I managed to find that episode on YouTube and watched enough of it to confirm that it was the one I remembered.
John Gardner revisited the Nazi issue with 007 foiling attempts to establish a Fourth Reich in far northern Finland (Icebreaker, 1983).
Took me a minute to get it… but this made me chuckle.
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?
The Producers, with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder
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.
“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!”
Vhy do you persecute me? My papers are in order. I love my country. Oh, beautiful
His court appearance:
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.
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.
And they always fit. Wish I could see the same about my clothes from 20 years ago.
Hugo Boss was a very mean tailor…
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.
Zero Mostel could do more with just his facial expressions than most actors with a page of dialogue. Nathan Lane was a poor imitation.
TCM is a godsend.
Absolutely- see also “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”
Oh yes, one of my fave films.
“I thought you were impervious to pain.”
“Not my own.”
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.)
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.