History Main / NaziZombies

Like other zombies, how intelligent they are [[OurZombiesAreDifferent varies from depiction to depiction]]. If intelligence is on display, there's usually just one or two [[EliteZombie commanding officer types]] leading a rabble of more mindless soldier type zombies. Sometimes, though, they're ''all'' just a mindless horde who are less "Nazi zombies" than they are [[IncongruouslyDressedZombie "zombies in Nazi uniforms,"]] due to being incapable of having a creed more complicated than "go here, eat that." If the latter type, they may not have any loyalty to other, living Nazis, and will eat them as willingly as they'll eat any other living people.

* ''Film/DeadSnow'' is about zombie Nazis guarding stolen gold in a Norwegian mountain, who initially only kill trespassers but continue the war in the [[Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead second movie]] when they escape from the mountain. As the title implies, the second film also includes some far rarer ''Soviet'' Zombies.

* ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/ZombieArmy4DeadWar'' involves Nazis and zombies, much like the mode from ''Call of Duty'', though with ''VideoGame/SniperElite'' instead.

* ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'' involves Nazis and zombies, much like the mode from ''Call of Duty'', though with ''VideoGame/SniperElite'' instead.

* ''Film/DeadSnow'' is about zombie Nazis guarding stolen gold in a Norwegian mountain, who initially only kill trespassers but continue the war in the [[Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead second movie]] when they escape from the mountain. As the title implies, the second film also includes ''Soviet'' Zombies.

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* ''Zombie Lake'', which involves a squad of Wehrmacht soldiers murdered by LaResistance, then dumped into a local lake, coming back from the dead for revenge.
** This low-budget movie is known for having some of the cheesiest visual effects ever. (For example, instead of actually filming a zombie walking back into the lake after it killed someone, they just copied and reversed the shot of it emerging from the lake, so it walks backwards and water drips upwards.)
* The undead Nazi {{Mooks}} in the {{Mockbuster}} ''Nazis At the Center of the Earth'', although they're [[TechnicallyLivingZombie Technically Living Zombies]]. To stay alive, they harvest organs and body parts from victims they capture. Included among their number are a slowly rotting [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Josef Mengele]] and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's severed head attached to a ''[[VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D Wolfenstein]]''-like [[StupidJetpackHitler robotic body]].

--> I hate Nazi Zombies! They're so cliché!

Like other zombies, how intelligent they are [[OurZombiesAreDifferent varies from depiction to depiction]]. If intelligence is on display, there's usually just one or two [[EliteZombie commanding officer types]] leading a rabble of more mindless soldier type zombies. Sometimes, though, they're ''all'' just a mindless horde who are less "Nazi zombies" than they are "zombies in Nazi uniforms," due to being incapable of having a creed more complicated than "go here, eat that." If the latter type, they may not have any loyalty to other, living Nazis, and will eat them as willingly as they'll eat any other living people.

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* ''Literature/DiogenesClub'': In "The End of the Pier Show", the skinhead gang that Fred was originally supposed to infiltrate is skilled by the evil forces at the pier and risen as zombies, with each one dressed in a different sort of Nazi uniform.

* ''Film/{{Overlord2018}}'' is about a group of paratroopers sent in to bring down a radio tower before D-Day, only to uncover a secret Nazi lab creating zombie {{super soldier}}s.

* ''Film/DeadSnow'' is about zombie Nazis guarding stolen gold in a Norwegian mountain, who initially only kill trespassers but continue the war in the [[Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead second movie]] when they escape from the mountain.

* Naturally, ''TabletopGame/AllFleshMustBeEaten'' has plenty of support for using these. Both the corebook and "Worlds of the Dead", a campaign seed sourcebook, feature WW2-based settings involving Nazis unleashing a zombie army. In 2013, a kickstarter even brought the gameline back to life long enough to put out a World War 2 sourcebook, which is actually backwards-compatible with both of the earlier WW2-based "deadworlds", which revolves around turning the 2nd World War into a WeirdHistoricalWar when the Thule Society's efforts to bolster the Nazi war machine with the occult unleashes a global ZombieApocalypse.

* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': Nazi zombies are the BigBad, with almost every enemy after the UFO abduction being at least partly a Nazi Zombie. Besides regular ones you will also find Nazi Zombie rats, dogs and aborted embryos among others. The final boss is [[spoiler:Kenny as a Nazi Zombie, which augments his [[TheyKilledKennyAgain immortality]].]]

A particular SubTrope of NinjaPirateZombieRobot that has seen a rise in popularity from the late 2000s onwards. Nazis are a VillainByDefault, so one way to make them even more evil and scary is to have TheUndead bear the swastika.

This fantastical association between Nazis and zombies presumably flows forth from the Nazis' rather comprehensive KillEmAll policies in regards to racial and ideological enemies. There is also the ObviouslyEvil use of [[SkeletonMotif skull imagery]] on uniforms, and a history of occult societies in Germany that were supported by some members of the Nazi Party. If there's any faction in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII who are believable as undead monsters in fiction, it's the Nazis.

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* The first two films in the ''Film/{{Outpost}}'' series are pretty straightforward {{Ghostapo}}, with Götz and co. being metaphysical "ghost" beings. Then there's ''[[Film/{{Outpost}} Outpost III: Rise of the Spetsnaz]]'', which shows us the early work of the Lazarus Project. ''These'' undead German soldiers are actually zombies. At least one, a zombified SS corporal, is used as a human AngryGuardDog led around on a leash by his living companions.

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* Millennium's ghouls in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' are vampified Nazis, but they act more like zombies and they turn other people into ghouls like it's a zombie-spreading virus.

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[[caption-width-right:299:Isn't "mindless National Socialist" a little redundant?]]

* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': Nazi zombies are the BigBad, with almost every enemy after the UFO abduction being at least partly a Nazi Zombie. Besides regular ones you will also find Nazi Zombie rats, dogs and aborted embryos among others.

* The undead Nazi {{Mooks}} in the {{Mockbuster}} ''Nazis At the Center of the Earth'', although they're [[TechnicallyLivingZombie Technically Living Zombies]]. To stay alive, they harvest organs and body parts from victims they capture. Included among their number are a slowly rotting [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Josef Mengele]] and AdolfHitler's severed head attached to a ''[[VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D Wolfenstein]]''-like [[StupidJetpackHitler robotic body]].

* Similarly, a zombie/demon Imperial German soldier with a stahlhelm is seen during Brayker's World War I flashback in ''Film/DemonKnight''. Like all the demons in the film, he has clawed fingers and GlowingEyesOfDoom.