History Main / NaziHunter

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in the movie ''The Statement'' (from the novel by Brian Moore). An old [[LesCollaborateurs Vichy French war criminal]] played by Creator/MichaelCaine kills an apparent Nazi hunter in self-defence, but when the police start investigating it turns out that [[spoiler:the Nazi hunter was just a hitman with a fake Jewish-Canadian background, hired by a couple of influential war criminals who wanted to get rid of Caine as [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knew too much about them]]]].

* In the French movie (and remake) ''Marie-Octobre'', the target is not the former Nazi himself, who was simply an enemy soldier: the problem is that said German revealed the presence of a traitor in the former [[LaResistance resistance]] movement.

* The Australian short film ''Ubermensch'' (based on a story by Creator/KimNewman) has an aging Nazi hunter visiting his last target in his cell in an American prison... who's still as young as the day they first met. Turns out this is an alternate ComicBook/{{Superman}} who landed in Nazi Germany instead of the United States. So how do you kill a man with superpowers who's effectively immortal?

* ''Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer'': The title character is a German prosecutor in the 1950s who spends most of his time investigating the networks of escaped Nazis so he can bring charges against them in Germany or elsewhere, as he wants to rehabiliate his country's image after the war. He even discovers vital clues that helps Israel with finding Eichmann.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliahu_Itzkovitz Eliahu Itzkovitz]] (also listed under the BestServedCold trope).

Something of a DiscreditedTrope these days, as anyone who served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gets too long in the tooth to be anything other than a NaziGrandpa. And the generation that would have been old enough to be movers and shakers in the Nazi party would now be super-centenarians. [[note]]As of the third decade of the 21st century, even a raw recruit or Hitler Youth member would be no less than a nonagenerian.[[/note]] Finally, the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and the start of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror dramatically expanded the choice of stock villains. Occasionally, much more recent works depict the Nazis of the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName RightWingMilitiaFanatic neo-Nazi]] variety.

Something of a DiscreditedTrope these days, as anyone who served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gets too long in the tooth to be anything other than a NaziGrandpa. And the generation that would have been old enough to be movers and shakers in the Nazi party would now be super-centenarians. [[note]]As of the third decade of the 21st century, even a raw recruit or Hitler Youth member would be no less than a nonagenerian.[[/note]] Finally, the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and the start of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror dramatically expanded the choice of stock villains.

Someone who dedicates their life to hunting down ex-Nazis, or is dedicated to hunting down one particular Nazi because of what they did in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (note: this trope doesn't apply just because the antagonist happens to be an ex-Nazi, it's only for someone who hunts them regularly). Often a BadassIsraeli who might be working for UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}}, a result of the high-profile kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann from [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Argentina]] in 1960. In reality, Mossad stopped chasing war criminals not long after this event, as more urgent threats to Israel took priority (for example, hostile neighboring Arab regimes are considered bigger threats to Israel than old Nazi war criminals).

Something of a DiscreditedTrope these days, as anyone who served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gets too long in the tooth to be anything other than a NaziGrandpa. And the generation that would have been old enough to be movers and shakers in the Nazi party would now be super-centenarians. [[note]]As of the third decade of the 21st century, even a raw recruit or Hitler Youth member would be no less than a nonagenerian.[[/note]] Finally, the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar dramatically expanded the choice of stock villains.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Zenna Persik is a Roma woman whose family was murdered in Nazi concentration camps. She spends the rest of her life hunting down and killing Nazis, especially those that escaped any form of punishment after the war.

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' features a squad of JEWISH-AMERICAN-SOLDIERS! killin' Nazi officials and soldiers during [=WW2=] as opposed to after it. One of their members also happens to be a former German soldier that developed a taste for killing Nazis himself after he was subject to torture by Gestapo agents.

* Erik spends the first twenty minutes or so of his screentime in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' tracking down and killing Nazis [[KickTheSonOfABitch in often brutal fashions.]] In fact, his reason for joining the X-Men is so that he can find and kill Sebastian Shaw, the mutant Nazi scientist who killed his mother.

* ''Film/TheStranger'' has a United Nations War Crimes Commission detective trying to track down a notorious high-ranking Nazi who has successfully escaped and hidden himself in a suburb in Connecticut.

* Erik spends the first twenty minutes or so of his screentime in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' tracking down and killing Nazis [[KickTheSonOfABitch in often brutal fashions.]] In fact, his reason for joining the X-Men is so that he can find and kill Sebastian Shaw, the mutant Nazi who killed his mother.

* ''Series/Hunters'' centers around a team of Nazi hunters who track down and kill a secret Nazi cabal in TheSeventies. [[spoiler:The big twist of the show's first season is that the group's leader is himself a notorious former Nazi trying to turn [[TheAtoner Atoner]].]]

* After his stint in the SOE during World War II, Creator/ChristopherLee -- yes, [[Film/Dracula1959 that]] [[Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings one]] -- hunted down Nazi war criminals because of his fluency in both French and German.

* After his stint in the SOE during World War II, Creator/ChristopherLee hunted down Nazi war criminals because of his fluency in both French and German.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam The Avengers]]. No, [[ComicBook/TheAvengers not them]]. Or [[Series/TheAvengers them]].

* Sue Sylvester's mother Doris on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.

Something of a DiscreditedTrope these days, as anyone who served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gets too long in the tooth to be anything other than a NaziGrandpa. And the generation that would have been old enough to be movers and shakers in the Nazi party would now be super-centenarians [[note]]As of the third decade of the 21st century, even a raw recruit or Hitler Youth member would be no less than a nonagenerian.[[/note]]. Finally, the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar dramatically expanded the choice of stock villains.

[[EvolvingTrope However, there are]] ''[[EvolvingTrope Neo-Nazi]]'' [[EvolvingTrope hunters]] in RealLife, who are dedicated to making life Hell for anyone they suspect of being a Neo-Nazi or sympathizer; many of these are affiliated with the PunkRock music scene. Groups and movements such as Anti-Fascist Action and Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice are a prominent example of this type of modern-day Nazi Hunter.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Rimland Ingrid Rimland]] once cooperated with Simon Wiesenthal to hunt Josef Mengele, even writing a book, ''Demon Doctor'', about that hunt. Later, she'd meet Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, marry him and is today a Holocaust denier herself.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%28group%29 The Avengers]]. No, [[ComicBook/TheAvengers not them]]. Or [[Series/TheAvengers them]].

->''"We will be doing one thing and one thing only... killin' Nazis!"''

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' mentions that back in the day, like his counterpart in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', he was a prolific and extremely ruthless example of this trope.

* Erik spends the first twenty minutes or so of his screentime in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' tracking down and killing Nazis. In fact, his reason for joining the X-Men is so that he can find and kill Sebastian Shaw, the mutant Nazi who killed his mother.

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' features a squad of JEWISH-AMERICAN-SOLDIERS! killin' Nazi officials and soldiers during [=WW2=] as opposed to after it. One of their member also happens to be a former German soldier that developed a taste for killing Nazis himself after he was subject to torture by Gestapo agents.

Something of a DiscreditedTrope these days, as anyone who served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gets too long in the tooth to be anything other than a NaziGrandpa. And the generation that would have been old enough to be movers and shakers in the Nazi party would now be centenarians [[note]]As of the third decade of the 21st century, even a raw recruit or Hitler Youth member would be no less than a nonagenerian.[[/note]]. Finally, the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar dramatically expanded the choice of stock villains.

Something of a DiscreditedTrope these days, as anyone who served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gets too long in the tooth to be anything other than a NaziGrandpa. And the generation that would have been old enough to be movers and shakers in the Nazi party would now be centenarians. Finally, the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar dramatically expanded the choice of stock villains.