Somebody probably got arrested for that. Just not the right person.
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Posted on 06/03/2025 3:55:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan
If there's anything Hollywood — and its audience — loves more than a Nazi villain, it's a Nazi villain who gets exactly what they deserve in the final reel.
I'd like to present the Top Five Movie Nazis Who Got Exactly What They Deserved, but before I do, I'll remind you that this list is definitive and that no arguments or additions will be tolerated.
I'm kidding, of course — I only put together these lists as a jumping-off point for an excellent discussion in the comments section.
With that in mind, and with my general acceptance that half of you will say I got most of these wrong, shall we begin?
In no particular order...
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Even though he didn’t die right away, the attack on Heydrich in “Operation Daybreak”.
Didn’t get that one…
But Heydrick did die … Gott Sei Dank.
But Heydrick did die … Gott Sei Dank.
And probably not many tears were shed by his fellow Nazis, they all despised him, even some suggested he had Jewish blood.
What really bothers me about this topic is how many Nazis (in real life) got just a slap on the wrist for their horrible crimes.
Here’s just one example, out of hundreds:
At Nuremberg, Walther Funk was sentenced to life imprisonment. But the poor baby was released after ten years due to “ill health”. Funk lived on for another three years.
I don’t recall any Nazi concentration camp inmates being released early for ill health.
(Sorry for the rant. But this is a pet peeve of mine.)
The ultimate was Albert Speer, he should have hung with the rest of them.
I love the term “Mexican Standoff.” It is not what we think it means. In the old west, if a cowboy got into a fight and got whipped, he called it a “Mexican Standoff”, not wanting to admit he got beat.
Tomorrow being June 4th, the death date of Reinhard Heydrich,
it would be apt to discuss him, even if a movie were not made showing the great pain he suffered in his dying.
He was the most efficient of Hitler’s henchmen and his demise could not have come too soon.
Ironically, he rose through circumstance, starting out as a violin teacher. When his town went broke, he joined the Nazi party for financial gain.
Some others:
— In Inglourious Basterds, Hitler and Goebbels also got killed (along with a bunch of other Nazis in the theater).
— The traitors in Where Eagles Dare
— Burning the German high command alive in The Dirty Dozen
— Captain Stransky from Cross of Iron (though not sure if he actually dies or not)
Major Heinrich Strasser - Casablanca
Which was the more ridiculous movie?
Inglorious Bassterds?
Or, Fury?
No mention of Illinois Nazis in “Blues Brothers”?
‘Cause I HATE Illinois Nazis ...
Don’t forget Otto Skorzeny.
Brad Pitt managed to outdo himself in *both* these stinkers with the 2017 satirical movie “War Machine”, at least by cringe-counts—or as Joe Bob Briggs might put it, in Oof da! foos.
Somebody probably got arrested for that. Just not the right person.
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The poor bastard caught on the water wheel and crushed, revealing his nazi uniform underneath his disguise, complete with Iron Cross. ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ with Donald Sutherland.
Colonel Klink is by far the most famous Hollywood Nazi.
What, you don’t like Nazis getting squashed in a Ford Pinto?
That’s the stuff cinematic dreams are made of.
Adolf Hitler comes in a poor third in the mass murderer category. Yet every year since the 1940’s at least one movie is made about them. movies about Stalin and Mao can be counted on the fingers of one hand. this is a religion of sorts and not subject to rational argument.
Have you ever seen Werner Klemperer in "Operation Eichmann"? He could play heavy roles too. John Banner has a small part as well.
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