![]() The aging (but evil) senior officer with cadaverous features, usually an SS member to link his skull-like visage with the death's head motif.Basically Mengele, mixed with the alien vampire robozombie stereotype. May also overlap with "Frankenstein", above. The mad doctor obsessed with purifying the race, discovering immortality, etc., through horrifying surgical/ robotic/ occult means.The Nazi Nobleman with a fancy aristocratic title and ancestral castle, who may overlap with any of these.The mindless drone who does anything he is told, with a certain lack of ignorance but not ambition.Possibly inspired by the later war SS recruits subject to Training from Hell, from the 12th SS Division Hitlerjugend. Sub-trope: the blond and innocent looking young recruit able to do the worst atrocities without slightest flinching, like a perfect robot.Wehrmacht training would train obedience, but also initiative and self-reliance in the absence of orders from higher up. Actually, at the NCO and Officer level, soldiers of the Wehrmacht were very autonomous in how to act out orders, as the Wehrmacht was one of the few professional armies ever to use Mission-type tactics, which required a great deal of creativity and initiative from the troops.This stereotype isn't completely unfounded because German soldiers in WWII were trained to be extremely obedient, sometimes to a fault because they would at times not act unless given orders. The mindless drone who simply does what he is told out of ignorance and lack of ambition.The teenaged grunt who often finds himself in way over his head.The " I'm just a soldier doing my job" Nazi, either regular military officer or SS, who feels My Country, Right or Wrong.The "Oskar Schindler" type - the guy who really has a heart of gold and works to save the persecuted or works with the Resistance, a la Allo Allo.Possibly modeled after real life sadist and Nazi SS Josef Blösche aka "Frankenstein", who killed over 2,000 noncombatants on his own. The slightest provocation (or none at all) means certain death for prisoners and civilians. The Nazi who kills because he simply enjoys it.In short, the most awesome roles that can be accredited to Curt Jürgens, such as in The Devil's General or The Longest Day (as Günther Blumentritt). If this guy will be asked by any real tight-assed Obstructive Bureaucrat (see above) about his faith and loyalty to the regime, the answer will merely be along the lines of "I am loyal to my men/ country/ work/job/ principles/ shit)" at most times. or senior civil servant who hates the party's ideology so much that he either just tries to abseil from what is happening around him, or suffers the consequences of persevering. And the continuation, this being the high-ranking Nazi C.O.The officer with a consience, usually based on Erwin Rommel.I love America! Vhen ze var is over, ve vill all be friends.") May have visited one city in America, and claims to have loved it ("I vas in New York, you know. May or may not be more devious than he appears. ![]()
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