Dead Nazi
The weekend before last, the Mountain of Love arrived home while I was watching Downfall, a German film about life inside Hitler's bunker in Berlin during the very last days of the Third Reich. He remarked that I watched a lot of films about the Nazis and the Holocaust. He was in no way criticizing, merely making an observation. And he was right. Here then is a list of the movies I have seen about the Nazis and the Holocaust courtesy of Netflix.

Of all the movies I've seen about the Second World War - such as The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Stalag 17, and The Young Lions - many include the Wehrmacht and the SS, but I am only including those that specifically deal with the Holocaust or the inner workings of the Nazi state. I am also including The Believer, a movie about a contemporary Jewish Neo-Nazi.

Even if based on actual events, all films are fictional unless otherwise noted.

Swing Kids
Triumph of the Will (propaganda documentary)
Downfall
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (documentary)
Stalingrad
Uprising
Out of the Ashes
Europa Europa
The Grey Zone
Conspiracy
Max
The Boys From Brazil
The ODESSA File
The Desert Fox
The Believer

This past weekend, my parents and I saw a film at the Flint Institute of Arts, Sophie Scholl: The Last Days, about the White Rose non-violent resistance "movement" (though really it was the size of a gang, not a movement) in wartime Germany.

Spy Smasher
One of my favorite recurring characters from The Magic of Shazam! is Spy Smasher (Avi Ducret), an Israeli mystery man on a lifelong globetrotting battle against the forces of violent anti-Semitism, specifically the underground Nazi terrorist network, ODESSA. Captain Marvel, and the audience, are first introduced to Spy Smasher in "The ODESSA File" (MOS! nos. 14-17) when Avi comes to Fawcett City to thwart an ODESSA operation to liberate Captain Nazi, imprisoned since the sobering events of "Kristallnacht" (MOS! nos. 11-12). Cap and Spy Smasher will forge an alliance, assisting each other in "Man of Science" (MOS! nos. 22-25), "V for Vengeance" (or "V for Vergeltungswaffe," in either event MOS! nos. 38-40), and the just-over-a-year-long saga of "The Red and the Black" and "From Here to the Rock of Eternity" (MOS! nos. 45-50 and 53-58), and beyond.

I've also got a couple of ideas for Spy Smasher miniseries, encompassing further battles against the superpowered agents of ODESSA; the Israeli terrorist group the Zealots, of which Avi was a member before he became the Spy Smasher; a fanatical Russian Neo-Nazi who calls himself The Amalekite; and even some "run-of-the-mill" jihadist al-Qaeda-type terrorists. (If he spends all of his time fighting terrorists, why is he called Spy Smasher? Why not Terrorist Smasher? Because Spy Smasher was a Golden Age superhero and "Terrorist Smasher" is stupid.) I have ideas, in various stages of development, for the following miniseries:

Spy Smasher: Operation Paperclip
Spy Smasher: Goliath
Spy Smasher: The Boys From Brazil

And the more lighthearted one-shot The Spy Smasher Christmas Special, featuring Avi in costume scolding, "I'm Jewish, you #&*@!," on the cover.

The Other Dead Nazi
The Official Beer of The Last Angry Man: Guinness
The Official Summer Beer of The Last Angry Man: Red Stripe
The Official Shot of The Last Angry Man: Dead Nazi
The Official Cocktail of The Last Angry Man: I don't drink that fruity garbage. Cowboy the hell up and have a pint.