The I Spy episode “Child Out of Time” revolved around the search for a list of Nazi war criminals. The catch is that the list exists only in the memory of a young girl whose mother drilled the information into her from a young age.
I’m guessing this was around the time Marathon Man came out?
1987’s Order of the Black Eagle is about a super spy infiltrating a group of Nazis who have somehow kept Hitler alive.
I mainly mention it because the spy’s side kick is played by Typhoon, possibly the best baboon actor to ever grace the screen.
1986 made-for-tv movie Of Pure Blood - Wikipedia is the story of a woman who discovers that she was born as part of the Third Reich’s “lebensborn” breeding program– and that the program has been secretly continued over the years.
Which is pretty much the explanation for the Chinese “miracle” of the last 20+ years. The early Deng-era improvements over pure Communism were a legit result of unleashing the forces of Capitalism (read “greed”). The latter years? Debt. Vast unpayable debt.
Let’s hope China doesn’t try the same solution as the nazis: invade and conquer all the countries that were their creditors.
From what I’ve read, China is using the debt foreign countries have with it as a way to take control.
It is a short story, not a TV show or movie, but I wanted to mention Mark Elf by Cordwainer Smith, originally published in 1957, as an example of an Old Nazi story. It is unusual in how Old the Nazi is–about sixteen thousand years–and it is rare or unique in that the Old Nazi is the heroine of the story–since in this case the Old Nazi is in fact a young woman who was put in suspended animation and stayed there longer than was planned. Besides, it is always worth mentioning Cordwainer Smith.
Yep. They were good at certain things, but that was really the efficient German.
It’s startling when you stop to think about it that for all the upheaval the Nazis inflicted on the planet and the 20th century, they were in power just twelve years*; about 6½ in peace and 5½ in war. Or in other words, no longer than the Reagan-Bush1 administrations.
*and as coincidence would have it, the USA had a single president for almost the exact same period.
While we are on the subject, can anyone remember an episode of, it might be The Avengers, or something else, in which the protagonists stumble on an entire SS battalion which have permanently sealed in an underground cave system with only one or two still left alive by the 1960s (when our heroes discover this) ?
There was an episode of The New Avengers – I think the two-part second season “K is for Kill”, with this plot. It’s also the one with Diana Rigg (courtesy of archival footage).
There was an Emma Peel episode of The Avengers in which some mastermind with delusions of grandeur was raising a private army in an underground complex of old mines. But I was 10 or 11 at the time and don’t remember if he was a Nazi or not.
IIRC, the mines were supposedly in Wales.
I think I saw that one recently - ‘Invasion of the Earthmen’ . Written by Terry Nation, who wrote many Dr Who episodes.
Are my memories accurate?
Broadly, though they might also fit 'The Living Dead ', which features a coal mine.
There was a storyline in the 70’s childrens show ‘The Tomorrow People’ where Hitler turned out to be an alien. There were a bunch of old Nazis keeping his corpse around ready for a resurrection and indoctrinating the next generation through popular music.
At the time there was a trend amongst British punks to adopt the swastika and other Nazi regalia as a mark of rebellion. This show took a very heavy handed and patronising approach to that and almost felt like government backed propaganda. Nazis are bad? Thanks for letting me know, I hadn’t realised!
It’s mostly remembered now for being an early role for Nicholas Lyndhurst and being yet another Hitler role for Michael Sheard (the strict teacher Mr Bronson in the school soap Grange Hill)
There was a Doctor Who serial called “Silver Nemesis” in the penultimate season of the original run (Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, with Sophie Aldred as his companion Ace) in which The Doctor plays off aging Nazis, a 17th century sorceress, and the Cybermen against each other. Haven’t seen it in a while (that’s the one McCoy season not yet on BluRay) but I think there was a “hiding out in Argentina” subplot as well, another common component of the trope.
Heh, The Champions did similar. Though the trapped soldiers in that show were the more honorable sort (clean Wehrmacht myth pretty explicitly laid out) and trapped by the SS. One of whom stole the identity of his trapped honorable twin, if I recall correctly. Only two still living by time our heroes arrive, I think.
That sounds like it might be the one i remember.