History Fridge / WolfensteinTheNewOrder

!! FridgeBrilliance
* So, why did Max try to hide the Project Whisper folder? [[spoiler:He knew full well that part of the plan would involve Bobby Bram committing a suicide attack, and took the folder in the hopes it would stop the Kreisau Circle from going through with it.]]

* [[spoiler: With the [[GiantMecha London Monitor]] destroyed by B.J., said to be the only thing keeping the non-German citizens of London in line following the post-war riots, and the destruction of Deathhead's Compound that was the source of all Nazi robotic technology, what's stopping Londoners from rioting again? Nazi control of London might end up not being secure as it was in the beginning.]]

* Why does B.J. get so mad when J calls him a Nazi (in reference to pre-civil rights America)? His mom, Zofia is Jewish, [[spoiler: and we learn in New Colossus that his dad turned her in after the US lost to the Nazis]].

* Set Roth is Jewish and religious yet he never covers his head. Of course he doesn't, it's become his habit not to advertise his faith in a world ruled by Nazis. Many sects of Judaism teach that you are expected ''not'' to obey God's commandments if doing so would directly result in the loss of life, e.g. if you and your family are starving and the only available food is pork. By breaking the Jewish dress code, Roth is preserving his own life [[spoiler: and with it, the secrets of Da'at Yichud]].

* Towards the end of the game, B.J is ambushed by [[spoiler: Bubi]] while climbing a ladder and injected with a substance that can "paralyze an elephant". However, B.J shrugs off the poison and proceeds to stab [[spoiler: Bubi]] to death. How was B.J able to resist the poison? According to [[spoiler: Bubi]] the substance acts on the cerebral cortex. Remember what happened to B.J just after escaping the incineration chamber by jumping out the window? The shrapnel in his head must have destroyed or damaged the part of the brain that the poison works on, saving B.J..

* [[spoiler:Whilst the Da'at Yichud may be somewhat contentious for undermining the [[StupidJetpackHitler traditional Nazi super-tech]] by making it crudely reverse-engineered ancient Jewish super-tech, it actually makes a lot of sense on multiple levels. Firstly, it's a hugely ironic middle finger to Nazism, reducing them to the same kind of cultural parasites they deride the Jews as by making them dependent upon clumsily aping the technology of the very people they claim are subhuman. Secondly, it's a subtle reference to the fact America won the war in no small part because, whilst Germany retained a lot of brilliant scientific minds, some of its best defected to America due to being persecuted for their Judaism, most famously Albert Einstein.]]

* The Nazis are always talking about strength, and how the strong will prevail. They are always asserting their own strength, but look at B.J.'s character design. The guy is friggin' ''huge'', strong enough to dual-wield weapons that would normally require two hands, routinely takes on whole armies by himself, takes a lot of abuse that would kill most people. Aside from regularly being shot at, B.J. also gets stabbed several times, burned, thrown off of high ledges, exposed to toxic gasses, and faces multiple explosions. It ends up taking [[spoiler: a grenade to the face]] just to ''cripple'' him, and even then he goes on to [[spoiler: survive after being ''decapitated'']]. B.J. is actually physically ''stronger'' than most of the Nazis he encounters in any of the games, making him the very sort of person the Nazis claim to valorize, but he's also from a group the Nazis consider to be subhuman. It makes for a subtle way of exposing just how backwards Nazi ideology is.

!! FridgeHorror
* [[spoiler: Deathshead separated countless brains from their bodies, judging from the corpses you see in his incinerator, and it's not just because of trial and error. It's only made worse by the ending when you see an entire fridge of these brains, with plenty of room for more.]] Even worse, the sheer number of cyborgs present implies this is how Deathshead is maintaining control. He's turned his enemies into weapons against the people they once loved or were a part of.

* Max is terrified and rendered helpless by the sound of B.J. using a circular saw close to him, but isn't fazed in the slightest by loud gunfire or helicopter rotors. Why does only the sound of the saw scare him and not loud noises in general? [[spoiler:Take a look at the damage to his skull, and think about what kind of object could have caused such a clean cut through it.]] Alternatively, it's because he's ''used'' to the sounds of gunfire and helicopters due to the fascist state he's grown up in.

* In the lore it's stated that the Normandy Beach landings turned into a slaughtering ground, as the Nazis not only completely repelled the invasion, but only suffered casualties ''in the double digits''. In addition, the London Monitor alone was able to completely subdue the London populace even though, as powerful as it is, it's more or less a glorified tank. [[spoiler: However during the raid on Deathshead's compound, the Baltic Eye (the Monitor's predecessor) was able to take care of almost the entire invasion by itself and you can only destroy it by using Deathshead's own weapons. It's likely that Deathshead deployed it (or possibly had more than one) during the Normandy landings and the thing singlehandedly crushed the allied forces. As for why the Londoners would be terrified of the thing? This thing basically wiped out their standing forces and has now crossed the sea to finish the job (which the game heavily implies it did just that by killing what little resistance fighters remained). It's mere presence would break the morale of any resistance members left in London.]]

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