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Author: Xzenu

Mar 17th 2012 at 8:44:35 AM

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->''Springtime for Hitler and Germany! Deutchland is happy and gay! We're marching to a faster pace: Watch out Europe, here comes ze master race!''
--> ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwhD10lYGVE Springtime for Hitler]]''[[hottip:*:The ShowWithinAShow, not the trope]], '''TheProducers'''.

There are many ways to portray ThoseWackyNazis as lesser than us normal people. One [[HeteronormativeCrusader heteronormative]] classic take on this is to pretend that The Third Reich was some kind of [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily rainbow club]] for "sexual deviants" such as homosexuals, transvestites and sadomasochists.

Traditionally, this trope is a subtrope of AbomintionAccusationAttack: It got started in WorldWarII England, where the anti-German propaganda kept portraying the Nazis as being gay et cetera. Meanwhile, the real Nazi Germany was strictly conservative in matters of sexuality, including systematically putting any gays they could find in [[FinalSolution the death-camps]]. However, the English propaganda got some fuel from the Nazi party practice of excusing executions within the party by accusing the victim of being gay. After the war, the trope mostly got used in reverse: It was now used against sexual minorities, as a way of trying to discredit them by linking them to Nazi Germany.

While the background is political, modern usage of the trope simply draws on old stereotypes and doesn't necessarily have any political agenda of any kind.

Compare StupidJetpackHitler.
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[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* ''ChickTracts'' routinely portray gays as the SA stormtroopers of the evil New World Order.
* In {{Preacher}}, Odin's Lawyer at first seem to merely be a {{Dominatrix}} with some kind of Nazi fetish. However, she turn out to be mentally unstable and totally delusional - including some peculiar ideals about Hitler's benevolence and sexuality. Ironically, she's not a racist - and believe that Adolf Hitler wasn't either. While her boss [[spoiler:who turns out to have an even creepier fetish]] is secretly a member o the Ku Klux Klan.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* In ''TheProducers'', the protagonists fail to understand this trope, thus failing miserably at failing with their show SpringtimeForHitler. The film uses the Pink Swastikas trope in two ways, both PlayedForLaughs:
** First, we have poor unhappy old Franz. His character is entirely based on the "The Third Reich Nazis were gay" stereotype, but without any implications that this stereotype would be true in general. Instead, he comes across as delusional. 
** Second, we have the ShowWithinAShow, ''SpringtimeForHitler'', which make Nazi Germany look like one big happy Pink Swastika PrideParade. See page quote. The audience hate it at first, taking it for the Nazi propaganda it is. Then they recognize the classic "Nazis are gay" propaganda stereotype and love it for being a joke at the Nazi's expense. [[PoesLaw How would they be able to know]] that the author was dead serious, anyway?