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->''When der Fuehrer says "ve is the Master Race",''\\
''We'' '''Heil!''' *Raspberry* '''Heil!''' *Raspberry* ''right in der Fuehrer's face!''\\
''Not to love der Fuehrer is a great disgrace,''\\
''So we'' '''Heil!''' *Raspberry* '''Heil!''' *Raspberry* ''right in der Fuehrer's face!''
->-- '''Spike Jones''', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MReV9dkAVhY Der Fuehrer's Face]]''

ThoseWackyNazis covers a variety of Nazi stereotypes.

Before we get on the list, we also suggest you take a look at NaziGermany, AdolfHitler ([[CaptainObvious closely associated with Nazis]], [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready in case you didn't know]]), WorldWarTwo [[AndZoidberg and]] StupidJetpackHitler.

*Though not always a Nazi, the German officer with a [[NiceHat peaked cap]], knee-length [[DracoInLeatherPants leather]] boots, and enormous thigh breeches usually pops up somewhere, holding in his hand a riding crop or equivalent instrument of discipline. Usually a DrillSergeantNasty.
*The [[CulturedWarrior "cultured" one]] who stands around in vest, braces and lederhosen listening to classical music on a gramophone, who says "You see, Herr Captain, ve are not all animals."
*The loud one who is usually on the phone shouting "GET ME ZE FÜHRER!"
*The kinky, leather-coated Gestapo officer who is probably "a bit gay".
*The tight-assed ObstructiveBureaucrat who goes through the trouble of donning his entire uniform - including jodhpurs and wellington boots - before talking to someone (even if said someone is on the phone and unable to see what he is wearing.) Ends every conversation with a "Heil Hitler!" and a loud click of his heels.
*The [[ScaryShinyGlasses round-spectacled]], black-gloved [[TortureTechnician torture master]] who emits a shrill giddy laugh after every sentence. May or may not overlap with "The Gay Nazi", above...
*A female officer in the mold of TheBaroness. In more salacious productions she'll be a sadistic dominatrix who tortures prisoners and forces them to perform sex acts for her own (and presumably, the audience's) amusement.
*A bumbling Luftwaffe sergeant in direct charge of the American Prisoners of War. May or may not be more devious than he appears.
*The Nazi who kills because he simply enjoys it. The slightest provocation (or none at all) means death for prisoners and civilians. Possibly modeled after real life sadist and Nazi SS Josef Blösche aka "Frankenstein", who killed over 2,000 noncombatants on his own.
*The "Oskar Schindler" type - the guy who really has a heart of gold and works to save people or works with the Resistance, a la AlloAllo.
*The Secret Project Leader. This is the guy in charge of the [[{{Ghostapo}} demonic alien vampire robozombies]] and the [[MacGuffin divine/infernal Artifact]] that's ''sure'' to [[StupidJetpackHitler give Hitler the edge]] against those darn Allies. The battle between him and the heroes [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy usually doesn't make it in the history books]] and [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler himself continues on as cosmically planned.]] May be a dupe or trying to out-Führer the Führer. It helps that, historically, Hitler really was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society interested in this stuff.]]
** Actually, he wasn't. Other people in the Third Reich were, and he entertained their fancies from time to time, but he himself thought [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions all that occult stuff was just silly]]. This is also, incidentally, how he felt about Christianity. Really the only form of religion Hitler seemed to respect was ''[[JapaneseMythology Shinto]]'', namely the form practiced in Japan at the time (state-worship Shinto).
*The {{mook}} that gets killed as soon as he appears.
* The "I'm just a soldier doing my job" Nazi, usually a regular military officer (not SS) who feels MyCountryRightOrWrong.
* The NaziNobleman with a fancy aristocratic title and ancestral castle, who may overlap with any of these.
* The [[EvilutionaryBiologist mad doctor]] obsessed with purifying the race, discovering immortality, etc., through horrifying surgical means. May also overlap with "Frankenstein", above. Basically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele Mengele]], mixed with the alien vampire robozombie stereotype above.
* The aging (but still evil) senior officer with cadaverous features, usually an SS member to link his skull-like visage with the death's head motif. Will normally be combined with one of the roles above, or feature in a minor role as a visitor from Berlin here to remind the BigBad that "Zer Fuhrer is not patient, he expects ''results''".

Then there are neo-Nazis. Generally today they tend to be somewhat stereotypical skinhead punks, covered with tattoos, listening to rage rock, with no real agenda besides anger and violence, and generally representing a particularly nasty strain of disaffected youth, often led on by calculating hatemongers with more cynical motives. These are common in cop shows, and are given a particularly chilling representation in the film ''AmericanHistoryX''. ''The 51st State'' portrays them as asinine thugs, whom Sam Jackson brutalizes with a set of golf clubs, and then tricks into consuming vast quantities of laxatives.

On the other hand, during the earlier days of the ColdWar, spy shows, such as ''MissionImpossible'' or ''TheManFromUncle'', the protagonists would occasionally take a break from battling the commies in order to put a stop to someone's attempt to reinstate the "The Fourth Reich." These Nazi wannabes would invariably be vaguely Germanic, paranoid, arrogant, obsessed with "discipline," and usually very morally rigid (such as announcing that in the New Order, women would be limited to making babies, their "proper function"). In short, such characters were little more than broadly drawn cartoons. Given that the entertainment industry [[strike:was]] is predominantly Jewish, and WorldWarII was still a recent memory for most people, it's not surprising that any Nazi character would be denied even the tiniest human characteristic. As well, many Jewish actors played Nazis (such as John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) and Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) on ''[[HogansHeroes Hogan's Heroes]]''), so they got a chance to revel in the schadenfreude firsthand.

Another with some (increasingly small) currency today is the fugitive Nazi war criminal, who may well be hiding out in LatinLand or even the continental United States. [[Film/MarathonMan Perhaps he's working as a dentist...]]

Stock German phrases and words usually associated with Nazis:

* Achtung- "attention"
* Führer- "leader". In today's German this word (usually preceded by the article "der") is usually used as a synonym for "Hitler", while using it in its original meaning is avoided as it is generally associated with Hitler. The other meaning of "Führer", namely "guide" is still commonly used.
* Hände hoch!- "Hands up!"
* Jawohl!- "Yes, sir/ma'am!"
* Kommandant- a commander, regardless of rank
* Raus!- "Out!" Often used in the context of The Holocaust.
* Schnell!- "Quick/Quickly!" General-purpose exclamation by anyone giving orders.
* Los!- "Go!", often used interchangeably with "Schnell" or "Raus". It also means "Fire" in a U-boat context.
* Was ist los? - "What's wrong/the matter?" Usually uttered by a Nazi trooper after one of his comrades gets knocked out or killed.
* Alarm!- "We're under attack!", from Old French "à l'arme", meaning "To the weapon". ('to arms').
* Amerikaner! or Engländer! - "Americans!" or "Englishmen!" Usually followed by the German soldier who yelled the warning getting shot by said Americans or Englishmen.
* Nicht schießen! - "Don't shoot!" (Not to be confused with Nicht scheißen! - "Don't [[SymbolSwearing sh**]]!")

Stock slurs:
* Schwein!- Almost-English stock insult, essentially saying Swine. Note: In contemporary German this is about as (in-)offensive as calling someone a "scoundrel".
* Schweinehund - translated "pig dog". Might also be a compliment for especially resilient people.
* Ami: American - That is actually a contemporary and neutral shortcut for "US American" and wasn't in use in WW2.
* Tommy: Brit / Englishman - Also "Tommyboy".
* Franzmann: Frenchman
* Itaker: Italian - It has to be noted that fascist Italy was an ally of Nazi Germany.
* Polacke: Pole
* Iwan (or "Der Iwan!"): Russian
Any low-ranking Nazi {{Mook}} will have a limited vocabulary, consisting solely of these phrases uttered in rapid succession, also called "[[IncrediblyLamePun voice achtung]]".
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!!Examples

* Blitzwing from TransformersAnimated manages in some way to be an example of a number of the above stereotypes with his Multiple Personality Disorder. In fact, even single faces manage to involve various stereotypes.
** Consider that one of his faces is modeled after [[ArnoldSchwarzenegger a certain accented Californian governor]], and [[UnfortunateImplications I let you draw your own conclusions.]]
*** ThisTroper finds it more ironic, as Hitler wasn't a Native German, [[EvilForeigner he was from]] Austria first.
* In the comedy ''"Allo Allo"'', there's a Nazi for every stereotype.
** Although the "probably a bit gay" Nazi and the Gestapo members are three different people. Indeed, Herr Flick doesn't seem to exhibit any of the other stereotypes; Herr Von Smallhausen is at least bumbling.
* [[HogansHeroes I KNOW NOTHING!]] '''''NOTHING!!!'''''
** Actually, any German from Hogan's Heroes (except Klink's secretary) qualify for these tropes. And then there are the fake Germans impersonated by Hogan's team...
* Toht in ''[[IndianaJones Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' is the torture master.
** Elsa Schneider in Last Crusade fills some part of the Noble Scientist role
* Brockenman and Brocken Jr. from ''{{Kinnikuman}}''
* The title character of DoctorStrangelove is possibly the ur-Torture Master, black gloves, shrill laugh and all.
* The ''DoctorWho'' novel ''Just War'' features a "cultured" Nazi who's quick to say he ''loathes'' [[RichardWagner Wagner]].
** No mention of ''DoctorWho'' and Nazis can be complete without mentioning the Daleks, who were actually modelled after the Nazis ([[OmnicidalManiac although taking the policy to the logical extreme]]).
** The episode ''Silver Nemesis'' has a [[RichardWagner Wagner]]-obsessed Fourth Reich restoring Neo Nazis vs. the Cybermen
* Major Koenig in ''EnemyAtTheGates'', who seems like he's skirting the borders of sympathy until he pretty much catapults over the MoralEventHorizon.
*[[ClassicDisneyShorts Donald Duck (!)]], in the [[WartimeCartoon anti-Nazi propaganda short]] "Der Fuehrer's Face" (the source for the page quote), dreams that he is a bumbling Nazi mook driven mad by working in a munitions factory, where he is required to heil at every picture of Hitler. This is enforced by an armed oom-pah band.
* The Nazis facing the Rifle Brigade in ''Adventures in the Rifle Brigade'', featuring such luminaries as Gestapo Hauptmann [[strike:Wankshaft]] Venkschaft (who had ''many'' ways of making them talk), busty grudge-bearing dominatrix Gerta Gasch, and the Flaschman brothers, Otto and Ernst, the latter of whom seeks revenge on the brigade for killing the former before musing on the evils that men commit to one another and saying that he feels a certain kinship with the Brigade as a fellow soldier. [[RuleOfFunny So naturally, they kill him just like every other sympathetic German character in the series.]]
* They still pop up now and then. In the film ''The Sum of All Fears,'' an atomic bomb is smuggled into the U.S. by a group of German neo-Nazis, who expect the Americans to blame the destruction of Baltimore on the Soviets, leading to a war that would destroy or cripple both nations, leaving a power vacuum in which a new Reich can arise. (In Tom Clancy's novel, the villains were not Nazis but Palestinian extremists.)
* ''FreedomForce vs. The Third Reich'' involves the most gratuitous references to the most awesome of wartime comics. Including Nazi gorillas with machine guns.
* Anybody forgetting ''{{Hellsing}}''? It has more or less any possible (as well as impossible) nazi variant, for example Schrödinger, a really annoying Schröndinger's Cat-Boy wearing a Hitler Jugend uniform. Lieutenant Rip van Winkle ''almost'' counts as one of the various potentially gay Nazi archetypes, except for the fact that Rip is a sharpshooter, and also [[{{Bifauxnen}} apparently female]].
* Two-thirds of the bad guys from TheMovie of ''{{Hellboy}}'' (the last third was [[HistoricalInJoke Rasputin]]): [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja Scientist Steampunk Cyborg]] Karl Kroenen and TheBaroness [[strike:[[{{Atlantis}} Helga]]]] Ilsa Hauptmann.
* ''Made in Britain'' for the neo-Nazi "disaffected youth" version.
* The ''MedalOfHonor'' videogames, although supposed to be serious WWII shooters, often are filled with prime examples. For instance, in Allied Assault, the Nazi guards on the submarine who salute every 5 seconds.
** It didn't hurt you were disguised as a high-ranking officer at the time.
* ''KamenRiderX'' gives us the magnificence that is [[http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee121/Kainsword17/monsters02/StarfishHitler.jpg Starfish Hitler]].
** Complete with PunnyName: ''Hitora Hittora'' (Hitler Starfish/Hitler Hittler)
* "'''[[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries HEIL KAIBA!]]'''"
* The plot of 'The Producers' revolves around the made-up play "Springtime For Hitler", a musical romp into the lighter side of the Third Reich.
** Noted by Mel Brooks as the most tasteless topic for a musical he could think of.
*** And unquestionably influenced by Lenny Bruce's 'How Hitler Got Started'/'Hitler and the MCA' bit.
* 1990s comedy duo Smith and Jones explored this trope in one of their sketches [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJQlbQ5JoE here]] (first three minutes or so).
* The "A Bit Gay" stereotype is brought to it's logical extreme in the AlternateHistory webcomic ''Roswell, Texas'' where the standard SS uniform is ''pink''. Bondage gear also makes an appearance.
* Megabyte's minion Herr Doktor in {{ReBoot}} is a reasonably good approximation of the mad doctor mentioned above, albeit toned down for kids.
** "Mein digets!"
* The third book of the ''MaximumRide'' series was allegedly focused on the discovery of Max's parentage. [[MadScientist Dr. Roland ter Borcht]], however, stole the show by answering the question: what would happen if ArnoldSchwarzenegger had been a mad doctor of this type?
* ''KuroganePukapukaTai'' gives us Captain Nina Stoltebeker, who plays into the 'kinky gay fetishist' type (lesbian with a ''body odour fetish'') and 'Schindler' type (shelters a Jewish crewmember at the expense of a perfect personnel-loss record).
* Colonel Erhardt in ToBeOrNotToBe is a ridiculous buffoon, but is also extremely dangerous.
* The horror film Frontier(s) features a group of French students escaping a future Paris where the Neo-Nazi Party has taken power. They stumble across an abandoned inn and stay the night, where the patriarch of the family that owns it wears an SS uniform. He tries to get the men to have sex with his daughters to propagate the Pure Race, but upon discovering that one is Muslim and one is already in love, orders his family to kill them all.
* ''InglouriousBasterds'' is basically a deconstructor fleet of this entire article.
* While never directly stated to be a Nazi, it's pretty apparent that ''TeamFortress2'''s Medic is a thinly veiled torture master/mad scientist. "Raised in Stuttgart, Germany during an era when the Hippocratic oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion, the Medic considers healing a generally unintended side effect of satisfying his own morbid curiosity."
* The Neo Nazis from BlackLagoon get the uptight, fanatical portrayal of them, as does the SS Officer in the flashback. The U-Boat crew, however, get a more hit a more amiable note, not quite hitting any of the more positive portrayals listed above. The captain even tells the SS guy that, considering how he, his peers and his Fuhrer seem, it might be better that the Nazis lose the war.
* Pretty much every Nazi from {{Wolfenstein}}. As befitting a first person shooter, most fall under the "hapless {{mook}}" category, but there are notable exceptions. Gen. "Death's Head" Klaus is a paragon of the "cadaverous and utterly evil senior officer" type, while his crony Hans Grosse embodies the "kill-crazy muscle-bound grunt" traits.
* Germany from AxisPowersHetalia (a Japanese comic about anthropomorphic countries set primarily in WWII) is apparently quite into bondage, DrillSergeantNasty, ''and'' a tight-ass bureaucrat, though a constructive one. Canonically a StraightGay Nazi as of the Buon San Valentino arc. Should be noted that over all, he's a nice guy.
* Donna Barr's comic [[http://www.desert-peach.com/ The Desert Peach]]. Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommel's younger, [[CampGay flamingly-gay]] brother; in command of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits unit of the Afrika Corps.
** With an interesting subversion: the only honest-to-God Nazi party member in the unit [[spoiler: is the Jewish Private Udo Schmidt.]]
* The ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' book ''Shadow of the Swastika'' cast the player character as a Jewish teenager in wartime Vienna trying to survive the Holocaust. This concept had the potential to go [[SoBadItsHorrible very]] [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels wrong]] [[NoJustNo indeed]], but the [[SomethingAwful goons]] who rediscovered the book were pleasantly surprised ([[SnarkBait or disappointed]]) to find a mature, sensitive and well-researched handling of the subject material.
* Doc Richtofen of CallOfDuty: World at War's Nazi Zombie maps (at least, the latter two) sounds pretty gay and loves killing his creations. (That is to say, zombies.)
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