![]() ![]() Believing that the only possible way to reverse the tide was assassination, the Allies authorized a desperate operation to locate and kill Strasse.įollowing a nearly disastrous undercover operation focusing on Helga von Schabbs' documents, the Allied forces and OSA Command managed to pinpoint the location of Strasse's fortress. As a Major General of the Wehrmacht and one of the top members of the SS-Hauptamt (Main Office), Deathshead’s headquarters on the Baltic Coast turned into the effective nerve center of the Nazi empire. Dramatic reversals on all fronts have turned the Allies from predators into prey, and Strasse into the lynchpin of its renewed campaign of conquest. Wilhelm Strasse's portrait in the uniform of a Heer Generalmajor in Wolfenstein: The New Order.īy 1946, Strasse became an essential and indispensable element of the Nazi war machine. Utterly pragmatic, Strasse saw beyond the Nazis' primitive anti-Semitism, harnessing the incredible technology for the benefit of the regime and to the detriment of the world- new technology which, by 1944, gave the Nazi war machine the edge it needed to win the war and force the world into submission, repulsing the Allied landings in Normandy, capturing or killing 156,000 soldiers while losing less than a hundred, and allowed Germany to defeat the Red Army at Stalingrad and break the RAF's back at Liverpool in 1945, as he neared his 85th birthday. Nicknamed Totenkopf or Deathshead, Strasse committed himself to research with renewed fervor, focusing on Jewish artifacts such as Da'at Yichud. Blazkowicz, when he infiltrated the X-Labs to dismantle Strasse's first super-soldier project and crashed a zeppelin with Strasse onboard, the near-death experiences only provided him with a new outlook on life. Although his career was endangered on at least two separate occasions, primarily by Captain William J. What is known is that Strasse caught the eye of someone powerful and was put in a position to harness his talents for the benefit of the Nazi war machine, especially after the invasion of Poland in 1939. Little is known of his life prior to Hitler's rise to power. He is a firm believer in German superiority and the imposition of its order upon the world by any means necessary. A scientific genius and devoted researcher, Strasse combines his intellectual acumen with an absolute lack of anything resembling traditional morality. General Wilhelm Strasse is a native of Germany, born in 1860. While the game makes a number of references to events from Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein from 2009, they are mostly nods with little bearing on the story or setting.ĭeathshead is voiced by former television star Dwight Schultz, best known for playing Captain H.M "Howling Mad" Murdock in the television series "The A-Team". Blazkowicz and one of the only characters brought over from the earlier Activision series games (see Wilhelm Strasse (Classic)) in the MachineGames reboot. He is the arch-nemesis of the series' protagonist William J. He serves as the main antagonist of Wolfenstein: The New Order. Oberst-Gruppenführer Wilhelm "Deathshead" ( Totenkopf) Strasse was one of the most important figures in Nazi Germany: A gifted researcher, technologist, and doctor who headed the SS Special Projects Division and later occupied the post of Minister of Advanced Science. Toten.kopf." ―Deathshead in Blazkowicz's flashback. I'm a happy man, you see? It doesn't sound right in English. Gotta get inside first, save anyone who's still in there." Captain Blazkowicz. ![]() As long as I do, there's no place in this fucked up world you can hide. The three of them then make their way to Deathshead's Compound for one final fight. He also meets up with Caroline, who has equipped the Da'at Yichud Power Suit, and Fergus/Wyatt. He meets with J/Tekla one last time, before they are killed. After a brief scuffle, Klaus is shot, and Max erupts from nowhere and kills the remaining Nazis, allowing BJ in before closing the door, and holding off the remaining soldiers.īJ makes his way through the compound, killing Nazis the entire way. Click a link below to immediately jump to the corresponding part on this page.Īfter the Kriesau Circle has been invaded by Deathshead's elite force, it's up to BJ to kill all the Nazis and save the members that remain.īJ begins Chapter 15 just outside the Circle, where he arrived with Klaus. ![]()
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