Nazisploitation

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Nazisploitation is a word usually used to describe the number of (mostly Italian) exploitation films made during the '70s that revolved around the sordidly sexual or gruesome goings-on at Nazi concentration camps/stalags/extermination camps; and in my own estimation, that is the true definition of the term, and there are only around 30 films which qualify as such.

However, I personally also believe that Nazisploitation has even earlier roots, and has also continued to evolve since it's heyday. I submit that there are four major schools of the subgenre:

1) the aforementioned '70s shock exploitation pictures,
(Ilsa, Love Camp 7, Gestapo's Last Orgy)
2) War-era Allied propaganda pieces/Post-War mad Nazi scientist pictures,
(Enemy of Women, Strange Holiday, She Demons, The Frozen Dead)
3) Nazi Zombie pictures and all the Nu-Nazisploitation created this millenium which sprung from those,
(Zombie Lake, Shock Waves, Dead Snow, Outpost) and
4) Secret Nazi pictures, about war criminals/former Nazis living in hiding among us in the "present day".
(Apt Pupil, The Boys From Brazil, They Saved Hitler's Brain).

All four schools are included in this list, in chronological order. I've excluded genre films where the Nazis are not the prominent threat, or are the victims of something supernatural themselves (The Keep, The Bunker), as well as anything which is more straight-forwardly a drama or war picture than within a more exploitative genre (Inglorious Bastards, Inglourious Basterds, Escape From Sobibor). Neither are there films where there is merely a Nazi villain present (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Captain America, Jane and the Lost City); if there is only one Nazi, he should be the major threat of the piece (Marathon Man, In a Glass Cage). I have included the Men Behind the Sun films, because even though they have no Nazis, they are clearly the Hong Kong equivalent of the genre, and hit all the same notes as the genuine articles. There are a few other odd-man-out entries in there too, like the trailer compilation Nazithon, or the arty The Empty Mirror. Really, my major criteria basically comes down to whether the film is in questionable taste or not; if it is, it's in!
Please feel free to send suggestions for inclusion on/exclusion from the list my way!

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    Hitler - Beast of Berlin

    1939, in 0 top lists Check
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    Mein Kampf - My Crimes

    1940, in 0 top lists Check
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    Après Mein Kampf mes crimes

    1940 — a.k.a. My Crimes After Mein Kampf, in 0 top lists Check
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    You Nazty Spy!

    1940, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Thrifty Pig

    1941, in 0 top lists Check
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    I'll Never Heil Again

    1941, in 0 top lists Check
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    Ne toptat fashistskomu sapogu nashey rodiny

    1941, in 0 top lists Check
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    Zhurnal politsatiry No. 2

    1941, in 0 top lists Check
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    Stervyatniki

    1941, in 0 top lists
    Check
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    Kino-tsirk

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hitler--Dead or Alive

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Devil with Hitler

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    Blitz Wolf

    1942, in 1 top list Check
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    Stop That Tank!

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    Der Fuehrer's Face

    1942, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Ducktators

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hitler's Children

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Women in Bondage

    1943 — a.k.a. Hitler's Women, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hitler's Madman

    1943 — a.k.a. Hitler's Hangman, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    They Came to Blow Up America

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Tarzan Triumphs

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Revenge of the Zombies

    1943 — a.k.a. The Corpse Vanished, in 0 top lists Check
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    Higher Than a Kite

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    That Nazty Nuisance

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Daffy - The Commando

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Bury the Axis

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Spies

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Fighting Tools

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Scrap Happy Daffy

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Last Roundup

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Hitler Gang

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
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    Enemy of Women

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
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    None Shall Escape

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
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    Tomorrow, the World!

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
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    Russian Rhapsody

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
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    Herr Meets Hare

    1945, in 0 top lists Check
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    Jungle Queen

    1945, in 0 top lists
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    Strange Holiday

    1945, in 0 top lists Check
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    Pérák a SS

    1946 — a.k.a. The Chimney Sweep, in 1 top list Check
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    Women in the Night

    1948, in 0 top lists Check
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    Counterblast

    1948 — a.k.a. Devil's Plot, in 0 top lists Check
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    Will It Happen Again?

    1948, in 0 top lists Check
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    Pirates of the High Seas

    1950, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Magic Face

    1951, in 1 top list Check
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    Der Verlorene

    1951 — a.k.a. The Lost One, in 4 top lists Check
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    Red Planet Mars

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
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    She Demons

    1958, in 0 top lists Check
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