History Main / FourthReich

* ''Film/ErIstWiederDa'': At the end, [[spoiler:it's implied that Hitler uses his immense popularity to return to politics and rise to power once again.]]

-->-- ''Film/ErIstWiederDa''

* ''Film/OSS117LostInRio'': 117 has to fight against Nazis in Brazil attempting to establish a Fifth Reich, since they failed at creating a Fourth one with Von Zimmel.

* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'': The ''[[{{Ghostapo}} Karotechia]]'', the remnants of Hitler's occult program [[ArgentinaIsNaziland hiding in South America]] seek to create this. One of the few surviving members (after the organization was mostly destroyed in World War 2 and hunted down by Delta Green and Mossad), "Dr." Olaf Bitterich was contacted by the "ascended spirit" of Hitler, who claimed he became one of the ascended masters (along with Jesus, Buddha, and the High Priests of Atlantis) with the sacrifices of the concentration camps, and revealed his third book ''Mein Triumph'', ordering the creation of a Fourth Reich now based on occultism and magic. [[spoiler:The "Ascended spirit" is yet another mask of Nyarlathotep, being a dick as usual]]. "The Fourth Reich" technically refers to a massive conspiracy led by the Karotechia, as they control of ODESSA, criminal cartels, white supremacist and neo-nazi groups, although informally they are just referred as "Karotechia" by Delta Green agents.

* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'': The ''[[{{Ghostapo}} Karotechia]]'', the remnants of Hitler's occult program [[ArgentinaIsNaziland hiding in South America]] seek to create this. One of the few surviving members (after the organization was mostly destroyed in World War 2 and hunted down by Delta Green and Mossad), "Dr." Olaf Bitterich was contacted by the "ascended spirit" of Hitler, who claimed he became one of the ascended masters (along with Jesus and Buddha) with the sacrifices of the concentration camps, and revealed his third book ''Mein Triumph'', ordering the creation of a Fourth Reich now based on occultism and magic. [[spoiler:The "Ascended spirit" is yet another mask of Nyarlathotep, being a dick as usual]]. "The Fourth Reich" technically refers to a massive conspiracy led by the Karotechia, as they control of ODESSA, criminal cartels, white supremacist and neo-nazi groups, although informally they are just referred as "Karotechia" by Delta Green agents.

* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]" revolves around a rogue Federation scientist turning a primitive planet into a duplicate of Nazi Germany.

** The Kubekult was a group of Neo-Nazis that sought to free Hitler's consciousness from a Cosmic Cube, as well as use said cube to create what they called the "New World Reich".

* Parodied in ''Film/LAStory''. At one point Harris tries to get a dinner reservation at a trendy new restaurant, and is required to meet with the chef and the maitre d' at the Fourth Reich ''Bank'', where they demand, and get, his financial statements to judge whether he is worthy of admission.

* ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' is a global political thriller wherein an Austrian tycoon obtains a nuclear device that was lost by the Israelis during the Syrian incursion of the Golan Heights. TheVillain plans to detonate this device in Baltimore, Maryland, and expects this to trigger nuclear warfare between the United States and the Russian Federation. After a coup for the German chancellery, Dressler aims to seize all of Europe, and establish an enduring Fourth Reich. (The film is an adaptation of [[Literature/TheSumOfAllFears the novel]] by Creator/TomClancy, but with considerable changes to the plot; among others, this trope is not present in the book, where the villains were overall more realistic, and Arab terrorists rather than Nazis.)

* Referenced, possibly spoofed, on ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Cliff claims that a new resident in his apartment building is actually Hitler and starts investigating him, at one point talking about preventing the "Fourth Reich". Eventually, his landlord tells him to cut it out...leading Cliff to conclude that Hitler had brainwashed him.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the Seventh Doctor episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]", a group of neo-Nazis led by a Third Reich Nazi exile, plots to take over the titular statue in order to use it to establish the Fourth Reich.

* Spoofed in a sketch on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' where "Adolf Hilter" is running for office in England on the "National Bocialist" ticket, promising an Anschluss where the town of Minehead will annex the neighboring town of Taunton. He notably has no allies apart from his friends "Ron Vibbentrof" and "Mr Bimmler".

--->Adolph set up shop in Paraguay. Not that he lasted long. Losing the war really took it out of him. He managed to stick around just long enough to leech a bunch of ex-Nazis out of my "Master of the World" network and form his "Fourth Reich". He died in 1950, in Paraguay.

--->[By about 1952,] the Fourth Reich was entrenched in the shadows of Latin America, Africa, and the south Pacific. The US needed someone who knew these people, knew how they acted and reacted.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", in a sequence showing how the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fandom grew out of hand in the future, we see that the Trekkies had taken over Germany and rechristened it "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Nazi-Planet-Episode]] Land".

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the Seventh Doctor episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]", a neo-Nazi group plots to take over the titular statue in order to use it to establish the Fourth Reich.

* ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' is a global political thriller wherein an Austrian tycoon obtains a nuclear device that was lost by the Israelis during the Syrian incursion of the Golan Heights. TheVillain plans to detonate this device in Baltimore, Maryland, and expects this to trigger nuclear warfare between the United States and the Russian Federation. After a coup for the German chancellery, Dressler aims to seize all of Europe, and establish an enduring Fourth Reich. (The film is an adaptation of [[Literature/TheSumOfAllFears the novel]] by Creator/TomClancy, but with a different villain; this trope is not present in the book.)

* ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' is an adaptation of [[Literature/TheSumOfAllFears the novel]] by Creator/TomClancy with significant changes. It's a global political thriller wherein an Austrian tycoon obtains a nuclear device that was lost by the Israelis during the Syrian incursion of the Golan Heights. TheVillain plans to detonate this device in Baltimore, Maryland, and expects this to trigger nuclear warfare between the United States and the Russian Federation. After a coup for the German chancellery, Dressler aims to seize all of Europe, and establish an enduring Fourth Reich. This book was adapted into a feature film in 2002.

* ''Series/MissionImpossible'': One episode had the team infiltrate a group of neo-Nazis who had a SwissBankAccount showing the location of a cache of NaziGold which they intended to use to create a "Fourth Reich."

* A neo-Nazi organization that called ''itself'' the Fourth Reich made a brief appearance in the Literature/{{Nightside}} series, as one of the numerous factions contending over possession of the Unholy Grail. Subverted in that they were massacred ''en masse'' by competitors for the relic, and only appear on-page as a whole lot of blood-spatter when Taylor and Suzie arrive to search their headquarters.

* Creator/CliveCussler's oceanographic adventurer Dirk Pitt tangled with a family who was trying to do just this in the book Atlantis Found. The family's master plan was called the Fourth Empire. Yes, they were based in South America. Yes, there is a [[spoiler:genetic connection to Hitler]].

* Creator/CliveCussler's oceanographic adventurer Dirk Pitt tangled with a family who was trying to do just this in the book Atlantis Found. Yes, they were based in South America. Yes, there is a genetic connection to Hitler.

* Author/CliveCussler's oceanographic adventurer Dirk Pitt tangled with a family who was trying to do just this in the book Atlantis Found. Yes, they were based in South America. Yes, there is a genetic connection to Hitler.

->'''Random Man:''' You have to learn from the past. Something like that should never be repeated.
->'''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler:''' It won't be repeated. This time, we're going to do this right.

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--> '''Mengele''': Not an offspring, not a copy, but an exact recreation of the original! Der Fuhrer was ''ecstatic''!

* ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' is an adaptation of [[Literature/TheSumOfAllFears the novel]] by Creator/TomClancy with significant changes. It's a global political thriller wherein an Austrian tycoon obtains a nuclear device that was lost by the Israelis during the Syrian incursion of the Golan Heights. TheVillain plans to detonate this device in Baltimore, Maryland, and expects this to trigger nuclear warfare between the United States and the Russian Federation. After a coup for the German chancellory, Dressler aims to seize all of Europe, and establish an enduring Fourth Reich. This book was adapted into a feature film in 2002.
--> '''Dressler''': Hitler was not crazy; he was stupid. You don't fight Russia ''and'' America. [[LetsYouAndHimFight You get Russia and America to fight each other]].

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Referenced multiple times:
** Adolf Hitler survived UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and made an attempt at this, according to Mephisto the Mentalist in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/440-razzle-dazzle-part-2 "Razzle Dazzle (Part 2)"]]:
---> Adolph set up shop in Paraguay. Not that he lasted long. Losing the war really took it out of him. He managed to stick around just long enough to leech a bunch of ex-Nazis out of my "Master of the World" network and form his "Fourth Reich". He died in 1950, in Paraguay.
** From [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/9-original-canon/803-the-final-trump-part-2 "The Final Trump (Part 2)"]] it seems like a villain mentioned in other stories, Baron Blitzen, is involved with them, trying to get a thing called The Eye of Lemuria from a ship:
---> "...the target of Fourth Reich hijacking attempts," Mara said. "I happen to know that an alleged 'Mind Priest' of Lemuria happens to have 'acknowledged' Madam Cailleach, a, ah... colleague... of mine, as the 'Reincarnated Queen of Lemuria', and has attached himself and his followers to her entourage. I also happen to know that dear Kayley recently remarried, and is now Baroness Blitzen."
** Mentioned multiple times in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/10-2nd-gen-canon/818-eisenmadel-2-summer-of-my-family-history "Eisenmadel 1: Summer of my German Heritage (Part 2)"]]:
---> [By about 1952,] the Fourth Reich was entrenched in the shadows of Latin America, Africa, and the south Pacific. The US needed someone who knew these people, knew how they acted and reacted.
---> "With [Baron Dammerung]'s demise in 1965, and the Green Skull's that same year, the Fourth Reich began a slow spiral of destruction."
* ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'': A few years after WWII ends, Otto Skorzeny and other surviving Nazis carry out a contingency plan of Himmler's and awaken Frederick Barbarossa and his knights from their slumber under the mountain in order to retake control of Germany. Their combined forces declare the Holy Fourth Reich and launch a campaign that conquers Thuringia and marches on Berlin... where they're wiped out by the [[RealityEnsues vastly technologically superior Allied and Soviet occupational forces]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", in a sequence showing how the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fandom grew out of hand in the future, we see that the Trekkies had taken over Germany and rechristened it "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Nazi-Planet-Episode]] Land".