Mikko_Sandt, on 30 August 2013 - 12:35 PM, said:
It was Himmler who was obsessed with that nonsense. Hitler was mostly embarrassed by it.
Yup, Himmler was the avid occultist. The main (and official) reason he took over Wewelsberg castle, the castle that Castle Wolfenstein was based on, was to use it mostly as a "Reich Leadership School" but to also allegedly investigate the castle's history and also begin what some claim were induldgences into the occult and the mystical (Possibly even setting up a Nazi 'Knights of the Round Table'). Hitler never set foot there, and there's no sign that he or any other major SS/Nazi members followed Himmler's views, but everything found in the castle post-war showed that Himmler certainly had some interest beyond aethetics.
Without the mysticism and occultism current Wolfenstein games would just be your average WW2 shooters, and this particular game would be the exact same thing but with a plot twist that the Nazis won the war and ruled the world.