Many cultures have decades of pop-culture anti-nazi media. What are some of your favorite video games, movies, music, tv shows, books, and other media that are anti-nazi?
Many Italian songs, especially Modena City Ramblers
Propagandhi - The Only Good Fascist Is a Very Dead Fascist. Especially the line “You can wear my nuts on Your nazi chin”.
Wolfenstein, the orginal.
And Doom2
Now do you mean the actual original, or do you mean Wolfenstein 3D?
The Saboteur. A somewhat forgotten but excellent game from the PS3/X360 era, still available on Steam I think.
You play an Irishman in Paris punching nazis and blowing up their shit. The world is black & white and becomes colorful as you capture things.
The racing part sucks, but otherwise the concept and style was just a ton of fun. It had memorable and unique sights and sounds and was just overall a satisfying play.
Call me basic, but Captain America has been beating up Nazis for a long time.
Probably not what you had in mind, but Eat the Reich is a ttrpg in which you, a vampire commando, infiltrate occupied Paris to drink all of Adolf Hitler’s blood.
Ran a game of this. Many Nazis were fucked up and good times were had. Hitler’s blood? Tasted like stale rot.
I’m partial to Nazi Punks, Fuck Off, originally by the Dead Kennedys. Napalm Death does a great version, too, if you’re more into grindcore
This song is featured in the horror movie Green Room, which is also an excellent answer to this question.
It’s not as direct, but Star Wars Andor has this kind of energy to it.
Does Hetalia count?
The Babylon 5 subplot about president Clarke and his regime comes to mind. The scene with the woman of the Ministry of Truth visits Babylon 5 and claims to have sollved problems by rewriting the dictionary does rhyme with certain events in my country.
Not explicitly Nazi, but good enough. There was an episode of Sliders where there’s a world where those with immigrant blood or who don’t fit a certain type of white if I remember correctly get taken away to prison camps essentially. The twist is that they are essentially turned into slaves through some surgery. Also, apparently there was no Hitler on that parallel Earth. A single person (can’t remember if he was alone or with a group/party) was responsible for it all to be allowed.
The idea of those deemed impure/undesirable in society being medically turned into slaves probably sounded like nothing but sci-fi back then but now under the current US president, it doesn’t sound too far fetched (aside from what they were turned into of course).
Inglourious Basterds is pretty good
I can’t say enough good things about the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare:
Mind blowing aspects:
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It’s a true story.
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Ian Fleming was there for it and used it as the inspiration for James Bond.
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In the two real missions dramatized for the film, nobody got killed, but where’s the fun in that?
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“you know how you get to Carnegie Hall?”
Jojo Rabbit. Telling a story from the perspective of a child who has only known propaganda for his whole life makes the film an important reminder of how this all happened, how real human beings can end up going along with horrible things.
Hard to beat the Wolfenstein games and the Indiana Jones movies.
Indy is all about showing us how to properly handle Nazis.
Those were two of the first ones I thought of too. I love The Last Crusade.
“No ticket!”
You chose poorly.
Fine, crystal skulls then.
I wanna say The Producers. So many works trying to demonise Nazis falls into the trap that demons are kinda cool, but Springtime for Hitler is so ridiculous that no matter how pro-Nazi the lyrics are, you can only laugh at them. And watching Hitler throw it back is just peak theatre.
And remember: They were trying to make a flop by making it about Hitler, yet it became a hit. In a way, it kind of parallels reality.
