alt title(s): Nazi; Nazis
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!
Those Wacky Nazis covers a variety of comedic and non-comedic Nazi stereotypes, including:
- The "cultured" one who stands around in vest braces and lederhosen listening to 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 Obstructive Bureaucrat 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 round-spectacled, black-gloved 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 The Baroness. 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 Allo Allo.
- The Secret Project Leader. This is the guy in charge of the demonic alien vampire robozombies and the divine/infernal Artifact that's sure to give Hitler the edge against those darn Allies. The battle between him and the heroes usually doesn't make it in the history books and 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 interested in this stuff.
- The mook that gets killed as soon as he appears.
- The "Noble Nazi", usually a regular military officer (not SS) who feels My Country Right Or Wrong.
- The mad doctor obsessed with purifying the race, discovering immortality, etc., through horrifying surgical means. May also overlap with "Frankenstein", above. Basically Mengele, mixed with the alien vampire robozombie stereotype above.
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
American History X.
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
Cold War, spy shows, such as
Mission Impossible or
The Man From Uncle, 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
was is predominantly Jewish, and
World War II 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 Schultz and Klink on
Hogans 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
Latin Land or even the continental United States.
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 pronoun "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/maam!"
- 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".
- 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!" (Although many years ago, this troper and his father saw a lame movie in which the German shouted "Nicht scheißen!".)
- Which means something completly different...
- If held at gunpoint without defenses, no wonder he'd be saying that, if only to remind himself.
- In case you're wondering: It means "Don't shit!"
- It could also be read as "No! Shit!" which makes a little more sense. The translation is skewed though.
- That would be "Nein! Scheiße!" Sorry, Grammar Na—uh, strict grammarian.
Stock slurs:
- Schwein!- Almost-English stock insult, essentially saying Swine. Schweinehund as well.
- Ami: American
- Tommy: Brit / Englishman
- Franzmann: Frenchman
- Itaker: Italian
- 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 "
voice achtung".
