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From 1933 to 1945, Germany was ruled with an iron fist by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. They eventually used Refuge In Audacity, to kill millions of people they found undesirable with about half (using the 12 million death figure) being Jews, the rest are various other groups that often got picked on in Europe: communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the mentally ill, cripples, Polish, etc. The Nazis also started the most destructive war in human history. The result is that they are considered by many the most evil group of people that ever lived, and therefore easy and acceptable to make look bad.
For that reason ever since then people have symbolized villains with the Nazis. These pseudo-Nazis can generally range from sympathetic people who got swept up in the chaos to a simplified bunch of Psycho For Hire who joined the army simply so they can massacre inferior races. While the former is better depthwise, making these Nazis By Any Other Name too sympathetic can result in a Draco In Leather Pants.
A subtrope of What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic, which you can underline by having them Put On The Reich.
Of course, since the Nazis themselves stole symbolism, slogans and rituals from other historical sources (and racism looooong predates their existence) much of what is associated with them today is actually far Older Than They Think. So a few examples commonly given merely reflect generic totalitarian, cult-of-personality, and/or dictatorship elements. Additionally, Anime will also borrow from Imperial Japan for example the killing of surrendering soldiers, or attempts to stamp out culture.
Any strong German ruler (Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Barbarossa...), German military force (every single one), or right-wing German political movement (likewise) will very likely get this treatment in most modern portrayals.
Compare with Scary Dogmatic Aliens. Similar to Space Jews. Visit the scenic Reichstropen for more about Those Wacky Nazis and their imitators.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- The Zeon from UC Gundam timeline. The most famous instance is where Gihren Zabi turns a state funeral into a political rally, with the audience shouting "Sieg Zeon" (Hail Zeon
 in the dub). Lampshaded when Degwin Zabi compares Gihren Zabi to Hitler.
- Gundam SEED spices it up by having Blue Cosmos, and LOGOS be the force behind the Atlantic Federation (the most powerful group within the Earth Alliance) when the Atlantic Federation begans control of the Earth Alliance, the war becomes a war to annihilate the Coordinators. Their opponent the PLANTS are not much better as Patrick Zala believes in the extermination of all Naturals,and both sides freely began massacring any surviving enemy. With the results being defections on both sides joining ORB.
- Britannia from Code Geass combine Naziism with the British Empire, with a society built around notions of social darwinism. They refer to conquered non-Britannian people by a numbered designation ("Elevens" instead of Japanese) and are not hesitant to massacre entire ghettos in order to fulfill their aims. They also pull off the political rally with Charles Di Britannia turning Clovis' funeral into a political rally complete with All Hail Britannia chants. It also borrows from Japan itself with the Numbers being a reference to the Japanization that happened after Japan began expanding its borders.
- Don't forget the Megacorporations that are mentioned to have been dissolved by Emperor Lelouch. They are most likely a combination of the Japanese Zaibatsu with the mercantilist corporations of the colonial era (ie. the East India Company, and so forth). It fits into a Nazi-like system due to Fascism usually being described as having strong corporate influence in the government. However, strangely enough, Emperor Lelouch's reforms and style of autocracy are mentioned as having some elements of Marxist-Leninism.
- Even better, whenever anyone says "hail" in the japanese version it's pronounced to sound like "heil". "ALL HEIL BRITANNIA" indeed.
- Amestris, the country in which Fullmetal Alchemist takes place, is a military nation ruled by a Führer that has sought to exterminate an entire ethnic group in the past. Amestris is, however, rather more like post-WW 2 Germany, what with the aforementioned "Ishval Civil War" having been a horrible PR catastrophe and most modern Amestrians behaving extremely apologetically towards surviving Ishvalans. Of course, the leader who initiated the genocide is somehow still seated in power and continues to uphold a destructive Lebensraum policy, but it helps when you're a superpowered Artificial Human backed by a truly ancient and sinister Government Conspiracy. This is a somewhat unusual example in that Amestris is mainly inspired by industrial revolution era Britain, and the Ishvalans are based on the Ainu people, but it manages to look like a parallel to Nazi Germany anyway.
- King Bradley (King is his first name (and it's a real name, too; just ask King Gillette)) is actually President King Bradley in his position of head of state, and Fuhrer King Bradley in his job as head of the military. As such, he is occasionally called President-Fuhrer King Bradley. Talk about ego.
- Done comedically in Excel Saga. "HEIL ILPALAZZO!!!!" In the anime you can actually briefly see twin swastikas in Excel's eyes as she vocally expresses her loyalty in the first episode.
- A couple of times in Darker Than Black (specific examples being Maki in the first series and Harvest in the interquel manga), Contractors will refer to themselves as the next step in evolutionary progress and use terms like master race. There's some (possibly intentional) Does This Remind You Of Anything since when Maki starts ranting in this vein, he is trying to convince November 11 who is extremely aryan looking.
Comic Books
- To see when this trope backfires read Grant Morrison's penultimate arc of New X-Men, Planet X, in which Holocaust survivor Magneto goes more and more mindlessly berserk as the arc wears on, culminating in his beginning to herd all surviving non-mutants in New York into crematoria. One of his servants even points out that he's acting like a Nazi. A lot of the fans hated it, and Marvel execs were so horrified that they immediately said that wasn't Magneto. This is hardly the first time Magneto has been compared to the Nazis, nor the first instance of someone pointing it out to him, or even Magneto acknowledging it himself. It was just done with better writing most of those times.
- One of the better examples is an alternate future/dream where Magneto wipes out humanity only to have the dead rise from their graves, including zombie Hitler who compliments him on being such an apt pupil in a moment that manages to be Nightmare Fuel Unleaded, despite the hokey premise. That probably has something to do with this three-page sequence being the only X-Men-related material ever penned by Alan Moore.
- Another incident worth noting—just after Magneto took over Genosha, he mused to Xavier that he didn't think a mutant nation was enough; he hoped to find "a more...definitive solution". Xavier suggests the word he was looking for was "final". Cue defensive rant.
- You might then be interested in Operation Rebirth from Evolution. Logan explains the super soldier program used to turn Steve Rogers into Captain America. Xavier's reply? "A master race?" Logan gets the hint and claims it was the good guys behind the project.
- "Arctic Nation", from the eponymous edition of the French-Spanish furry comic book Blacksad, consists of rich, influential white animals (as in, with white fur), who wear early Nazi-style trenchcoats, have a flag which substitutes a stylized snowflake for the swastika, and wear armbands, but in their actual workings they're instead the KKK, complete with sheet robes and burning crosses.
- The Keelers (anti-mutant lobby) in the 2000AD strip Strontium Dog. There's even a Keeler Youth organisation.
- Another 2000AD comic, Invasion! and it's sequel, Savage, feature the Volgans, a far-right Russian regime. Originally intended to be played by the Soviet Union, Editorial Meddling forced the creators to use a generically authoritarian Ruritanian Expy so as not to aggrevate officials at the Soviet embassy during a period of fragile détente. They were later explicitly revealed to be Russian.
- The Norsefire Party in V for Vendetta IS the Nazi Party (if it was was late 1990's Britain).
- The Norsefire Party were closer to a logical (if extreme) extension of right-wing tendencies in late 1980s Britain; they're a decidedly unsubtle expy of the National Front with some level-grinding in competence. That Norsefire are essentially the Nazi Party and still recognisably a heartbeat away from the government of the time is part of what makes V For Vendetta so chilling.
- The head honcho Leader Susan, in an introspective moment before the beginning of his slide into true madness, outright confirms to himself he is fascist, both by the historic and the Nazi definition. In his own mental phrasing (and Norsefire doctrine, no doubt), the war "put paid to freedom".
- It should be noted that Norsefire are an implicitly neo-Nazi organisation, and so the parallels are conscious decisions by Norsefire itself. Unlike most entries on this page, Norsefire consciously emulate Nazi Germany.
- HYDRA from Marvel probably fall here.
Film
- The government in V For Vendetta is very Nazi-like. Also, the leader's name, "Adam Sutler", sounds too similar to "Adolf Hitler" to have been a coincidence.
- Since the movie Starship Troopers is a parody of the novel, they use the Nazi-like symbolism to portray the humans as an evil invading race by Putting On The Reich, and occasionally showing a propaganda commercial. One fan theory is that the humans faked the asteroid attack to justify the invasion. Either that, or used the opportunity provided by the otherwise natural asteroid strike to start a war.
- This is capped by Neil Patrick Harris (at the time, best known for Doogie Howser) as a Dr. Mengele Expy.
- The Lion King gives us the song Be Prepared, in which Scar rallies the Hyenas into setting up a new age in Pride Rock, ruled by Scar and the Hyenas. The Nazi Symbolism is quite clear during a sequence when the Hyenas goose step (the most evilest march ever) by Scar. The scene is directly inspired by Triumph of the Will.
- The 1940 Charlie Chaplin film The Great Dictator is about a thinly-veiled parody of the Nazi regime, whose leader is named Adenoid Hynkel and whose symbol is the Double Cross. The location is translated from Germany to the fictional country of Tomania; the anti-Semitism is left undisguised.
- This was predated, surprisingly, by The Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy! (which came out a few months earlier) with Moe as Hailstone, leader of Moronica and Larry and Curly standing in for Goebbels and Goering respectively. It also spawned a sequel, I'll Never Heil Again.
- In Star Wars, particularly the Expanded Universe, it's definitely possible to see The Empire as Nazilike. It's not just the cut of the officers' uniforms (and Grand Moff Tarkin definitely acts the part of a Nazi official) or the fact that its Faceless Goons are called "stormtroopers". The Empire is also strictly, stridently speciesist, always putting humans before nonhumans, to the point where the nonhumans on the capital planet are restricted to a single sector. And it rose when a charismatic leader talked his way into a high position in a democratic government, created problems, then refused to let go.
- Rather ironically, a Rebel ceremony at the end of the original film is clearly modeled on Triumph of the Will.
- The film of Fahrenheit 451 gave the Fireman Nazi like outfits along with an overall fascistic feel to their system, not to mention that a German actor was cast as Montag. This is kind of at odds with the book which makes the dystopian society very "All-American" and rightly or wrongly, Bradbury attributed its start to Political Correctness Gone Mad, something which is far from the Nazi motivation for burning books.
- This troper believes he caught a whiff of this in The Terminator films when it is pointed out that after the machines nuked the world, they herded the survivors into camps to be vaporized. Reese even shows off barcode that was branded onto him.
- The Cyclops in The City Of Lost Children.
- The Crimson Rivers has two generations of low-profile workers creating an Eugenics program in the remote university town in France and actually have some success until they get killed by the real Big Bad , who happens to be a product of such program.
- Contact. There's a certain amount of alarm when the First Contact signal turns out to be a retransmitted television broadcast of Adolf Hitler giving a speech. Kitz even suggests it comes from Scary Dogmatic Aliens who find his views appealing. Cooler heads point out that aliens wouldn't understand the context of the transmission — the speech is Hitler opening the 1936 Olympics, which would have been the first strong TV signal sent into space. Sending it back is simply their way of showing the message was received.
- A bit of a stretch, but the Big Bad "played" by Sir Laurence Olivier in Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow was named "Dr. Totenkopf." *
"Totenkopf" meant "Death's Head", and was the symbol worn on the caps of the SS.
- The film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall features extended sequences of the main character's dreams/hallucinations of himself as the head of a Neo-Nazi group.
- The 1995 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III (starring Ian Mc Kellen) gives us a Setting Update, with Christie Time Britain gradually Putting On The Reich and turning into a Nazi-esque/Orwellian state. Richard's heraldic boar is even incorporated into an exact copy of the Nazi flag in the place of a svastika. Surprisingly, the movie works quite well - both as a Shakespeare adaptation and as a satire on the inter-war period's nonchalance toward the rise of authoritarian regimes.
Literature
- Warrior Cats. Tigerstar was originally from ThunderClan, but came to power in ShadowClan during their darkest hour; Hitler was from Austria, but came to power in Germany during a low point in its history. Tigerstar merged RiverClan into ShadowClan to form TigerClan; Hitler merged Austria and Sudetenland into Germany to form Greater Germany. Like all good dictators, Tigerstar had his own secret police, consisting of Brokenstar's rogues and Darkstripe. He started imprisoning and mistreating halfClan cats, clearly planning to eventually kill them, because he claimed that they couldn't be trusted, and blamed them all that had ever gone wrong. And finally, up until she realised how evil he was, Sasha was pretty much the Eva Braun to Tigerstar's Hitler.
- Frank Herbert has stated that he based House Harkonnen from the Dune novels on the Nazis.
- In Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time, the False Dragon Mazrim Taim creates ranks that the Nazi used. This is more of a Kick The Dog moment to show that Taim is evil and cannot be trusted, rather than trying to portray Taim as Hitler. He also refers to himself as the "M'Hael", or "Leader", and General Bashere is uncertain he's the real Taim because he's shaved his mustache, which may be a subtle Lampshade Hanging.
- The Garth Nix short story "Hope Chest" features a villain called the Leader who terrifies populations into submission and brings everyone who hears his voice under his thrall.
- Discworld has several Nazi-like groups:
- Wolfgang von Uberwald's werewolf "movement" in The Fifth Elephant deserves mention here. Wolf wears a black uniform with a nickel crest of a wolf's head and lightning bolts, uses phrases like "Joy through Strength" and his mother calls dwarfs "subhuman" (Ironically, because they use a different set of idioms than humans do, a dwarf might take that as a compliment).
- The vampires in Carpe Jugulum are also organized racists ("The trolls are stupid, the dwarfs are devious, the pixies are evil and the gnomes stick in your teeth"), but less military about it.
- The Dogs' Guild in Men At Arms. Their entry in GURPS Discworld notes that if Big Fido had been human "the Discworld might have been in serious trouble, possibly involving jackboots", and certainly the image of an insane poodle insisting "the proper shape for a dog was a lot bigger" calls to mind a short, dark-haired man going on about Nordic perfection. According to The Discworld Companion, his speeches even included the phrase "the Master race" ... only this was humanity, which caninekind was going to overthrow.
- While ideology is lacking, the past Ankh-Morpork shown in Night Watch is a fascist police state along similar lines as that in V For Vendetta. Notably, the Secret Police are called the Cable Street Particulars, which besides being a Shout Out to the heroic Baker Street Irregulars references the "Battle of Cable Street" between Oswald Moseley's Blackshirts and anti-fascist Londoners. Their leader, Captain Swing, fits the "non-Aryan/perverse Nazi" role, being odd and sickly looking (think Goebbels) yet obsessed with a Eugenic kind of phrenology. (Although phrenology was popular with the sillier sort of criminologists back when Hitler was still painting postcards in Vienna, so it may not be an intended Nazi reference.)
- The Death Eaters from Harry Potter believe in the superiority of pure blood, and will kill anyone they feel is inferior to them. Rowling ups the ante by having Umbridge play the role of the traitors who suck up to the Nazis. J.K. Rowling acknowledged the Death Eaters are supposed to represent the Nazis. In the fourth movie, they're also symbolized as Klansmen—check out the KKK-inspired headgear, torches and "burning signal". And that's not even getting into the seventh book, for most of which the Power Trio are on the run in one of the most blatant parallels of Nazi-occupied Europe ever seen. The sign of the Deathly Hallows is very similar to the history of the swastika as well - originally an innocent symbol, then used by wizard-supremacist Grindelwald, etched on walls by stupid pricks to get attention...
- And Nurmengard = Nuremberg.
- And the very "Arbeit macht frei"-like slogan, "For the Greater Good", that was written over the gate of Nurmengard.
- Polish translation of Deathly Hallows explicitly called those who hunted muggleborns and La Resistance for profit szmalcownicy. Real Life szmalcownicy sold hiding Jews to the Nazis during The War.
- And of course there's the general ideal of Pureblood/Halfblood/Mudblood which mirrors the Nazi concepts of blood purity and blood pollution. It also draws from American and South African racist attitudes towards blacks.
- In Charles Stross's Iron Sunrise, there's a supposed "master race" called the ReMastered. Stross has said in his blog that his original working title for the book was Space Nazis Must Die!.
- The Freedom Party from Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series are the Alternate Universe CSA-version of the Nazis, with Jake Featherston standing in for Hitler, and mass murder of blacks replacing the Holocaust.
- Written during World War Two, TH White's The Once and Future King features a scene within an ant colony. The ant society's suppression of individuality is a strong allegory for the totalitarian Nazi state.
- Watership Down's Efrafa is a Rabbit version of the Nazi state (with a dash of Stalin-ism thrown in for good measure).
- In Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster, Sir Roderick Spode is leader of the Black Shorts, obviously based on Oswald Moseley's Black Shirts. His followers shout, 'Heil Spode!' In the TV series, the Black Shorts use the 'flash in the pan' symbol associated with the Black Shirts.
- The book The Wave is about starting a youth movement at a high school that is suspiciously close to Naziism, as An Aesop to show how easy it is to get caught up in such a situation.
- The scary thing is, it's a true story.
- The hittites in The Egyptian are treated as pretty much nazi-expies. Which is not really fair.
- The whole book can be interpreted as an allegory of WWII.
- The Army of Excellence in Swan Song, who want to destroy everyone who developed disfiguring keloids after nuclear war destroyed America. There's a lot of talk about 'genetic purity', and the leader even wears some vintage SS uniforms.
Live Action TV
- The Scourge from an episode of Angel are demons whose ideas about racial purity drive them to destroy all creatures that are part demon and part human. A description that fits two of the show's heroes at that point, Angel and Doyle. They even wear Nazi-style trenchcoats. Ironically, unless the Scourge were gigantic or had godlike powers, odds are they have some human taint themselves according to Anya.
- The Night Watch in Babylon 5 had a number of Nazi/Brownshirt parallels (notably pro-Earth jingoism and anti-alien xenophobia), with Zack Allan as an example of a sympathetic character who gets swept up in it. He turns against Night Watch when the chips are down.
- The Kaleds, ancestors of the Daleks in Doctor Who, wear black military uniforms with cross medals and heel clicking. They get painted as Nazis IN SPACE. This is not surprising, since the Daleks themselves where one of the few Nazi-esque villains that were explicitly meant to be substantively Nazi-like, as opposed to just generic Nazi symbolism to make sure the slow-witted know when to boo. It was nicely lampshaded in the '08 episode "The Stolen Earth" where Martha teleports to Germany to play her part in activating the Osterhagen Key, and Daleks can be heard shouting in German "Exterminieren!"
- Then there's the new British government that shows up in the alternate universe of "Turn Left". By the time the immigrants are being shipped off to "labour camps", WWII survivor Wilf knows exactly where it's going.
- The Bernice Summerfield Expanded Universe novel Down features a member of the Stella Stora Sigma Schutz-Staffel SturmSoldaten (the SSSSSS), "the most ineffective Nazi group since the Outer Hebridean National Party", who is a collection of Nazi stereotypes masquerading as a character (intentionally; his character arc is that he realises this). The less ludicrous Fifth Axis appeared later in the same series and, in a case of it all coming full circle, turned out to be working for the Daleks. (Since Benny is Indiana Jones IN SPACE!, it makes sense she'd be fighting Nazis IN SPACE!)
- An episode of Space Above And Beyond featured a politician who was secretly a member of a Fantastic Racism movement against In Vitroes (Artificial Humans). He wore a silver ring with a swastika-like design on it.
- Colonel Green, the World War III leader recreated in the Star Trek episode "The Savage Curtain" as a symbol of evil, was portrayed as A Nazi By Any Other Name in the Expanded Universe novel Federation, where he's the leader of the "Optimum Movement", and his symbols include geometric shapes (interlocked triangles, rather than the swastika) and black eagles. This portrayal was continued in the Star Trek Enterprise episodes dealing with Terra Prime, with the hate-group's admiration of Green reflecting the neo-Nazi attitude to Hitler. (The Terra Prime arc was partly written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who also wrote Federation.) A loud thudding sound accompanied Federation making its Big Bad, Adrik Thorsen (presumably intended to be a German name, but it ended up more Scandinavian...still Middle-to-Upper Europe, though) be blonde and blue-eyed.
- The whole concept of genetic augmentation is presented to reflect this trope in Star Trek. The first Eugenics Wars in which a bunch of superpowered dictators, (i.e. a "master race") conquered the Earth until they were deposed. Then after you had the Augments who fancied themselves a master race.
- This is partly the Cardassians' hat. They are based of pretty much every facist regime, but the Nazi parallels tend to stick out, particully in their actions during the Occupation of Bajor.
- The Visitors of the miniseries (and subsequent series) V were thinly-veiled Nazi stand-ins, complete with extermination camps (meat-processing plants). The original concept for the series was a non-science fiction plot about a fascist regime coming to power in America. In the original miniseries, a Jewish Holocaust survivor acknowledged the parallels.
Music Videos
- The music video for the Pearl Jam song "Do the Evolution" (seen herehas a scene with what are implied to be Nazi troops, but the Swastika is replaced by another symbol. However, the symbol is actually similar to the symbol used by the SS.
Real Life
Video Games
- Taygen in the fifth Geneforge game, who plans to annihilate all nonhumans, even has concentration camps. It shall be left as an exercise to the player whether those who consider his faction the optimal choice constitute a Misaimed Fandom or are a consequence of the series's Grey and Gray Morality.
- The Movement from Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy fits this trope. The meat puppets (basic irreversibly mind-wiped and rewritten soldiers) even have a red armband with the movement symbol on it and jackboots. What really cements it is their belief that psions should rule over the normal humans and the fact that the leader of it all is a general who staged a failed coup who really isn't a psion until he gets the artefacts he needs. For irony points the main character is blonde and blue eyed and none of the bosses are.
- Suikoden V has several Bazi groups.
- The Godwin family preaches the "virtues" of a strong militaristic regime, has soldiers in really snappy gray uniforms with red berets, and tries to make a "Falena for Falenans." They also employ an assassin named Dolph, in case you still haven't gotten it by that point.
- Even weirder, parts of the game hint that while he'd somewhat prefer to remain in charge, he's deliberately creating a persona as a Hilter-ite villain, so that all the peoples of Falena will unite against him. His father is this trope played straight, though not as charismatic.
- Similarly, the Kingdom of Highland had always been an aggressive military power since its formation, but it really started to become similar to this after Luca Blight came into power, leading to thousands of people being needlessly tortured and slaughtered.
- There's also Harmonia, an expansionist empire with a strictly segregated society that condones slavery, treats non-human sentients as property rather than people, and seeks in the long term to conquer the world. Oh, and the most privileged caste of citizens, who are the only ones who can currently take any position of real authority? Invariably blond-haired and blue-eyed.
- The Desians from Tales Of Symphonia are VERY Nazi like. They torment and kill people, in
Concentration Camps Human Ranches, and think of themselves as "Superior" (or really, humans are "Inferior Beings!!"), in addition to a slew of other parallels.
- In Xenosaga Episode 2, there were the mass produced URT Vs, all of which had blonde hair, blue eyes, were essentially flawless, and hive-minded. While not necessarily 'evil', their behavior is disturbing and they eventually succumb to madness and commit mass murdering sprees once infected with UDO.
- Who would have thought it? Even Pokemon of all games went for it in Pokemon Platinum, by inserting a cutscene in which Team Galactic leader Cyrus address ranks upon ranks of assembled Team Galactic Grunts: he tells them about creating a world for Team Galactic, free of the "imperfections" of past world along with such lines as "Let there be glory for team galactic!". The grunts answers with chants of "Master Cyrus is the greatest!". And to top it off, the character spying on the rally with you goes out of his way to remark how mesmerizing but unthinkable the whole speech was.. Yes, I know. In POKEMON.
- Well, the fanbase is always complaining about wanting a better storyline... Mostly unrelated, but Registeel had the "Heil Hitler" thing going on with his hand on his D/P sprite and it was changed for PAL Release and Platinum.
- The Helghast from Killzone. Their history is pretty much "Nazis In Space". That's not mentioning their whole superiority complex
- The Enclave in the Fallout series. Aside from Putting On The Reich, they have a Final Solution involving tainting the water supply.
- The Project (commonly referred to as the Black Lance), from Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom is none too subtle a 27th century Nazi analog, complete with a nanomachine-based bioweapon designed to target "undesirable" individuals, a la the Final Solution.
- Die Spinne in Crimson Skies. 1. They're German; 2. They're Fascists; 3. The game series is set in the thirties. It looks like somebody wasn't really trying to hide the obvious here.
Web Original
- Decades Of Darkness has Shane Mullins and his Vitalists of New England. Fun fact: They have an SA equivalent wearing red shirts.
- Open Blue's Seran doesn't even try to hide its Naziness. Authoritarian Germanic nation led by a Führer, Snazzy (albeit red) uniforms everywhere, an intelligence agency that almost directly parallels the SS right down to the Common Ranks, basically everything except racial superiority beliefs and swastikas.
Western Animation
- In the Dutch series Alfred J. Kwak, which features humanized animals, the main character's nemesis is named Dolf. He founds a party called National Crows, he takes power by staging a fascist-style coup, and even if he proclaims himself Emperor and dresses in Napoleonic style, he's obviously a satire of Hitler. Oh, and he grows a characteristic mustache. Dolf also tries to enforce "racial purity" while he himself, like Hitler, is hardly up such standard - he's the son of a crow and a blackbird. Yeah, it's a weird show.
- The Death Camp of Tolerance episode of South Park. The episode title is pretty self explanatory.
- In Clone High, the school's rivals the G.E.S.H. Have a pep rally with similar looking Nazi imagery.
- The Fire Nation from Avatar The Last Airbender. "We are the sons and daughters of fire, the superior element!" a military rally is told. There's genocide in the back-story, attempted genocide in the climax, there's propaganda, revisionist history, indoctrination of the young, and of course the whole take-over-the-world thing.
- While the Fire Nation is definitely paralleling Nazi Germany, its main parallel was Imperial Japan, which had all of the above.
- Ben 10 Alien Force has the High Breed, a race of aliens so obsessed with genetic purity that they seek to exterminate all other races, believing their gene pools to be "inferior".
Tabletop Games
- In [[In Nomine]], the Archangel of Purity, named Uriel, took his role a bit too far and tried to "purify" the world of a race of beings called Ethereals which included most of the creatures of myth and legend. His "Purge" was largely successful with most Ethereals fleeing Earth for the dream-world; however, God himself eventually intervened and Uriel has not been seen since.
- Plus, Uriel was so Hitleriffic, he was able to genocide beings which didn't exist yet!
- Warhammer40000 has the Imperium of Man, who more or less trades technicalities in qualities with Nazi Germany or takes them Up To Eleven - it is militaristic, speciesist instead of racist, has a secret police of ridiculous authority (and frequently, brutality), worships their leader as the God Emperor of Mankind, more or less follows the Eugenics Hitler believed in (though instead of killing them off, they just let them die instead). And they love
awesome tanks what would be Cool But Inefficient in Real Life.
- Ironical the Emperor himself is not really in favor of all this and rather wanted to create a time of enlightment, freedom, safety and without any worshiping of false idols (including what they do with him). It's too bad he is locked into a life support system and used as navigation devic for space travel, while the church using him as god, another church praying to a false machine god, a bunch of military high leaders and a fanatic legion of super soldiers controll the empire.
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