History Main / FourthReich

** In the [[Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies movie before that]], the Nazis point out that it's been ten years since the end of World War, and so they deserve a second chance.

* "VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope:"

* While obviously no Fourth Reich has ever come about in the real world ([[AllGermansAreNazis aside from the occasional joke about modern Germany's dominant position within the EU]]), comparisons of the length of each of the three previous Reichs has projected that if the Fourth Reich were to ever come about it would only last about [[EpicFail 2-3 weeks and could've already come and gone.]] There are minor Neo-Nazi groups within Germany to this day, but they are so superbly infiltrated by the federal authorities that they have no hope of ever attaining any real power, not to mention the ideology being intensely unpopular among most people by now.

* In Creator/RobertLudlum's ''The Holcroft Covenant'' (plus [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film it's based on]]), a group of high-ranking Nazis placed millions in a Swiss bank and sent German children across the world to be used later for creating a new Nazi world order. More realistically than most depictions, it also has them do this by infiltrating governments, having people who get into various influential businesses, militaries, intelligence services etc. Then they can engineer a series of {{false flag operation}}s blamed on terrorists, which make the First World governments band together to stop terrorism with these covert Nazis manipulating them all into establishing authoritarian policies, including mass executions of criminals and what are strongly implied as concentration camps under different names. However, there's a [[RayOfHopeEnding ray of hope at the end]], as Israeli commandos are given their names and set to assassinate them.

* Series/SuperGirl: features Overgirl, a Nazi version of Supergirl from a Fourth Reich in a parallel dimension.

%%* Creator/RobertLudlum's 1995 political thriller ''The Apocalypse Watch''.

* In Creator/RobertLudlum's ''The Holcroft Covenant'' (plus [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film it's based on]]), a group of high-ranking Nazis placed millions in a Swiss bank and sent German children across the world to be used later for creating a new Nazi world order. More realistically than most depictions, it also has them do this by infiltrating governments, having people who get into various influential businesses, militaries, intelligence services etc. Then they can engineer a series of {{false flag operation}}s blamed on terrorists, which make the First World governments band together to stop terrorism with these covert Nazis manipulating them all into establishing authoritarian policies, including mass executions of criminals and what are strongly implied as concentration camps under different names. However, there's a [[RayOfHopeEnding ray of hope at the end]], as Israeli commandos are given their names and set to assassinate them. Ludlum later penned a spiritual successor novel named the ''Apocalypse Watch'', set in the 1990s where a band of neo-Nazis also infiltrated governments using Nazi-born children and try to poison the Western countries' water supply as a pretext, and the protagonist is sent to stop them after his CIA brother was captured and forced to become the mole for the neo-Nazis.

* Spoofed in a sketch on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' where "Adolf Hilter" is running for office in England on the "National Bocialist" ticket, promising an Anschluss where the town of Minehead will annex the neighboring town of Taunton. He notably has no allies apart from his friends "Ron Vibbentrof" and "Mr. Bimmler."

* ''Literature/ForAllTime'': After [[spoiler: the Soviet Union collapses into nuclear civil war in]] the 1980's, the [[BalkanizeMe divided remnants of Germany]] reunify and go on to establish the National German Republic, led by Reich Chancellor Jörg Haider by the 2000's. Subverted in the sense that, while they're authoritarian, they don't bring back Nazi policies. In fact, under them, Germany's Jewish population actually ''increases'' to numbers not seen since the Wiemar Republic.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyVanguard:'' The BigBad of the game, [[SecretPolice SS Oberst-Gruppenführer Heinrich Wenzel Freisinger]], [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed based off]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_M%C3%BCller_(Gestapo) Heinrich Müller]] seeks to bring back a Fourth Reich right from the ashes of the Third [[GovernmentConspiracy from the underground.]]

* Series/Supergirl: features Overgirl, a Nazi version of Supergirl from a Fourth Reich in a parallel dimension.

* One Season 1 episode of ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 The New Adventures of Wonder Woman]]'' is titled "Anschluss '77" and has this story.

* This trope took off just about as soon as it was chronologically even possible. ''Rocket Ship Galileo'', the first of the "[[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Heinlein sci-fi juveniles]]" was published in 1947, and features a [[SpaceBase secret Nazi base on the Moon]] dedicated to establishing a Fourth Reich. Readers of the time likely thought that landing men on the Moon was probably the most implausible part of the story.

* While obviously no Fourth Reich has ever come about in the real world ([[AllGermansAreNazis aside from the occasional joke about modern Germany's dominant position within the EU]]), comparisons of the length of each of the three previous Reichs has projected that if the Fourth Reich were to ever come about it would only last about [[EpicFail 2-3 weeks and could've already come and gone.]] There are minor Neo-Nazi groups within Germany to this day, but they are so superbly infiltrated by the federal authorities that they have no hope of ever attaining any real power (not to mention the ideology being intensely unpopular among most people by now).

** ComicBook/RedSkull has made multiple attempts to take over the world in the name of the Nazi cause. One memorable example was him temporarily [[EvilVersusEvil seizing control of the Kingdom of Latveria]] from Doctor Doom and subjecting it to Nazi rule.

** The Kubekult was a group of Neo-Nazis that sought to free Hitler's consciousness from a Cosmic Cube, as well as use said cube to create what they called the "New World Reich."

* ''Film/TheBoysFromBrazil'': Doctor UsefulNotes/JosefMengele has already made multiple clones of Adolf Hitler, and covertly embedded them with select couples abroad. He deems the time right for phase two: assassinate the adoptive fathers, who are all civil servants, leaving the boys to be raised by their doting mothers. TheBigBoard in Mengele's lab indicates that he has housed almost sixty clones, so he's certain at least one will develop into the zealous, charismatic Fuhrer for a new generation.
-->'''Mengele:''' Not an offspring, not a copy, but an exact recreation of the original! Der Fuhrer was ''ecstatic''!

* Creator/CliveCussler's oceanographic adventurer [[Literature/DirkPittAdventures Dirk Pitt]] tangled with a family who was trying to do just this in the book ''Atlantis Found''. The family's master plan was called the Fourth Empire. Yes, they were based in South America. Yes, there is a [[spoiler:genetic connection to Hitler]].

* A neo-Nazi organization that called ''itself'' the Fourth Reich made a brief appearance in the Literature/{{Nightside}} series, as one of the numerous factions contending over possession of the Unholy Grail. Subverted in that they were massacred ''en masse'' by competitors for the relic before they even saw it - never mind, using its power to establish a new Nazi empire - and only appear on-page as buckets of blood-spatter when Taylor and Suzie arrive to search their headquarters.

* ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'' by Creator/IraLevin has an elderly UsefulNotes/JosefMengele proclaim that the Fourth Reich ''will'' emerge in the future, which is later revealed to be due to him [[spoiler:having created 94 clones of Adolf Hitler more than a decade before the events of the book take place.]] The anti-Nazi protagonists also realize that several [[spoiler:Hitler clones]] potentially teaming up in the then-future 1990's is a ''very'' scary prospect. The book ends with [[spoiler:an unnamed Hitler clone drawing a picture of himself giving a Hitler-esque speech in front of a large audience.]]