Johnny Bode (January 6th, 1912 – July 25th, 1983) was a Swedish singer, composer, Nazi sympathizer, and convicted fraudster.

One of his best-known songs, "En herre i frack" [1](A Gentleman in a Tailcoat), was sung by Swedish actor and Singer Gösta Ekman in 1936.

[3] After being convicted of fraud,[4] Bode was declared incapable and put into psychiatric care in St. Sigfrid mental hospital in Växjö, Sweden, where he was sterilized.

However, Bode's physical status and general unreliability caused major issue, and he was sent home with an under-officer degree from the Nazi army.

On the occasion of Swedish actor Karl Gerhard's 100th performance of his Nazi-critical cabaret act "Tingel-Tangel," Bode showed up in his Nazi uniform with his degrees on his shoulders and the Iron Cross visible on his chest.

He drank too much, stole, and skipped out on bills again,[citation needed] leading to him being taken in by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Grini concentration camp from 22 December 1942 to 30 January 1943.

[5] He was labelled a suspicious person due to his claims of being a spy for the Swedish government but his mythomania was so widely known that he was not taken seriously and he was sent back to Sweden.

The Vienna Opera House suffered from major problems and needed new influences; Johnny Bode, under the name of Juan Delgada, stepped in.

At a press conference in Vienna, he stated that he, using a pseudonym, wrote The Blue Danube (actually written by Johann Strauss II in 1866).

He still enjoyed using his fake Kammersänger title, which he claimed to have been given "by Joseph Goebbels in the presence of Prime Minister Quisling", if anyone questioned it.