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10	->''"I'll never forgive the Nazis for what they did to my grandfather in Dachau: twelve years he was manning that machine-gun tower, and not promoted once!"''
11	-->-- '''Really, really bad joke'''
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13	That kindly old European man who lives at the end of the street, who tends his garden and waves at you with a smile when you walk by? Yeah. Seems he has a DarkSecret. Back during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo he was a card-carrying member of [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the NSDAP]] and a fervent supporter of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and all the man stood for.
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15	But that was then. Now? Now he's an old, and very bitter, Nazi.
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17	If they're living incognito in some other country (usually the United States), it's not uncommon for them or [[RevengeByProxy their offspring]] to be the [[VanHelsingHateCrime target]] of [[NaziHunter Nazi Hunters]] who have found out his true identity. On the other hand, if the grandparents of a NaziHunter [[BoomerangBigot happened to be Nazis themselves]], it can result in an [[TomatoInTheMirror awkward]] [[SelfMadeOrphan situation]].
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19	A very specific SubTrope of GrumpyOldMan. Often married to a RacistGrandma. Related to EvilOldFolks and RetiredMonster.
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21	For obvious reasons, this evolved into a StockCharacter in GermanMedia; in serious works, but often also [[GermanHumor played for laughs]], where the joke is for example that he seems to be oblivious to the fact that his attitude isn't acceptable at all in mainstream society anymore, or that he's been decayed by age into a HarmlessVillain. See also RacistGrandma, and SubParSupremacist for cases where the character is meant to be both awful and pathetic.
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23	However, as of The New Twenties, this trope is [[DiscreditedTrope literally dying off]], as the remaining Nazis would be nonagenarians at their youngest, making it more difficult to play it straight outside of {{Period Piece}}s.
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30	* In one ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' arc, the crew gets hired by a Spanish salvage company to loot an old Nazi submarine in international waters before any of the nearby nations can lay a solid claim to it. The owner of the salvage company turns out to be an old SS officer, who wanted to use the crew for a {{plan}} as a SecretTestOfCharacter for some of his subordinates. Dutch is slightly less than pleased to discover this.
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34	* Tiegel's paternal grandpa in ''ComicBook/Hitman1993'' is fairly senile and makes no secret of his past and politics. Despite the fact that his daughter-in-law and granddaughter are black.
35	* The revival of ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' featured an American senator, the grandson of one of the soldiers who captured Von Braun during [=WW2=], who is part of a mysterious conspiracy, and his daughter reveals to Mr Terrific that he has a room full of Nazi memorabilia in his house. However, it's subverted when it turns out the man isn't a nazi (he's offended at the suggestion), the conspiracy is simply taking advantage of a super cannon Von Braun launched to the moon just before his capture. The Nazi stuff is just war trophies his father took home with him. [[spoiler:Nazism ends up being involved anyway, when the BrainInAJar of Heinrich Himmler, which Von Braun had preserved, hijacks the super cannon and intends to blackmail Earth into making him dictator]].
36	* The '80s revival of the ''ComicBook/{{Peacemaker}}'' rewrote the lead character's backstory so that his ''father'' was a Nazi war criminal who escaped prosecution and lived for decades under an assumed name. He (the father) killed himself the moment his secret came to light, and his family changed their name from Schmidt to Smith to distance themselves from him.
37	* In Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's ''ComicBook/TheTwelve'' maxi-series, The Witness is kept in suspended animation from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII until being revived in the present day. Several weeks after being revived, he hunts down a very old man in New York, whom he knows was a guard at Auschwitz. [[spoiler:And he kills him.]]
38	* Subverted in ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'': During his stint as Sheriff of Annville Jesse encounters a cheerful old man called Gunther who openly tells Jesse (and anyone else within earshot) that he's a Nazi spy -- due to his brother's death Gunther had turned somewhat cynical about the whole Reich thing, and asked to become an undercover agent in the US. Upon arriving, he promptly deserted and set up a new life in America, with his superiors none the wiser. Jesse just finds the whole story amusing, [[spoiler:until a later run-in with someone who's an obsessive fan of the Nazis coincidentally lets him discover the whole thing was a lie. Turns out Gunther was actually a former member of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Holocaust}} Einsatzgruppen]] and escaped to the US after the war to avoid retribution. He claims to be repentant of his former actions, but Jesse doesn't believe him and [[LeaveBehindAPistol offers him the choice between exposure or a rope]].]]
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42	* Arthur Denker again in the film adaptation of ''Film/AptPupil''. Creator/IanMcKellen can play a pretty terrifying ex-Nazi in hiding. Admittedly he's trying to forget his past crimes, but the scene where he's forced to play dress-up for the bratty kid blackmailing him shows that the whole "blood and honor" devotion is still bubbling beneath the surface. Having to recount his past murders inspires Denker to start killing again.
43	* Von Geisler in ''Film/{{Frontiers}}'' is the head of a family of Nazi [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]].
44	* Dr. Christian Szell from the film ''Film/MarathonMan'', a grandfatherly old dentist who pats little kids on the head if they are brave in his office. He was once known as the "White Angel of Death" when he worked as a torturer at Auschwitz, and just because he's old and grandfatherly ''now'' doesn't mean he's lost any of his old skills.
45	* Subverted in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad''. The main characters believe that the scary German guy living down the street is one of these, but it turns out he's [[spoiler:a Holocaust survivor]].
46	* ''Film/MusicBox'' is about a female lawyer successfully defending her own father against charges that he was a war criminal and fascist during World War II. She simply cannot believe that the kindly, friendly man she grew up loving could be a monster who systematically murdered Jews and Roma. At the end of the film, she finds previously unknown, but indisputable, proof that her father actually ''was'' a war criminal and fascist... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and she just helped him escape prosecution.]] She ends up sending the incriminating photos to the government prosecutor who she just defeated, who has them published in the newspaper. Scriptwriter Creator/JoeEszterhas loosely based this story on his own life, and on the shock he went through when he discovered that his own father had been an enthusiastic Hungarian fascist during World War II (while he didn't participate in atrocities, he'd burned books and produced antisemitic propaganda).
47	* The German film ''Film/NightofTheLivingDorks'' has one of the main trio get a Luger from his Nazi grandpa.
48	* ''Film/TheProducers'': PlayedForLaughs with Franz Liebkind, a bitter old ex-German soldier and card-carrying Nazi who lives in a dingy apartment in New York City raising pigeons and writing odes to Hitler's glory, such as Bialystock and Bloom's project ''SpringtimeForHitler''--which they plan to deliberately make flop to bilk investors before moving to Rio de Janeiro.
49	* ''{{Film/Remember}}'': Zev is hunting for one, the former SS blockfuhrer at Auschwitz who killed his and Max's families, Otto Wallisch. [[spoiler: Due to his dementia, he's forgotten that ''he'' is Wallisch. Kunibert Sturm, his former comrade, is another example. Both appear to hate what they did in Auschwitz though, subverting the usual portrayals.]]
50	* Implied with Dr Scott in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' when Frank calls him Von Scott, he now works for the American government and is an expy of ''Film/DoctorStrangelove''.
51	** His SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, Bert Schnick in the sequel, ''Film/ShockTreatment''. He slips into GratuitousGerman and says that Brad and Janet should be sent to the Danube at dawn. He was originally meant to be a returned Doctor Scott in early scripts but was rewritten into a new character when they couldn't get the actor to come back.
52	* Dr. Mortner from the Film/JamesBond movie ''Film/AViewToAKill''. It's a bit more complicated as Doctor Mortner was experimenting with what he considered inferior bloodlines to make them super-soldiers. In the script, Zorin's AmazonBrigade is composed of his other experiments. This includes Zorin's lover and henchwoman [[BodyguardBabes May Day]], who's black.
53	* In the Israeli film ''Film/WalkOnWater'', the UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agent Eyal must find Alfred Himmelman, an aging Nazi war criminal, and get him "before God does". In order to track down the old man, Eyal poses as a tour guide and befriends the Nazi's adult grandchildren, Axel and Pia, who have both obsessed about working as far (both geographically and ideologically) from their parents as possible due to their parents still keeping contact with their grandfather.
54	* Sebastian Shaw in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', although his mutant powers ensure he doesn't ''look'' like anybody's grandpa. He was already visibly in his mid-40s during the war before the roughly 20-year TimeSkip, though given the nature of his powers, [[VagueAge he could be even older]]. Magneto also hunts down two of Shaw's former SS buddies to Argentina before killing them. However, since it's set in TheSixties, they are closer to middle-aged than truly "grandpa" material.
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58	* There is a whole genre of {{Russian\|Humor}}/Soviet jokes where the premise is the following: a boy accidentally reveals that his grandpa was a Nazi collaborator,[[note]]and due to [[ChildrenAreInnocent childish naivete]], fails to put two and two together[[/note]] and HilarityEnsues. For example:
59	-->'''History teacher:''' "Tell us, where did your grandpa serve during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]]?"
60	-->'''Boy:''' "In the Electrical Engineering Corps!"
61	-->'''History teacher:''' "Did he tell you about his service?"
62	-->'''Boy:''' "No, but I found his helmet with two lightning bolts[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke The SS symbol]][[/note]] that he'd hidden in the attic!"
63	** And a similar one:
64	--->I don't like to talk about the war because my father died in a concentration camp. He fell from a watchtower. [[OverlyLongGag While trying to escape. From rioting prisoners.]]
65	*** Alternately: "He got drunk and fell off the watchtower".
66	** An older non-Nazi variant involves a boy proudly saying his grandfather once met a hero of the Soviet revolution. His teacher asks for the grandfather to speak to the class about it, and the grandfather confirms that he did indeed see the hero once. And immediately shot at him, because the grandfather was in the ''Tsarist'' army.
67	* A German boy was upstairs playing on his computer when his granddad came into the room and sat down on the bed. "What are you doing?" asked the granddad. "You're 18 years old and wasting your life! When I was 18 I went to Paris, I went to the Moulin Rouge, drank all night, had my way with the dancers, pissed on the barman, and left without paying! Now that is how to have a good time!" A week later, the grandfather comes to visit again. He finds the boy still in his room, but with a broken arm in plaster, 2 black eyes, and missing all his front teeth. "What happened?", he asked. "Oh granddad!", replied the boy. "I did what you did! I went to Paris, went to the Moulin Rouge, drank all night, had my way with the dancers, pissed all over the barman, and he beat the crap out of me!" "Oh dear!", replied the granddad. "Who did you go with?" "Just some friends, why? Who did you go with?" "Oh!" replied the granddad. "The Third Panzer Division."
68	* "My grandfather personally downed more than 50 German airplanes during World War 2. He was easily the ''worst'' mechanic the Luftwaffe ever saw."
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72	* In ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfStefonRudel'', Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a [=WW2=] Luftwaffe ace and real-life example of the trope, serves as Stefón's second ParentalSubstitute.
73	* Arthur Denker in Creator/StephenKing's ''[[Literature/DifferentSeasons Apt Pupil]]'' (real name Kurt Dussander). He pretends to be a German emigrant who fought in the army during the war; he was actually the SS commander of a minor concentration camp.
74	* ''Literature/Area51'': Professor Werner Von Seeckt, who is pushing eighty in the first book and the {{only sane man}} at Majic-12. However, he also turns out to be a former SS member, forcefully recruited by US intelligence, and has worked for them ever since. Von Seeckt however claims he wasn't a true believer and didn't know of the atrocities (but also admits it was mostly willful ignorance), with no evidence of him participating in any. He shows no signs of retaining Nazi beliefs in any case and is largely heroic. Still, his past understandably disturbs most characters.
75	* In ''Literature/GentleHands'', the plot increasingly focuses on whether the protagonist's grandfather is the titular Nazi. [[spoiler:He is.]]
76	* Spoofed in ''Literature/IAmAmericaAndSoCanYou'' in the chapter about family. The grandmother is identified as someone not to ask about, since "Grandpa brought her back from the war, and she might be a Nazi."
77	* Invoked in the ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy, as George Dorn bumps into an old man in Ingolstadt who curses at him with all kinds of politically incorrect slurs, but he can't bring himself to be offended since the man feels like a relic of the past, rather than anyone to be taken seriously. [[spoiler:It's actually UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself, returned to Germany to receive his promised reward from the Illuminati.]]
78	* Sort of happens in Creator/StephenFry's HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct novel ''Literature/MakingHistory''. The gentle old German scientist who wants to go back and prevent the Holocaust wasn't a Nazi himself, but we're led to believe he's a Jewish survivor until it turns out the reason ItsPersonal is that his father was in the SS and he feels guilty.
79	* "The Man Who Ended History", a short story (framed as a documentary) by Ken Liu, discusses the use of a machine that allows people to relive history (only once). This machine is used to bring atrocities committed by Japanese medical researchers in WWII to public awareness. The beloved grandfather of one of the researchers was a senior doctor there.
80	* Spoofed in Website/TheOnion's ''Literature/OurDumbWorld''. Apparently, [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Argentina is]] ''[[ArgentinaIsNaziland filled]]'' with old Nazis who [[WhenIWasYourAge will not shut up about that one time they killed a little Jewish girl with the butt of their rifle]], much to their grandchildren's annoyance.
81	* The Creator/JodiPicoult novel ''The Storyteller'' revolves around an elderly man who is a fixture in his community, who confesses to the protagonist that he was a Nazi who served at Auschwitz during the war.
82	* A special case in ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'': Drew's [[spoiler:adoptive]] grandfather is indeed a former Nazi soldier, but he actually ''defected'' to the United States ''during'' the war instead of escaping there after the war.
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86	* One of these is the AssholeVictim in a certain sketch of ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' ("Master E-Raced"). He was shot in the head and survived, but the bullet was stuck inside and located near a major artery. [[TheNineties Fifty years later]], the former Nazi (now living in New York City) accidentally bumps his head while getting milk from his refrigerator. [[DelayedReaction The bullet finally hits its target and the Kraut goes kaput.]]
87	* In ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Jack once remembered that his kindly German teacher who was obsessed with classifying people got kidnapped by Israeli commandos.
88	* An episode of ''Series/BarneyMiller'' has a [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Romani]] man apparently harassing an elderly prank shop owner. Turns out the prank shop owner was a guard at a concentration camp who tormented him.
89	* One of the victim in ''Series/{{Bones}}'' was a Nazi war criminal who fled with part of NaziGold to Argentina.
90	* The old concentration camp guard posing as a Jew also showed up in another Bruckheimer show, ''Series/ColdCase''. Both were likely [[RippedFromTheHeadlines inspired]] by the case of [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/sep/21/secondworldwar.germany Elfriede Rinkel]].
91	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': An antique dealer with Nazi sympathies is murdered. It turns out his killer was a concentration camp guard who had escaped prosecution by pretending to be Jewish after the war was over (going as far as to put a fake "serial number" tattoo on his arm).
92	* An episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' had an old man attack another old man (described as a kindly grandfather) at a bus stop. When the two men are brought to the hospital, the assailant reveals that the victim sold him and his family out to the Nazis during World War II.
93	* In an episode of ''Series/FlashForward2009'', there is an old convicted Nazi in a prison in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}, who claims to have important information about the Blackout, and offers it to the Mosaic Team in exchange for his release. Too late it turns out that they have been tricked by him, and this info isn't that important after all. Or is it?
94	* In the ''Series/Forever2014'' episode "Hitler on the Half Shell" Erik Haas learns that his grandfather, who he insists was a good man, was actually S.S. Commandant Otto Heydrich, a part of the Reichsleiter Rosenberg which stole valuable works of art across Europe, and this is the true source of the art collection his father [[spoiler:had been quietly returning to their rightful owners for decades]].
95	* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': In "Lex Talionis" ("The Law of Retaliation"), the VictimOfTheWeek, who was supposedly a Czech and a champion of migrant community, is revealed to have been an officer at Auschwitz. He was murdered by [[spoiler:one of his victims who recognised him and had herself admitted to the same nursing home specifically to kill him]].
96	* In ''Series/ElInternado'', there are several Nazi old men that managed to escape justice when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended by hiding in Spain. In fact, Iván's adoptive grandfather, as well as Marcos and Paula's grandfather [[spoiler:(who put his daughter Eva to the illness he developed, and then cloned her twice, which resulted in Irene/Sandra, whom he adopted when she was five, and Paula, who became Sandra's daughter)]] were two of those high-ranking Nazis.
97	* Dennis and Dee's maternal grandfather was a Nazi in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. Being who they are, Charlie and Mac attempt to exploit it for [[CrossesTheLineTwice profit]].
98	** Seven seasons later, Dennis and Dee try to console themselves with the fact that their grandfather left Germany and probably wanted to forget his past; only to find that he was involved in creating an American branch of a Hitler-Youth-like organization.
99	* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' went to this well a few times. In "Night and Fog" (where the culprit was actually a Jewish man who'd collaborated with the Nazis and killed his Holocaust victim wife when she found out) and "Evil Breeds" (where a Holocaust survivor is testifying in a federal war crimes investigation against a suspected Nazi war criminal but gets killed by the manager of a "hate rock" act who's trying to exploit the criminal's rep for sales).
100	* An elderly man suspected of being an SS officer ends up being a murder suspect in ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''.
101	* The grandpa in the sketch "Weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts" by German comedian Creator/{{Loriot}} may have ''traces'' of this, considering how he insists on playing his [[MusicToInvadePolandTo military marches]] on full volume - at Christmas Eve! Though to be fair, because this sketch is from 1978, it is quite possible that he is merely a ''Monarchist'' Grandpa, feeling nostalgia for the [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany good old times of the Kaiser's reign]], which were just 60 years ago, back then.
102	* Similarly, in one episode of ''Series/MagnumPI'', there was a Nazi couple hiding in Hawaii disguised as Jews.
103	* It becomes clear from some of his comments that Dwight's grandfather in ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' fought on the side of Germany during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and was probably a war criminal and not just an average soldier.
104	-->"I tried to go visit him once, but my travel visa was protested by the Shoah Foundation."[[note]]organizations dedicated to the remembrance of the Holocaust[[/note]]
105	* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' has an unusually sympathetic example. Agent Gibbs's father Jackson was a fighter pilot in WWII, at one point his plane was damaged and his compass malfunctioned so he was flying the wrong direction, another fighter pilot showed him the right way back to base letting him get to safety before he crashed, now the pilot is on his deathbed and Jackson asks his son to help find him before he dies, Gibbs tries but begins to think his father might be going senile because there wasn't any airman with his friends name serving in his unit, turns out Jackson was telling the truth, [[ExactWords but he never mentioned the guy who saved him was from his unit, or from his side for that matter.]]
106	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': One of the single-vilest villains of the anthology was the old Nazi known as Karl Rademacher from season 5's time-travel episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E12Tribunal Tribunal]]". Once a sadistic commander of a concentration camp, he murdered hundreds of people during the war before disappearing and living out the rest of his days in the United States as "Robert Greene". The protagonist, the son of a Holocaust survivor, tries to bring Rademacher to justice but eventually resolves to [[spoiler:have Rademacher killed by his own younger self]].
107	* In the German SitCom ''Series/{{Pastewka}}'', Bastian's brother acquires a foosball table on eBay, and they have to drive out to the seller's house, in order to get it and take it home. Said seller is an old man who seems to be nostalgic for the Third Reich: His house is filled to the brim with war memorabilia, his most precious one being the handkerchief of the Führer himself.
108	* Dr. Krieg in ''Series/ThePretender'' episode "Hazards".
109	* In ''Series/SonOfTheBeach'' German character Chip Rommel has an antique diamond ring. "It voz mein grandfather's. He collected jewellery during the war."
110	* In the first series satirical UK puppet show ''Series/SpittingImage'' Mrs Thatcher's elderly neighbour, Herr Jeremy Von Wilcox, who lived at No. 9 Downing Street, was actually Adolf Hitler.
111	* Opa [[MeaningfulName Adolf]] Frey, from the recurring segment ''Was Der Großvater Noch Wusste'' (''What Grandpa Still Did Know''), of the German SketchComedy ''Series/DieWochenshow'' is implied to be one.
112	* ''Series/TheXFiles'': The episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E02PaperClip Paper Clip]]" features an ex-Nazi scientist named Victor Klemper, who was involved in wartime experiments on concentration camp inmates and later came to the US, where he helped the Syndicate's experiments with alien-human hybrids. When Mulder and Scully meet him, he's a gentle old man working in a greenhouse, but he expresses little remorse for his past actions.
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116	* ''{{TabletopGame/Cyberpunk}}'': Saburo Arasaka is Imperial Japanese, rather than Third Reich, but otherwise fits the trope to a T. Arasaka fought in the war, founded the Arasaka corporation in an attempt to restore Japan's place as a world superpower, put his children through TrainingFromHell to ensure they would be as tough and hate Americans as much as he did, and eventually push the Arasaka corporation into all-out war to try to settle the grudge that started at Midway.
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120	* In ''VideoGame/DoNotFeedTheMonkeys'', one of the storylines has an Expy of Hitler as a retired old man in an old folks' home.
121	* After the destruction of the Poseidon Oil Rig in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', the remnants of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Enclave]] have been trying to integrate silently to society, with varying successes; some were found out and executed. In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', there are five elderly Enclave Remnants whom you can convince to aid the final battle at Hoover Dam. Though only Orion Moreno truly believed in the Enclave's cause, while the others were {{Punch Clock Villain}}s.
122	* Late into the plot of ''VideoGame/RainbowSix3: Raven Shield'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:the true BigBad is Nikola Gospić, the man whose estate and several other assets had been attacked by terrorists across several earlier missions in the game - or as he's really known, Dejan Blazevic, a former member of the Croatian Ustaše regime, whose vast fortune was started by liquidating the assets of countless victims of the Holocaust and then fleeing to Cayman Brac.]]
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126	* A Website/CollegeHumor skit has the site's [[TheDitz resident idiot]], Owen, who is completely ignorant about World War II, present his grandpa's old box of "''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' collectibles" to his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Zp3BXwDB8 colleagues]].
127	* In the {{Creepypasta}} "[[https://www.creepypasta.com/old-mans-last-secret/ An Old Man's Last Secret]]", the twist is that [[spoiler:the protagonist's biological grandfather died in a German concentration camp during [=WWII=], and his Nazi guard, after learning everything about his life, moved to America and impersonated his identity. Upon telling the story to his "grandson", he died in peace, [[KarmaHoudini after a long and happy life that wasn't his]]]].
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131	* In a ''Webcomic/BiterComics'' strip, A prospective job candidate learns his new boss may at the very least be a [[http://www.bitercomics.com/comic/camp-councilors/ Nazi sympathizer]].
132	* In ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'', the professor who accompanies Shelley, Amy, and Desmond during their journey to {{Atlantis}} is implied to be one.
133	-->'''Shelley''': "Gosh, it's like they took a Nazi war criminal and pressed him like a ''flower''!"
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137	* Krieger from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' has a pretty significant Nazi dad. He's one of Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil. (Oddly enough, he already knew he had been raised by Nazis.) It's even implied he may be [[YouClonedHitler a clone of Hitler]] (or at least some kind of genetic relative). Subverted in that while he ''is'' creepy and [[MadScientist has a lot of bizarre obsessions with genetic engineering]], he's never been shown to be racist or homophobic. Krieger himself eventually gets sick of the implications and points out that he looks absolutely nothing like Hitler.
138	* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E11GermanGuy German Guy]]" deals with this subject, featuring a kindly old German man named Franz Gutentag who befriends Chris before pedophile neighbor Herbert recognizes Franz as a Nazi who put him in a concentration camp for [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday not being gay]]. Herbert and Franz face off in a slow-motion fight[[note]]that is, slow because they're both old men who move very slowly[[/note]] of GreyAndGrayMorality (is the audience supposed to root for the pedophile or the Nazi)?
139	* ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily'': The neighborhood kids are terrified of elderly German immigrant Otto Hossenwasser, who they believe is a Nazi Grandpa. In reality, he's actually a Holocaust survivor; the kids thought his camp tattoo was a tally of all the people he killed.
140	* ''WesternAnimation/MikeTysonMysteries'' features the characters of the day's mystery, Alex and Elsa, trying to decide what to do with their 96-year-old dad Herman. Before he's found frozen and thawed out, they discover a Nazi room behind a secret panel. He dies via the Abominable Snowman that he's been looking for endlessly.
141	* Grandpa Nazi is a recurring sketch in ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust''.
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145	* Most Germans of the post-war generations have to deal with this within their own family. In (luckily quite rare) cases where the old people in question don't show any sign of remorse and still openly self-identify as Nazis, they are called ''Alt-Nazis'' (''old-Nazis'', in order to differentiate them from the neo-Nazis) or ''Unverbesserliche'' (roughly ''unreformables'').
146	** Gudrun Burwitz, born in 1929 as Gudrun Himmler and daughter of UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler, and mother of two, had been a leading figure in German neo-Nazi movements her entire adult life until her death in 2018.
147	** The Netherlands had a similar example to Gudrun in Florentine Rost van Tonningen, known as "the Black Widow", who continued to espouse her late husband's national socialist ideology decades after he was executed for collaboration, until her death in 2007.
148	* After the war, many Nazis did hide in [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Argentina]] for many years, the most notorious case being Adolf Eichmann, kidnapped by the UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} in 1960, who became the only person so far executed by Israel (not counting a wrongly accused man). He was only fifty-six at the time, however, so not the stereotype.
149	* US Immigration and Customs Enforcement maintains a special unit dedicated to finding fugitive war criminals who have managed to immigrate to the US as war "refugees." Occasionally they will find individuals who naturalized and built lives in America, concealing their wartime experiences from their own family.
150	* Normally, German citizens can enter Israel without a visa - but not if they were born before 1928. Such persons require extensive paperwork proving that at no point in their life were they affiliated with the Nazis (a difficult but not impossible requirement).
151	* In April 2013, now deceased German actor Horst Tappert, who played the title character in the popular long-running detective series ''Derrick'', was discovered to have been a member of the Waffen SS in World War II. In his lifetime, he had always claimed to have served as a medic in the Wehrmacht (which ended up proven true -- he was part of Wehrmacht units that were transferred into the Waffen SS to replenish its ranks without much of a choice). Nonetheless, reruns of the series were promptly pulled off the German and Dutch public channels.
152	* In 2006, Günter Grass, author of ''Literature/TheTinDrum'' and Nobel Prize recipient, revealed that he had been a member of the Waffen SS at the age of 17. However, this was due to being conscripted, not voluntary enlistment, and the Panzer division he served in was unusual in the SS for ''not'' committing atrocities. Nonetheless, it caused quite some stir, because until then he was regarded by many to be sort of Germany's conscience regarding the country's Nazi past. Of course, his view of the Nazi era may have been shaped in part ''from'' this. It must be noted that desertion or draft resistance in Nazi Germany were punishable by death. Much of the criticism rested on his failure to reveal this for so many years.
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