History Headscratchers / WolfensteinTheNewOrder

* Why is Set Roth in Belica as a regular prisoner? If the Nazis knew he was a member of Da'at Yichud and wanted him to collaborate, that's ''really'' not a productive environment to put him in and we're never shown his knowledge actually being exploited (did they just get bored after asking for a concrete recipe and not think to try to extract the vault locations?). If they don't know, why is he alive at all? Being very obviously Jewish and an old man, he would have been a clear candidate for extermination decades before.

* So after the 12 or so hours it must have taken for Klaus and Blazkowicz to get from London to Berlin, the soldiers are still raiding the Kreisau Circle HQ? How did it take them so long to capture or kill everyone? There's only so many places they could hide.

* Shouldn't the 300 kg of explosives in the trunk of Bobby's car made it sag noticeably and made the soldiers at the checkpoint suspect what was in it?

* When Blazkowicz talks during gameplay, is he talking out loud or is the game just vocalizing his thoughts? I'm guessing it must be the latter, otherwise Frau Engel and Bubi would've definitely heard his "...Nazi Jerk..." comment as they passed by him on the train.

*** The place where he did it was anything but sterile. He cut it off with a scalpel he found on a table in a hallway, a scalpel that been who knows where before ending up there. He didn't sterilize and bandage it either, putting him at risk of infection. If he had enough spare time in between missions to sleep at Kreisau Circle HQ and get it on with Anya, he certainly had enough time to properly remove the tattooed skin and bandage the wound.

** Perhaps it was the only time he had a chance to, and it would be a sterile environment. If he tried doing it anywhere else, he basically has a giant, gaping hole in his skin. That's just asking for a horrible infection that would have compromised his ability to keep fighting.

* Why did Blazkowicz wait until he was on the moon before finally removing the ID tattoo he got at Belica?

** A much simpler explanation would be that they found the Da'at Yichud safekeep very early on, maybe even before the war began, and everything from Deathshead's Ubersoldaten in ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein'' to the highly advanced technologies in ''Wolfenstein 2009'' were facilitated by early results of developing that discovery. I mean, cybernetics and genetic modifications in 1943 and whatever they used to get that Thule Portal working... these stretch the limits of believability without a head-start of advanced technology ''in addition to'' a very smart man in charge (Deathshead). So really, the previous games were just you delaying what would have been an eventual victory anyway.

** One, I'm pretty sure it was 1943, although I can't quite remember where that was mentioned. Two, Deathshead's war-machines -- the Ubersoldat, Panzerhunds, and Monitors -- completely made up for Germany's minuscule army; the Soviets couldn't even get past the Monitors on the Eastern Front according to the propaganda in Deathshead's compound. Three... you have a point about resources. In the real world, Germany would never have been able to gather the material to build these monsters. The best theory I can suggest is that the Germany in the Wolfenstein-verse is drastically different from ours. We've seen fictional locations, like Isenstadt, so it stands to reason that there's a higher population. And a higher population equals more soldiers. There's also the matter of Himmler establishing a functional occult division, so who knows what other weaponry the Nazis managed to secure for their big takeover. B.J. couldn't have reached everything, right?

** One, I'm pretty sure it was 1943, although I can't quite remember where that was mentioned. Two, Deathshead's war-machines -- the Ubersoldat, Panzerhunds, and Monitors -- completely made up for Germany's minuscule army; the Soviets couldn't even get past the Monitors on the Eastern Front according to the propaganda in Deathshead's compound. Three... you have a point about resources. In the real world, Germany would never have been able to gather the resources to build these monsters. The best theory I can suggest is that the Germany in the Wolfenstein-verse is drastically different from ours. We've seen fictional locations, like Isenstadt, so it stands to reason that there's a higher population. And a higher population equals more soldiers. There's also the matter of Himmler establishing a functional occult division, so who knows what other resources the Nazis managed to secure for their big takeover. B.J. couldn't have reached everything, right?

* Okay, so assuming (probably correctly) that the events in the prologue of New Order follow on from Blascowitz's previous antics, that means the last time we saw Strasse was in Wolfenstein 2009, during 1944 - the late war. Assuming he dug up the [[spoiler: Da'at Yichud technology]] and reverse-engineered it after the events of Wolfenstein 2k9 (which puts it in the realm of '44-'45), then it means the Nazis REALLY managed to turn things around when the end was practically knocking on their door. Granted, the advanced tech obviously gave them a big boost, but... how on earth did they overcome the manpower, material and manufacturing shortages that brought the Third Reich to its knees in the real world at that time? How did they gather enough living soldiers at that point to not only turn back the Allied and Soviet forces that vastly outnumbered them, but conquer the whole world afterwards? How did they find enough still-operable factories and facilities to produce their wonder weapons in such large quantities?

** That plot point is kept in the dark as well, but it's implied Deathshead made the bomb with the same method he used to create his other war-winning weaponry. [[spoiler: By stealing and reverse-engineering Da'at Yichud technology.]]

* Why do you think TheWallsAreClosingIn was installed in the super-soldier chamber? So Deathshead could squish any super-soldiers that emerged? ??

* Also did Strasse invent the German atom bomb? Figured he did and got promoted to the top as a result.

** Unclear; they're vague about it. We do hear a rote "Heil Hitler" at least once but that could just be tradition at this point.

* Was Strasse in 1960 the leader of the whole Nazi Empire (I assume Hitler is dead by then) or just the DragonInChief?

** Very likely. They're extremely resilient and flamethrowers in the previous room probably would have been too slow to kill them, whereas the walls could just be slammed down on top of whatever soldier went rogue and crush them right out.

* Why do you think TheWallsAreClosingIn was installed in the super-soldier chamber? So Deathshead could squish any super-soldiers that emerged? ??

** Not quite. The scientist was transported in a caboose at the rear of a troop train coming in from the African front. I think the symbol changed after the Gibraltar bridge was built, since it became the symbol of Nazi expansion into Africa.

** The Afrika Korps are probably not who Blazkowicz fights on the bridge level. Given the symbol these troops wear on their arms (a palm tree over a little bridge) they are probably a sort of "Gibraltar Bridge Korps", deployed to... well, guard the bridge, rather than being the Afrika Korps proper.

* During the level set in the Gibraltar Bridge, where B.J. Blazkowicz fights a squadron of Afrika Korps, I couldn't help but notice that the symbols of the Afrika Korps was changed from [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/DAK.svg this]] to [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140526132508/wolfenstein/images/9/9d/WtNO.png this]]. This change is present in the uncensored version of the game, so I'm not sure what's going on.

* During the level set in the Gibraltar Bridge, where B.J. Blazkowicz fights a squadron of Afrika Korps, I couldn't help but notice that the symbols of the Afrika Korps was changed from [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/DAK.svg this]] to [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140526132508/wolfenstein/images/9/9d/WtNO.png this]]. This change is present on the uncensored version of the game, so I'm not sure what's going on.

* The Wolfenstein wiki states, through rather broken English, that the names of the OSA personnel can be found on gravestones in ''The New Order''. It sounds a bit fishy since the wiki is the only place where this is mentioned and the OSA Director doesn't even have a name, so I figured I'd ask if anyone would be able to confirm or debunk this rumor.

* The Wolfenstein wiki states, through rather broken English, that the graves of the OSA personnel can be found in ''The New Order''. It sounds a bit fishy since the OSA Director doesn't even have a name, so I figured I'd ask if anyone would be able to confirm or debunk this rumor.

* The Wolfenstein wiki states, through rather broken English, that the graves of the OSA personnel can be found in the game. It sounds a bit fishy since the OSA Director doesn't even have a name, so I figured I'd ask if anyone would be able to confirm or debunk this rumor.