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Tropes:
- Adolf Hitlarious: Making fun of Adolf Hitler by portraying him as a comically incompetent buffoon.
- All Germans Are Nazis: Stereotyping all German people as being Nazis or Neo-Nazis.
- Alternate-History Nazi Victory: Alternate history scenarios in which Nazis won World War II or World War II stopped with them still in power.
- Apocalypse Hitler: Adolf Hitler somehow comes back from the dead.
- Argentina Is Nazi-Land: Argentina and other South American countries are portrayed as being havens for fugitive Nazi war criminals who fled Europe at the end of World War II.
- Black Shirt: Closet Evil Minions yearning for the day the villain brings about his empire of evil.
- British Nazis: The tendency to have Nazis played by British actors, sometimes accent included. May also be a de-facto Evil Brit.
- Les Collaborateurs: People from the countries that Nazi Germany invaded who helped the occupying forces in various ways.
- Commie Nazis: Mixing Nazi/Communist imagery to symbolize evil.
- Day of the Jackboot: Fascism takes over a country.
- Doctor von Turncoat: A scientist switches sides in a conflict and avoids punishment due to their scientific expertise. Usually a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of a Project Paperclip scientist.
- Fascist, but Inefficient: Fascism, Nazism, and the like may place a big emphasis on maintaining order and running things efficiently like clockwork, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's actually true at all.
- Final Solution: Genocide of an entire race of people. The Nazi Holocaust gives the trope its name.
- Fourth Reich: Nazi Germany and its empire somehow get resurrected.
- Ghostapo: Nazis dabbling with occult magic and the supernatural.
- Godwin's Law: The longer a debate lasts, the more likely the chance of bringing Nazis into it grows.
- Godwin's Law of Facial Hair: The Toothbrush Mustache is associated with authority and is used to reference Hitler.
- Godwin's Law of Time Travel: Changing the past will always make the Nazis win.
- Gratuitous Nazis: Want an easy stand-in for evil? Bring Nazis in your work, even if it makes little sense.
- Hitler Ate Sugar: Something is bad because Nazis like it.
- Hitler Cam: A view from slightly below a person standing alone to make them look tall and important, like Hitler in the documentaries of Leni Riefenstahl.
- Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Using time travel to stop/kill Hitler never ends well.
- Jews Playing Nazis: A Nazi character is portrayed by a Jewish actor.
- Master Race: A race that proclaims itself superior to others, as the Nazis did.
- Music to Invade Poland to: Music (usually German, preferably by Richard Wagner) that the Nazis favored.
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: Character portrayed as a Nazi in everything but name.
- Nazi Gold: Treasure hunt for the Nazis looted when occupying Europe.
- Nazi Grandpa: An aging Nazi, who may or may not have committed war crimes back in the day.
- Nazi Hunter: A character who hunts down Nazi fugitives who fled prosecution for their war crimes.
- Nazi Nobleman: People of wealth and privilege who were working with the Nazis or embraced their cause.
- Nazi Protagonist: The story centers on a Nazi protagonist, typically a Villain Protagonist.
- Nazisploitation: Exploitation films with torture porn, gratuitous nudity, and Nazi flavor, often set in prisons or concentration camps.
- Nazi Zombies: Nazis coming back as undead zombies to continue fighting the war.
- No Swastikas: Bans on the use of Nazi symbols and the various ways to write around them.
- Piggybacking on Hitler: A fictional villain teams up with the Nazis.
- Putting on the Reich: Using visual elements that strongly evoke Nazi Germany.
- The Quisling: The leader of Les Collaborateurs. Named after Vidkun Quisling, who was appointed as the puppet ruler of German-occupied Norway.
- State Sec: A secret police or paramilitary force that rids the regime of its racial, political, etc. enemies, like the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Advanced, futuristic technology and super-weapons developed by the Nazis.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Stereotyped portrayals of Nazis, often as hilariously stupid and/or batshit crazy.
- We Didn't Start the Führer: Adolf Hitler was never human in the first place.
- You Cloned Hitler!: Cloning Adolf Hitler.
Some single tropes not covered by any of these:
- The German text on top of this page plays with Hitler's way of speaking forcefully, but with ridiculously rolled r's. Nowadays, one cannot do this anymore in German without sounding like a parody of Hitler.
