Nazis

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Nazis
Japanese Name	ナチス
Romanized Name	Nachisu
Manga Debut	Chapter 52
Anime Debut	Episode 11
NotableMember(s)	Adolf Hitler, Rudol von Stroheim, Donovan, Mark

“

This bizarre group believed that they were the most evolved people among humans and used this as a reason for war. As advanced humans, they must control the spiritual and scientific world. They tried to use astrology, magic, alchemy, ESP, and occult as weapons of war.

”

—Chapter 52

The Nazis (ナチス, Nachisu) are Germany's military force during Battle Tendency. Under orders of Adolf Hitler in the background, Rudol von Stroheim and his men initially have the goal of controlling the Pillar Man they captured to aid their army in its conquest. The group is primarily depicted with extreme nationalism and violent tendencies, torturing civilians out of boredom and for their experiments.

Despite their evil nature, once they learn they cannot defeat the Pillar Men on their own, Stroheim and his men cooperate with Joseph Joestar to defeat Kars.

Members

Legend of Symbols 

★: The character is leader
(✩: Subsequent leader / ✦: Leader of their own faction within the group)
(👻: The character remains as a soul or ghost)
☮: The character has resigned
⚓: The character retired (incapacitated) and/or their fate is unknown

History

Background

Prior to the start of Battle Tendency, Adolf Hitler designed his flag as an altered cross of the swastika, the magical symbol that represents destiny and life found in ruins throughout the world. In 1937, Hitler's army conquered Czechoslovakia and the second world war continues to escalate.

Straizo vs. Joseph

The Nazis residing in an information base in Mexico learn of Straizo's betrayal against the Speedwagon Foundation and his fight against Joseph Joestar. The major, Rudol von Stroheim, is informed by his men that they retrieved Speedwagon and healed his injuries after Straizo left him to drown in the Rio Dada river. However, their true intent is to learn of the ruins Speedwagon's men discovered.

Speedwagon attempts to kill himself with a broken bottle, but the doctors stop him and put him in a straitjacket. Stroheim knew torturing Speedwagon wouldn't work, so he injects him with truth serum developed by the army's German medical science. The Nazis successfully discover the ruins and retrieve the man in the pillar.

Stroheim receives an immediate order from Hitler to start the experiment on exposing the Pillar Man to fresh blood. He proposes to his Mexican prisoners that they just need one person's blood and they should choose among themselves who the Nazis should use, while the rest will be spared. One officer tells them to hurry up or he'll choose a woman for them. A courageous boy volunteers himself to be chosen. Stroheim admires his bravery and orders for everyone except the kid to be killed.

The Pillar Man, Santana

The Nazi doctors and researchers drain the blood of all their prisoners and pump it into the Pillar Man. Eventually, the blood starts flowing out so the Nazis use the shower within the shelter to wash it away. The creature awakens and Stroheim gives it the name Santana, declaring himself as the Pillar Man's godfather. Seeing Santana stumble around and trip shocks the Nazi officers and researchers, but Stroheim laughs and mocks his primitive intelligence. They begin the experiment and release a vampire prisoner. Just the other day, he was a weak, dying old man they captured but they put the Stone Mask on him. They didn't feed him any blood for the day to starve him, so that he would attack the first prey he sees. The vampire attacks Santana, and the Nazis first assume the Pillar Man was just a normal human, so Stroheim orders for them to detonate the self-destruct bomb. However, they quickly realize that Santana was eating the vampire by absorbing him whole into his body.

Meanwhile, Joseph is in the desert on his way to the Nazi base to rescue Speedwagon. He is ambushed by a Nazi special forces member named Donovan who was ordered to capture Joseph to learn information about Straizo. Donovan mocks Joseph at first, but Joseph easily defeats him by exploding a cactus in his face. Joseph demands to know about the Nazis' plans but Donovan refuses to answer due to his pride as a soldier. Joseph then sticks a compass into the Nazi's eye and Donovan quickly gives up, agreeing to tell everything he knows if Joseph takes the compass out.

After learning that Speedwagon is safe, Joseph ties Donovan to the cactus when the man attempts to run away. He leaves a note on the cactus saying "Hello Adolf!". Joseph attempts to sneak into the Nazi building but there are two Nazi gatekeepers performing body checks on the women passing by. Joseph decides to dress up as a woman with tequila but the men are not impressed. They're about to shoot him for being suspicious but Joseph quickly fires the tequila caps at a nearby tree to drop two coconuts on the men's heads, knocking them out. Joseph steals their Nazi uniform and sneaks in. In the laboratory, the Nazi researcher and everyone else are stunned that Santana vanished despite them keeping their eyes on him at all times. Stroheim orders to stop the flow of oxygen within the shelter and to rewind the film they recorded to see where he's hiding. They learn that Santana contorted his body and slid into the air vents to escape.

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Ripple Teacher Lisa Lisa

Stroheim sends out spies to watch the Ripple users in Venice for three weeks. The Nazis knew about their Ripple training, what happened with Esidisi, and also what happened at the post office regarding the Red Stone of Aja.

Earlier, one of Stroheim's men in disguise attempted to steal the stone from Lisa Lisa, but was stopped by Joseph who then covered the man with mustard.

Stroheim's Unit Strikes Back

Hitler was convinced that Germans would rise above mankind, but was worried as to once they reached the top, whether their domination would stand the test of time. The Stone Mask and Red Stone of Aja is essential to Hitler's plans, as immortality is necessary for his goal of world conquest. Thus, he sends Stroheim and his team to retrieve the parcel containing the Red Stone of Aja at the border between Switzerland and Italy.
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Final Battle Against Kars

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German Science

“

Our German medical science is the best in the world! There's nothing we can't do!

”

—Rudol von Stroheim

The Nazis are skilled with developing various technology, medicine, and futuristic weapons with their German science. They have an information base in Mexico that is camouflaged to look like a normal building. The laboratory where their research is performed is hidden 20m underground.

• They create a truth serum to learn information from Speedwagon.
• They develop a shelter containing a wall with 50cm thick steel panels to imprison Santana. It's calculated so that it cannot be destroyed by even hundreds of Vampires. It also has an internal flamethrower, sprinklers, machine gun, and a self-destruct bomb.
• A method to drain the blood of all their prisoners and pump it into the pillar containing Santana, gruesome enough that even Stroheim didn't want to hear how it was done.
• They are capable of transforming Stroheim into a cyborg after his body is blown to bits.

Trivia

• Adolf Hitler and the history of the Nazis were not shown in the anime.
• Stroheim's outfit is censored in the English localization of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven. His default costume with the Nazi uniform is removed, with only his alternative shirtless cyborg appearance remaining.