Machine Games is making the argument that white Americans are willing to give up their beliefs and accept Nazi rule because they don’t value those things nearly as much as they cherish their position in a white-supremacist society - whether that was before or after the Nazis arrived.

Even the KKK give up their pseudo-libertarian ideology and Protestant Christianity in favor of Nazi socialism and German Catholicism. In that same town, a mother watches a parade and proudly boasts in her American accent about her son joining the Nazi military. In one town, a pair of high-school-age boys talk about taking their dates to a wholesome, government-sanctioned film before casually mentioning the German lessons they have planned for the weekend. Throughout the game, you’ll stumble across letters, notes, and conversations of “free” American people continuing to lead relatively normal lives. Some people are more enthusiastic about the new government than others, but everyone is - at the very least - standing with the Nazis.

That same America simultaneously embraced the Nazi’s promise to secure the future of the white race. I expected Wolfenstein II to portray an America that wanted to fight back instead of a population that is complicit in the slaughter of Jews, blacks, and homosexuals.īut Wolfenstein II takes white-American placation of white supremacy head on.Īs BJ, you’ll spend most of your time shooting Nazi soldiers until they are dead, but everything else around that core mechanic paints a picture of a white America that abandoned its people, its principles, and its religions. The idea of the Nazis winning the war and overtaking America is not new, and I assumed that Machine Games wouldn’t explore some of the messier sides of this concept. In Wolfenstein II, hero and Nazi-killing supersoldier BJ Blazkowicz returns to his home country of the United States to liberate it from the oppression of the national socialists.

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