demon was summoned to Earth by Nazi occultists, and the plans of the Third Reich regularly play upon the plot, in both the comic books and the films. President Truman personally sent the Comicbook/{{BPRD}} to Berlin in 1946 to catalog all the data pertaining to the Nazis' obsession with the occult - on account of American soldiers uncovering scores of… ''bizarre'' things since the city fell.
66** Hoo, ''Hellboy'': {{Jet Pack}}s, LegoGenetics, {{Hollywood Cyborg}}s, [[BrainInAJar living heads in jars]], the [[TheLanceOfLonginus Spear of Longinus]], and quality occult advice from ''UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk''; You name it, the Nazis had it. In the Mignola-verse, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII was simply the public face of the decades-long "Occult Wars" which began shortly after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and lasted until the Allies finally killed Hitler - ''in 1958.'' Only Mignola knows how [[AmericaSavesTheDay America Saved The Day]].
67** However, this is mostly in the movie continuity. In the comics the Nazis still had loads of occult stuff, but Hitler himself is portrayed more realistically, as an ordinary dictator who only funds this insanity because he's desperate to gain an advantage over the Allies and winds up dying the same way he did in RealLife anyway. In the first story arc, [[BigBad Rasputin]] refers to Hitler as a "small, doomed madman" who the former cooperated with simply to advance his own agenda.
68** In a crossover with ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'', it was discovered that the {{brain|InAJar}} used by Brainiape, a gorilla with a powerful [[PsychicPowers psychic brain]], was none other than Hitler's. When the brain leaped up and started walking, that's when the heroes called it...
69* The Irish indie comic ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfVolunteers'' has a group of Nazis summons an ancient Irish demon to serve them in issue 1. It doesn't go as planned.
70* The premise of ''[[http://www.davidbrin.com/lifeeaters.html The Life Eaters]]'' is that human sacrifice can summon ancient deities. The Nazis create their death camps and sacrifice millions of people to build an army of Nordic Gods. By the end of the series, every region on Earth has embraced the practice to summon their culture's ancient deities.
71* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
72** Hitler was [[YouClonedHitler cloned multiple times]] by a geneticist named Arnim Zola and repeatedly [[BodySurf transferred his mind from body to body]]. In most of these bodies, he calls himself the "Hate-Monger", wields a "hate ray" that can [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin manipulate people's emotions]], and wears a costume that looks something like a purple Klansman's robe. Creator/MarvelComics eventually tried to distance themselves from the Hate-Monger by having him [[SealedEvilInACan transfer his mind]] into a [[ArtifactOfDoom Cosmic Cube]] that didn't actually work. [[DeathIsCheap This being comics]], even Hitler couldn't stay dead forever, though... Marvel has also raised the question of whether this is "really Hitler" or "just a mental copy of Hitler", which somehow never comes up when it's someone else using Zola's process (such as Zola himself).
73** In ''ComicBook/TheInvaders'' #32-33, a Nazi scientist manages to summon [[Myth/NorseMythology the norse god Donar]] from another world, much to the [[Music/RichardWagner Wagner]]-loving Hitler's joy, and is soon swayed into the Nazi cause under a filmsy Aryan descendance pretext and used to kill UsefulNotes/JosefStalin.[[note]]Another Donar appears in the very first ''Invaders'' issues, but it's just an alien masquerading as the deity; the real one is summoned with the power of anachronistic television.[[/note]] Since AllMythsAreTrue in the ''Marvel'' universe, "Donar" is none other than ComicBook/TheMightyThor.[[note]]Thor abandons the Nazis once he learns about Hitler's genocidal ambition thanks to an early Dr. Doom cameo, and technically doesn't ''kill'' Stalin, just accidentally give superpowers to another superhero disguised as him. Everything MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.[[/note]]
74** On one occasion, [[NaziNobleman Baron Von Strucker]] attempted to attack America with a submarine full of Nazi vampires. Unfortunately for them, the submarine sunk off the Louisiana coast, and they spent 70 years at the bottom of the sea. By the time that ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and [[ComicBook/XMen Jubilee]] found them, they were nothing but dust and hate.
75** The ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica: Hail HYDRA!'' miniseries does this, casting ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} as an ancient conspiracy who [[PiggybackingOnHitler piggyback on the Nazis' conquests]] to take advantage of their sweeping across Europe as well as Himmler's (and, to a lesser extent, Hitler's) historical interest in the occult to ransack Europe of occult goodies to [[spoiler:create their own god]] and which uses resurrected dead SS troopers as indestructible immortal {{mooks}}.
76* Played with in ''ComicBook/RexMundi'': the story is set in an AlternateHistory where the French Revolution failed, leading to a 1930s where the Nazis never came to power. However, thanks to the fact that magic exists in this reality, a secret history involving the Holy Grail and generous helpings of PuttingOnTheReich, the main villain and his followers essentially become this.
77* In ''ComicBook/TheSecretHistory'', the Nazis are secretly controlled by the immortal Fifth Archon, William de Lecce, who oversees most of their occult projects.
78* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' has Dr. Midwinter, a high-ranking Nazi officer who was tasked with finding supernatural artifacts during World War 2. He was able to find [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome amulet known as the Scarab of Atum-Ra]] in Egypt but lost it to the immortal priestess Pantha [[AnArmAndALeg who tore off his arm]] and escaped with the amulet. Midwinter's life was extended as a result of him touching the amulet and he spent the next 60 years chasing Pantha across the world to get it back from her. In the final issues of the run in which he appears in he [[IntercontinuityCrossover concocted a plan which required him to summon]] ComicBook/LadyDeath.
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82* ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'':
83** In "The Wax Museum" from the second collection, one of the disturbing exhibits [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny]] and Tucker find in the titular museum tells the story of how Adolf Hitler tried to create an army of ghosts by harvesting the souls of captured Russian civilians.
84** "Robot Connie vs the Moon Nazis" mostly uses the StupidJetpackHitler variety of fictional Nazis, but just before the end we're told that Himmler is Hitler's Chief Warlock. E350 decides that the idea's a bit too much for him and pulls the plug on the story afterwards.
85* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': It's strongly suggested that the Nazis were Grindelwald's followers in the muggle world, with the Holocaust actually being a {{blood magic}} ritual to give him power.
86* ''Fanfic/SixesAndSevens'' has HYDRA as this, naturally, though at the start all that Michael and Emily have to go off of are rumours that they've heard about them "conducting Doctor Frankenstein-like experiments in gloomy châteaux across the Loire". They take them more seriously after encountering an agent who can assume a Hulk-like form and another who's an actual werewolf, and a later mission has them deal with a vampire related to the comics villain Baron Blood.
87* ''Fanfic/{{Vainglorious}}'': On Earth Gimel the Nazis successfully summoned [[spoiler:Thor]] who, drunk on their human sacrifices, bought into their sob story about the rest of the world picking on poor little Germany. They rode his coattails to near victory over the Allies until [[spoiler:the Thinker and Warrior obliterated that iteration of Earth due to Thor disrupting the experiment]].
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91* In ''Film/Amsterdam2022'', [[spoiler:Libby]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG8pHVaW3qU offhandedly mentions]] that she is a member of an all-female Vril society comprised of mediums, and that she and her "sisters" use their long hair to contact "the greater race" from another galaxy. This is a reference to a real-world UrbanLegend that such a society (comprised of the mediums Maria Orsic, Traute, Sigrun, Gudrun, and Heike) allegedly existed in pre-Nazi Germany, and [[TheManBehindTheMan was the driving force behind the rise of Hitler]]. This hints to the fact that [[spoiler:Libby and her husband are in cahoots with the Committee of Five]].
92* ''Film/BulletproofMonk's'' main villains are a bunch of Nazis trying to gain immortality through ancient magic.
93* This is how the HYDRA rises to power in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Originally just a sort of black ops division for the Nazi forces, when they find the Tesseract (a.k.a. Cosmic Cube) in Norway things take a drastic turn as they develop [[StupidJetpackHitler hyper-advanced weapons systems]] like [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] that can instantly vaporize their targets or all the {{Cool Plane}}s that the Nazis designed but never managed to build.
94* In ''Film/TheCrimsonRivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse'', there are some French (Neo-)Nazi monks trying to find a medieval artifact to help them build a new, pure France.
95* The Norwegian movie ''Film/DeadSnow'' contains Zombie Nazis. ''Film/DeadSnow'' seems to be a SpiritualSuccessor to the 1977 film ''Film/ShockWaves''. 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).
96* The 1980 film ''Film/DeathShip'' was about a Nazi prison ship that continued to sail the seas for decades after World War II, controlled by the angry spirits of its crew.
97* ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned'': We're shown a framed photograph in Mephistopheles' office where he's seen shaking hands with Adolf Hitler just in case the viewer might still be confused that he's supposed to be evil.
98* The Swedish film ''Film/{{Frostbite}}'' has a Nazi vampire who intends to create a master race of vampires.
99* One of the years listed in Shandor's temple in ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' is 1945 alongside the dates of the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' movies and TheTunguskaEvent, implying [[spoiler: Gozer]] caused World War [=II=].
100* For anyone who's seen ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', five words: ''Werewolf Women Of The SS''.
101* And of course, [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie adaptation of]] ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}.'' See above. There's also Kroenen, previously a Nazi assassin and now the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead servant of Rasputin]]--it's unclear whether he's still sentient enough to have party loyalties.
102-->'''Professor Broom:''' 1958, the Occult Wars finally come to an end with the death of Adolf Hitler.\
103'''John Myers:''' 1945, you mean.\
104''(Broom pauses to stare at him.)''\
105'''John Myers:''' Hitler died in 1945.\
106'''Professor Broom:''' ''(chuckles)'' Did he, now?
107* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' of course. Not one, but three of the movies and the cinematic [[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis adventure game]] feature Nazis trying to recover an ancient artifact that will grant them untold magical power, including [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk The Ark of the Covenant]], [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade the Holy Grail]], [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny Archimedes' dial]] and other stuff. One of the comic books features Indy searching for TheSpearOfDestiny 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.
108* In ''Film/KingOfTheZombies'', Dr. Sangre is a Nazi operative who is using a combination of hypnosis and voodoo magic to extract secrets from a captured American admiral.
109* Unusual for a Creator/{{Disney}} MadeForTVMovie, the 1997 film of ''Film/TheLoveBug'' made this an impotant part of Herbie's backstory for the reason he's a SentientVehicle: turns out that a kindly German scientist had theorized a way to make vehicles alive and he had been forced to try to realize this theory (and then mass-produce said vehicles for the regime). Turned out that the procedure required a ''serious'' amount of ThePowerOfLove and thus the scientist was content that it was impossible to replicate... until he was forced to make Herbie's KnightOfCerebus EvilCounterpart Horace, that is.
110* Parodied in ''Film/NightTrainToMunich:'' John Fredericks: Occultist and Ophthalmic Surgeon.
111* This may fall partially under tech rather than magic, but ''Film/{{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.]]
112* ''Film/Overlord2018'' features a band of heroes raiding a supposedly mundane Nazi communications facility, only to discover that it's actually a [[MadScientistLaboratory laboratory]] dedicated to the creation of indestructible soldiers via the "unbelievable power" that they discovered in naturally occurring tar beneath French soil.
113* In ''Film/ReignOfTheGargoyles'', the Nazis make a pact with [[OurGargoylesRock stone-winged killers]].
114* ''Film/SkySharks'' has zombie Nazis riding flying sharks. Seriously.
115* The main antagonists of ''Film/P51DragonFighter'' are a Nazi unit who have awakened ancient dragons.
116* Parodied in ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'', Deacon was apparently a member of a 'secret Nazi vampire army'.
117* In ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', Victor Stone mentions that the Nazis found the Mother Box that would later turn him into Cyborg, but they were stopped by the Allies before they could find out about its {{Magitek}} properties.
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121* The Literature/AndrewDoran series is about how the Nazis have started utilizing the power of Cthulhu Mythos in order to TakeOverTheWorld. Andrew Doran, AdventurerArchaeologist, is the only person capable of stopping them. There's multiple groups working for the Nazis harnessing the occult and they're often competing against one another.
122* ''Literature/Area51'': The Nazis were aided/manipulated by secret aliens on Earth, pursuing ancient mythical artifacts that turn out to be lost alien technology, and were motivated with a belief in Thule, which is essentially a Germanic Atlantis per their view. Additionally the real Thule Society (an early occult group that some leading Nazis were members of) is described as the force behind the Nazi Party driving this. The occult beliefs that some Nazis like Himmler held are highlighted.
123* Creator/CharlesStross's ''Literature/TheAtrocityArchive'' portrays the Holocaust as a gigantic necromantic experiment, ''Operation Jotunheim'', to summon an [[EldritchAbomination Infovore]], a being of near-infinite cold that feeds on energy and information; the titular archives store the particular artifacts that the public should never find out about. [[spoiler:It also features an AlternateUniverse where the Nazis ''succeeded'' in their goal; unfortunately for them, they weren't in control of it and didn't realize what they'd unleashed until it was much, ''much'' too late. As a result, that universe is nearing its [[ApocalypseHow entropic heat death]] in the present days, and the laws of physics themselves were being distorted.]] A particularly nasty bit involves the description of Nazi necromantic practices, or as Stross dubs it, Algemancy - divination through pain. (There's also some crossover with StupidJetpackHitler since "magic" in the Laundryverse is really just [[FormulaicMagic applied higher mathematics]] crossed with computer science with a little quantum physics for seasoning.)
124* A subtle example in Normal Mailer's last novel ''Literature/TheCastleInTheForest'', a fictional account of Hitler's childhood. Nothing overtly supernatural happens, except for the fact that a demon named Dieter is assigned to oversee the development of young Adolf, as a sort of reverse guardian angel. The narrative is actually presented as his personal recollection. Toward the end Dieter is relieved of his responsibilities, and he mentions rumors of them eventually being taken over by Satan himself.
125* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Constantines-Crossing-Dejan-Stojiljkovic/dp/1613430507 Constantine’s Crossing]]'' by Dejan Stojiljković is a [=WW2=] horror novel about the Spear of Destiny being hidden in Emperor Constanine's hometown in southern Serbia, SS Annenerbe major and Serbian Chetnik major searching for it and about [[spoiler: werewolves]].
126* Inverted in Creator/GrahamMasterton's horror novel ''The Devils of D-Day'', in which it's the '''Allies''' who turn out to have [[DirtyBusiness used demonic help]] in the war.
127* ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' series:
128** ''Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch'', set in 1933, has a nod to this, as one of Charles Beauregard's agents in Europe sends a report about Chancellor Hitler reviving the Thule Society. That's only a colorful background detail, though, as the main plot involves another threat entirely.
129** ''Literature/SevenStars'': In the chapter "The Trouble With Barrymore", set in 1942 Hollywood, the villain is said to be "in close with Hitler's crackpot mages", but he's currently engaged in his own project and no actual Nazis appear. [[spoiler:Unless you count the group that show up near the end of the story -- but they're just actors on their way to film a scene in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'']].
130** ''Literature/TheEndOfThePierShow'' holds an [[GoneHorriblyWrong accidental]] example: the RealityWarper spell used by a veterans' club to turn a town back to the way it was during World War Two (out of a rose-colored reminiscing of the wartime era) manufactures NaziZombies as a side-effect. Richard Jeperson explains it as "you can't bring back the 'good old days' without bringing back what was bad about them".
131* In ''Literature/TheDireSaga'', Sparky and Roy reminisce about having to battle the Thule Society during World War II. It's why they're familiar with The Final Janissary and vampirism.
132* In ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'', it's said that Hitler was extremely interested in raising an elite commando of werewolves, and had his warlocks invent a collar - called the SS Wehrwolf curse - that would force them to fight for him. He would've succeeded, too, if it wasn't for Stalin of all people hiring a witch to dismantle the Wehrwolf, but the secret of its creation is, unfortunately, not lost to time.
133* In ''The Dragon in the Sword'' by Creator/MichaelMoorcock, the protagonists, while looking for the Holy Grail, meet Hitler, Goering and Goebbels conducting a pagan summoning ceremony. They manage, without really trying, to change the course of the war by giving the trio a "sign" that they should invade Russia before inventing the atomic bomb.
134* In ''The Dreamthief's Daughter'' by Creator/MichaelMoorcock, the Nazis want the protagonist's family sword because they believe [[spoiler:correctly]] that it is a mystic artifact of cosmic significance. The climax of the book features Hitler and his chief stooges, er, conducting a pagan summoning ceremony, where they get the bejeezus scared out of them by Elric of Melnibone. Elric and the protagonist then lead an army of dragons to save Britain from the Luftwaffe.
135%%* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Dark Wizard Kemmler, who came back from the dead 6-7 times, and started UsefulNotes/WW1 and UsefulNotes/WW2 just for enough corpses to work with.
136* The novel/ comic book series ''Fiends of the Western Front'' has Hitler cut a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Dracula]]; the vamps help Germany win the war, and they get all the commies, wounded, and POW's they can eat.
137* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, a dark wizard named [[PredecessorVillain Grindelwald]] was causing chaos on the continent before being defeated in 1945; in the final book we find out that he practiced FantasticRacism and had a prison with the Nazi-ish name Nurmengard. WordOfGod has confirmed that this represents the Wizarding version of World War II, and since we know that the British Prime Minister knows about magic it's not inconceivable that the leader of Germany might too...
138* In ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}!'', the Holocaust is part of a ritual whose purpose is to cause Hitler and his immediate circle to ascend to {{Physical God}}hood. Hitler also faked his death at the end of WWII, and lives in Israel. [[MindScrew Probably]].
139** As part of the same plan, the heroes have to stop a squadron of zombie SS commandos from attacking a Woodstock-like music festival in Germany, which is part of the Illuminati's plan to trigger World War Three.
140* ''Literature/LammasNight'', by Creator/KatherineKurtz. The book's primary focus is on Britain's heroic Wiccans (and other occultists) and their [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic]] HumanSacrifice that shuts down Operation Sealion, but Hitler is portrayed as a scarily powerful Adept.
141* Andrey Lazarchuk and Mikhail Uspensky's cryptohistorical novel ''Look into the Monsters' Eyes'' has Nazis and their occult preoccupation as one of its main subplots, with Annenerbe Institute headed, essentially, by [[spoiler: [[HollywoodVoodoo Baron Samedi]]]].
142* In the backstory of the ''Literature/MerryGentry'' series, the Nazis attempted to make alliances with the Sidhe, which worked right up until the Sidhe found out that the Nazis intended to exterminate the less humanoid fae. The Nazis became a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome object lesson]] in why one doesn't cross TheFairFolk.
143* An early novel by horror author Creator/RobertRMcCammon, ''Literature/TheNightBoat'', features a U-boat full of very angry, very hungry Nazi zombies created by HollywoodVoodoo.
144* In the later part of Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'' it is said that most of the early 20th century projects is failed attempts by the Day Watch, the Night Watch [[spoiler: or in some cases both of them together to make the world better for them. It might be of note that both sides thought Sovjet communism was a good idea. A major plot point is the part played by a Dark Witch in one of this and her remorse that make her turn]].
145* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', all wars are fought parallel to secret wars between rival demigods, and the human wars are often lead by demigods. There are strong hints that Hitler was a demigod son of Hades - children of Hades are supposed to be charismatic and power-hungry, their fatal flaw is holding a grudge, and Hades mentioned that around the time Nico and Bianca were born, some of his other children were leading the losing side of a war (Nico and Bianca were born during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but are younger than the protagonist because they spent decades trapped in the Lotus Hotel).
146** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' SequelSeries strongly implies Hitler is a son of Hades' Roman counterpart, Pluto who's said to look otherwise identical to Hitler apart from not having a moustache.
147* In the ''Literature/PresidentsVampire'' series, it's revealed that the Nazis hired [[MadDoctor Johann Konrad]] so that he'd create undead soldiers, ''Unmanschensoldaten'', for them, and that he used the Holocaust to get "parts" for his experiments. They also wanted him to create magically-boosted viruses to wipe out the British, but Konrad didn't agree to this, reasoning that [[PragmaticVillainy viruses can easily turn against their creators.]]
148* Part of the BackStory of the ''Literature/RiversOfLondon''-[[TheVerse verse]] is that this was very prominent in WWII. To the point that almost all of the allied magical forces were wiped out stopping them. Many of the things they did are still regarded as too horrific to mention although we know that they tried [[spoiler: unsuccessfully to weaponise vampires and, successfully, to create anti-personnel devices [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by tormented spirits]]]]
149* In the Kaiju Deconstruction novel that is ''Literature/ShamblingTowardsHiroshima'', it is mentioned that the Nazis also were trying to breed giant fire-breathing reptiles, but thankfully they were unable to do so.
150* ''Literature/TheSpear'' by Creator/JamesHerbert is an espionage Thriller about an ex-Mossad agent (though he's neither Israeli nor Jewish) turned Security Consultant who, while investigating the murder of another Mossad agent, uncovers a Neo-Nazi cult who believed Himmler was the real brains behind the Nazis, and are attempting to bring him back to life using TheLanceOfLonginus. It plays it pretty straight throughout. [[spoiler: That is, until the very end, where it's reveled they weren't crazy after all and he has to fight Himmlers re-animated corpse.]]
151** It should probably also be noted that he was sued by another writer named Trevor Ravenscroft, claiming he had stolen elements from his earlier novel Spear Of Destiny. Except Ravenscroft's novel was non-fiction.
152* The Book ''The Spear of Destiny'' and other works mention an occult secret society named "The Green Dragon Society" located in imperial japan and supporting the Nazi Occultists.
153* The AlternateHistory novel ''SS-GB'' {{subvert|edTrope}}s this when the German officer tells the hero that he had to present atomic bomb research as something occult to get high ranking Nazis to fund it. Only by presenting it as Germany's destiny written in the stars does Himmler agree to it. Note that there is no real occult magic or outlandish technology in this novel; everything is extremely plausible.
154* British writer Creator/DennisWheatley used the Ghostapo trope in at least one of his novels: First, in ''Strange Conflict'', in which the Nazis used the services of a Haitian Witch Doctor to get the routes for Allied convoys from the minds of the people who knew about them. The Duke de Richleau and his companions put a stop to it.
155* Creator/BarbaraHambly's ''Sun Cross'' series has two magicians in a medievalish time setting respond to a call for help from beyond the Void from a world without magic. They travel through the Void to help those mages...and land in the Third Reich. Luckily the hero is pretty smart and quickly realizes they're the bad guys.
156* Creator/DavidBrin's really rather dark AlternateHistory short story ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20120712170314/http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.htm Thor Meets Captain America]]'', later adapted into comic form as ''The Life-Eaters'', has the Nazis murder almost 17 million people as part of a gigantic Necromantic ritual intended to bring the Norse Gods to life, fighting on the side of Hitler. And it works. [[WordOfGod The author has said]] this was an attempt to make Holocaust have some actual sense for the Nazis and to create a scenario for a "Nazis Win" AlternateHistory anthology (Brin simply didn't believe that outcome was possible without [[AlienSpaceBats some bizarre twist]] to overcome the Allies' economic and logistical advantages).
157* Creator/ManlyWadeWellman's darkly funny short story "The Devil Is Not Mocked", as the title suggests, goes the EvilIsNotAToy route with this trope. In the very first paragraph, the Wehrmacht VillainProtagonist is contemplating Heinrich Himmler holding "some sort of garbled druidic ritual with his Schutzstaffel on the Brockenburg." However, when something genuinely supernatural happens ([[spoiler: namely, {{Dracula}} shows up]]), the Germans are [[OutsideContextProblem completely unprepared to deal with it]] and [[AssholeVictim it doesn't go very well for them]].
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161* The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E13WhyWeFight Why We Fight]]" had a flashback to the 1940s, where it is revealed that the Nazis have been experimenting with the creation of a vampire army.
162* ''Series/TheBurningZone'': “Midnight of the Carrier”: Neo-Nazis plan to use special lenses that can see energy signatures as a weapon.
163* ''Series/Danger5'' completely embraces the camp potential of this trope, particularly in the episode "Fresh Meat for Hitler's Sex Kitchen", in which Hitler uses {{blood magic}} to magically turn his opponents into evil blonds. The plan is foiled when his blood sample is tainted by "impure" Swiss blood. And [[LittleKnownFacts as everyone knows]], Swiss blood is [[YodelLand made of money]].
164* One of the historical vignettes in episode 3 of ''Series/GoodOmens2019'' shows a small group of Nazis trying to gather any occult artifacts that might help win the war, including Agnes Nutter's book of prophecies.
165-->'''Aziraphale:''' I'm afraid that's the Holy Grail of prophetic books.\
166'''Mr. Glozier:''' The Fuhrer also wants the Holy Grail. And the Spear of Destiny, if you should run across them.
167* In the ''Series/KamenRider'' series, particularly in the Showa era, SHOCKER was founded by Nazis who had survived World War II and, in addition to having [[StupidJetpackHitler kaijin-creating super science]], also dabbled in mysticism and other areas of the supernatural. Among its top executives is a Nazi SS officer named Colonel Zol who could transform into a werewolf.
168* In ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' season 1 episode "The Deadly Games Affair", a former SS scientist is attempting to reanimate Hitler (whose name is not directly mentioned in the episode).
169* The ''Series/Sanctuary2007'' episode aptly titled "Normandy" has Helen, Watson, Griffen and Tesla (from the war office in England) going against Hitler's own abnormal hunting group, seeming helped by Druitt, who were going to use a Fire Elemental to stop the D-Day Invasion. Watson points out the irony of Hitler going after the imperfect creatures to help in his quest for a perfect world.
170* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
171** In the subtly-titled episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS08E13EveryoneHatesHitler Everybody Hates Hitler]]", Sam and Dean help a young Jewish man and his inherited golem fight the undead Nazi necromancers of the Thule Society. During the war, the necromancers used Holocaust victims to test the efficacy and limits of their {{Resurrective|Immortality}} ImmortalityInducer.
172** They return [[Recap/SupernaturalS12E05TheOneYouveBeenWaitingFor a few seasons later]], now intent on resurrecting Hitler, using a pocket watch [[SoulJar containing his soul]] and the blood of one of his [[SecretLegacy unknowing descendants]]. [[spoiler: They succeed... and the [[AdolfHitlarious cartoonishly crazy]] Hitler gets re-killed by Dean shortly after.]]
173* ''Series/TokkyuuShireiSolbrain'' has an actual ghost of a female SS officer, known simply as the "Woman of Riga", who also committed large-scale atrocities during the second World War in Nazi-occupied Latvia. Many people have lost their lives over it and they swore a curse upon her as they died. The officer is said to have died with Hitler in an underground bunker when Berlin fell, her spirit resides inside a portrait which was last located in a church in Riga. Her spirit influenced young women to tragically [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] with some having grandfathers who were allies with Hitler. The spirit also possesses Ako Gunji and would battle Solbrain. At the end, they would then destroy the spirit and her portrait, putting an end of her reign of terror for good.
174* ''Series/{{Witchblade}}'': The most recent destined wielder of the Witchblade before Sara Pezzini was an American spy in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII who became an SS officer's mistress to acquire intelligence, and was given the Witchblade in bracelet form as a gift (the Nazis had presumably pilfered it from the Catholic church, which is known to have acquired it at UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc's execution). In season two, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is cited by Kenneth Irons as a past wielder of TheLanceOfLonginus.
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178* Music/Current93's "Hitler as Kalki" includes referrences Miguel Serrano's ideas.
179* In RealLife "Ghost Division" was the nickname for the German Wehrmacht's 7th Panzer Division of WWII - thanks to their LightningBruiser tactics, even the German High Command had difficulties knowing their exact location. In the {{Music/Sabaton}} song ''Ghost Division'' the title division consists of both living and undead soldiers, and is [[EmotionEater fueled by the fear of their enemies]]
180** However, Sabaton also attributes supernatural qualities to a Soviet bomb squadron, the ''Night Witches''.
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184* [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3458846/ This]] archived Website/FourChan thread. It actually features the phrase "Australian witch doctor special forces".
185* The CreepyPasta ''Cry of the Revenant'' is about a squad of American GI's (plus one SS defector) fighting an ancient, undead aryan (the godlike people who settled in what is now germany in nazi mythology) warrior who was mighty pissed off about being ressurrected by nazi wizards.
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189* Given the way it blends real world occult history and {{cosmic horror|Story}}, this trope's inclusion in the ''Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse'' was inevitable. Nazi occultists play a prominent role in the {{Backstory}}, as the current incarnation of the British paranormal defense agency known as "[[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction The Department of Works]]" was created to fight them (though they have antecedents going back at least to the 1600s). RealLife Thule society member and pre-Hitler national socialist Rudolf von Sebbotendorf briefly turns up in the adaptation of ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard'' as [[spoiler:a candidate for a previous host of the spirit of the ancient Mesopotamian sorcerer Ipku-Aya]].
190* The original, short-lived World War II-set version of the ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'' involved Nazi zombies, Ninja Nazis, and a Nazi oil slick as the primary villain. Of course, this was nothing compared to what the ''heroes'' had.
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194* This is the premise of ''TabletopGame/{{AEWWII}}'', with the twist that the Allies have their own equivalents - the British have druids and wizards, while the Americans have drafted Native American shamans and even skinwalkers.
195* In the sixth edition ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}} Universe'' source book, it were the mystic energies released by a backfiring ritual attempted by Nazi mystics that ushered in the age of modern superhumans on May 1st, 1938. While 'costumed adventurers', including ones with the occasional odd talent or unusual technology, had been a part of the setting for decades previous, it was only afterward that the first people across the world started to spontaneously develop genuine ''superpowers''.
196* Contested Ground Studios ''TabletopGame/ColdCity'' is set in Berlin in 1950, after the Second World War went weird. [[StupidJetpackHitler Twisted technology]] and occult research have made Lovecraftian and other horrors real, so the U-bahn tunnels being full of failed [[SuperSoldier super-soldier]] experiments, [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombies]] and [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] can be the least of your worries. Given that the party can consist of any combination of American, British, German, French and Russian personnel, that list of worries includes ''each other''.
197* In the setting of ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', the trope is taken to its logical (?) extreme. One of the Hell on Earth rulebooks explains (from the future perspective) that the Nazis used their own brand of [[MadScientist Mad Science]], [[spoiler: creating devices powered, among other things, by souls of war prisoners.]] Furthermore, [[spoiler: Hitler actually intends to raise the Fear Level all over Europe to such levels that he can bring [[BigBad the Reckoners]] to Earth. And then control them.]]
198* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' features the Karotechia, the bare remnants of Hitler's occult program hiding out in South America. They have a perfect example of the Ubermensch (thanks to his discovery of a cannibal tribe's immortality rituals) and Hitler's third book, ''Mein Triumph'' -- dictated by the spirit of an "ascended" Hitler himself ([[spoiler:who's actually just Nyarlathotep being a dick as usual]]). Actions against Nazi occultism in World War II played a significant role in the eventual state of Delta Green.
199* ''TabletopGame/EatTheReich'': The player characters are a team of vampires dropped into occupied Paris to assassinate Hitler. Their most significant opponents are a series of unique Übermenschen created by magic and MadScience.
200* Defied in ''TabletopGame/WorldWarCthulhu'',While the investigators may encounter the occasional ex-Ahnenerbe SS officer who has uncovered some pre-human tomb, his activities are unsanctioned and as aberrant as those of any other dabbler in the Mythos. There were no magical sacrifices in the concentration camps; the Nazis did not use magic or the Mythos. Keepers are instructed to avoid overusing Nazi exploitation of the Mythos, for it changes the game into an alternate-history weird war, and turns the Mythos into something rational, predictable, diminishing the horror.
201* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'':
202** In the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Infinite Worlds'' setting, "SS Raven Division" are amongst the major villains, using psychic/mystic world-jumping to infiltrate other worlds. They hail from Reich-5, one of a handful of [[Main/AlternateUniverse alternate timelines]] where the Nazis won the war.
203** ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Weird War II'', one of a series of supplements covering World War II as a setting. ''GURPS Weird War II'' discusses and goes into detail ''almost everything discussed under this trope,'' as well as how to use, mix, and blend them together to make a customized Weird Alternate UsefulNotes/WW2 for your role playing pleasure. The supplement is not related to the Savage Worlds/D20 setting below - they just borrowed the name, with permission. That's why there's an ad for the setting on the inside cover of the GURPS book - it was one of the requirements for permission.
204** In the [[FunctionalMagic magic-riddled]] [[{{Pulp|Magazine}} 1930s]] setting of ''TabletopGame/GURPSThaumatologyAgeOfGold'', the Nazis are a threat and a source of antagonists and evil plots — and they very much want to use and abuse magic. However, they aren't quite as formidable as they could be, because they tend to reject any and all ideas about magic which happen to have Jewish or "non-Aryan" origins. Still, Nazi archaeologists with supporting squads of stormtroopers are bad enough, and can be very dangerous if they locate the right artefacts.
205* In ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' 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.
206* ''The Nazi Occult'', by Creator/KennethHite, is {{Mockumentary}} containing every single Nazi Occult connection he could find, for use as a systemless sourcebook for weird [=WW2=] plots.
207* ''The Day After Ragnarok'' RPG setting, also by Creator/KennethHite, diverges from our history in 1945 when the Nazis manage to summon the Midgard Serpent in a desperate attempt to win the war.
208* In the ''TableTopGame/{{Nephilim}}'' RPG series, Thule Society still exists and is a prominent faction generally hostile to the eponymous Nephilim. The Society is a mix of real-life Thule Gesselschaft and Ahnenerbe with magicians and alchemists added for a good measure.
209* The TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness game ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' subverts this with the Loyalists of Thule, made up of the remnants of the aforementioned Thule Society. Not only were they driven out of Germany after the Nazi Party came to power, but they became so horrified by what happened thereafter that they swore to use their occult knowledge to protect mankind from other horrors.
210** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' has another subversion with the Dragolescu [[PrestigeClass bloodline]], a group of vampires capable of control over ghosts. Their founder was a... bit ''too'' enamored with Hitler, but never had any direct interaction with the guy -- if anything, he was a raving fanboy. When the Reich collapsed, he lost his mind and tried to find a way to harness the necromantic potential of the Holocaust, and that's when the rest of his order said, "Fuck that guy" and destroyed him. Since then, the Dragolescu name has a rather bad rep -- partially because of belief that they're beholden to strange spirits, and partially because of the Nazi thing.
211** Fan-made ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' has an interesting variant; while it follows the same idea than in both versions of the ''World of Darkness'' that no supernatural critter was behind the Third Reich itself, the game also introduces the concept of Manes and Bardos, which is that whenever an idea is discredited, the brute creative energy freed by its death results in the birth of an EldritchLocation and creatures who ''do'' follow that idea. As such, when the Nazi ideology was discredited, this immediately gave birth to an entire organization of Nazi mad scientists and sorcerers, but this group didn't actually existed until ''after'' the Third Reich's fall.
212* In ''TabletopGame/NightsBlackAgents'', Nazis are mentioned repeatedly in the setting-building chapter as a convenient option for where a given form of vampire came from.
213* Noticeably averted in the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''; after a few missteps in 1st Edition, White Wolf came to think that making World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust the master work of any one type of supernatural critter would undermine the utter inhumanity of it. So, if supernatural creatures were involved, they were just picking at the sides of the suffering or trying to stop it (Vampires need human "cattle" to survive, [[IWasJustPassingThrough so stopping them from being wiped out is in their best interests]]), and not the grand architects of genocide. This made it pretty much the only event in the [=WoD=]'s history that ''wasn't'' entirely due to some NPC's master plan.
214** If anything, the big problem was supernaturals deciding there might be something to this Hitler thing, only to later have to be purged out of their own ranks by members who knew better. This was a particular problem for the Get of Fenris, the Verbena, and the Progenitors.
215* ''Weird War II'' is the name of a setting for ''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'', originally created for the D20 rule set, about a world where the mass slaughter and evil of the war had awoken all manner of monsters, old and new. This meant that a player would not only face things like Nazi programs to create zombie or werewolf soldiers, but also haunted tanks and planes, apes with human brain transplants, djinn harassing the troops in Africa, onis fighting on behalf of the Japanese, and more.
216* The ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' companion has a setting where you can play as a scion involved in WWII. Hitler is a mortal, not even a scion, who was given Odin's spear by Loki as part of an attempt to use fatebinding to rewrite the Norse legends so that Ragnarok doesn't happen. It should be noted that the Aesir, including Hel and Loki, were horrified when they discovered the Holocaust and its extent. The book states that upon learning what one of her scions was up to, that Hel created a "special" place just for him.
217* A throwaway reference in the small-press [=RPG=] ''TabletopGame/ShatteredDreams'' inverts this trope, suggesting that Hitler's global agenda was foisted on him by the game's nightmare-haunting monsters, the Vacyg, who ''made'' a run-of-the-mill tinpot dictator into a bastard ForTheEvulz.
218* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' TabletopRPG supplement for the first season established that the Giza Stargate was used during WWII by Hitler, who, intrigued by its "occult possibilities", transported troops through it to literally "conquer Heaven", establishing an off-world Nazi colony that [[LostColony presumably persists to this day]].
219** RetCons in the movies' material have rendered this impossible, however, as it is established that the gate was captured and transported to the US before the war started.
220* The ''TableTopGame/{{Tannhauser}}'' board game has Obscura Korps, basically the SS with psionic / magical / demonic powers. The Reich itself, however, is in fact UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany, led by the Kaiser, and the war being fought is the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Great War]].
221* The ''TabletopGame/{{Witchcraft}}'' setting uses this trope where the Nazis tried to use Cosmic Horrors to win the War.
222* The backstory of ''TabletopGame/WitchGirlsAdventures'' had an openly magical World War II in which Witches and Otherkin sided with the Allies in order to stop a bid to free SealedEvilInACan Echidna by evil supernatural forces (including Vlad Dracula) allied with the Axis powers. Then powerful magic was used to erase all memory and record of this.
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226* Master-D in ''VideoGame/BionicCommando''/''Top Secret''.
227** The remake, ''VideoGame/BionicCommando Rearmed'', makes no attempt to hide "The Leader's" identity, but they still don't come right out and say "Nazi" or "Hitler". It makes the whole remade game, which is essentially a retconned prequel for the new, very serious and dark VideoGame/BionicCommando, very surreal. [[spoiler: And then you make [[YourHeadAsplode his head explode]].]]
228* The first ''VideoGame/{{Bloodrayne}}'' game is loaded with Nazi occultists, [[PunkPunk dieselpunk]] mecha, and [[TheBaroness leather-clad Aryan temptresses armed with sharp objects]]. Yes, there were [[StupidJetpackHitler jetpack-using Nazis]].
229* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies'' started out as this back in ''World at War'', where the undead were the result of genetic experiments from the Germans with Element 115 (with a light smattering of otherworldly possession and corruption on the side) with the trope coming into effect with the revelation of the zombies being controlled by a little German girl within the Aether. This would continue on until the last map of ''Black Ops II'', which instead casts the zombies as the minions of a group of extradimensional Lovecraftian beings known as the Apothicons. Sledgehammer Games' [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyWWII Nazi Zombies]] took the undead to their roots once more, casting them as experiments of the Nazis and powered by an eldritch energy known as Geistkraft, sourced from the legendary sword of Frederick Barbarossa.
230* The Fifth Column, one of the original villain groups in ''VideoGame/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-traveled 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.
231* The Creator/LucasArts inspired AdventureGame ''VideoGame/FlightOfTheAmazonQueen'' featured a MadScientist planning to [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot transform Amazon women into dinosaurs]]. All fronted by the [[SdrawkcabName Flöda lederhosen company]], of course.
232* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} Hellboy: The Science of Evil]]'', you fight clockwork Nazis, cyborg Nazis, and, in one late-game area, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot clock-work-cyborg-Nazi-zombies being animated by a Lovecraftian alien worm.]]
233* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' features HerrDoktor [[MeaningfulName Hans]] {{Uberm|ensch}}ann and Klaus Kerner, a Gestapo member of the Thule society himself. Initially, they are trying to find Atlantis for its source of {{orichalcum}}, a mystic substance capable of unleashing energy equal to a uranium bomb- with just a single bead of the substance. However, after discovering Atlantean technology the orichalcum can power, they begin growing more interested in the [[LostSuperweapon robots and machinery]] discovered in Atlantis itself- especially [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence the Colossus]].
234* In ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'' and the related ARG, it's eventually revealed that the Nazis created some from of DoomsdayDevice whose activation code was hidden in a pack of Karnoffel cards Hitler carried with him at all times. Something about the Karnoffel Code is decidedly supernatural as, once encoded on a floppy disk, the resulting OLD_DATA caused the game characters to gain sentience and become hostile to one another. One character even claims the OLD_DATA is a digitized form of Satan.
235* In ''VideoGame/TheLastResurrection'' Hitler is actually the right-hand man to Jesus himself, who in this game is the BigBad, and teams up with his angels. Could count as a subversion depending on metaphysical semantics.
236* ''VideoGame/LostHorizon'' features Nazis hunting for Shambala, a utopian place mentioned in certain Buddhist traditions. They're something of a mixture in terms of mystical versus scientific approaches -- the Thule Society appears to lean towards the former, but the main villain is rather disdainful of them, instead stressing her allegedly rationalist approach.
237* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope'':
238** Esoteric Nazism is one of the game's many ideological alignments, associated primarily, though not exclusively, with the SS. While there are no supernatural elements in the game (an [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory alternate history of a Cold War between the US and Nazi Germany]]), the ideology is pretty mysticist and, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin esoteric]], as well as being [[EvilerThanThou horrific even by Nazi standards]]. For some "[=EsoNaz=]" leaders, it's mostly about secular [[TheSpartanWay Spartanism to build a "stronger" Germany]], but Josias zu Waldeck und Pyrmont is obsessed with finding ancient Aryan artifacts while ruling Reichskommissariat Kaukasien as a totalitarian slave state, Sergey Taboritsky turns Russia into a cult devoted to a long-dead heir to the Romanov line should he reunite the shattered nation, Isabel Martínez de Perón in Argentina is a pawn of the mad mystic José López Rega (which actually happened in real life), and Heinrich Himmler [[spoiler:wants to start WorldWarIII in order to [[RestartTheWorld remake the world in his image]]]].
239** Beyond the Esoteric Nazi sphere, Niccolò Giani is a potential successor to Galeazzo Ciano as Duce of Italy. His ideology is classified as Fascist Mysticism, a sub-branch of vanilla (non-Nazi) fascism, and he is the radical with the Quadrumvirate that unseats Ciano, seeking to build a purified state where fascism took on spiritual importance.
240* ''VideoGame/OperationDarkness'' has Nazi Zombies, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire SS officer]] Alexander Vlado and, on the playable side, a squad of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent British werewolf commandos]].
241* The premise of ''{{VideoGame/Outlast}}'' is a mish-mash of evil corporations and appropriation of Nazi research. A German scientist, Dr. Rudolf G. Wernicke, is explained to have survived WWII and been kept alive through life support and occultistic means.
242* In ''VideoGame/PathwaysIntoDarkness'', you encounter the dead members of a Nazi expedition team. One can speak to them with a crystal, and unlike the Wolfenstein example, most of them are helpful, being the only supply of ammunition and information.
243* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'' this is mixed with StupidJetpackHitler, with the Last Battalion, an alleged remnant of the Nazi regime that was brought to life by the [[AllMythsAreTrue Rumor system]], on top of having an army of robots, Hitler is somehow still alive, wielding TheSpearOfDestiny, the Holy Grail, and is attempting to summon [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]]. [[spoiler: It's actually Nyarlathotep himself, materializing the rumor that Hitler is back and alive.]]
244* Another little known adventure ''VideoGame/PrisonerOfIce'' had Nazis attempting to use [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] [[EldritchAbomination horrors]] as a secret weapon in war.
245* ''VideoGame/{{Putrefaction}}'' has a Nazi cult in the sequel, headed by Adolf Hitler himself (!!!), who turns out to be the source of the zombie outbreak; having escaped into the void during the 1940s, making a pact with a demon lord for immortality, Hitler and his followers uses the void's resources to develop their technology and engineered the putrefaction virus - which took them over a century and a half - before releasing it in 2079 to wipe out humanity.
246* ''[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/TogeProductions/relic-of-war Relic Of War]]'' has the Axis powers create a line of undead SuperSoldiers, the "ZZ" division (The Schutzstaffel-SS-logo was a pair of thunderbolts that looked remarkably like slanted Z's), created by researching the powers of an ancient artifact, the titular Relic. They also create cyborgs through "Unholy" research.
247* ''VideoGame/ThousandWeekReich'', like ''The New Order: Last Days of Europe'', also features Esoteric Nazism, this time as a sub-ideology of National Socialism. Should the SS prevail in the SuccessionCrisis following Hitler's death, esoteric Nazis will come to power in Nazi Germany with Heinrich Himmler as the most enthusiastic supporter, and should he prevail in the power struggle ''within'' the SS afterwards, he will spiral into insanity such that he can turn Nazi Germany into the "Aryan Empire" and start reviving paganism as the state religion.
248* ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'':
249** In ''[[VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune Drake's Fortune]]'', Nathan discovers a German U-Boat and base that discovered El Dorado, only to learn it was cursed. You find a ''lot'' of dead Nazis. [[spoiler:And the things that killed them.]]
250** In ''[[VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves Among Thieves]]'', Hitler is on the list of powerful men theorized to have gained their power by holding a tiny fraction of the Cintamani Stone, [[spoiler: and then subverted. Late in the game, it turns out that the stone doesn't exist, it's a metaphor for the unusual but not supernatural sap from the Tree of Life that gives those who drink it NighInvulnerability and, eventually, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity madness]]. Though not stated in-game, one might assume that in this version of events, drinking the sap didn't give Hitler any advantages in World War II because he wasn't a front line soldier, and may have caused his eventual mental collapse.]] [[FridgeBrilliance Although it does provide a sound explanation for why he survived his assassination attempt.]]
251* From the ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' series:
252** In ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D: Spear of Destiny'', the player must recover the titular [[TheSpearOfDestiny Spear]] from Hitler's grasp, and encounters a supernatural protector called the Angel of Death.
253** Basically the entire premise of ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein''. It has you trying to prevent the Nazis of the SS Paranormal Division from [[spoiler: resurrecting an ancient Germanic warrior as an [[SuperSoldier invincible superweapon]]]], while fighting off [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cybernetic Super-Soldiers and zombies animated by dark magic]]. The [[spoiler: supposedly invincible demigod]], however, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu reveals himself surprisingly weak to Venom gun bullets]]...
254** In ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein|2009}}'' (2009), the Paranormal Division is back, and takes this trope even further with extra-dimensional travel, Nazi mages, energy guns and yes, Nazis with jetpacks.
255** In the iPhone ''VideoGame/WolfensteinRPG'', the Nazis attempt to stop BJ's assault by summoning the final boss, The Harbinger of Doom. After BJ blows his arm and leg off, the demon vows to get revenge on his descendants. Flash forward a few centuries, and [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy is fighting a rebuilt Harbinger, better known as the Cyberdemon!]]
256** In ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', this is actually {{subverted|Trope}}. Germany has plenty of super-tech but no occult elements at all. The standalone DLC, ''The Old Blood'', brings it back, though-- it features a dark magic-fuelled ZombieApocalypse engulfing the town of Wulfburg, a Nazi commander trying to dig up artifacts of supernatural power (said to have belonged to real-life Holy Roman Emperor Otto I), and [[spoiler:a giant EldritchAbomination slumbering beneath the town, which is later awakened by said commander]].
257* The ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'', which originally began as the extra "Nazi Zombie Army Mode" for ''VideoGame/SniperEliteV2'', plays this to the tee; as the combined Allied and Soviet forces press into Berlin, a defeated Hitler demands the activation of "Plan Z"; using demonic relics to summon hellish forces that reanimate the millions of Nazi dead as voracious zombies. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a case of GoneHorriblyRight, as [[TooDumbToLive German High Command split up the three pieces of the relic needed to control the zombies before activating the ritual]], and so they promptly begin tearing through Allies, Soviets ''and'' surviving Germans indiscriminately. You play as one of several survivors, [[RagtagBAndOfMisfits an eclectic mixture of Americans, French, Russians and Germans]], striving first to escape the zombie-infested Berlin, then to retrieve the relics and ultimately kill Zombie Hitler and close the {{Hellmouth}} allowing him to reanimate the dead.
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261* ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' features the Longinus Dreizehn Orden as its primary bad guys, a group of immortal, magically enhanced Nazis lead by the infamous hangman of the Third Reich, UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich carrying the title of [[Myth/{{Faust}} Mephistopheles]] while Karl Ernst Krafft is a genuine magician having taught them all these secrets, and all seek to have a wish granted by sacrificing the people in Suwahara City. [[spoiler:It ends with (depending on route) Reinhard succeeding with the sacrifice and ascending to become a God while Krafft is revealed to in reality be the {{God}} of the universe, Mercurius, acting under alias]]. Amusingly, for the most part they are Nazis InNameOnly with most of the members just being a ragtag bunch that, in some cases quite literally, where just taken off the street.
262* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Panzermadels}}'', where all the members of the Occult Club are WWII era German tanks.
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266* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Hitler inexplicably appears in {{Dracula}}'s moon base. Though that might just be because Dracula apparently collects historical figures.
267* The ''[[http://www.goats.com/archive/050315.html Good Hitler vs. Space Hitler]]'' arc of the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}''.
268* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' plays with this trope for all its worth, as indicated by the quote above. In one storyline, Montana Jones and his father try to stop the Nazis from getting their hands on all the world's major occult artifacts. The Nazis, in turn, are being ordered around by Hitler's BrainInAJar.
269** The really strange thing is that the Montana Jones storyline takes place ''before'' World War II.
270*** "Nazi science sneers at historical accuracy!"
271*** They explained this [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/2263.html here]]. AlternateUniverse, big time.
272* In ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'', this is how the first ''ubermenschen'' were made.
273* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' has Kugelblitz, a former member of the "Third Reich's Sorcery Batallion" who planned to infuse a [[YouClonedHitler Hitler clone]] with the soul of the real deal.
274* ''[[http://www.comics.aha.ru/rus/stalin/1.html Stalin vs. Hitler]]'' does this a great deal both for both Hitler and Stalin. [[http://dsss.be/hitler-vs-stalin/ Here's an English translation]]. The first panel was the original page image. Hitler is depicted as a fairly typical mad sorcerer, while Stalin's own magic is powered by Marxist-Leninist ideology (no, really).
275* ''[[http://strangeaeons.comicdish.com Strange Aeons]]'' is a DieselPunk themed webcomic where the Nazi villains are planning to use the Necronomicon for some yet-unknown evil purpose.
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279* WebVideo/BedTimeStoriesYoutubeChannel has the episode centered on the Celle Neues Rathaus, a town hall turned literal HauntedHeadquarters where it's heavily implied that members of the SS, under Himmler's orders, conducted occult experiments in the building's basement.
280* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', the Nazis are the first ones to seriously invest in paranormal research, due to Himmler's obsession with the subject. Among other things, they create rune-enhanced guns that never miss their target and wards that protect buildings from damage even from direct hits, and during the closing days of the war Himmler seriously considers summoning {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to drive off the Allies, only to be voted down by the rest of the Nazi high command (on the grounds that [[PragmaticVillainy they'd be too difficult to control]]). After the war is over, the Americans and Soviets confiscate most of their research for themselves, a la Operation Paperclip.
281* In ''Literature/MarbleWitch'' the Nazis use warwitches and dragons. Then again, so do most of the belligerents.
282* Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos:
283** It's implied in ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve'' that the Collective has Nazi affiliations. "Affiliations" in this case meaning "stalked and abducted a Nazi soldier named Sebastian Kraus". As the internet did not exist during World War II, Sebastian was unable to make blog posts or upload his encounters with Slendy to Youtube like most people these days do in his situation, so he kept a journal instead. Said journal is one of the series' {{MacGuffin}}s.
284** HABIT from ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'', an AxCrazy spirit capable of DemonicPossession, has the infamous Nazi MadScientist Josef Mengele among the ''long'' list of names on his HistoricalRapSheet. Even worse, he confirms in in a crossover episode with ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve'' that he actually worked with Sebastian Kraus during his time as Mengele.
285* The Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom story ''Literature/VivereMilitareEst'' by rvbomally has, as its PointOfDivergence, the Nazis and UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan unleashing preternatural weaponry in Europe and the Pacific in 1945, fueled by {{human sacrifice}}s in the form of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust and Unit 731. This brings them BackFromTheBrink and allows them to start pushing back; the only thing stopping their renewed conquests is when the Allies deploy preternatural weaponry of their own, culminating in a "despoiler bomb" dropped on Kyoto that renders the city an uninhabitable EldritchLocation. By 2015, the world is locked in a multi-sided UsefulNotes/ColdWar between the Anglo-American alliance (with France as a stubbornly independent supporter), the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan, all of whom have lunar colonies and are armed with enough preternatural weaponry to destroy the fabric of reality around Earth, while many parts of the world (Poland, India, New Zealand, a vast swath of Africa) have gone to hell in a handbasket thanks to the occult run amok. It's specifically mentioned that the ultimate fate of Adolf Hitler and his corpse, if he died at all, is unknown and widely disputed, with multiple Nazi splinter cults claiming to have cloned Hitler, [[BrainUploading uploaded his brain and/or soul]] into a computer, or contacted his spirit; needless to say, these claims do not amuse the actual NSDAP in Germany, which has mellowed out considerably since 1945 (now, it's a run-of-the-mill bureaucratic dictatorship that treats Hitler the way our world's [[RedChina PRC]] treats UsefulNotes/MaoZedong -- "yeah, he was our nation's founder, but don't bring up all the other stuff he did") and sees them all as challenges to their leadership. And of course, there's the 'rogue state' of North Italy, run by surviving [[UsefulNotes/FascistItaly fascist diehards]] that even the Germans are now embarrassed by, serving as a combination of this trope and UsefulNotes/NorthKorea.
286* In the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, supervillain The Necromancer has actually reminisced about doing occult evil for the Nazis. Although he didn't get that unstoppable zombie army up and running (shambling?) in time.
287** At the end of "The Widening Gyre"[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/356-the-widening-gyre]] when everyone involved in [[TheFairFolk The Troll Bride]]'s attempt to claim [[UltimateBlacksmith Eldritch]] as [[ItMakesSenseInContext a stolen family heirloom]] (despite warnings from her son Nephandus not to pull something like that on campus) are called into Headmistress Carson's office, Carson (AKA [[BigGood Lady Astarte]]) mentions that she recognizes Contessa Arvidsen-duChantraine as an old foe, Eisern-Jungefrau, saying that [[TruceZone school neutrality]] would keep her from reporting her to the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation - this time - so long as she left and didn't return.
288* The notorious Flash adventure game ''[[http://www.atrianglemorning.com/games/flash.php Which Way Adventure]]'' (you know, the one with the manticores) contains a scene where Hitler steals your time-traveling helmet and flamethrower and proceeds to fill the world with zombies. Er.
289* In ''[[https://zaubererbruderasp.deviantart.com/art/X-691003917 X]]'', there is a cult, heavily implied to be TheKlan, who summons Adolf Hitler out of Hell.
290* CreepyPasta:
291** "Cry of the Revenant" has the narrator's grandpa tell him about the time his squad, plus one terrified SS big-wig, fought off an ancient, undead aryan (one of the god-like people who settled in what is now Germany in nazi mythology) warrior, who was absolutely honked off about being ressurected by nazi wizards.
292** "Valkyrie" is about an AfterlifeExpress (the emponymous ''Valkyrie'') that ferries the souls of dead Nazi war criminals to Hell.
293** There's one about a haunted copy of ''The Lion King'' for the Sega Genesis that was {{ROM Hack}}ed by the Nazis (apparently inspired by a real bootleg of the game that inexplicably features swastika-emblazoned dirigibles as platforms), presumably involving TimeTravel and a very bored technician somehow.
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297* A rare twist in the ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' short ''"The Secret War"''. A Soviet [[{{StateSec}} CheKa]] officer tried to use a Siberian pagan ritual to summon an army of flesh-eating ghouls to aid the Red Army in their war against [[TheRemnant the White Russians]]. Naturally the ghouls couldn't be controlled so easily.
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301* In RealLife the Nazi most interested in the occult was Heinrich Himmler, while Hitler personally had very little interest in the subject, mostly seeing the dramatic and political implications of secret societies, and banning all that didn't support his reign. While he admired the Teutonic myths, his intention was not to replace Christianity with a dead religion, but to get the state to absorb all the properties of a religion, much like the Soviet Union had done, at least for starters - [[AlternateHistory one can only speculate]] what would have followed if he had won, or WWII had ended in a stalemate. Some state papers the Allies discovered after the fall of Berlin discussed either "Aryanizing" Christianity or completely replacing it with a new religion centered around Hitler, whom the Nazi Party would proclaim the Germanic messiah.
302** Himmler also had a spiritual adviser named Karl Wiligut, who was quite an interesting character. While Himmler believed himself to be a reincarnation of Henry the Fowler, Wiligut believed he was a descendant of the Norse god Thor. Wiligut conducted SS rituals in Wewelsburg Castle, studied and taught the secrets of the runes. When word got out of his stays in mental hospitals, his [[DomesticAbuse abuse of his wife, and sexual advances he made on his own daughters]], he was quietly institutionalized.
303** Himmler believed in the existence of the Holy Grail, which he thought to be a Pagan artifact with connections to Odin. He enlisted the help of Otto Rahn, a known archaeologist and Holy Grail aficionado, to track down the mystical chalice. It was a real case of an odd alliance, as Rahn was gay, possibly part Jewish, and not a supporter of Nazism.
304*** If the thought of an archaeologist searching for the Holy Grail sounds familiar, it's because Indiana Jones was based on Otto Rahn.
305** Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess believed it so much that he was inspired by a dream to make an unauthorized peace proposal by parachuting into Britain to offer it. Hitler quickly disavowed Hess, had his propaganda machine paint him as a total flake and had scores of psychics, mediums etc. rounded up as a scapegoat for Hess embarrassing the Third Reich.
306* The definition of an "Aryan" is more complicated than you might think. Hitler used the term, Aryan, to refer to both the ancient Indo-Europeans and contemporary white people, excluding Slavs and Jews (both white and non-white). There was also an Aryan hierarchy based on how Nordic an ethnic group was, as well as their support for the Third Reich. On the other hand, Himmler and other Nazi Occultists saw the ancient Aryans as what we now know as the most popular depiction of them, blue-eyed blond [[TransHuman Übermensch]] who were originally from {{Atlantis}} and possessed [[PhysicalGod supernatural powers]] due to their advanced biology. They thought that the Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Modern Germans were the descendants of Atlantis. However, the Jews used Christianity to suppress the descendants of Atlantis in a Dark Age of ignorance, and therefore they need to be eliminated. Much of the rituals of the SS revolved around these ideas of the ancient Aryans, Nordicism, and blood. Hitler agreed with the Occultists on Nordic superiority, but that was about it. Any other Occult symbolism used by Hitler (such as the infamous Swastika) was purely for imagery and propaganda.
307** The ''real'' Aryan people, on the other hand, were never Nordic. They're Middle Eastern, specifically the natives of UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} (the nation's name literally means "of the Aryans").
308* Occult beliefs varied among the Nazis; for example, Albert Speer showed no interest, while Rudolf Hess was almost as into the Occult as Himmler. Also, the Thule Society was shut down after the leadership became politically unreliable. Hitler shut down a lot of Occult societies, but not because they were Occultic. He just didn't trust secret societies.
309* It is worth mentioning that the Thule Society actually did play a major role in Nazism. A member named Karl Harrer formed the German Workers' Party with Anton Drexler, who was largely responsible for establishing links between the Thule Society and other political and worker organizations. Eventually, Hitler would turn this party into the National Socialist German Worker's Party. The Thule Society continued to be its main sponsor for a while. Chances are without them, the Nazis never would have come to power. The Thulists put the Nazis together to recruit street muscle following a [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized failed but bloody Communist uprising in Munich]].
310** Hitler and Himmler were never members of the Thule Society, and there's also no evidence that either of them ever even attended a meeting. However, other Nazis who were either members or frequent visitors included: Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart, and Karl Harrer.
311* There's the interesting case of Erik Jan Hanussen, a hypnotist, mentalist, and fortuneteller who has been attributed with teaching Hitler his charismatic form of public speaking, predicting the Reichstag fire that enabled Hitler to seize absolute power, and later being assassinated by the SA for getting too much influence with the Führer. Bear in mind, like most other Nazi-occultism allegations, there is a good chance that a lot of stories associated with him are more sensationalism than fact.
312* Esoteric Hitlerism is basically the idea of the Ghostapo turned into a new religious movement (and likely inspiration for ''Film/IronSky''). According to Miguel Serrano, one of the founders of this religion, Hitler was an occult messiah who survived the fall of the Second World War and hid inside of the HollowEarth, the SS was a recreation of medieval knightly orders searching for alien technologies, runes were ancient magic originating from the North Pole, and at the end of the world, Hitler will return with Nazi [=UFOs=] to free humankind from demon influence. Even many surviving SS occultists called Serrano and other Esoteric Hitlerists crazy. It didn't help that Serrano thought Hitler was a Buddhist Bodhisattva, a "living saint" come to redeem humanity from the "spiritual corruption" of the Jews.
313** This idea was begun by Savitri Devi, philosopher and environmentalist, who thought Hitler was literally an incarnation of Vishnu. And who preached this revelation in occupied post-war Germany, getting her imprisoned and expelled from the country over it.
314* As noted above, a number of neo-Nazi groups have also embraced this trope due to their anti-Semitic sentiments extending to Christianity. [[Music/{{Burzum}} Varg Vikernes]], the infamous BlackMetal musician who murdered fellow black-metaler [[Music/{{Mayhem}} Euronymous]], is an outspoken pagan and Nazi sympathizer, his involvement in a number of church burnings in Norway in TheNineties motivated primarily by nationalist/religious causes that saw Christianity as foreign to Scandinavia. [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59kq93/racists-are-threatening-to-take-over-paganism This article]] by Sarah Lyons for ''Vice'' goes into more detail on how neo-Nazis have latched onto paganism, particularly "reconstructionist" pagan faiths that attempt to recreate ancient pre-Christian religions.
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