Line #33 PlayingWith/AllGermansAreNazis


1	'''Basic Trope''': German characters being portrayed as ThoseWackyNazis in [[DaysOfFuturePast the future]], [[AnachronismStew the past]], or in [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantasy universes.]]
2	* '''Straight''': In a TimeTravel show, UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat, Film/TheRedBaron, [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany Erich Honecker]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman Schultz]], and [[TheFuture Walther Ivermann]] all exhibit mannerisms that evoke UsefulNotes/NaziGermany distinctly.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Every single German in the history of ever is portrayed as a longcoat-clad, goose-stepping, Jew-hating, CardCarryingVillain.
5	** All Germans, even people with only one very distant German relative, [[YouClonedHitler are]] UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. They do not merely resemble him, they are ''[[HiveMind exactly]]'' like him.
6	** UsefulNotes/DwightEisenhower, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, Chester Nimitz, Creator/JRRTolkien, King George VI, most of the troops in the British, American, Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian armed forces, and a large number in the Indian army all have German ancestry. As do many in the Red Army. Therefore, they are all exactly like Hitler, even though they opposed Nazism. As are all the people who live in Austria, Switzerland (even the French, Italian, and Romansh speaking people), Liechtenstein, many in Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and many of the people of [[FridgeLogic Israel]].
7	** Theodoric the Ostrogoth, who lived more than fourteen centuries before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, was a Nazi. And he carried a swastika with him when conquering Rome. So too were UsefulNotes/{{Charlemagne}} and most of his enemies.
8	** Even UsefulNotes/{{Amish}} are Nazis as they have German ancestry.
9	* '''Downplayed''':
10	** The German regime and its leader are vaguely authoritarian TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but not associated with Nazis in any way.
11	** Germans are stereotyped as being aggressive, militaristic, and authoritarian; but the stereotype is based off [[{{Kaiserreich}} Imperial Germany]] and [[https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/ohio-in-ww1-articles/4102-are-you-an-american-or-a-hun-anti-german-hysteria-during-world-war-i.html anti-German prejudice from the First World War.]]
12	* '''Justified''':
13	** Historical figures are replaced by [[StupidJetpackHitler time-travelling Nazis]] trying to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight.
14	** The scenes during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII are set inside a secret village, where only members of the Nazi Party are allowed in.
15	** The story is about a Nazi propaganda project associating every famous person of German ancestry with Nazism.
16	** The story is set in an AlternateHistoryNaziVictory, where the Third Reich still stands today and forced all of it's citizens to abide by it's ideology.
17	** The story is set in [=WW2=] and the only German soldiers engaged by the heroes are fanatical [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Waffen-SS]].
18	* '''Inverted''':
19	** Even from 1933 to 1945, [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory there are no Nazis.]]
20	** All Germans embody a different ridiculous stereotype: [[{{Oktoberfest}} Oktoberfest around the clock.]] Beer and polka for ''everybody''!
21	** Germany is the ''only'' country portrayed in the work as ''not'' having Nazi attitudes.
22	** No Nazis Are Germans: All Nazi characters are of non-German nationalities, such as foreign recruits in the Wehrmacht and SS or American Neo-Nazis.
23	** All the German characters are deeply ashamed of their country's Nazi past, and are constantly apologizing for it.
24	** All Russians Are Stalinists: Every single Russian character, even those from before the Russian Revolution, is portrayed as an over-the-top [[DirtyCommunists Stalinist]].
25	* '''Subverted''': A German leader in TheFuture looks and sounds like a Nazi, but it's only a prank to scare the time-travelers.
26	* '''Double Subverted''': But then an actual Nazi leads a revolution and overthrows him.
27	* '''Parodied''':
28	** Our protagonists go to Germany. All the Germans they meet seem to be over-the-top Nazis, and they accept this as just the way Germans are -- [[RevealShot and then the camera zooms out]] to show that they never left America and somehow wandered into a neo-Nazi rally.
29	** [[WebVideo/FilthyFrank The German language]] InUniverse [[WebVideo/FilthyFrank literally only consists of Nazi Rhetoric and]] [[DeadlyEuphemism euphemisms]].
30	** [[CrossesTheLineTwice Literally every German, even babies and women, sounds exactly like Adolf Hitler]].
31	* '''Zig Zagged''': The German character often switches between acting like a Nazi and being offended by being treated like one.
32	* '''Averted''':
33	** Germans both before and after the Nazi era are portrayed appropriately, without any references to Nazis.
34	** During Nazi rule, some Germans are portrayed as either outright defiant or less than sympathetic to the regime, or else as apathetic.
35	* '''Enforced''': The work was made in 1946, [[TwoFistedTales or is a throwback to that era.]]
36	* '''Lampshaded''': "[[UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck Herr Bismarck]]?" "Ja?" "...You're wearing a swastika armband. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis What. The. Fuck.]]"
37	* '''Invoked''': "Let's go to a German neo-Nazi rally; it'll look like [[TitleDrop all Germans are Nazis]]."
38	* '''Exploited''': Bob the SleazyPolitician has Sam the equally sleazy PR agent remind people of Germany's Nazi past because his government is competing with modern Germany for political prestige in the EU and wants a propaganda advantage.
39	* '''Defied''': "Let's only meet the least stereotypical Germans possible."
40	* '''Discussed''': "As we're in 1930s Germany, all Germans we'll see will be Nazis."
41	* '''Conversed''': "These guys are great. Why does everyone think they're Nazis?"
42	* '''Implied''': Fritz gives voice to many ideals Nazi Germany is known to have espoused, including some controversial ones, but very few people call him a Nazi.
43	* '''Deconstructed''':
44	** Hans suffers terrible prejudice on account of his German nationality, because everyone thinks he's a Nazi.
45	** Due to media overload, all countries in the world begin to assume that Germany is still full of Nazis. They institute economic sanctions against Germany strongly resembling those instituted after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. [[ThenLetMeBeEvil The entire nation of Germany figures that if they're going to be accused of being Nazis,]] [[HistoryRepeats they might as well be Nazis.]]
46	* '''Reconstructed''':
47	** But he actually is a Nazi in secret and occasionally shows it.
48	** All media depicting Germans as Nazis are owned and created by a German Nazi, making the whole plan ShapedLikeItself.
49	* '''Played for Drama''':
50	** The German characters all are members of a NaziNobleman family that got off scot-free thanks to their connections, and they are now working to support Nazi ideals in modern-day Germany. Everyone angsts about this a great deal.
51	** Mikhail, a former NaziHunter with a huge KnightTemplar tendency, believes that all Germans are Nazis and they must be exterminated. So he begins to perpetuate a FinalSolution to cleanse the entire German population, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes regardless whether they are truly Nazis]]. His action ironically makes him no different to the Nazis...
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