Many cultures have decades of pop-culture anti-nazi media. What are some of your favorite video games, movies, music, tv shows, books, and other media that are anti-nazi?
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inglorious bastards, disco elysium
I don’t know much about Disco Elysium. How is it anti-nazi? Isn’t it a space game?
Edit: I was thinking of a different game
It is not a space game. It is a detective game were the narrative comes from your inner voices. Highly recommend, especially if you are looking for some political commentary!
its antinazi in a very subtle way. its a story game loosely inspired by post-soviet life in rural russia/the balkans, but in an alternate universe with motor carriages, cryptids and and The Fog.
you investigate some weird crime involving commies, the local labor union and some fascists. its actually excellent worldbuilding.
Chumbawumba
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Y’all need to see the OG anti-nazi movie, Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, which he made in 1939.
Danger 5 - A Gerry Anderson-esque team of soldiers works to stop the reich’s escapades and kill Hitler.
Great pick! Danger 5 makes fun of everything, but refreshingly never loses it’s focus on killing Hitler.
Inglourious Basterds is pretty good
I can’t say enough good things about the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare:
Mind blowing aspects:
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It’s a true story.
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Ian Fleming was there for it and used it as the inspiration for James Bond.
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In the two real missions dramatized for the film, nobody got killed, but where’s the fun in that?
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The opening scene is probably the best part of cinema I have ever seen. Hans Landa is exceptionally well played
Most media portrays Nazi’s as evil fascists with a deep, seething hatred towards Jews and other persecuted minorities. However, Hans Landa is so unsettling because he doesn’t hate the Jews. We aren’t watching someone driven by emotion or even personal ambition. No, this man does his job for the simple reason that he’s good at it. He’s precise; clinical. He orders the deaths of the people in hiding as casually and as detached as someone tidying up their desk space.
And that’s what makes it all the more terrifying. It’s seeing man incredibly skilled at his craft, who takes pleasure in the simple act of a job well done; it just happens that the job is hunting human beings. Not only is he not blinded by hatred, but he uses that lack of hatred as a tool to become even more efficient at exterminating them.
That kind of cold detachment sends hardwired signals of danger to the audience. By the end of that scene, you know you are watching a true monster. One that would just as easily shake a man’s hand as he would slit their throat, and never lose a minute of sleep over it.
“you know how you get to Carnegie Hall?”
Hard to beat the Wolfenstein games and the Indiana Jones movies.
Straight up, Wolf3D and Fate of Atlantis gang stand up
Indy is all about showing us how to properly handle Nazis.
Those were two of the first ones I thought of too. I love The Last Crusade.
“No ticket!”
You chose poorly.
Fine, crystal skulls then.
You have destroyed the earth and all mankind.
Porco Rosso is an excellent Ghibli film with anti-fascist themes.
A great movie called “Look who’s back” goes into the danger of letting Nazism flourish. In this world Hitler shoots himself at the end of ww2 and then magicaly wakes up in modern times. So he goes back to his old shenanigans and people think it’s satire.
I didn’t realize while watching it that it’s kinda shot Borat-style and some of the reactions from people are genuine.
I’m partial to Nazi Punks, Fuck Off, originally by the Dead Kennedys. Napalm Death does a great version, too, if you’re more into grindcore
This song is featured in the horror movie Green Room, which is also an excellent answer to this question.
Propagandhi - The Only Good Fascist Is a Very Dead Fascist. Especially the line “You can wear my nuts on Your nazi chin”.
Iron Sky is ridiculous and good for a laugh if you need a break from the real Nazis.
I wanna say The Producers. So many works trying to demonise Nazis falls into the trap that demons are kinda cool, but Springtime for Hitler is so ridiculous that no matter how pro-Nazi the lyrics are, you can only laugh at them. And watching Hitler throw it back is just peak theatre.
Wolfenstein, the orginal.
Now do you mean the actual original, or do you mean Wolfenstein 3D?
And Doom2
