Complete Monster: Oberst-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Strasse, better known as "Deathshead"—"Totenkopf" in German—is the monstrous Nazi behind much of the suffering throughout the series. and the Arch-Enemy of Captain William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz. Attempting to launch a V-2 with an experimental biological warhead into London and experimenting on various creatures, Deathshead helps the SS paranormal unit resurrect Heinrich I. Returning years later, Strasse takes over the Nazi forces in Isenstadt after the death of General Zetta and seeks to use the Nazi superweapon powered by the Black Sun to wipe out Isenstadt and its entire population as a demonstration. Having miraculously survived the Zeppelin crash, Deathshead is resurrected in The New Order, where he demonstrates the full depth of his depravity and abominations. Carrying out painful and excruciating experiments, Deathshead captures Blazkowicz, and forces him to choose which of his two friends Deathshead will painfully dissect, forcing BJ to watch the process before Deathshead leaves the survivor to burn alive. Using the fruits of his terrible experiments to give the Nazis victory and establishing a cruel dictatorship, Deathshead continues his experiments by forcing a mental asylum to give him subjects and then ordering his soldiers to murder all the remaining patients when he decides he does not need them anymore. Finally confronted by B.J., Deathshead takes his dissected friend's brain and places it in a robot as a fully conscious slave—a fate he intends for all his dissected victims and B.J. himself—and forces him to attack B.J. Fully committed to his scientific legacy and believing compassion does not befit the "Master Race", while surpassing almost all Nazis in horrifying cruelty and ruthlessness, Deathshead represented the worst of the Third Reich.
It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars: In response to critics complaining about the storylines in these games being historically innacurate, ridiculous, or worse, insensitive, fans are likely to reply that Wolfenstein was never intended to be a serious franchise, and runs on campy charm. The MachineGames' series, despite actually taking the crimes of the Third Reich seriously, is even more scolded for that, mainly due to being advertised as an Alternate History which mislead newcomers into thinking it would attempt to be realistic.
