History PlayingWith / AllGermansAreNazis

* '''Straight''': In a TimeTravel show FrederickTheGreat, Film/TheRedBaron, [[EastGermany Erich Honecker]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman Schultz]], and [[TheFuture Walther Ivermann]] all exhibit distinct Nazi mannerisms.

* '''Parodied''': Our protagonists go to Germany. All the Germans they meet seem to be over-the-top Nazis, and they accept this as just the way Germans are - and then the camera pans out to show that they never left [[WeAllLiveInAmerica America]] and somehow wandered into a neo-Nazi rally.

* '''Straight''': In a TimeTravel show FrederickTheGreat, Film/TheRedBaron, [[EastGermany Erich Honecker]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman Schultz]], and [[TheFuture Walther]] [[EmperorScientist Ivermann]] all exhibit distinct Nazi mannerisms.

* '''Straight''': In a TimeTravel show FrederickTheGreat, Film/TheRedBaron, [[EastGermany Erich]] [[HoYay Honecker]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman Schultz]], and [[TheFuture Walther]] [[EmperorScientist Ivermann]] all exhibit distinct Nazi mannerisms.

** Eisenhower, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, Nimitz, Creator/JRRTolkien, King GeorgeVI, most of the troops in the British, American, Canadian, New Zealander and Australian armed forces, and a good number in the Indian army all have German ancestry. As do many in the Red Army. Therefore all are exactly like Hitler. As is every citizen of Austria, every citizen of Switzerland, every citizen of Liechtensten and a good number of the citizens of [[FridgeLogic Israel.]]

** Theodoric the Ostrogoth was a Nazi. One and one half thousand years before WorldWarII. And he carried a swastika with him when conquering Rome. So was Charlemagne. So were most of Charlemagne's enemies.

** The scenes during WorldWarII are set inside a secret village, where only members of the Nazi Party are allowed in.

** Eisenhower, WinstonChurchill, Nimitz, Creator/JRRTolkien, King GeorgeVI, most of the troops in the British, American, Canadian, New Zealander and Australian armed forces, and a good number in the Indian army all have German ancestry. As do many in the Red Army. Therefore all are exactly like Hitler. As is every citizen of Austria, every citizen of Switzerland, every citizen of Liechtensten and a good number of the citizens of [[FridgeLogic Israel.]]

* '''Exploited''': Bob the SleazyPolitician has Sam the equally sleazy PR agent remind people of Germany's Nazi past because his government is competing with modern Germany for political prestige in the EU.

* '''Exploited''': Bob the Sleazy politician has Sam the equally sleazy PR agent remind people of Germany's Nazi past because his government is competing with modern Germany for political prestige in the EU.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** Eisenhower, WinstonChurchill, Nimitz, Creator/JRRTolkien, King GeorgeVI, most of the troops in the British, American, Canadian, New Zealander and Australian armed forces, and a good number in the Indian army all have German ancestry. Therefore all are exactly like Hitler. As is every citizen of Austria, every citizen of Switzerland, every citizen of Liechtensten and a good number of the citizens of [[FridgeLogic Israel.]]

*** Eisenhower, WinstonChurchill, Nimitz, JRRTolkien, King GeorgeVI, most of the troops in the British, American, Canadian, New Zealander and Australian armed forces, and a good number in the Indian army all have German ancestry. Therefore all are exactly like Hitler. As is every citizen of Austria, every citizen of Switzerland, every citizen of Liechtensten and a good number of the citizens of [[FridgeLogic Israel.]]
*** Even {{Amish}} are Nazis as they have German ancestry.

*** Eisenhower, WinstonChurchill, Nimitz, JRRTolkien, King GeorgeVI, most of the troops in the British, American, Canadian, New Zealander and Australian armed forces, and a good number in the Indian army all have German ancestry. Therefore all are exactly like Hitler. As is every citizen of Austria, every citizen of Switzerland, every citizen of Liechtensten and a good number of the citizens of Israel.

*** Eisenhower, WinstonChurchill, Nimitz, JRRTolkien, King GeorgeVI, most of the troops in the British, American, Canadian, New Zealander and Australian armed forces, and a good number in the Indian army all have German ancestry. Therefore all are exactly like Hitler. As is every citizen of Austria, every citizen of Switzerland, and a good number of the citizens of Israel.

'''Basic Trope''': German characters being portrayed as {{Nazis}} in [[DaysOfFuturePast the future]], [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready the past]], or in [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantasy universes]].

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': He often switches between acting like a Nazi and being offended by being treated like one.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Herr Bismarck?" "Ja?" "...You're wearing a swastika armband. What the fuck"

** Do to media overload, all countries in the world begin to assume German is full of Nazis. They institute economic sanctions against Germany strongly resembling those instituted after WWI. [[ThenLetMeBeEvil The entire nation of Germany figures that if they're going to be accused of being Nazis, they might as well be Nazis.]]

* '''Exaggerated''': Every single German in the history of ever is portrayed as a longcoat-wearing, goose-stepping, Jew-hating, [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villain]].
* '''UpToEleven''': All Germans, even those with a single atom of German ancestry, are Hitler. Not just resembling, but ''exactly''.
* '''Justified''': Historical figures are replaced by [[StupidJetpackHitler time-travelling Nazis]] trying to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight.

** Germany is the ''only'' country portrayed in the work as ''not'' having Nazi attitudes.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** A German character suffers terrible prejudice on account of his nationality, because everyone thinks he's a Nazi.
** Do to media overload, all countries in the world begin to assume German is full of Nazis. They institute economic sanctions against Germany strongly resembling those instituted after WWI. [[ThenLetMeBeEvil The entire nation of Germany figures that if they're going to be accused of being Nazis, they might as well be Nazis.]]
* '''Reconstructed''':
** But he actually is a Nazi in secret and occasionally shows it.
** All media depicting Germans as Nazis is owned and created by a German Nazi, making the whole plan ShapedLikeItself.

* '''Averted''': Germans both in the past and in the future are portrayed appropriately, without any references to Nazis.

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* '''Inverted''': Even from 1933 to 1945, [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory there are no Nazis]].

* '''Deconstructed''': A German character suffers terrible prejudice on account of his nationality, because everyone thinks he's a Nazi.

* '''Reconstructed''': But he actually is a Nazi in secret and occasionally shows it.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Herr Bismarck?" "Ja?" "...You're wearing a swastika armband. [[FlatWhat What.]] [[PrecisionFStrike The. Fuck.]]"

* '''Straight''': In a TimeTravel show FrederickTheGreat, TheRedBaron, [[EastGermany Erich]] [[HoYay Honecker]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman Schultz]], and [[TheFuture Walther]] [[EmperorScientist Ivermann]] all exhibit distinct Nazi mannerisms.

** Do to media overload, all countries in the world begin to assume German is full of Nazis. They institute economic sanctions against Germany strongly resembling those instituted after WWI. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero The entire nation of Germany figures that if they're going to be accused of being Nazis, they might as well be Nazis.]]

** Do to media overload, all countries in the world begin to assume German is full of Nazis. They institute economic sanctions against Germany strongly resembling those instituted after WWI. The entire nation of Germany figures that if they're going to be accused of being Nazis, they might as well be Nazis.

* '''Parodied''': Our protagonists go to Germany. All the Germans they meet seem to be over-the-top Nazis, and they accept this as just the way Germans are - and then the camera pans out to show that they never left America and somehow wandered into a neo-Nazi rally.

** All media depicting Germans as Nazis is owned and created by a German Nazi, making the whole plan ShappedLikeItself.