Tear Jerker / Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

• One of the newspaper clippings that you can find it is revealed that in this timeline the Nazi's won D-Day and are building a museum dedicated to their victory using Allied POWs taken during the battle as slave labor in its construction.
  • Based on one of the newspapers collectibles, we can read that the Allied Forces had suffered about 156,000 casualties alone during the operation... While the Germans only suffered 89 casualties in total. Makes you wonder how superior the Germans were during the battle.
    • "Before D-Day, we never had a defeat. After D-Day, we never had a victory."
• Another collectable is a flyer titled "Rise, German Students!" in which a young German still in the education system urges her fellows to rise up rather than following Hitler, appealing to morality and saying that she knows many of them are unhappy with the Nazis but too afraid to act. The flyer is signed "Sophie Kessler". Between the name and the contents of the flyer she's a clear Expy of the real life Sophie Scholl, a member of the student resistance group called the White Rose, which put out pamphlets exhorting other students to resist. It did not end well for poor Sophie Scholl, who was executed as a traitor, and the student uprising she'd urged and expected never happened (instead her classmates applauded the janitor who caught her). This Sophie was caught and executed as well, leaving her husband to carry on the work.
  "Must never forget what you said, Sophie. 'Question authority. Stand up for the rights of your fellow human beings. Fight for their equal worth. Be kind.' And this they murdered you for. I will finish what you started, my love."
• At the start of the game you come across an older man who has clearly been imprisoned for so long that his mind is gone. He mistakes BJ for his son, and after BJ sets him straight, the inmate reminisces about his son and the time they spent having picnics by the lake. Considering Wesley mentions the time he would spend with his own father just before their capture implies this is his very own father, and neither of them gets saved.
• In the latter missions of The Old Blood, you can only save one of your friends from the Zombie Apocalypse that engulfs Wulfburg: Kessler or Annette. One of them has to die, and it's not pretty either— the one you can't save gets killed and rises as a Shambler, forcing you to look them right in their burning, undead eyes and put them down.
  • Even worse; if Annette dies, Kessler hijacks a Zeppelin so to launch flyers on Berlin, knowing he will be killed but at least while doing something good, and at the end you see Annette's friend has survived but is alone.
• There are also the deaths of Agents One and Two, aka Wesley and Pippa. Wesley is tortured for hours, and Rudi keeps him alive just for BJ to find him, and then see him fed to Greta the Kampfhund; just before his death, BJ learns the "count to four" catchphrase from him. Pippa is killed by a zombie just seconds before BJ can reach her, and turns into an undead herself. Especially in the interactions and dialogues with Pippa, you can see those two were not just colleagues but friends for BJ.
• This being a prequel the last cutscene, set just hours before the beginning of The New Order, and BJ's monologue, cannot be met with other than sadness since you know how it will end. Furthermore, if you think about it, even if you save Annette, there may be no future for her in the Nazi-dominated world.
• BJ's passing comment early in the game that "America would never fold" when confronted with the truth of the failing war effort. Sure enough, come the events of The New Order, he is appropriately horrified to learn that America ultimately did surrender.....in the face of the atomic bomb no less, and is now just as screwed up a place as every other to be occupied by the Nazis.
• A very easy-to-miss example is when you are forced to be a waiter serving Helga Von Schabbs, you can walk by two Nazi Mooks, with one of them crying about how his wife left him and how she took the kids because she didn't want him to be a soldier and participate in all this killing. He says killing is all he's good at and anyway, one day he'll be dead and something terrible will happen to his children or their children, and the universe is coldly indifferent. The other soldier tries to comfort him, but after the other Nazi reveals this is how he talks to his wife, he bluntly admits that it's probably why his wife left him. However, he still tells him to get some rest, he'd be there for him, and that he can talk to his wife later. It goes to show that even Nazis are still human beings with their own issues and problems. Then the Zombie Apocalypse happens, which kills everyone in the bar... At least the wife and kids are out of it.
• An even easier to miss background conversation has one Nazi mourning the death of his friend Fritz, while another scoffs and says that Fritz was in the habit of "frolicking with the wrong people" and was unnatural. The first Nazi just hopes Fritz isn't in hell now. Fritz may be a reference to the few historical gay Nazis, who were turned on by the very party they supported as it grew; like them, he was likely doomed even if he hadn't been killed.