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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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.
You have destroyed the earth and all mankind.
Straight up, Wolf3D and Fate of Atlantis gang stand up
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?”
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.
Plus, getting to see Taika Watiti(sp?) play Hitler as an imaginary best friend is a real treat. This is a great movie, although it’s still a dark comedy and likes to remind you, suddenly at times, of the dark realities of that war.
One of my favorites. Crazy film that spans such a wide range from goofy to tragic.
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.
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.
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.
During all this Elon Musk BS I suddenly wanted to watch Kung Fury.
It’s not as direct, but Star Wars Andor has this kind of energy to it.
Star Wars always has been anti-nazi, especially movies 4-6. It got quite a bit diluted into “bad yoga teacher womp”, but still.
Y’all need to see the OG anti-nazi movie, Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, which he made in 1939.
Wolfenstein, the orginal.
Now do you mean the actual original, or do you mean Wolfenstein 3D?
And Doom2
Call me basic, but Captain America has been beating up Nazis for a long time.
Until he became the Nazi…
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.
Propagandhi - The Only Good Fascist Is a Very Dead Fascist. Especially the line “You can wear my nuts on Your nazi chin”.
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.
A great movie called “Look who’s back” goes into the danger of letting Nazism flourish. In this world Hitler shoots himself at the end of ww2 and then magicaly wakes up in modern times. So he goes back to his old shenanigans and people think it’s satire.
I didn’t realize while watching it that it’s kinda shot Borat-style and some of the reactions from people are genuine.
