Hitler/Nazis

Guy: I am really excited about our trip to Germany in the summer. We have to make sure to stop in Frankfurt to meet my family.
Girl: I am kind of nervous about meeting your grandfather since your mom said he was a Nazi and I am Jewish.
Guy: My grandfather is just a mild Nazi. He only believes in the conspiracy theories about Jews.
Girl: Well, I don’t care that your grandfather’s a Nazi. I love you.

–1 Train

Overheard by: Cannelle

Tourist girl: We’re here! Wow, this is it!
Tourist mother: No, I don’t think it is. This isn’t the Soup Nazi!…You, where’s the Soup Nazi?

–Daily Soup, 54th Street

Girl: I’ve never been to that restaurant, I hear it’s nice.
Guy: Yeah, it’s got its own Nazi charm to it.

–30th & Lexington office

Southern girl: Why didn’t you come, Daddy? That was our stop!
Southern dad: We’ll ride this damn train till they tell us to get off. 

–E train

Overheard by: Alyson Leigh 

Guy: This weather is like the Holocaust, except much much worse.

–Park Slope

Overheard by: mervis 

Frat guy #1: So how do you think you did on your history exam?
Sorostitute: I don’t want to talk about it.
Frat guy #1: Oh come on, it can’t be that bad.
Frat guy #2: She thought World War II happened in the 1970s.

–NYU

Overheard by: Seriously.

Middle‐Aged woman: I don’t know why everyone is giving Mel Gibson such a hard time. He didn’t kill six million Jews; the Nazis killed six million Jews. And you never hear anyone say anything bad about the Nazis.

–1 train, 110th St

Overheard by: Eli Feldblum

Little tourist boy: Mommy! Look, that lady is a Nazi!
Frazzled tourist mom: What? Oh… Honey, that nice lady is hailing a cab, not Hitler.

–Bowery

Teen girl #1: Yo, you ever learned about the Holocaust?
Teen girl #2: Nah, I ain’t never studied no holocost. I ain’t never learned about no wars.
Teen girl #1: Except the Civil War.
Teen girl #2: Damn, high school was shit.

–Target, Atlantic Center

Woman picking out watch for Christmas list: I’ll put this one on my list. Carl’ll get it for me.
Friend: What are you gonna get him?
Woman: I’m taking him to the eye doctor and getting him glasses.
Friend: So he can see how pretty you are.
Woman: Actually, it’s so he can see his Nazi zombies on his Xbox.

–Bloomingdale’s

Overheard by: yeppers

Dude #1: Do you think it’s possible to write a book and then find out it’s just like another book?
Dude #2: Yeah… That happened with my musical about the Nazis…

–114th & Broadway

Overheard by: HuntingSnark

Nursing student #1: What about backpacks?
Nursing student #2: Mmm…Nazis.

–Wagner College

Guy in business casual: Deer, zombies, Nazis… They’re all fair game in my book.
Friend: I’ve never been hunting before, but I do like fishing.

–73rd St

Overheard by: Irish Dave