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?
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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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The opening scene is probably the best part of cinema I have ever seen. Hans Landa is exceptionally well played
Most media portrays Nazi’s as evil fascists with a deep, seething hatred towards Jews and other persecuted minorities. However, Hans Landa is so unsettling because he doesn’t hate the Jews. We aren’t watching someone driven by emotion or even personal ambition. No, this man does his job for the simple reason that he’s good at it. He’s precise; clinical. He orders the deaths of the people in hiding as casually and as detached as someone tidying up their desk space.
And that’s what makes it all the more terrifying. It’s seeing man incredibly skilled at his craft, who takes pleasure in the simple act of a job well done; it just happens that the job is hunting human beings. Not only is he not blinded by hatred, but he uses that lack of hatred as a tool to become even more efficient at exterminating them.
That kind of cold detachment sends hardwired signals of danger to the audience. By the end of that scene, you know you are watching a true monster. One that would just as easily shake a man’s hand as he would slit their throat, and never lose a minute of sleep over it.
“you know how you get to Carnegie Hall?”
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!”
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.
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.
Downfall.
Anti-Nazi is not supposed to be funny, not in today’s politics. Seeing Nazism for what it is and how Nazis saw themselves is best IMO.
Propagandhi - The Only Good Fascist Is a Very Dead Fascist. Especially the line “You can wear my nuts on Your nazi chin”.
During all this Elon Musk BS I suddenly wanted to watch Kung Fury.
Wolfenstein, the orginal.
Now do you mean the actual original, or do you mean Wolfenstein 3D?
Call me basic, but Captain America has been beating up Nazis for a long time.
It’s not as direct, but Star Wars Andor has this kind of energy to it.
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.
Porco Rosso is an excellent Ghibli film with anti-fascist themes.
I’m an Australian, but I have watched ‘don’t be a sucker’ so many times.
Such solid GOOD propaganda. Easy to find for those who have not seen it
I hereby define the Bren Gun as a type of media. Traditionally very anti-nazi.
I’d add the Sten Mk II S. :)
“AHHH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!”
