The film opens in 2018 with an American manned landing mission to the Moon. The lander carries two astronauts, one of them an African American male model, James Washington, specifically chosen to aid the President of the United States in her re-election (various "Black to the Moon" word-play posters are seen in the film, extolling the new Moon landing).
Upon landing on the far side of the Moon they encounter Nazis hidden there since 1945 (self-styled the 'Fourth Reich' in dialogue), by whom Washington is taken captive and the other astronaut killed. Nazi scientist Doktor Richter investigates Washington and obtains his touch screen phone, which he later recognizes as having computing power that outstrips all that possessed by the 'Fourth Reich', enabling its use as a control unit of space battleship Götterdämmerung. When he strives to demonstrate the completion of his Wunderwaffe to the current Führer, Wolfgang Kortzfleisch, the phone's battery is exhausted. Unable to re-energize it, Nazi commander Klaus Adler, chosen for genetic reasons to mate with Earth specialist Renate Richter (Doktor Richter's daughter), embarks in a flying saucer spacecraft to collect more such computers on Earth, taking with him Washington, who has been made "Aryan-like" by Doktor Richter using an "albinism serum". Upon landing in New York, they discover that Renate has stowed away with them. They are introduced to the President of the United States by her assistant Vivian Wagner; whereafter they direct her re-election campaign using Nazi-like propaganda. At the time, Renate is unaware of Adler's ambition to become the next Führer and rule the world. After three months, Kortzfleisch lands on Earth and confronts Adler, but is killed by Adler and Vivian. Adler declares himself the new Führer before returning to orbit in Kortzfleisch's flying saucer, deserting Vivian and taking her tablet computer. Concurrently, Renate is persuaded by the now homeless Washington that Adler intends genocide.
The United Nations assembles to discuss the extraterrestrial Nazi threat, and the American President appoints Vivian as commander of the spacecraft USS George W. Bush, which carries nuclear and directed-energy weapons; only to discover that most of the other nations have similarly equipped their spacecraft, which they dispatch against the Nazi fleet. Adler, commanding the Götterdämmerung, destroys parts of the Moon to expose Earth. Renate and Washington travel in Adler's flying saucer to the Götterdämmerung, where Washington attempts to disable the engines while Renate seeks Adler. Meanwhile, the international space fleet damage the Nazis' base and approach the Götterdämmerung itself. During the battle, Washington disconnects Vivian's tablet that is now controlling the Götterdämmerung while Renate kills Adler.
The U.S. President congratulates Vivian from the U.N. session; whereupon Vivian discloses that presence of large tanks of helium-3 on the Moon, of which the U.S. president immediately assumes sole claim on grounds that its possession ensures a millennium-long supply of energy. This enrages the other U.N. members, who involve themselves in a brawl while their remaining spaceships destroy each other.
Renate reunites with Washington, who has reverted his skin back to normal. They kiss before a confused group of refugees whom Renate assures "[they] have a lotta work cut out for [them]". The final moments of the film show the Earth, apparently during an international nuclear war. At the very end of the credits, the planet Mars is revealed with an artificial satellite of undetermined origin in orbit.
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