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Nazi Grandpa
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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 Dark Secret. Back during World War II he was a card-carrying member of the NSDAP and a fervent supporter of Adolf Hitler and all the man stood for. But that was then. Now? Now he's an old, and very bitter, Nazi. If they're living incognito in some other country (usually the United States), it's not uncommon for them or their offspring to be the target of Nazi Hunters who have found out his true identity. On the other hand, if the grandparents of a Nazi Hunter happened to be Nazis themselves, it can result in an awkward situation. A very specific Sub-Trope of Grumpy Old Man. Often married to a Racist Grandma. Related to Evil Old Folks and Retired Monster. For obvious reasons, this evolved into a Stock Character in German Media; in serious works, but often also 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 Harmless Villain. See also Racist Grandma, and Sub-Par Supremacist for cases where the character is meant to be both awful and pathetic. However, as of The New Twenties, this trope is literally dying off, as the remaining Nazis would be nonagenarians at their youngest, making it more difficult to play it straight outside of Period Pieces. |
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Dr. Krieg in The Pretender episode "Hazards". | |
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In Scary Go Round, the professor who accompanies Shelley, Amy, and Desmond during their journey to Atlantis is implied to be one. | |
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In Son of the Beach German character Chip Rommel has an antique diamond ring. "It voz mein grandfather's. He collected jewellery during the war." | |
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One of the victim in Bones was a Nazi war criminal who fled with part of Nazi Gold to Argentina. | |
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CSI: NY: 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). | |
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Dennis and Dee's maternal grandfather was a Nazi in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Being who they are, Charlie and Mac attempt to exploit it for profit. 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. |
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Harrow: In "Lex Talionis" ("The Law of Retaliation"), the Victim of the Week, who was supposedly a Czech and a champion of migrant community, is revealed to have been an officer at Auschwitz. He was murdered by one of his victims who recognised him and had herself admitted to the same nursing home specifically to kill him. | |
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F is for Family: 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. | |
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The '80s revival of the 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. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): One of the single-vilest villains of the anthology was the old Nazi known as Karl Rademacher from season 5's time-travel episode "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 have Rademacher killed by his own younger self. | |
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Similarly, in one episode of Magnum, P.I., there was a Nazi couple hiding in Hawaii disguised as Jews. | |
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In The Adventures of Stefón Rudel, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a WW2 Luftwaffe ace and real-life example of the trope, serves as Stefón's second Parental Substitute. | |
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Re;member: Zev is hunting for one, the former SS blockfuhrer at Auschwitz who killed his and Max's families, Otto Wallisch. 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. | |
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Sebastian Shaw in X-Men: First Class, 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 Time Skip, though given the nature of his powers, 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 The '60s, they are closer to middle-aged than truly "grandpa" material. | |
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Implied with Dr Scott in The Rocky Horror Picture Show when Frank calls him Von Scott, he now works for the American government and is an expy of Doctor Strangelove. His Suspiciously Similar Substitute, Bert Schnick in the sequel, Shock Treatment. He slips into Gratuitous German 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. |
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In the Israeli film Walk on Water, the 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. | |
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In the first series satirical UK puppet show Spitting Image Mrs Thatcher's elderly neighbour, Herr Jeremy Von Wilcox, who lived at No. 9 Downing Street, was actually Adolf Hitler. | |
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Spoofed in I Am America (And So Can You!) 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." | |
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Dr. Mortner from the James Bond movie A View to a Kill. 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 Amazon Brigade is composed of his other experiments. This includes Zorin's lover and henchwoman May Day, who's black. | |
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In 2006, Günter Grass, author of The Tin Drum 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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An elderly man suspected of being an SS officer ends up being a murder suspect in Law & Order: Criminal Intent. | |
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In a Biter Comics strip, A prospective job candidate learns his new boss may at the very least be a Nazi sympathizer. | |
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In Gentle Hands, the plot increasingly focuses on whether the protagonist's grandfather is the titular Nazi. He is. | |
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Von Geisler in Frontier(s) is the head of a family of Nazi cannibals. | |
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The X-Files: The episode "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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After the destruction of the Poseidon Oil Rig in Fallout 2, the remnants of the Enclave have been trying to integrate silently to society, with varying successes; some were found out and executed. In Fallout: New Vegas, 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 Villains. | |
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In one Black Lagoon 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 Secret Test of Character for some of his subordinates. Dutch is slightly less than pleased to discover this. | |
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Krieger from Archer has a pretty significant Nazi dad. He's one of The Boys from Brazil. (Oddly enough, he already knew he had been raised by Nazis.) It's even implied he may be a clone of Hitler (or at least some kind of genetic relative). Subverted in that while he is creepy and 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. | |
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Subverted in 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, 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 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 offers him the choice between exposure or a rope. | |
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Mike Tyson Mysteries 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. | |
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It becomes clear from some of his comments that Dwight's grandfather in The Office (US) fought on the side of Germany during World War II and was probably a war criminal and not just an average soldier. | |
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Spoofed in The Onion's Our Dumb World. Apparently, Argentina is filled with old Nazis who 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. | |
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Dr. Christian Szell from the film Marathon Man, 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. | |
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In 30 Rock, Jack once remembered that his kindly German teacher who was obsessed with classifying people got kidnapped by Israeli commandos. | |
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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, but he never mentioned the guy who saved him was from his unit, or from his side for that matter. | |
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Law & Order 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). | |
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A CollegeHumor skit has the site's resident idiot, Owen, who is completely ignorant about World War II, present his grandpa's old box of "Wolfenstein collectibles" to his colleagues. | |
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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 Training from Hell 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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Late into the plot of Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, it's revealed that the true Big Bad 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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Tiegel's paternal grandpa in Hitman (1993) is fairly senile and makes no secret of his past and politics. Despite the fact that his daughter-in-law and granddaughter are black. | |
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The Producers: Played for Laughs 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 Springtime for Hitler—which they plan to deliberately make flop to bilk investors before moving to Rio de Janeiro. | |
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Arthur Denker again in the film adaptation of Apt Pupil. Ian McKellen 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. | |
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In an episode of FlashForward (2009), there is an old convicted Nazi in a prison in 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? | |
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Area 51: 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. | |
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Invoked in the 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. It's actually Adolf Hitler himself, returned to Germany to receive his promised reward from the Illuminati. | |
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The revival of Justice Society of America 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. Nazism ends up being involved anyway, when the Brain in a Jar of Heinrich Himmler, which Von Braun had preserved, hijacks the super cannon and intends to blackmail Earth into making him dictator. | |
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In Do Not Feed The Monkeys, one of the storylines has an Expy of Hitler as a retired old man in an old folks' home. | |
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In the Forever (2014) 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 had been quietly returning to their rightful owners for decades. | |
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An episode of 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. | |
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Subverted in The Monster Squad. The main characters believe that the scary German guy living down the street is one of these, but it turns out he's a Holocaust survivor. | |
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In El internado, there are several Nazi old men that managed to escape justice when World War II ended by hiding in Spain. In fact, Iván's adoptive grandfather, as well as Marcos and Paula's grandfather (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. | |
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An episode of Barney Miller has a 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. | |
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The Family Guy episode "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 not being gay. Herbert and Franz face off in a slow-motion fightnote that is, slow because they're both old men who move very slowly of Grey-and-Gray Morality (is the audience supposed to root for the pedophile or the Nazi)? | |
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Grandpa Nazi is a recurring sketch in Monkey Dust. | |
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In the Creepypasta "An Old Man's Last Secret", the twist is that 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, after a long and happy life that wasn't his. | |
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The old concentration camp guard posing as a Jew also showed up in another Bruckheimer show, Cold Case. Both were likely inspired by the case of Elfriede Rinkel. | |
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