In a hundred years time, perhaps, a great man will appear who may offer them (the Germans) a chance at salvation. He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the course I have charted.
Matt Gray: But if he didn't like [Nazi Germany], and he had all these awards from two different institutions* , surely he f***ing hated that!
Tom Scott: Yes... but why did he have to accept it anyway?
Gary Brannan* : Because otherwise it'd blow his cover and he'd get killed by some mysterious agents they probably thought still existed at the time.
[ding!]
Tom: Yes, he feared reprisals after the war.
Gary: Because we all assume, like, neatly the war ended in '45. They weren't very sure the war was actually over for a very long time because they kind of thought "They'll be back", like they are in films. Like there's a secret cache of Nazis that...
Matt: After the credits!
Gary: Yeah! A single Nazi helmet pops up out of the ground! [hums dramatic sting]
Tom: Well, you know... seventy years later, they're back. Anyway!
[audience groans, Gary points to his hoodie's "satire" logo]
Tom Scott: Yes... but why did he have to accept it anyway?
Gary Brannan* : Because otherwise it'd blow his cover and he'd get killed by some mysterious agents they probably thought still existed at the time.
[ding!]
Tom: Yes, he feared reprisals after the war.
Gary: Because we all assume, like, neatly the war ended in '45. They weren't very sure the war was actually over for a very long time because they kind of thought "They'll be back", like they are in films. Like there's a secret cache of Nazis that...
Matt: After the credits!
Gary: Yeah! A single Nazi helmet pops up out of the ground! [hums dramatic sting]
Tom: Well, you know... seventy years later, they're back. Anyway!
[audience groans, Gary points to his hoodie's "satire" logo]
—The Technical Difficulties, talking about Juan Pujol Garcia being awarded both an iron cross and an MBE, touching on this trope, and throwing in a potshot at the Alt-Right for good measure, Citation Needed episode 8x06.
"Blah blah blah. Funny how Nazis are always the bad guys. Hello, OSS 117? We are in 1955. Can we have a second chance?"
