Top Five Movie Nazis Who Got Exactly What They Deserved

PJ Media ^ | 3 June 2025 | Stephen Green

[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...

[dfwgator]

Lt. Col. Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), “Holocaust” (1978)

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Outside of Moriarty and James Woods, I found most of the acting in that series wanting.

[dfwgator]

Amon Goth at the ending of Schindler’s List.

[Rummyfan]

The ultimate was Albert Speer...

Speer served over twenty years I believe but lived his last years freely. I don't know why he was spared...

[dfwgator]

Band of Brothers - Killing the Concentration Camp Commandant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByaKm4iheU

[Rummyfan]

He was the most efficient of Hitler’s henchmen and his demise could not have come too soon.

The butcher of Prague...

Ironically, he rose through circumstance, starting out as a violin teacher. When his town went broke, he joined the Nazi party for financial gain.

Himmler was a failed chicken farmer before joining the party.

[Rummyfan]

Or, Fury?

Fury did feature that one glorious tank battle. And it did give some idea of life in a Sherman crew.

[mfish13]

Not many of my friends have seen the movie. Definitely one to see.

[Rummyfan]

Professor Charles Rankin (Orson Welles) in The Stranger (1946).

Truly evil.... a stain on humanity as Edward G described him. Or was that the other Nazi in the flick?

[rbg81]

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.

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I actually felt bad for Michael Cain's character. He was a German soldier vs. a Nazi. He died thinking he killed Winston Churchill but, unbeknownst to him, it was only an imposter.

[Rummyfan]

You don't have to be Stonewall Jackson to know .... YOU DON'T FIGHT IN A BASEMENT.

[Rummyfan]

The same way people wear old Soviet regalia as.campish while ignoring the murderous history of the regime.

[9422WMR]

“ Even though he didn’t die right away, the attack on Heydrich in “Operation Daybreak”.
Exactly what I was thinking! 👍🏻👍🏻

[Rummyfan]

Wasn’t Meryl Streep in that too?

[dfwgator]

Yes.

[T Ruth]

a Nazi villain

a National Socialist villain

[Macho MAGA Man]

Larry Hagman (J.R. Ewing) starred in the movie too. He was shot between the eyes through his helmet by a female spy.

[Political Junkie Too]

From the Blazing Saddles commissary scene:

"They lose me after the bunker scene."

-PJ

[T.B. Yoits]

[LegendHasIt]

Some of the Nazi ‘offings’ in “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” were quite satisfying.

[GingisK]

I don't know why he was spared...

First, a number of Jews from labor camps testified on his behalf. Speers demanded that their rations be increased and their sleeping conditions improved. Those Jews survived the war solely because of Speers' intervention. Second, Speers did not have control over any organization related to the camps or slave labor. Third, he was the only one of the "Inner Circle" to plead guilty. Fourth, Speers stopped Hitler's "Scorched Earth" destruction of Germany so that the civilian population could survive.