Old Nazis on old tv programs

That’s not the one with the Spad and the Fokker, is it?

I don’t remember. I see the entire series is available on Blu-ray though. :wink:

“Ze Baron und his Dachshund Willi!”

Any story in any franchise w Spads, Fokkers, and Nazis young or, worse yet, old all in one episode has some serious time-continuity challenges. Just sayin’.

May as well throw in a sailing ship and a starship for good measure.

In the disappointing film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears, the Islamic terrorists who detonate an atomic bomb in Denver became Neo-Nazis who bomb Baltimore.

That was precisely my point. The Baron was a WWI vet, not an ON.

Around 1940, the SS started phasing out the black uniforms in favor of ones in different shades of grey.

By 1940 Germany was already suffering supply / logistical challenges. Shame, the black unis had all the style.

A beastly regime in every respect deserving of nothing but scorn and defeat. Although they did have good (pre-war) designers.

It was such a good design that the NVA (the army of East Germany) adapted the style after the war.

Yep, they knew how to dress alright!

Before there were Nazis there were Prussians, who presaged many of the tropes later associated with the Nazis.

Which led me to an interesting wiki spelunk into the history & org chart of the NVA. Which was actually the entire armed forces of the GDR/DDR with sea, air, and land departments. Plus the border patrol whose job was 99% keeping people in, not out.

Not quite as beastly as the Nazis but decently competitive runners up.

Shame anyone anywhere ever had to, or has now to, live under such perverse regimes.

Re: the Johnny Quest episode: although Heinrich Von Duffel flies a WWI biplane, his uniform is more of a kid’s cartoon version of a WWII German uniform

Heh. I don’t think the author of the article is a native English speaker. :wink:

It seems I misremembered some details. After reading the article, I remember the grenade on the wing. It’s interesting that the episode was from 1964. (I watched the cartoons on syndication on Saturday mornings.) Nineteen years after the war, it was plausible that Nazi war criminals were still on the loose.

That’s not the episode I was thinking of. This one is:

Shadow of the Condor | Jonny Quest Wiki | Fandom

The other link doesn’t specify what kind of aircraft was flown, other than it was a biplane and Quest & Company arrived in it.

Just remembered there was mention of the American Nazi Party on WKRP in Cincinnati. What I recall is Mr. Carlson talking about his son wanting to joint the American Nazi Party and talking about taking Iowa (I think) first and then saying he doesn’t know what that means.

That must have been around the time (1978 or '79) there was a big stink because American Nazis wanted to march through the streets of Skokie, a predominantly Jewish neighborhood outside Chicago.

Man, I hate…well, you know.

Hmm…I don’t think I’ve ever seen The Devil’s Tower. Though I do remember the Condor episode.

I guess I have some watching to do. Get the DVDs out tonight.