I would so read/watch any media following the misadventures of the overly polite Nazi, ESPECIALLY if you made it. I smell an amazing Bug Martini spinoff…
You could count Graf von Stauffenberg and all the others who tried to assassinate Hitler, but I suppose trying to kill somebody puts you in “not nice” territory.
I’d certainly count von Stauffenberg as a good guy. A good guy in that situation doesn’t have a lot of options. Doing nothing would probably be considered worse.
In terms of guys in the german military, Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck probably counts as a good guy. When hitler came to power he asked him to be an ambassador. He told Hitler to go f**k himself.
My parents had a friend who was drafted into the Nazi army; he didn’t believe in Hitler’s plans. He actually was captured by the Soviets, escaped from their prison camp, and surrendered himself to American soldiers.
Also, sidenote – the rifle that Nazi soldier bug is carrying in panel #1 looks like an M1 carbine, which was actually a U.S. rifle, not a German one.
Easy mistake to make, but I highly suspect that that’s the m1 rifle from rifleschteiner and brothers , made exclusively for nazi bugs. You can tell if you look closely at the barrel and see where it’s just a line ;p
Am I the only one who “heard” Polite Nazi Bug’s voice with an English accent? Try as I might, I just can’t make it German. Nothing against German folks, but the voice immediately went London on me.
From my German perspective, the strip has no punchlines. Of course there were nice Nazis – civil servants and employees who had to enter the party to keep their jobs. Also, most soldiers of Nazi Germany were no Nazis – just soldiers. So the depicted bug most likely isn’t even a Nazi in the sense that he most likely isn’t a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Yeah, I was just thinking that. im german too, and i thought, well, yea, of course there were nice nazis! my grandfather was drafted, also, so maybe he was a nice nazi
My German perspective is currently laughing its ass off, as always when your comics involve this topic. Please ignore the guy above and keep doing nazi jokes!
Franz Liebkind: You know, not many people know zis, but der Führer was a terrific dancer.
Max Bialystock: Really? Gee, we didn’t know that, did we, Leo?
Leo Bloom: No, we sure didn’t.
Franz Liebkind:
THAT’S BECAUSE YOU WERE TAKEN IN BY THE BBC! Filthy British lies! But did they ever say a bad word about Winston Churchill? CHURCHILL!
[gags]
Franz Liebkind:
With his cigars, and his brandy, and his ROTTEN paintings! ROTTEN!
Hitler, there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one
afternoon! Two coats!
Lotsa people didn’t, but followed along anyway. That’s what made it so tricky after the war to figure out how to punish former Nazis. Look up the Nuremburg Trials.
It’s doubtful that there WEREN’T at least a few nice Nazis, especially if you count “Nazis” as “people who served in the German Nazi army”. I remember one story I read about German naval officer who was attacking either civilian vessels or merchant vessels during WW2, and his commanding officer found out and had him court-martialled even though what he did technically wasn’t a war crime.
Or something along those lines. It was a while ago, and I wish I could find the story so I get the details it right…
There were several degrees of commitment to the Nazi ideals and you can judge an individuals commitment pretty accurately by the date at with they joined the Party:
-) Coerced: People order to join the party for their propaganda value e.g. the Krup family. They hated the Nazis but were ordered to make a show of joining around 1933. These individuals usually hated the Nazis with a passion. At best, this class of people saw the Nazis as the lessor of two evils when forced to choose between types of socialism. They could go with the German Nationalistic Socialist or go with foreign rule by the Soviet dictator Stalin.
-) Pragmatist: People who joined after 1934 after Hitler had been in office for two years. Basically, anyone who wanted a good government job or wanted to do major business in the nationalized economy had to be party members. Their ideological commitment was almost non-existent.
-) Post-1929, pre-1932: These are people who joined after the Great Depression started but before the party came to power. They tended to be poor, working class, and lower middle-class and were primarily drawn by the Nazi’s social welfare programs and the protection from Stalinist thuggery offered by the Brown Shirts.
-) The Old Guard: True believers. People who joined the party in the 1920s when it was small, marginalized and powerless. The tended to be deeply antisemitic, anti-communist and radical socialist redistribution.
Plenty of good people became Nazis and Stalinist. Part of Hitler’s evil genius lay in his ability to convince individuals that he really believed what the individual believed and that all that other stuff was just for show for this or that group that had to be manipulated for the common good. That chameleon like ability allowed individuals to project their own ideals onto Hitler and the Nazis and convince themselves that the Nazis behind the scenes actually sought more reasonable and humane goals.
Of this group two good examples would be Paul Rabe and Fritz Thyssen.
Rabbi was a diehard Nazi business man who found himself in Nanking in 1937 when the rape of the city occurred. He established a safety zone and sheltered over a 100,000 Chinese from Japanese atrocities. He assumed Hitler would be as horrified as himself and wrote the former a letter detailing the atrocities of the Japanese. He could never understand why Hitler never said anything about it.
Thyssen was the only the major German corporate figure to the support the Nazis. He started giving money to Ludendorf in the 1920s to distribute to nationalistic groups with the knowledge that a lot of it would end up with the Nazis. He formally joined the party in 1931.
Thyssen was primarily motivated by a desire to rectify the injustices of the Treaty of Versailles and opposition to Stalinism. However, he was clearly deluding himself about Hitler’s real intentions because he was shocked and horrified when Hitler invaded Poland. He wrote a scathing letter to Hitler castigating him for starting a war and despite the literal millions Thyssen had given the Nazis when they had nothing, Hitler confiscated all his property and threw him a concentration camp. After the war, the Allies deemed him a war criminal even though he had opposed the war.
Arguablly, most Nazis were likely good people it was just that Hitler had convinced them that the German people faced extinction if they didn’t fight hard and ruthlessly.
Communism and Facsism were so dangerous precisely because they convinced good people to do evil things. The ideologies were really fantasy narratives in which the entirety of society became immersed like a real-space massively multiplayer role player game. In the “game world” of the ideology, good people would be morally and logically compelled to commit evil acts in order to preserve that which they loved or to create a utopian world for everyone.
I remember a story about Nazis where a Nazi commander was supposed to get all the jews out of a city. His superiors expected him to execute them/send them to the camps. Instead he casually met with the mayor and said it was a shame there wasn’t a bridge to a nearby country which would except the jews with no fear of reprisals. The Mayor told him that they would build that bridge and all the Jews were smuggled out. When his superiors confronted him about it his answer was “You told me to get them out of the city and I did,”
Other then that there were multiple good Nazis. Some of which helped the Jewish rebellion by being inside men. But the really bad ones are the ones that get famous.
I would so read/watch any media following the misadventures of the overly polite Nazi, ESPECIALLY if you made it. I smell an amazing Bug Martini spinoff…
The title could be “Shaken Nazi Stirred”?
Valkyrie with Tom Cruise is a movie about nice nazis who tried bombing Hitler and overthrow him and failed.
ohhh, come onnn, yes, nice nazi is a MUST DO!! pleasssssssse!
I did nazi that coming…
-wa waaaaaaa-
Eva Braun did not see.
Nazi jokes are the best 😀
How to pronaounce NAZI. So is it a strong A as in assh&#^? Or a softer A as in fatherland?
‘A’ as in ‘arm’, sez the dictionary.
You could count Graf von Stauffenberg and all the others who tried to assassinate Hitler, but I suppose trying to kill somebody puts you in “not nice” territory.
I’d certainly count von Stauffenberg as a good guy. A good guy in that situation doesn’t have a lot of options. Doing nothing would probably be considered worse.
In terms of guys in the german military, Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck probably counts as a good guy. When hitler came to power he asked him to be an ambassador. He told Hitler to go f**k himself.
What about joseph schindler? He was a Nazi who spent his time trying to save as many people from hitler as possible.
Any relation to Oskar?
Well, there’s this: http://pixdaus.com/nazi-soldiers-playing-with-kitten-cats-kitten-nazi-soldiers/items/view/16629/
Yes. And the ‘z’ is pronounced as in pizza.
Nobody can resist kittens…
My parents had a friend who was drafted into the Nazi army; he didn’t believe in Hitler’s plans. He actually was captured by the Soviets, escaped from their prison camp, and surrendered himself to American soldiers.
Also, sidenote – the rifle that Nazi soldier bug is carrying in panel #1 looks like an M1 carbine, which was actually a U.S. rifle, not a German one.
Still an entertaining comic though!
Easy mistake to make, but I highly suspect that that’s the m1 rifle from rifleschteiner and brothers , made exclusively for nazi bugs. You can tell if you look closely at the barrel and see where it’s just a line ;p
Not sure if joke. Am confuse…
Well given that I can hardly say m1 rifle from rifleschteiner and brothers without giggling
Looks to be a Kar 43 to me.
Looks like a G43. Anachronistic, but German.
Hitler’s suggestion box… I did Nazi that coming.
Am I the only one who “heard” Polite Nazi Bug’s voice with an English accent? Try as I might, I just can’t make it German. Nothing against German folks, but the voice immediately went London on me.
Loved the whole thing as usual, Adam!
From my German perspective, the strip has no punchlines. Of course there were nice Nazis – civil servants and employees who had to enter the party to keep their jobs. Also, most soldiers of Nazi Germany were no Nazis – just soldiers. So the depicted bug most likely isn’t even a Nazi in the sense that he most likely isn’t a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Yeah, I was just thinking that. im german too, and i thought, well, yea, of course there were nice nazis! my grandfather was drafted, also, so maybe he was a nice nazi
Seriously? He makes jokes about nazi’s, not about Germans. This probably is the worst executed guilt by association fallacy ever.
Your German perspective finds no humor? Shocking.
My German perspective is currently laughing its ass off, as always when your comics involve this topic. Please ignore the guy above and keep doing nazi jokes!
Genau!
My German perspective found this hilarious.
Almost as funny as modern-Germans-are-scared-of-feeling-national-pride jokes.
I find that the Germans from the former eastern Germany have the best sense of humor (among the Germans).
I met several students from Hamburg (western) that were… lacking in the humor department.
Franz Liebkind: You know, not many people know zis, but der Führer was a terrific dancer.
Max Bialystock: Really? Gee, we didn’t know that, did we, Leo?
Leo Bloom: No, we sure didn’t.
Franz Liebkind:
THAT’S BECAUSE YOU WERE TAKEN IN BY THE BBC! Filthy British lies! But did they ever say a bad word about Winston Churchill? CHURCHILL!
[gags]
Franz Liebkind:
With his cigars, and his brandy, and his ROTTEN paintings! ROTTEN!
Hitler, there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one
afternoon! Two coats!
Actually, from what I understand some of hitler’s advisors really didn’t like what he was doing.
Yeah. He replaced his Generals, twice – and eventually called Guderian back, just to have him not listen to him!
Lotsa people didn’t, but followed along anyway. That’s what made it so tricky after the war to figure out how to punish former Nazis. Look up the Nuremburg Trials.
I feel inspired to write a children’s book entitled “The Nicest Nazi”!
Interesting…
Only in the PRESENT DAY are the bugs naked.
Hmm…
Well, he’s not in uniform.
You never watched Schindler’s List did you?
I imagine him sounding a lot like Arte Johnson’s Wolfgang character.
“Verrrrrrry interesting… but funny.”
It’s doubtful that there WEREN’T at least a few nice Nazis, especially if you count “Nazis” as “people who served in the German Nazi army”. I remember one story I read about German naval officer who was attacking either civilian vessels or merchant vessels during WW2, and his commanding officer found out and had him court-martialled even though what he did technically wasn’t a war crime.
Or something along those lines. It was a while ago, and I wish I could find the story so I get the details it right…
There were several degrees of commitment to the Nazi ideals and you can judge an individuals commitment pretty accurately by the date at with they joined the Party:
-) Coerced: People order to join the party for their propaganda value e.g. the Krup family. They hated the Nazis but were ordered to make a show of joining around 1933. These individuals usually hated the Nazis with a passion. At best, this class of people saw the Nazis as the lessor of two evils when forced to choose between types of socialism. They could go with the German Nationalistic Socialist or go with foreign rule by the Soviet dictator Stalin.
-) Pragmatist: People who joined after 1934 after Hitler had been in office for two years. Basically, anyone who wanted a good government job or wanted to do major business in the nationalized economy had to be party members. Their ideological commitment was almost non-existent.
-) Post-1929, pre-1932: These are people who joined after the Great Depression started but before the party came to power. They tended to be poor, working class, and lower middle-class and were primarily drawn by the Nazi’s social welfare programs and the protection from Stalinist thuggery offered by the Brown Shirts.
-) The Old Guard: True believers. People who joined the party in the 1920s when it was small, marginalized and powerless. The tended to be deeply antisemitic, anti-communist and radical socialist redistribution.
Plenty of good people became Nazis and Stalinist. Part of Hitler’s evil genius lay in his ability to convince individuals that he really believed what the individual believed and that all that other stuff was just for show for this or that group that had to be manipulated for the common good. That chameleon like ability allowed individuals to project their own ideals onto Hitler and the Nazis and convince themselves that the Nazis behind the scenes actually sought more reasonable and humane goals.
Of this group two good examples would be Paul Rabe and Fritz Thyssen.
Rabbi was a diehard Nazi business man who found himself in Nanking in 1937 when the rape of the city occurred. He established a safety zone and sheltered over a 100,000 Chinese from Japanese atrocities. He assumed Hitler would be as horrified as himself and wrote the former a letter detailing the atrocities of the Japanese. He could never understand why Hitler never said anything about it.
Thyssen was the only the major German corporate figure to the support the Nazis. He started giving money to Ludendorf in the 1920s to distribute to nationalistic groups with the knowledge that a lot of it would end up with the Nazis. He formally joined the party in 1931.
Thyssen was primarily motivated by a desire to rectify the injustices of the Treaty of Versailles and opposition to Stalinism. However, he was clearly deluding himself about Hitler’s real intentions because he was shocked and horrified when Hitler invaded Poland. He wrote a scathing letter to Hitler castigating him for starting a war and despite the literal millions Thyssen had given the Nazis when they had nothing, Hitler confiscated all his property and threw him a concentration camp. After the war, the Allies deemed him a war criminal even though he had opposed the war.
Arguablly, most Nazis were likely good people it was just that Hitler had convinced them that the German people faced extinction if they didn’t fight hard and ruthlessly.
Communism and Facsism were so dangerous precisely because they convinced good people to do evil things. The ideologies were really fantasy narratives in which the entirety of society became immersed like a real-space massively multiplayer role player game. In the “game world” of the ideology, good people would be morally and logically compelled to commit evil acts in order to preserve that which they loved or to create a utopian world for everyone.
Ha-ha-ha! That’s so true!
Thank you for the shout out to The Good Man Of Nanking. Although I think he was JOHN Rabe.
I remember a story about Nazis where a Nazi commander was supposed to get all the jews out of a city. His superiors expected him to execute them/send them to the camps. Instead he casually met with the mayor and said it was a shame there wasn’t a bridge to a nearby country which would except the jews with no fear of reprisals. The Mayor told him that they would build that bridge and all the Jews were smuggled out. When his superiors confronted him about it his answer was “You told me to get them out of the city and I did,”
Other then that there were multiple good Nazis. Some of which helped the Jewish rebellion by being inside men. But the really bad ones are the ones that get famous.
Hermann Goering’s brother Albert was a Righteous Gentile. Life is weird.