Zombies vs. Nazis: A Lost History of the Walking Undead

By Scott Kenemore and Adam Wallenta

Zombie expert Scott Kenemore (The Zen of Zombie) unearths a collection of top-secret lost documents from WWII (originally intercepted by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1941 and presented to Franklin Roosevelt in a confidential memorandum), describing efforts of the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (or SD) to harness and weaponize Haitian Voodoo and zombie-creating technologies for military purposes. For the first time, here is the thrilling, humorous, and satisfyingly-gory story of an evil empire’s foolhardy attempt to harness an ancient and unspeakable monster: the zombie!

While the Nazis initially dream of creating an army of bloodthirsty, automaton super-zombies to march across Europe, they soon learn that the walking dead are not as obedient and malleable as they’ve been led to believe. In contrast, these Nazi agents quickly find that the walking dead of the Haitian backwoods are closer to brain-eating, flesh-rending dynamos that don’t respect a nicely pressed SS uniform, and instead just go for the jugular. Faced with Voodoo spells, dangerous flora and fauna, and their own naive assumptions about the dark forces with which they’re tangling, these Nazi SD agents learn the hard way that nobody bosses around a zombie.

Kenemorewith nearly 100,000 copies of zombie classics in printdoes it again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Release date: Aug 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781628730500

Reviews for Zombies vs. Nazis

[jlparent · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Yeah so I had to read it just based on the title alone...It's a graphic novel formatted as recovered commuications from field agents in Haiti to a ranking officer back in Nazi Germany. They are trying to discover the secrets of zombies to make a zombie army for Hitler. There is absolutely no overt humor whatsoever, but I giggled a few times regardless. The pictures likely assisted there. If you asked me why I enjoyed it, I am not sure I could pin it down other than it's about zombies and the sheer stupidity/brass-ballness of people who always think "this time it will work" (as the author notes in his foreword). Strange, but glad I read it.

[thothj · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Fun and worth reading, but I have read better Zombies throughout history narratives. Though it was uniquely told and I really liked the ending.