surf Nazi
Description for a hyper-dedicated surfer, often adolescent or preadolescent; sometimes derogatory, but just as often used as a backhanded expression of respect. A popular expression in the late '70s and '80s; rarely heard after that. American surfing has a long, intermittent, and mostly innocuous association with Nazi imagery. In the early 1930s, Pacific System Homes in Los Angeles introduced the...
Subscribe or Login
Plans start at $5, cancel anytimeTrouble logging-in? Contact us.
Back end of Swastika model surfboard from Pacific Systems Homes, mid-'30sSubscribe to view
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, mid-'60sSubscribe to view
Surfer wearing plastic German army helmet, 1966Subscribe to view
Matt Hoy on Iron Cross surfboard, 1993. Photo: BoskoSubscribe to view
Poster for Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)Subscribe to view
Stab magazine, 2008Subscribe to view
![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/5c279f8cd35c1f58044443ba588f231d8286bbdc-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Back end of Swastika model surfboard from Pacific Systems Homes, mid-'30s
![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/1051039047f1cbaa1a15623fd8e54776a88a3fa0-640x616.jpg?rect=0,128,640,360&w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, mid-'60s
![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/a7307f0b92a19949367bde84c205ff6d03da19e1-900x865.jpg?rect=0,74,900,506&w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Surfer wearing plastic German army helmet, 1966
![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/fc0b13a424d80a197577e471b9c95cc42debcbe9-784x900.jpg?rect=0,358,784,441&w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Matt Hoy on Iron Cross surfboard, 1993. Photo: Bosko
![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/5e4afa03ed2eedbfe151582de38c70f1f2f40d62-576x900.jpg?rect=0,45,576,324&w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Poster for Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/7e5793dcb2522a50af67387477757a435060dcf1-654x900.jpg?rect=0,266,654,368&w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Stab magazine, 2008