History Headscratchers / WolfensteinTheNewOrder

** RuleOfCool probably covers most of this; it ''is'' a video game, not an academic symposium on the potential effects of a Nazi victory in World War 2, and has to be viewed in context of what would be more fun for the player to use / shoot at rather than grindingly strict fidelity to sound economic design principles. It's also probably a nod to the TruthInTelevision Nazi predilection for OTT ''wunderwaffen'' which basically prioritised being massive and show-offy rather than being a practical weapon to build and fight a war with; these Nazis just happen to live in a universe which lets them get away with it instead it eventually leading to them getting the shit pummelled out of them by the enemy's simpler-but-reliable-and-quicker-to-make Shermans, T-34s and Spitfires.

** RuleOfCool probably covers most of this; it ''is'' a video game, not an academic symposium on the potential effects of a Nazi victory in World War 2, and has to be viewed in context of what would be more fun for the player to use / shoot at rather than grindingly strict fidelity to sound economic design principles. It's also probably a nod to the TruthInTelevision Nazi predilection for OTT ''wunderwaffen'' which basically prioritised being massive and show-offy rather than being a practical weapon to build and fight a war with; these Nazis just happen to live in a universe which lets them get away with it instead it eventually leading to them getting the shit pummelled out of them by the enemy's simpler-but-reliable Shermans, T-34s and Spitfires.

** RuleOfCool probably covers most of this; it ''is'' a video game, not an academic symposium on the potential effects of a Nazi victory in World War 2, and has to be viewed in context of what would be more fun for the player to use / shoot at rather than grindingly strict fidelity to sound economic design principles. It's also probably a nod to the TruthInTelevision Nazi predilection for OTT ''wunderwaffen'' which basically prioritised being massive and show-offy rather than being a practical weapon to build and fight a war with; these Nazis just happen to live in a universe which lets them get away with it instead of being pummelled by the enemy's simpler-but-reliable Shermans, T-34s and Spitfires.

** RuleOfCool probably covers most of this; it ''is'' a video game, not an academic symposium on the potential effects of a Nazi victory in World War 2, and has to be viewed in context of what would be more fun for the player to use / shoot at rather than grindingly strict fidelity to sound economic design principles. It's also probably a nod to the TruthInTelevision Nazi predilection for OTT ''wunderwaffen'' which basically prioritised being massive and show-offy rather than practical war weapons; these Nazis just happen to live in a universe which lets them get away with it.

[[folder:Rudi Jager's power armor]]

* How on earth does a genetically unmodified human like Rudi Jager wear a suit of power armor that weighs several thousand pounds? Jager is a big guy, but there's no way that anyone but a genetically modified Super Soldier could wear armor of that weight without being crushed.
** It carries its own weight, that's what makes it power armor.

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*** From the U-Boat, BJ and Klaus infiltrate Britain. Presumably, they fly the helicopter in under radar and stash hide it away in a safehouse somewhere. BJ goes to the Moon, Klaus hides out in the safehouse till he gets back, and the U-Boat anchors off the coast of Britain so they can rendezvous with it.
*** When time comes to pick up BJ, Klaus -- presumably intending to keep a low profile -- drives to the London Nautica, planning to quickly pick up BJ and then squirrel them out of the country before anyone notices. The raid on Kreisau Headquarters and BJ's louder-than-anticipated return to Earth render this point moot.

** Also, B.J. is an ''old enemy'' of Deathshead. Which leads to two conclusions: (a) he wants to fuck with the guy and torture him a bit before killing him out of revenge for past humiliations. It's a form of spite and punishment, basically. And (b) he suspects that B.J., being an old enemy, will be harder to control if he cuts his brain out and shoves it into a machine. So there's a possible practical reason for not doing so; would ''you'' risk putting your worst enemy inside a massive machine without being sure that you could control them?

*** From the U-Boat, BJ and Klaus infiltrate Britain. Presumably, they fly the helicopter in under radar and stash hide it away in a safehouse somewhere. BJ goes to the Moon, Klaus hides out in the safehouse till he gets back, and the U-Boat anchors off the coast of Britain.

** The answer to this is perhaps a bit simpler than people make it out to be. We're forgetting that by this point the Kreisau Circle have access to fast stealth helicopters and a powerful-as-fuck U-Boat, and I'm assuming there were some more Resistance members on the U-Boat than just three. There also appears to be just one helicopter left in the hanger when you complete that level, and I'm also assuming that one or two of them were moved to the U-Boat. Therefore, the likely solution is that they ''didn't'' drive back to Germany, they either took a helicopter or the U-Boat. Most likely, events went like this:

** Also, Peenemunde was/is basically a village with an airfield and some testing facilities. Frankly, from the outside and with no disrespect intended to any locals, outside of this historical connection it doesn't look like a particularly interesting, exciting or remarkable setting for an action video game. London, however, is a major metropolis with countless instantly recognisable and iconic landmarks and countless possibilities to explore. Essentially, the makers of the game gambled that more people would find alternative history London a more interesting setting to shoot Nazis in than a village in Germany they'd likely never heard of.

** And it must also be noted that as bad as the United States could be towards minorities in the 1940s, the Nazi-dominated world of the alternate 1960s that we see is clearly much much worse by several magnitudes.