Basic Trope: A rich, aristocratic German Nazi.
- Straight: Fritz is a rich member of a noble family who supports the Nazis, calling his wealth and prosperity the result of good breeding and social Darwinism.
- Exaggerated:
- Fritz is the richest man on earth and a comically devoted Nazi.
- The Nazis are all descendants of the nobility of a sunken ancient kingdom like atlantis or hyperborea who once ruled the whole planet.
- Downplayed: Fritz is a well-off man who inherited his wealth and either supports the Nazis or is too cowardly to oppose them.
- Justified: Nazi ideology is rather consistent with an elitist outlook.
- Inverted:
- Fritz is a German rebel who uses his wealth to subvert the Nazis.
- Fritz is a Nazi and a Lower-Class Lout whose hero worship of Hitler is what gives his life meaning.
- Nazi Germany survives the war and after decades, the Nazi leadership decides to transform germany into a feudal country with themselves as the new nobility. And suddenly, even some Nazis who came from poor social standing now are part of the aristocracy.
- Fritz expresses extreme disgust at the Nazis, a little bit for their cruel ways, but mostly for their plebian status. He's even offended when he gets compared to one; He's not one of those piggish, Lower Class Louts, he's of Prussian heritage! Likewise, the Nazis despise Fritz for being an aristocrat, the same class of wealth responsible for Germany's defeat back in World War I.
- Subverted:
- Fritz seems to be a rich Nazi, but he turns out to be The Mole for a resistance movement.
- Fritz turns out to be a Mock Millionaire.
- Fritz is a rich Nazi, but is a member of the Strasserist wing and supports wealth redistribution as a means to keep the workers happy.
- Fritz becomes a member of the Stauffenberg putsch (Operation Valkyrie)
- Double Subverted:
- ...And then it turns out he was actually a double agent working for the Nazis.
- Fritz exaggerates his wealth but is still quite rich.
- Fritz decides Working-Class People Are Morons and is too greedy to give up his wealth, and ends up supporting the reactionary and elitist Hitlerian version of Nazism.
- Parodied: Fritz is an Upper-Class Twit who is too incompetent to accomplish anything. The other Nazis are absolutely exasperated with him.
- Zig-Zagged: Fritz starts out wealthy, but as a moderate rightist instead of a Nazi, then he loses his wealth and upon blaming it on the Jews becomes a Nazi, only for it to take a while to rebuild his wealth, but once the Nazis are on the verge of losing power he leaves Nazism to save his skin and wealth.
- Averted: There are no wealthy Nazi characters.
- Enforced: The producers are trying to make the most despicable villain possible, so they make him not only a Nazi, but a particularly smug elitist, too.
- Lampshaded: "It was bad enough that he was a racial elitist, but an economic one too?" "Surely you would say the inverse." "O-of course!"
- Invoked: The Nazi Party gets the upper class on its side by promising to protect their wealth from the Communists.
- Exploited: Fritz is used as propaganda to appeal to the reactionary elite while convincing the working class that they can become like him under Hitler.
- Defied: In an Alternate History story, Hitler or a victorious Strasser decides the Nazis will support wealth redistribution and takes down the upper class.
- Discussed: Characters talk about how to preserve their wealth, elites would rather not question how broken the system is but rather scapegoat an "other", even though the outcome of this radical regime puts them at the mercy of a dictatorial state as well if they're not in complete control of it. They also discuss how in more liberal climates, nobles might be more inclined to pander to socially progressive causes to make a quick buck rather than support unpopular fascism.
- Conversed: The characters talk about how Nazism appeals to the traditional elite because if they're so used to stepping on lower-class people of their own race, then surely they'd have no trouble stepping down on other races too.
- Deconstructed: The Nazi belief in racial purity above all else causes the elite to essentially be puppets for the regime who have their wealth at the party's mercy. This prompts them to either side with a more traditional cause in the name of nobility above all else or for them to start pushing nobility first against the party, causing infighting between them and the racialist radicals.
- Reconstructed: The nobility are used as an example of what every Aryan can be should they crush the "other" group that is holding them down, and so Nazi nobility become the face of the party without alienating working-class support.
- Implied: Fritz is an old, rich, German man who is cagey about his past and occasionally expresses racist and anti-Semitic views. It's never outright stated, but it seems he might be a retired Nazi who escaped punishment.
- Played for Laughs: Other characters laugh at the narm of Fritz's morally unsound, racist views informed by economic privilege, expressed through every logical fallacy in the book.
- Played for Drama: Fritz is an old, rich, German man who is cagey about his past, has expressed racist and anti-Semitic opinions, and now he's holding Alice and Bob for ransom.
- Played for Horror: In an Alternate History (maybe caused by careless time travel, maybe not), the Nazis have won World War II, control the world, and it's a horrible Dystopia where guys like this call the shots.
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