History NightmareFuel / WolfensteinTheNewOrder

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[[caption-width-right:350:No wonder the Ubersoldaten are given masks...]]

* Despite being a Nazi who takes mental patients away to be experimented on, Commander Keller gets one of these. After liquidating the mental hospital, Keller is discovered and captured by what he thought was a mentally deficient subhuman and tied to a chair. After a brief HopeSpot where he escapes and stabs B.J. he is brutally beaten and tied up again. B.J. now has what would ordinarily be a comically oversized chainsaw, starts it up and gets within seconds of decapitating him before he breaks and answers his questions. The look on Keller's face shows just how terrified he is and that he's probably just [[BringMyBrownPants wet himself with fear.]] After giving B.J. what he wants, Keller starts screaming about how the Nazis know about B.J. and Anya and when they are recaptured they will be on their knees. B.J. just snarls and fires up the chainsaw with a [[GoryDiscretionShot fade to black.]] Later in the game you can find a newspaper clipping saying his headless body was found in a river.

* The day that B.J. well and truly wakes up and regains control of his body, the Nazis come in to close the place down after years and years of taking patients to apparently be experimented on. While they don't harm the staff (at first) they take care of the inmates by ''shooting them.'' The subsequent level as B.J. escapes is littered with the bodies of mental patients butchered in their rooms, and dead staff that may have tried to fight back. What makes it even worse is that it takes place during the day and the interior of the building is bright and warm and friendly, [[DaylightHorror making the bloodshed all the more nightmarish.]]

* Despite being a [[AcceptableTargets Nazi who takes mental patients away to be experimented on]], Commander Keller gets one of these. After liquidating the mental hospital, Keller is discovered and captured by what he thought was a mentally deficient subhuman and tied to a chair. After a brief HopeSpot where he escapes and stabs B.J. he is brutally beaten and tied up again. B.J. now has what would ordinarily be a comically oversized chainsaw, starts it up and gets within seconds of decapitating him before he breaks and answers his questions. The look on Keller's face shows just how terrified he is and that he's probably just [[BringMyBrownPants wet himself with fear.]] After giving B.J. what he wants, Keller starts screaming about how the Nazis know about B.J. and Anya and when they are recaptured they will be on their knees. B.J. just snarls and fires up the chainsaw with a [[GoryDiscretionShot fade to black.]] Later in the game you can find a newspaper clipping saying his headless body was found in a river.

* It also shows other scenes that show [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown how things went so wrong for the free world]] - [[BigApplesauce New York City]] [[NukeEm obliterated in atomic fire.]] [[UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC The Capitol Building]] [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver covered in Hakenkreuz banners]]. [[DefiantToTheEnd A last-ditch defense of]] [[GloriousMotherRussia Moscow]] [[LaResistance by Molotov-chucking civilians]] ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'' [[CurbStompBattle being crushed by]] MechaMooks. [[FromBadToWorse And on and on...]] [[spoiler: [[HellYesMoment Until]] [[HopeBringer B.J.]] [[OneManArmy Blazkowicz]] [[HesBack wakes up.]]]]

* The entire concentration camp level. Subtract the DieselPunk elements, and it's a fairly accurate portrayal of how these camps functioned (except there are no capos, and they keep men and women together in the same barracks). Special mention goes to the intro, where B.J. is herded out of a train with other prisoners, cattle-style, while Frau Engel looks on - before [[spoiler: [[WouldHurtAChild snatching a baby out of the hands of one prisoner, and dangling it by the ankles, presumably killing it off-screen]]]]. This does make [[spoiler: freeing all the prisoners and killing nearly every Nazi in the camp with a hijacked MiniMecha very, VERY satisfying, however.]]
** During one of the scenes, Blazkowicz mumbles about other similar concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. ''Yes, places such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp Auschwitz]] and Buchenwald'', notorious for being some of the most extreme examples of all Nazis' concentration camps, where allegedly more than 1 million people were killed in Auschwitz and also the place where [[spoiler: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank Anne Frank]] (in our real world) met her demise alone.]] And judging from how the Nazis still operate such camps until 1960, you'd be more than terrified of how effective these camps are and if there are any survivors left from such places.

** From the same level, Frau Engel [[spoiler: getting her jaw crushed by her own robot. Karmic? Absolutely. [[{{Squick}} Doesn't mean we needed to see it close up, thanks.]]]] She also says some ''very'' creepy things right in your face when she gets back up.

** Then, [[spoiler: the hijacked robot flings her off a cliff, and It's tempting to think that the fall killed her. That we've finally gotten rid of this sick, abominable monster of a woman]]. but the [[SarcasmMode fun]] is not over yet. For some reason Frau Engel [[spoiler: survived the fall, apparently none the worse for wear, except from the [[NauseaFuel absolutely horrifying]] [[FacialHorror jaw wounds]], of course, which completed the perfect NightmareFace she gave Bombate when she stood in front of the car he drove, saying "No one leaves my camp!" and started shooting at him and the two other escapees from a point blank range with two assault rifles, one in each hand. Bombate somehow survives this]], but it still manages to be one of the most terrifying moments in the game.
** Frau Engel's EstablishingCharacterMoment during the "On A Train to Berlin" scene; seeing B.J. trying to leave the room, she casually tells him to set his coffee tray on the table - if B.J. tries to walk past her, [[DisproportionateRetribution she has the path blocked by a heavily-armed]] {{Mecha Mook|s}}. Then when B.J. puts the coffee down (and subsequently gets roped into Frau Engel's little "game"), Engel spends the whole time flipping back and forth between being a cool, AffablyEvil dame who just wants to play fun and games, [[LackOfEmpathy then coldly telling B.J. she'll blow his brains out if he "fails" her test]] - [[SchmuckBait especially if he tries to go for the gun she put on the table]] - and then LaughingMad, [[FalseReassurance telling B.J. not to worry so much]]. [[spoiler: The fact there was no significance to the "Test" not only hammers home how much of a crock of shit the Nazi's "racial purity" ideology was, but just how much of a [[ForTheEvulz sick kick]] the Nazis got in exploiting it to be cruel and AxCrazy to their heart's content..]]

* The machinations of the Nazis, particularly the Ubersoldaten and Panzerhunds, are nigh-unstoppable forces for almost every human being that isn't B.J., and even he has to avoid the latter due to usually not being armed or ready to fight one directly early on. Not to mention the implications of just how many of these things were created to subjugate the world. [[spoiler: Then you encounter an underground chamber filled with dormant Ubersoldaten practically a stone's throw away from the resistance base. Left behind in an abandoned hall. Just waiting for the unwary explorer to awaken them from their long slumber.]]

* ''Oberstgruppenführer Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse'' '''HIMSELF!''' For his third [[spoiler:and final]] appearance in the series, Creator/MachineGames went and turned him into a truly terrifying villain. Creator/DwightSchultz gives possibly one of the most ''chilling'' voice performances of his career.
** On that note, Strasse's ghoulish experiments. [[spoiler:The flashback to the aforementioned incinerator room where you watch Fergus/Wyatt having his skull drilled open and his brain literally sucked into a jar ''while still conscious the whole time'' can be... difficult to watch. The fact that Deathshead has an automated machine specifically for this procedure implies a nauseating level of human suffering required to test and perfect it.]]
*** The game even tricks you several times before this by [[spoiler: [[GoryDiscretionShot never showing the actual removal]] until ''this moment''. The machine they strap Wyatt or Fergus to makes in incision on the victim's back to free up the spinal column, then it carves out a chunk of the back of their head to get at the skull and once the hole is made... It's arguable which timeline is worse since you can tell Fergus is barely keeping it together and Wyatt is screaming in fear all the way until his brain comes out.]]
** Also [[spoiler: during the final battle against [[StupidJetpackHitler Mecha Deathshead]]]] during his VillainousBreakdown his take on the following [[CallBack classic line]] sounds ''that'' chilling...
--> [[spoiler: '''Deathshead:''' "Die, Allied schweinhund!"]]

* Going to the moon is impressive. Setting up a moon base is a powerful statement of mankind's capabilities, and real-life space missions have been rooted in the desire to learn more about our universe and avoid nuclear war. Hearing about the Nazi moon-base can almost give you the feeling that maybe - ''just maybe'' - the Nazis actually did something good, or at least respectable. [[spoiler: Before you get off the shuttle, you see a newspaper article about how they're already planning to start a labor camp on the moon, complete with robotic guards, from which escape would be totally impossible - and given how all the loyal personnel on the base end up asphyxiated in an attempt to catch you, you can assume they'd be even more trigger-happy with the prisoners if one actually managed to cause any trouble. And then there's the little fact that it's the nucleus of their space conquest plans, complete with an army of Space Marines, next-gen Super Soldiers, and storehouse nuclear weapon control codes.]] That's right, they managed to pervert a ''moon base'' from a symbol of peace, hope and discovery into one of militarism, hopelessness and oppression.

* Towards the end of the game as you are rampaging through Deathshead's fortress as you go to climb up a ladder [[spoiler: only to have Bubi leap out at you like a tiger and pump you full of some unidentified sedative. As the poison kicks in and B.J finds himself unable to walk or even move, Bubi taunts you by going into great detail about the sedative slowly stripping him of all his motor faculties, eventually leaving B.J just a non-responsive sack of flesh and bone. When Frau Engel appears on a computer screen, Bubi then disproves any thoughts [[CampStraight you might have had about him and B.J]] when he pulls out a meat hook and ''impales you through the shoulder, dragging you along the floor and propping you up on the table as he begins to gut you alive for him and Engel's mutual pleasure!'' And he doesn't just stab you; you can actually hear and see him begin pulling the knife downwards before the sedative wears of, due to the [[ChekhovsGun shrapnel lodged in B.J's head]]. And after that B.J bites his ear off, slowly pulls the knife out of his chest as he towers above Bubi and then proceeds to DoubleTap him in the head as Frau Engel hopelessly looks on and screams in dismay as her boyfriend is murdered by B.J. or bleeds out from the wound in his neck.]]

** And the worst part? [[spoiler: The brain in question belongs to whomever of your old squad you were forced to select when Strasse forced you into a SadisticChoice, and they've been trapped in this horrible existence for at least 14 years!]]

* Even after you've finished off Strasse, there's still one little detail: [[spoiler: the scientist-turned-warlord manages to grab Blazkowicz by the wrist, wheezing out his last words in a chilling laugh as he [[TakingYouWithMe pops the pin on a live grenade!]] ]]
--> '''[[spoiler: Wilhelm Strasse]]:''' [[spoiler: '' So...gullible...!'' (EvilLaugh) ]]
--> [[spoiler: '''''[[PyrrhicVictory KABOOM!!!]]''''' ]]
* Anya reads entries from her cousin Ramona's [[spoiler: who is implied to be Anya herself]] diary, some of which deal with her becoming pregnant by a Nazi and having to figure out an abortion method on her own. She tries pills but "They did not work. All they did was make me sick," and eventually Pennyroyal oil which a friend had used before. It works, but her diary entry the day after taking it simply reads "Pain unbearable. Won't stop bleeding." and it takes her 6 days to recover.

** On that note, Strasse's ghoulish experiments. [[spoiler:The flashback to the aforementioned incinerator room where you watch Fergus/Wyatt having his skull drilled open and his brain literally sucked into a jar ''while still conscious the whole time'' can be... difficult to watch.]]

* The machinations of the Nazis, particularly the Ubersoldats and Panzerhunds, are nigh-unstoppable forces for almost every human being that isn't B.J., and even he has to avoid the latter due to usually not being armed or ready to fight one directly early on. Not to mention the implications of just how many of these things were created to subjugate the world. [[spoiler: Then you encounter an underground chamber filled with dormant Ubersoldats practically a stone's throw away from the resistance base. Left behind in an abandoned hall. Just waiting for the unwary explorer to awaken them from their long slumber.]]

---->'''Prisoner''': Nobody knows his name. ''Everybody'' knows [[KnifeNut his knife]].

* Anya reads entries from her cousin Ramona's [[spoiler: who is implied to be Anya herself]] diary, some of which deal with her becoming pregnant by a Nazi and [[AdultFear having to figure out an abortion method on her own]]. She tries pills but "They did not work. All they did was make me sick," and eventually Pennyroyal oil which a friend had used before. It works, but her diary entry the day after taking it simply reads "Pain unbearable. Won't stop bleeding." and it takes her 6 days to recover.

* ''Oberstgruppenführer Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse'' '''HIMSELF!''' For his third [[spoiler:and final]] appearance in the series, MachineGames went and turned him into a truly terrifying villain. Creator/DwightSchultz gives possibly one of the most ''chilling'' voice performances of his career.

--> '''[[spoiler: Wilhelm Strasse]]:''' [[spoiler: ''[[FamousLastWords So...gullible...!]]'' (EvilLaugh) ]]