Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The horror of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus is in how much monstrous machinery was already in the US, waiting for someone to plug in. In places the game feels underdeveloped. It regularly feels clumsy. But if you push through the awkward level design and weirdly-paced fights, one thing stays the same. We're in the Nazi-killing business. And business is good.
Content Warning: Explicit descriptions of cruelty, racism and war crimes.
BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/montyzander.bsky.social
PATREON: patreon.com/montyzander
LORE DUMP: youtube.com/@LoreDump
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/show/4U8lB619xwGzBVniUtzygy
Thumbnail by @hotcyder
Outro Song: Saint Stephen - The Price of the Promised Land
No generative AI was used in the creation of this video.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:04:31 - The American Dream
00:14:37 - Blood, Bombs, and Borrowed Laws
00:26:17 - Fairy Lights
00:42:06 - Sympathy for the Devil
00:54:02 - Business is Good
01:06:15 - Playing With Your Food
01:20:08 - The Freedom Chronicles
01:33:52 - The Path of Least Resistance
01:45:52 - Kidding Mr Hitler
01:57:50 - The Monster Changes Shape
*REFERENCES*
1 - Alfred Rosenberg - The Myth of the 20th Century (translated by Thomas Dalton)
2 - Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle
3 - John L O'Sullivan - The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
4 - Jane Addams - Democracy and Social Ethics
5 - George Lincoln Rockwell - White Power
6 - Freedom House - Freedom Index
7 - Travellers Times - Leaked report reveals the cultural genocide of Scotland's travellers
8 - Heinrich Himmler - Himmler's Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events
9 - Calvin Coolidge - Who's country is this?
10 - Madison Grant - The Passing of the Great Race
11 - Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
12 - Everything you Love Will Burn - Vegas Tenold
13 - Hitler's American Model - James Whitman
14 - The National Socialist Handbook for Law and Legislative Processes
15 - CG Magazine - Shooting Nazis in America with Wolfenstein
16 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr - Buck V Bell 274 US 200
17 - PBS - Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States
18 - Martin Blumenson - The Patton Papers
19 - Facing History - Turned Away on the M.S St Louis
20 - Games Beat - Wolfenstein 2 creative director reveals more about Nazified America
21 - Frank L. Baum - The Saturday Pioneer
22 - NPR - When Nazis Took Manhattan
23 - Anti-Defamation League - The Winrod Legacy of Hate
24 - Bunk History - History of the Silver Shirts
25 - Joseph P Lash - From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter
26 - Neil Baldwin - Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate
27 - Edward E Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told
28 - Henry Ashby Turner - General Motors and the Nazis
29 - The New York Times - Ford accepts Nazi medal on 75th birthday
30 - The Sixth Axis - Arcade Berg on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
31- Kotaku - Wolfenstein II's Season of DLC Ends Poorly
32 - EBSCO - The Smith Act Trials
33 - The New Republic - Profits by the Billion
34 - The National WW2 Museum New Orleans - Alternative Service: Conscientious Objectors and Civilian Public Service in WW2
35 - Science Direct - Adolf Hitler had post-encephalatic Parkinsons
36 - Timur Vermes - Look Who's Back
37 - Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
38 - Susan Sontag - Fascinating Fascism
*MUSIC*
INTRODUCTION
1 - Max H - Up in the Andes
2 - Ikoliks - Devil in the bottle
INTERLUDES
Okaya - Dreaming of Peace
PART 1
1 - Adam and Darcie - Before Its Better
2 - Crop for the Village - A Gentle Breeze
PART 2
1 - Yehezkel Raz - Serenata a La Luna
2 - Sean Williams - Together We Go
PART 3
1 - Will Van De Crommert - Sovereign Hearts
2 - John Carter - Song of Songs
PART 4
1 - Yotam Agam - Spectral Type O
2 - Synths - Astral Dance
PART 5
1 - Dan Howell - alone
2 - Ben Winwood - Aria North
PART 6
1 - SPEARFISHER - Blood in the Bayou
2 - Vence Ray - Meditation
PART 7
1 - Crop for the Village - Clarity in the Mist
2 - Louis Island - Forest Fire
3 - Ziggy - Old Cat
PART 8
1 - Dan Howell - Money in the Desert
2 - Ziv Moran - Horizon
PART 9
1 - Dad's Army - Who Do You Think You're Kidding
2 - Crop for the Village - Walking
3 - Amick Cutler - Oh Dear Child
PART 10
1 - Falconer - Dusty Road
2 - Falconer - Lonesome Evening
3 - Saint Stephen - The Price of the Promised Land
WOLFENSTEIN: YOUNGBLOOD
youtu.be/hmDXtYI0SM8
WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER CRITIQUE - THE WEIRD REICH
youtu.be/QydfhmIy9pw
BIOSHOCK: AFTER THE SHRUG
youtube.com/watch?v=w0w87LVe0wU
BIOSHOCK 2: AFTER THE KOOL AID
youtube.com/watch?v=ojqUZ63G9oY
BIOSHOCK INFINITE: AFTER THE HYPE
youtube.com/watch?v=T2qeWQTGek4
SYSTEM SHOCK: AFTER THE HACK
youtube.com/watch?v=f-pgcX9yTGM
SOMA: ANATOMY OF THE SOUL
youtube.com/watch?v=LQCbRIqDOig
RESIDENT EVIL: REQUIEM CRITIQUE - DAYS GONE BY
youtu.be/ddCeDUdP4Ow
The horror of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus is in how much monstrous machinery was already in the US, waiting for someone to plug in. In places the game feels underdeveloped. It regularly feels clumsy. But if you push through the awkward level design and weirdly-paced fights, one thing stays the same. We're in the Nazi-killing business. And business is good.
Content Warning: Explicit descriptions of cruelty, racism and war crimes.
BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/montyzander.bsky.social
PATREON: patreon.com/montyzander
LORE DUMP: youtube.com/@LoreDump
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/show/4U8lB619xwGzBVniUtzygy
Thumbnail by @hotcyder
Outro Song: Saint Stephen - The Price of the Promised Land
No generative AI was used in the creation of this video.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:04:31 - The American Dream
00:14:37 - Blood, Bombs, and Borrowed Laws
00:26:17 - Fairy Lights
00:42:06 - Sympathy for the Devil
00:54:02 - Business is Good
01:06:15 - Playing With Your Food
01:20:08 - The Freedom Chronicles
01:33:52 - The Path of Least Resistance
01:45:52 - Kidding Mr Hitler
01:57:50 - The Monster Changes Shape
*REFERENCES*
1 - Alfred Rosenberg - The Myth of the 20th Century (translated by Thomas Dalton)
2 - Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle
3 - John L O'Sullivan - The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
4 - Jane Addams - Democracy and Social Ethics
5 - George Lincoln Rockwell - White Power
6 - Freedom House - Freedom Index
7 - Travellers Times - Leaked report reveals the cultural genocide of Scotland's travellers
8 - Heinrich Himmler - Himmler's Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events
9 - Calvin Coolidge - Who's country is this?
10 - Madison Grant - The Passing of the Great Race
11 - Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
12 - Everything you Love Will Burn - Vegas Tenold
13 - Hitler's American Model - James Whitman
14 - The National Socialist Handbook for Law and Legislative Processes
15 - CG Magazine - Shooting Nazis in America with Wolfenstein
16 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr - Buck V Bell 274 US 200
17 - PBS - Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States
18 - Martin Blumenson - The Patton Papers
19 - Facing History - Turned Away on the M.S St Louis
20 - Games Beat - Wolfenstein 2 creative director reveals more about Nazified America
21 - Frank L. Baum - The Saturday Pioneer
22 - NPR - When Nazis Took Manhattan
23 - Anti-Defamation League - The Winrod Legacy of Hate
24 - Bunk History - History of the Silver Shirts
25 - Joseph P Lash - From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter
26 - Neil Baldwin - Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate
27 - Edward E Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told
28 - Henry Ashby Turner - General Motors and the Nazis
29 - The New York Times - Ford accepts Nazi medal on 75th birthday
30 - The Sixth Axis - Arcade Berg on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
31- Kotaku - Wolfenstein II's Season of DLC Ends Poorly
32 - EBSCO - The Smith Act Trials
33 - The New Republic - Profits by the Billion
34 - The National WW2 Museum New Orleans - Alternative Service: Conscientious Objectors and Civilian Public Service in WW2
35 - Science Direct - Adolf Hitler had post-encephalatic Parkinsons
36 - Timur Vermes - Look Who's Back
37 - Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
38 - Susan Sontag - Fascinating Fascism
*MUSIC*
INTRODUCTION
1 - Max H - Up in the Andes
2 - Ikoliks - Devil in the bottle
INTERLUDES
Okaya - Dreaming of Peace
PART 1
1 - Adam and Darcie - Before Its Better
2 - Crop for the Village - A Gentle Breeze
PART 2
1 - Yehezkel Raz - Serenata a La Luna
2 - Sean Williams - Together We Go
PART 3
1 - Will Van De Crommert - Sovereign Hearts
2 - John Carter - Song of Songs
PART 4
1 - Yotam Agam - Spectral Type O
2 - Synths - Astral Dance
PART 5
1 - Dan Howell - alone
2 - Ben Winwood - Aria North
PART 6
1 - SPEARFISHER - Blood in the Bayou
2 - Vence Ray - Meditation
PART 7
1 - Crop for the Village - Clarity in the Mist
2 - Louis Island - Forest Fire
3 - Ziggy - Old Cat
PART 8
1 - Dan Howell - Money in the Desert
2 - Ziv Moran - Horizon
PART 9
1 - Dad's Army - Who Do You Think You're Kidding
2 - Crop for the Village - Walking
3 - Amick Cutler - Oh Dear Child
PART 10
1 - Falconer - Dusty Road
2 - Falconer - Lonesome Evening
3 - Saint Stephen - The Price of the Promised Land
WOLFENSTEIN: YOUNGBLOOD
youtu.be/hmDXtYI0SM8
WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER CRITIQUE - THE WEIRD REICH
youtu.be/QydfhmIy9pw
BIOSHOCK: AFTER THE SHRUG
youtube.com/watch?v=w0w87LVe0wU
BIOSHOCK 2: AFTER THE KOOL AID
youtube.com/watch?v=ojqUZ63G9oY
BIOSHOCK INFINITE: AFTER THE HYPE
youtube.com/watch?v=T2qeWQTGek4
SYSTEM SHOCK: AFTER THE HACK
youtube.com/watch?v=f-pgcX9yTGM
SOMA: ANATOMY OF THE SOUL
youtube.com/watch?v=LQCbRIqDOig
RESIDENT EVIL: REQUIEM CRITIQUE - DAYS GONE BY
youtu.be/ddCeDUdP4Ow
