# Old Nazis on old tv programs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486 "2024-08-09T17:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/61 "2024-08-16T17:43:44Z")
I managed to find that episode on YouTube and watched enough of it to confirm that it was the one I remembered. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/62 "2024-08-16T17:53:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel **Moonraker** (1955) had ex-Nazis planning to use Britain’s first space missile to drop an atom bomb on London. I recall hearing someone complaining in the 1960s or 1970s about thrillers whose plots revolved around ex-Nazis getting hold of atomic bombs, so the idea wasn’t confined to Fleming. John Gardner revisited the Nazi issue with 007 foiling attempts to establish a Fourth Reich in far northern Finland ( **Icebreaker** , 1983). ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/63 "2024-08-16T19:23:11Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > It’s very interesting that no one has mentioned Artie Johnson yet. Took me a minute to get it… but this made me chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/64 "2024-08-16T21:00:52Z")
It’s a movie, but how about **Dr. Strangelove.** I also remember a movie from the late 60’s, some kind of comedy about a shady producer who needs a Broadway show to flop for tax purposes, so he buys a script from a neo-Nazi that presents a rosy view of the Third Reich. I think the scriptwriter actually fought real Nazis in World War II. Anyone know what I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/65 "2024-08-16T21:05:52Z")
The Producers, with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/66 "2024-08-16T21:16:38Z")
By Mel Brooks, who in later years boasted that he had gained the ultimate revenge on Hitler: that Nazism was so defeated and so discredited that it had been reduced to the point where [it could be mocked](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThoseWackyNazis). ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/67 "2024-08-16T21:20:00Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > so he buys a script from a neo-Nazi that presents a rosy view of the Third Reich. _“I VAS NEVER A MEMBER OF ZE NAZI PARTY! I ONLY FOLLOWED ORDERS! I HAD NOTHING TO DO VITH ZE WAR! I didn’t even know zhere vas a war on! We lived in ze back, right across from Swizterland. All ve ever heard vas yodeling!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/68 "2024-08-16T23:33:00Z")
_Vhy do you persecute me? My papers are in order. I love my country. Oh, beautiful_ ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/69 "2024-08-17T02:17:04Z")
His court appearance: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Q_TAbSw2UEk/maxresdefault.jpg "This Is A Wonderful Man (Trial Scene) - The Producers 1967") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TAbSw2UEk) ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/70 "2024-08-17T21:58:29Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > I managed to find that episode on YouTube and watched enough of it to confirm that it was the one I remembered. Cool. You know, it really is neat how these days we have so much easy access to older programming. Even if it is just to verify or debund our childhood memories. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/71 "2024-08-17T22:46:54Z")
Old Nazis on TV always seemed to have kept their old uniforms. Now, if you were trying to escape and disappear, through several countries, I would think that getting rid of that uniform would be the first thing. But no, they always have their old black SS uniforms and medals hidden away somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/72 "2024-08-18T00:17:28Z")
And they always fit. Wish I could see the same about my clothes from 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/73 "2024-08-18T00:53:41Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > Old Nazis on TV always seemed to have kept their old uniforms. Hugo Boss was a very [mean tailor](https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/fashions-hugo-boss-expresses-regret-at-nazi-past-idUSTRE78L3ZD/)… ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/74 "2024-08-18T01:40:46Z")
Atun-Shei films introduced an ON for the ending episodes of _Checkmate, Lincolnites!_ Klaus tries to bring back the Confederacy by zombie-reanimating Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/75 "2024-08-18T04:14:47Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > His court appearance: Zero Mostel could do more with just his facial expressions than most actors with a page of dialogue. Nathan Lane was a poor imitation. > [@Tzigone](#): > > You know, it really is neat how these days we have so much easy access to older programming. TCM is a godsend. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/76 "2024-08-18T13:19:47Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Zero Mostel could do more with just his facial expressions than most actors with a page of dialogue Absolutely- see also “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/77 "2024-08-18T21:21:46Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Absolutely- see also “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” Oh yes, one of my fave films. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/78 "2024-08-18T21:31:45Z")
“I thought you were impervious to pain.” “Not my own.” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMrjeejmCpI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMrjeejmCpI) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/79 "2024-08-18T21:37:37Z")
There was an episode of _Jonny Quest_ wherein a Nazi doctor was experimenting on lost Neanderthals in a secluded valley. (ISTR pterodactyls being there too.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486/80 "2024-08-18T22:39:25Z")
In the one I was thinking of, Emma Peel witnesses an execution by a firing squad with automatic weapons. When it’s over, the helmeted executioners do a right face and march away in lockstep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-nazis-on-old-tv-programs/1005486.md?page=5)