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* Defied in ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}''. While the Nazis inherit a wealth of physics knowledge from the Weimar Republic, and from the many European scientists they've captured, the title character points out that they're not [[FascistButInefficient pretty bad at innovation beyond what they already know]], in large part because they reject the work of Jewish scientists. So while the Nazi atomic program is well ahead of its American counterpart at the start of the movie, the American scientists are able to catch up pretty quickly.

* ''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'' had the Nazis making an alliance with the Old Ones to control time. Unfortunately for them, the time wouldn't be right for it to work for another 68 years.
* Zach Parsons' book ''My Tank is Fight!'' uses and subverts this: it gives detailed statistics on various rejected inventions of WWII (mostly German ones), and then [[AlternateHistory imagines what they would have been]] like in the field. Most of them fail spectacularly. With the exception of [[spoiler:the nuclear bombing of New York, though it doesn't avert the defeat of Germany]]. He also remarks that it's too bad the AwesomeButImpractical Ratte supertank ''wasn't'' built, because the waste of resources would've made the Nazis lose the war that much sooner.

* The ''ComicBook/{{Commando}}'' comic series was chock full of this. There was little common continuity between the stories in each issue, apart from taking place in wartime. In some of them the Nazis among other things had a nuclear bomb, a Moon base, a time machine, and naturally every time the Allied forces managed to overcome them with absolutely no secret weapons of their own.

* The presence of vast numbers of obviously CGI pictures of never-realized Nazi wunderwaffen on the internet and History Channel (e.g. ''Luftwaffe 46'') has prompted Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom to create an AffectionateParody conspiracy theory that [[SarcasmMode "the Nazis would have won the war if they'd spent all their money on tanks and guns instead of inventing CGI before computers existed"]]. An elaborated version of the conspiracy explained away the computer thing by positing Stupid Jetpack ''[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne Kaiser Wilhelm]]'': the Nazis could invent CGI because the Great War German High Command had already created [=AIs=][[note]]That came from the AI of VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri loving to throw droves of artillery at you in droves, but never actually attacking anything.[[/note]]

* [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3458846/ This]] archived Website/FourChan thread. It actually features the phrase "[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Australian witch doctor special forces]]".

* Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom tends to refer to this as [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/alternate_history/german_techwank German Techwank]], and spends fun deconstructing the idea.

Contrast UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons, which is about the weapons they had in RealLife, and FascistButInefficient, for when the Nazi system (or that of another totalitarian government) is portrayed as less conducive to innovation and development. See also {{Ghostapo}}, where Nazis use super-demonry rather than (or ''[[{{Magitek}} combined with]]'') super-science; and SovietSuperscience, when it's the DirtyCommies showing up with giant robots and spaceships (sometimes ''inspired by'' the stuff they found conquering Berlin). Compare HistoricalVillainUpgrade. Subtrope of WeirdHistoricalWar. Many of these, particularly those of the Nazi wonderweapon variety, also count as {{Secret Weapon}}s.

* ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'''s final boss is "Master D", who looks exactly the same as Hitler and isn't fooling anyone. After waking up from a long nap, he proceeds to kill the leader of the entire bad guy army, call you a "damn fool", launch a doomsday weapon and get his [[YourHeadASplode head exploded by a missile.]]

** In ''VideoGame/SniperElite3'', it's the Land Kreuzer P.1000 Ratte, a [[TankGoodness massive armored behemoth]] that would hopefully allow for a German breakthrough in North Africa.

* ''Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope'': Consistently defied, as part of the deconstruction of the Third Reich in general; an empire that actively discarded facts as "Jewish science" and was constantly attracted to pseudoscientific beliefs would not have gotten far in the technological department even when given more time. As a result, all the Germans end up figuring out earlier would be the atomic bomb and enough aerospace engineering to make the first moon landing. Otherwise, it's either never invented, such as anything that could stop the Reich's decay, implemented disastrously, such as most of their sociological experiments, or tried and failed spectacularly, such as the Atlantropa dam falling apart so badly the Iberian Union basically seized it for maintenance before it could collapse, and the ''only'' person Göring's [[KillSat Sun Gun]] has a chance of killing is [[ColonyDrop on the way back down]], and it's Oskar Dirlewanger ([[TheyKilledKennyAgain who already has plenty of unlikely deaths seeking him out as is]]).

* In ''Konflikt '47'' by Warlord Games, a [[AlienSpaceBats strange coded message]] intercepted by the Germans which came from a rift caused [[ButterflyOfDoom by the Allies nuking Berlin]] led to them developing HumongousMecha, {{Spider Tank}}s, [[GravityMaster gravity manipulation cannons]] and a bunch of other WeirdHistoricalWar staples such as [[NightOfTheLivingMooks zombies]]. Good thing the Allies intercepted a message of their own caused by a rift over on Los Alamos...

* In September 2023, ''[[Website/BabylonBee The Babylon Bee]]'' ran a story headlined "[[https://babylonbee.com/news/canadian-parliament-gives-standing-ovation-to-mecha-hitler-for-role-in-killing-russians Canadian Parliament Gives Standing Ovation To Mecha Hitler For Role In Fighting Russians]]". A few days earlier, Parliament had given a standing ovation to a 98-year-old Ukrainian WWII veteran during a visit by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As it turned out, said veteran had served in a Waffen-SS unit.

* In September 2023, ''Website/TheBabylonBee'' ran a story headlined "[[https://babylonbee.com/news/canadian-parliament-gives-standing-ovation-to-mecha-hitler-for-role-in-killing-russians Canadian Parliament Gives Standing Ovation To Mecha Hitler For Role In Fighting Russians]]". A few days earlier, Parliament had given a standing ovation to a 98-year-old Ukrainian WWII veteran during a visit by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As it turned out, said veteran had served in a Waffen-SS unit.

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Rudolf von Stroheim is a severely maimed Nazi soldier who gets several cybernetic enhancements throughout Part 2, including a telescopic minigun with armor-piercing bullets in his chest and a ''laser eye''. [[EnemyMine He is one of the good guys.]] The Jojo of this generation [[spoiler:receives a robotic hand from the Nazis as a parting gift after he loses his in battle]].
--> '''Stroheim:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHFtbSZ3KRE "German science is the finest in the WORLD!"]]''

* ''Manga/{{Spriggan}}'' was FULL of the Fourth Reich trying to use ancient superweapons.

* ''Manga/{{Spriggan}}'' was FULL of the Fourth Reich trying to use ancient superweapons.
* ''Seikon No Qwaser'': According to this series, Hitler's wife Eva Anna Paula Braun has the ability to control Mercury at will, AND has remained alive and young for decades by creating clones of herself and then absorbing them. Seems legit.

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': while Millennium were primarily about using [[{{Ghostapo}} occult means]] to accomplish their goals during the war era (most notably the creation of a battalion of vampires) they also use advanced technology such as powerful, missile-shooting [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelins]], and microchip implants which can be used to remotely monitor (and incinerate) their soldiers.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': BigBad Dr. Hell started out as a weapons researcher for the Nazis (though he kept his best scientific breakthroughs and weaponry designs for himself. He claims -predictably- if he would handed them over to the Nazis, Germany would have won the war).
* In the manga version of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Salamander, the leader of the Pirate Guild,]] is actually [[spoiler:Hitler.]]

* Technology in ''Anime/IzettaTheLastWitch'' is roughly equivalent to the real-world 1940s, except for the rogue nation of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName "Germania"]] which has, among other things, advanced cloning technology and {{magitek}} superweapons.

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* 'Website/SCPFoundation'''s [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2461 SCP-2461 ("Aftermath")]]. SCP-2461 is a set of recovered Nazi artifacts. SCP-2461-A is a flying saucer with X-ray laser turrets, SCP-2461-B are exoskeleton {{Power Armor}}s, SCP-2461-D are X-ray laser pistols and SCP-2461-E are X-ray laser rifles.

* ''ComicBook/RoyThomasAnthem'' takes place in a univese where the Nazis suddenly gained advanced technology in 1941 that enabled them to survive their campaign in Russia and conquer almost all of Europe. [[spoiler:Issue #3 reveals the secret of their technology -- they made a deal with aliens.]]

** The episode "The Savage Time" has the BigBad, Vandal Savage, send a laptop through time to himself in the 40's which contains mechanical schematics and Allied war plans, including the Normandy Invasion. The Nazis actually turn the tide of the war (using the War Wheels from the ''Blackhawk'' comics) and very nearly destroy New York City with an atom bomb. Needless to say, the heroes stop him JustInTime. Oh, and Hitler has been frozen but is thawed out at the end to [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct carry on to his appointed destiny]].
** An episode of ''Justice League Unlimited'' has a (fortunately) failed attempt at a Nazi SuperSoldier formula, which, after decades in storage, gets dug up and personally used by the anti-superhuman [[GeneralRipper General Eiling]] so he can take down the League himself.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' episode "Alternate Histories", which is all about Hitler [[TheyKilledKennyAgain dying in increasingly outlandish ways]], the final scenario has [[spoiler: a time-traveling Hitler who lived to old age in a robot suit, who goes back in time to save his younger self from an assassination attempt/sloppy rescue attempt.]]

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein brought this trope into its modern form by creating Nazis with [[RaygunGothic atomic spaceships]] on the Moon in ''Rocket Ship Galileo'', written only a couple of years after WWII ended. For the readers of the time, the Nazis were probably the least fantastic part. Men on the Moon indeed!
* [[http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/9781451637618/9781451637618.htm?blurb Himmler's War:]] after Hitler is killed in a bombing run the new Nazi leadership begins to fight a skilled war. A superweapon will be used in conjunction with diplomatic deals, withdrawal from useless territory, and attacks that undermine the Allied morale.
* ''Lightning'', by Creator/DeanKoontz has the Nazis in possession of a working [[spoiler:TimeMachine]], which they intend to use to win WWII by [[spoiler:finding out from our time just what went wrong for them when and changing it]]. Too bad their [[spoiler:chrononaut]] fell in love with a [[spoiler:1980s [[MostWritersAreWriters novelist]].....]]
* Creator/PhilipKDick's novel ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'' describes an [[AlternateHistory alternate 1963]] in which Germany and Japan won WWII. The Nazis have developed rockets into a substitute for airplanes and are sending manned rockets throughout the solar system. It is also mentioned that they have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa drained the Mediterranean Sea,]] an engineering task requiring advanced technology if ever there was one!

* This is the plot of James Hogan's ''Literature/TheProteusOperation.'' In the untampered history, Hitler fell into obscurity after the Beer-Hall Putsch, ushering in a world of equality, prosperity, and peace, but corrupt future plutocrats attempted to establish an empire for themselves by engineering a Nazi victory, then traveling in time to rule the Nazi-conquered Earth. Due to their tampering, the Nazis won WWII in 1942 using nuclear bombs. The book involves time-travelers seeking to undo this. They only manage to partially succeed, resulting in what is heavily implied to be our actual history.

* ''DangerBoy: Dragon Sword'' subverts this- a Nazi rocket scientist loudly declares "I am not INTERESTED in traveling through time or making contact with space aliens!"

Nonetheless, if you have to pick one WWII power to which to give antigravity and a [[SpaceBase moon base]], the choice is obvious; after all, it's boring if the good guys have all the toys. Not to mention that Einstein (though a pacifist and a Jew, so ''hardly'' on [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]]'s Christmas card list) was German (and there are a lot of rumors that the reason why America wanted nuclear power fast is that they thought Nazi Germany would develop it first), and [[UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla Tesla]], although actually Serbo-Croatian (a Slav, so a member of ''another'' of Hitler's exterminate-on-sight groups), is frequently confused with this due to the country being part of the Austrian Empire when he was born. Needless to say, the theme is played upon endlessly in [[TwoFistedTales pulp callbacks]], [[{{Nazisploitation}} B-movies]], and modern occult works.

This is a trope to be very, very careful with. A lot of the pulp sci-fi narratives that popularized this trope in the '50s, '60s, and '70s were written by Nazi sympathizers as a way of glorifying the German war machine and the "ingenuity" of Nazi science. These ideas have also bled into conspiracy theorist communities, and modern neo-Nazis often push the narrative that the science and technology of the Third Reich was far in advance of what is generally reported.