I have a feeling the SS-Officer, who was on the phone with an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and the one soldier who was in space trying to ship a delivery but got killed by B.J was voiced by "Michael 'Bully' Herbig". He is a famous German Comedy Actor known for movies such as "The Shoe of Manitu" "Dreamship: Surprise Period 1". The voices sound oddly similar.
I’d say that calling the Nazis “Alpha Wolves” in the German version would be better than “the regime” or “dirty pigs”. Having their emblem being a wolf’s head in the 1960s and being referred to as wolves seems to give them a fearful and spiteful reputation. Being called “The Regime” sounds too generic and having the soldiers called “dirty pigs” doesn’t seem right to me.
Problem is that calling them "Wolves" is far too tongue-in-cheek. It calls back to the previous Wolfenstein games too much, which didn't take themselves nearly as seriously as this one does.
The voices for BJ and Anya are great. The English voices felt the exact opposite to me, with BJ the emotional one and Anya the one who is traumatized and withdrawn. It’s cool that they kind of swapped roles in the German dub and the dynamic still works!
I fully agree with your assessment of the censorship messing with the game's intended tone by removing too much context and ironically erasing many of the non-German identities by not using the proper accents or removing the Yiddish. Also a personal preference, but I enjoy Bubi's original voice more. I don't know; he might be from Berlin, but if I think about someone nicknamed Bubi, I think about someone Bavarian or Austrian.
The biggest issues with keeping accents is finding voice actors that are good enough at german while also keeping enough of the desired accent. Or just turning them all into german accents. And yes, Bubi totally should've been from the south east. That would fit with the name and an bavarian or austrian accent.
Hearing that the localisers had to replace German speaking actors because of their accents reminded me of how certain film distributors apparently wouldn't allow Arnold Schwarzenegger to dub his films in German because they thought his Austrian accent was too "rural". Something they poked fun in a deleted scene from Terminator 3.
At 11:30: Based! @GermanPeter, I just want to say I love to hear this channel in the background while I work, and you giving the clear context while not shying away from these touchy subjects makes my respect for this channel grow even further. All the best, all the best for you and your channel! Ps.: Your bad puns make me less productive, please continue.
the way they speak the same language throughout the entire game feels just like how in MGS3 someone tells snake he has "good russian" despite all the voice acting being in english
6:30 what they could've done (if they kept the whole wolf name) is for them to say "Wolfs Howl" or something like that, idk. btw this series has opened my eyes more to dub acting and how amazing they can be, like I was sitting here thinking that no one could dub Brian Bloom's silky smooth voice, but low behold Johannes Berenz take on it is just amazing to hear.
20:34 clarification, those diary entries are not hers, but of her fellow nurse Ramona, who was killed by the Nazis in the hospital alongside Anja's parents. Anja found her diary afterwards.
No, it's heavily implied that it's her diary. Not only does she say that "some of these things in this diary may have happened to me", but the Wolfenstein Wiki also points this out: "On the picture where you read the diaries, what is written is "Należy do Anya" (proper Polish version spelling: "Należy do Ani") which in English means "Belongs to Anya"." It also doesn't make much sense for Ramona to somehow take a keen interest in BJ the same way Anya did. She just lied about it because she wasn't sure what BJ would think of her if she outright told him that she murdered a lot of people prior to meeting him. So she wanted to see how he'd react to it if it was just some random person he never met. I'd imagine she told him that it was her afterwards.
RUclips recommended me this video because I tend to listen thrash metal from time to time and I guess something in algorithm thought this was Carnivore's Retaliation album which the thumbnail reminds me of. Anyway I'm going to watch this whole thing out of of curiosity and as a enjoyer of retro FPS games.
I only had time for the first 30 minutes sadly, so I just skimmed through the rest. But I really enjoy you talking about the voice acting and its differences, it's strangely entertaining! I feel bad that most of your content is relatively obscure, but I know I've done all I can to help. Great vid man. 👍
Gundi Eberhard was also so amazing as the female player voice in Fallout 4, I don't think I would like the game as much if it wasn't for her performance. She nailed every line, especially the sarcastic dialogue options. Also on another note, the voice actor you thought might be the same as Ellis in L4D is actually the same as Bubi.
Honestly, I'd love if you could do Blitzkrieg 2 for voice acting alone. The Tank Destroyer units have burrowed into my tiny brain since 2004. "KAMPFEN?!"
As a fellow German, the switch from dialects to high German really surprised me. not that i mind, it just felt odd, given how most lines are German already, apart from the real references, why recast them?. I agree on the regime, given its so generic, what kind of regime? It also was odd how they censored names that didn't have too, like Berlin is just called the capital through out. Or how Über/super soldier are Maschinen soldaten, if you consider RTCW had it unchanged in the German version
Ok here's a really stupid question: Does Deathshead still say ”So long since I've practiced my English. It's a dying tongue.„ Or has the line been replaced by something else?
Oh yeah, he doesn't say that! He just says "It's been a while since I've met people like you": ruclips.net/video/HwM7S2V_UUY/видео.html These changes are even more obvious in The Old Blood, actually!
Slight corrections. Nazis did not call themselves Nazis. Hitler actually hated the term and its not something you would want to have called a nazi to his face as you'd probably end up arrested. The term Nazi is older then the nazis and ment a "backwards peasent"
If true, that's really interesting (not calling you a liar, I just don't know enough about the German language to know whether or not that would be a meaning that would have been understood by the average German). I took it to be a contraction, but if it's derogatory in the way you said it does line up quite well with the historical context with the much wealthier urbanised population being mostly liberal leaning and keen to justify the poverty of the rural working class as something relating to their character, as opposed to being the result of systemic repression and the German government offloading the failures of their attempts to challenge the other colonial powers of Europe onto the working class (whilst there were a growing number of socialists and anarchists who had been organising at grass roots level, they were not nearly as well represented in electoral politics due to a lack of class consciousness amongst office and clerical workers, who were relatively happy with the status quo and didn't want to risk their position of relative privilege. The left also also couldn't really make any headway in rural areas due to the combination of widespread poverty, low levels of education, youth exodus to industrial areas, lack of alternatives to farm work, and restrictive government price caps on food that were implemented to help with the previous hyperinflation, meaning that the people they were hoping to reach out to and connect with were more socially conservative, had lower levels of literacy, and also had limited scope to organise for better conditions. It's a bit difficult to get people to strike when the most likely outcome is that their place of work won't actually stay afloat due to how narrow the margins are and the people who they work for were likely to also have the ability to evict them, or even just enlist the military or a private militia to massacre them on the picket line.) Given how Hitler himself was mocked by the establishment for the way he spoke with a silly accent and didn't use sophisticated language, or even particularly well thought out arguments, in his public appearances, coupled with the majority of his supporters during the early part of his political career being from rural backgrounds, it definitely seems in character for the political mainstream to label them derisively as a bunch of ignorant bumpkins. It reminds me of the supporters of UKIP (UK Independence Party) over in my country pre-brexit. They acquired the nickname 'Kippers', as in the phrase 'strung up like a kipper'.
Nazi is just a corruption of NSDAP, the German Socialist Party that turned heavily towards Fascism by 1928; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
Your channel is one of my favorites out there, especially regarding the Wolfenstein games. A lot of my extended family are German (my grandmother fled from Germany during WWII) so it's interesting seeing how these themes are handled today.
Hey, GermanPeter! What do you think of Skullgirls **REGIME** references being censored and removed? I'm pretty sure they even removed anything resembling it in the original concept art book. The game has been out for around 10 years.
New Order was my first Wolfenstein game, followed by Old Blood and New Colossus. But I did manage to track down an original PS3 copy of the 2009 Wolfenstein, which is what leads directly into New Order. One thing I always found curious is that in RTCW and Wolf 2009, Deathshead is seen wearing a monocle, which is conspicuously absent in New Order. It was also stated somewhere that Deathshead is nearly a hundred years old in 1960.
As someone from sweden and knowing a bit of german myself not fluent but at a pretty good understanding. and seeing bit about the german versions just by googling. I got to say i really like the amount you cover about the german versions. And i wonder if you have plans to cover the well sniper elite Zombie army games if they have alot of bigger diffrences or if it's just swapping out a word from the eng version to german version?
Deathhead's English VA, Dwight Schultz, usually plays varying degrees of good guys. Sometimes nebbish, sometimes cranky, sometimes off-the-wall wacky. So to hear him playing this irredeemable monster, and play him so deliciously evil, was quite a shock for me. He was Mung Daal on Chowder for crying out loud! XD
I always figured that they replaced their name with "Das Regime" because now they are no longer 'just' a force you're fighting on the front lines, or a specialized group hiding in a castle and trying to raise the dead - they've actually managed to take over (most of) the world. They went from "That one country attacking people" to "The actual literal dictators of most of the planet". On another note, I absolutely love the work they put into this. Having actual proper German, even in the English version, adds so much to it. It makes it more real, less silly, and makes watching the original version of the game so, so much more fun as a German person. But even the German version's full dub, as you said, is absolutely fantastic. It really is much like a movie in some respects, and BJ's voice actor especially absolutely knocked it out of the park. It's a shame about the Polish/Yiddish and accents, and some of the censorship, but besides that it's a real 10/10.
This is the first time I've seen anything from the German version of this game, and I gotta say I agree with your point. The censorship and removal of context was so much that it almost feels like it changed the tone of the game. These aren't fictional "space Nazis" like in Star Wars, this is very clearly meant to be set during WWII and these are very clearly meant to be real Nazis. So sanitizing everything to this extent almost makes it feel like a parody and borderline disrespectful at times.
I feel like censorship like this is kinda concerning, its obviously fictional but Wolfenstein is one of the most anti nazi main stream games there is and removing all references to the nazis not only lessens the impact of the game but it almost feels like its lessening just how bad the real world nazis were. Im sure german citizens are well educated on how bad the nazis were already so its not like this is a major issue but still downplaying their severity in media seems like the wrong type of censorship to me(sorry if my thoughts aren't particularly coherent its 4 in the morning and i didn't reread it lol)
Like mentioned by someone else if you buy the Wolfenstein games on steam you will also get the uncut version of the game to your library. So they are available if you so choose. Furthermore I have to add that it's suprising how little you actually get taught about WW2 and the Nazis themselves. I find this extremely questionable, especially the fact that our politicians are trying to basically erase that part of the history from the peoples minds which is very problematic. If you so much as mention anything particular about the Nazis there is a good chance a few people will think you are a Neo-nazi which makes zero sense. I mean in Germany simply flying the modern german flag or displaying it for example on your house will immediately cause you to be called a nazi. Ridiculous.
48:30 Looking at Wikipedia, Bodo Wolf also was the German voice of Rene Auberjonois' (R.I.P. :( ) Constable Odo in Deep Space Nine, which might be a little-known (*wink*) role that people know him from... ;)
Yo yo yo! Fan with a suggestion here! How 'bout after you're done with the "Quirks of German Wolfenstein" series, you make start up the "Quirks of German Doom"? It would be real cool!
hey peter i have been watching your videos for awhile now and i woul like to thank you for making them so thanks for that. i also wanted to point out that i prety sure hitler's nickname was wolf so that could be the reason why they chose to include the wolf symbol? i could be wrong thanks again for all of your awesome videos im glad there is a German person reviewing these titles
I noticed a weird inconsistency when checking out the character models in the model viewer after watching this video and they have the German censored insignias instead of the ones they actually have in game
I'm glad that when you buy the Wolfenstein games on Steam these days, even in Germany, you get both the German cut version and the original uncut version. Original is much better to play. I never touched the cut version.
did you move the sections around after writing your script? seemed a bit strange to finish the dubbing section with "but how's the censorship? let's find out" when you already covered that. that little thing aside, as usual great video. I find these fascinating :)
In regards to the VAs, imagine the brilliance of having Til Schweiger voice Blazko, a character modelled off said actor who possibly despises Nazis just as much Love the vid and have been waiting for this one since the Wolfenstein 2009 one. glorious. is it possible The Old Blood will be covered aswell?
I don't think I'd want anyone but Berenz for BJ, honestly. He really shines in this role. Also, BJ isn't modeled after Til Schweiger, that was just a coincidence. The devs said as much. And yes, The Old Blood is being worked on. Will be out next week for patrons :)
@@GermanPeter ah the model being a coincidence is new to me. Glad to see that clarified. Gotta agree with the choice of the current VA as it really sounds like he's carrying a weight that can't be dropped. Brilliant analysis overall
The quirks of the Xbox 360 version of Wolfenstein: The New Order… 4 discs, swapped every few chapters, needs an 8gb install, and the port has some physics and texture bugs. Still was worth it considering I didn’t have a PS4 or Xbox One when this game came out.
They're all good, it just depends on what you want. Wolfenstein 2009 is in my opinion the easiest and simplest to get into, and it has the most fun mechanics. The New Order and onwards aren't bad, I just think the gameplay gets frustrating at times and they're HEAVILY story-driven. You play one level and watch cutscenes that are longer than the actual level at times. Also lots of padding in New Colossus in my opinion. Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a classic, but I think it's also too frustrating at times. Not a bad game, but not as good as 2009 in my opinion. And Wolfenstein 3D can be extremely confusing, and might be too basic for newcomers.
Not really. They used some of the same characters, like Totenkopf and Caroline Becker, but that's about it. And even then, Caroline is MUCH older than she's supposed to be (she was about BJ's age in 2009 but is way older here), and it's completely up in the air if 2009 even happened in this universe. 2009 was a direct continuation of RTCW, but that game was re-imagined with The Old Blood, which stopped basically where the first act of RTCW ended (after killing Olaric). And afterwards, BJ directly flies over to Totenkopf's compound, which not only means he never had the time to do whatever he did in 2009, but Totenkopf wasn't even in Isenstadt at all. The developers also directly stated that they're ignoring 2009's place in the timeline.
i actually kinda liked the different accents in the original. yeah might have been a little bit too common (especially in berlin itself) but I enjoy variety. But I have to add that I do am pretty good at understanding accents, so there's a good chance this is just me
Why only issue with a lot of the German VA is when they say a name it always sounds a little off, almost like the actor was pausing to say it. When Wyatt says "Fergus Reid" it just sounded strange.
@@GermanPeterI think Old Blood and New Order nailed this more serious while still being over the top aspect quite well. But the New Colossus and especially Young Blood went way too over the top.
i think we should talk about Nazis because if you forget history its bound to repeat itself but we also cant just call everything we dont like "nazis" or it will become a buzzword
2:05 For some reason I somehow never thought about the fact that you would speak in German when not in a RUclips video context. Honestly, I kind of prefer the Wolfenstein logo to the Swastika in that context...just fits better, perhaps because it is more visually interesting. Those wolf symbols are honestly really good! I quite like that. Well...that is a dumb name. Why would they do that though? Wolves is such a cooler name even if they were absolutely horrible people. Something that makes me really sad about the Nazis is that the common Soldat and just every officer was a regular guy taught to be evil. Not a psychopath, just the guy across the street given absolute power and told to kill. Everyone has the capacity for evil, just most never get in the right situations. (Added later after he mentioned it) In a way, I feel bad _for_ the common Soldaten who would have had a completely average life beforehand but instead was indoctrinated by the Nazi party to not see people as people. 31:53 My first thought on him was "Wow, he looks like Duke Nukem"...his voice definitely does not match that. 33:51 Reminds me of Miracle Max from The Princess Bride. 39:49 I really like the way you said "probabilities" for some reason. I...really like Tekla, have never played the game but wow, I feel bad for her dying just from those couple minutes of dialogue. The woman with a golden gun. Wow, Strasse's German laughing actually made me laugh from how unrealistic it sounds! Would have been neat if, instead of completely removing the lines, have Some of the Bavarian and possibly Austrian lines kept in as well as adding more non-Bavarian German ones to add more diversity in the accents. 57:40 It is like if you are playing Crysis and understand Korean the hardest mode's change of language becomes moot (Also, in looking up some translations of German words for a part of the comment not included I found that if you look up "German word for" one of the top results is "punchable face"...guess people need to know how to punch people in German. According to Google it is "stanzbares Gesicht".) Also, something I noticed about myself, when writing RUclips comments I tend to make at least 3 typographical errors in long comments like this. I only noticed it after starting to put them in a Google Doc in case RUclips decides they wanted to be deleted. I genuinely thought I was able to mostly fix my dyslexia-misspelt but apparently I still do it a lot. Not important to the video I just found it interesting. In this comment I misspelt "definetly", and "Barvarian" without even noticing, usually there are more, commonly I misspell soilder. Anyway, thank you to everyone who actually reads my waffling, you absolutely do not need to, I just like commenting and talking about things.
my favorite part of wolfenstien is that Blazkowicz is what they would consider “perfect” and he’s Jewish, Blazkowicz is the living embodiment of how flawed their beliefs are
being from germany, i think the censorship of these games was handled pretty well but what i think was handled extremely poorly is the transition from the censored to the uncensored editions of this game seeing as everyone, INCLUDING those who already owned the censored versions of the games like myself had to buy them Again as opposed to just making the uncensored versions free DLCs like they did with games like half life 1 and left 4 dead 2. i recall writing to both bethesda and steam support about it like a year or two ago but as far as i can remember the replies on both ends were just telling me to go bitch to the other one so, yknow, not exactly helpful.
Only now i noticed, usually this series thend to have a silly thumbnail, with a stereotypical German or Just a lego minifigure, but not this one, this one is Just serious since the games itself are a lot more serious about the theme
Well that all Nazi symbols where removed in the german version, is simply to explain. All symbols of the Nazis, like the Hakenkreuz, are forbidden by german law. (§86 and §86a Strafgesetzbuch) The only exception for this, is when those symbols are visible in "Art", like exhibitions or movies (who are considered art). There is a discussion that goes literally for YEARS if not decades now where people wonder, why games arent considered art and need to get censored. And one of my favorite "Funny BJ Momends" is, where he stabs a sleeping Nazi through the mattress of his bunk bed and is just like: "Aufwachen! Du bist tot..." ("Wake up! You're dead...")
I played these games back when they first released. Old Blood being my favourite of all of them. I found the German dub to be serviceable but I still prefer the original dub. I also prefer the original since killing Nazis is much more satisfying than killing unspecified evil Germans. It’s why I don’t want the nazi symbols to be removed since they aren’t being portrayed in a positive light whatsoever here.
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We've come a long way since that. You can buy uncensored copies of Wolfenstein freely in Germany since like 2017-2018
Deathshead actually has two voice actors in the English version with Dwight Schultz being his main voice and Kaspar Eichel voicing the German PSAs.
Ohh, I didn't know that! Schultz actually speaks German, so I thought it was him.
@@GermanPeter Wait, you're telling me the guy who speaks German doesn't voice his character... speaking German?
@@stupidratt It's like casting a voice actor who also has a good singing voice, only to have a separate actor voice that character's singing voice.
I have a feeling the SS-Officer, who was on the phone with an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and the one soldier who was in space trying to ship a delivery but got killed by B.J was voiced by "Michael 'Bully' Herbig". He is a famous German Comedy Actor known for movies such as "The Shoe of Manitu" "Dreamship: Surprise Period 1". The voices sound oddly similar.
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I’d say that calling the Nazis “Alpha Wolves” in the German version would be better than “the regime” or “dirty pigs”. Having their emblem being a wolf’s head in the 1960s and being referred to as wolves seems to give them a fearful and spiteful reputation.
Being called “The Regime” sounds too generic and having the soldiers called “dirty pigs” doesn’t seem right to me.
Problem is that calling them "Wolves" is far too tongue-in-cheek. It calls back to the previous Wolfenstein games too much, which didn't take themselves nearly as seriously as this one does.
They could've just called it the Reich or even the Empire and would be able to keep enough context and reference, without outright saying it.
having studied history, i feel you should never censor the past. censor the future instead.
@eatmywords That ends up censoring the past in the long run. Best not to censor unless 100% necessary.
@@eatmywordsWhat does censoring the future even mean?
The voices for BJ and Anya are great. The English voices felt the exact opposite to me, with BJ the emotional one and Anya the one who is traumatized and withdrawn. It’s cool that they kind of swapped roles in the German dub and the dynamic still works!
I fully agree with your assessment of the censorship messing with the game's intended tone by removing too much context and ironically erasing many of the non-German identities by not using the proper accents or removing the Yiddish.
Also a personal preference, but I enjoy Bubi's original voice more. I don't know; he might be from Berlin, but if I think about someone nicknamed Bubi, I think about someone Bavarian or Austrian.
The biggest issues with keeping accents is finding voice actors that are good enough at german while also keeping enough of the desired accent.
Or just turning them all into german accents.
And yes, Bubi totally should've been from the south east. That would fit with the name and an bavarian or austrian accent.
Hearing that the localisers had to replace German speaking actors because of their accents reminded me of how certain film distributors apparently wouldn't allow Arnold Schwarzenegger to dub his films in German because they thought his Austrian accent was too "rural". Something they poked fun in a deleted scene from Terminator 3.
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@GermanPeter, I just want to say I love to hear this channel in the background while I work, and you giving the clear context while not shying away from these touchy subjects makes my respect for this channel grow even further.
All the best, all the best for you and your channel!
Ps.: Your bad puns make me less productive, please continue.
the way they speak the same language throughout the entire game feels just like how in MGS3 someone tells snake he has "good russian" despite all the voice acting being in english
6:30 what they could've done (if they kept the whole wolf name) is for them to say "Wolfs Howl" or something like that, idk.
btw this series has opened my eyes more to dub acting and how amazing they can be, like I was sitting here thinking that no one could dub Brian Bloom's silky smooth voice, but low behold Johannes Berenz take on it is just amazing to hear.
20:34 clarification, those diary entries are not hers, but of her fellow nurse Ramona, who was killed by the Nazis in the hospital alongside Anja's parents. Anja found her diary afterwards.
No, it's heavily implied that it's her diary. Not only does she say that "some of these things in this diary may have happened to me", but the Wolfenstein Wiki also points this out: "On the picture where you read the diaries, what is written is "Należy do Anya" (proper Polish version spelling: "Należy do Ani") which in English means "Belongs to Anya"." It also doesn't make much sense for Ramona to somehow take a keen interest in BJ the same way Anya did.
She just lied about it because she wasn't sure what BJ would think of her if she outright told him that she murdered a lot of people prior to meeting him. So she wanted to see how he'd react to it if it was just some random person he never met. I'd imagine she told him that it was her afterwards.
man, new order is SO much better than the sequel. and that main menu music? SUCH power, oh my god
RUclips recommended me this video because I tend to listen thrash metal from time to time and I guess something in algorithm thought this was Carnivore's Retaliation album which the thumbnail reminds me of. Anyway I'm going to watch this whole thing out of of curiosity and as a enjoyer of retro FPS games.
You're the second person to point that out, that's neat :D
I only had time for the first 30 minutes sadly, so I just skimmed through the rest. But I really enjoy you talking about the voice acting and its differences, it's strangely entertaining!
I feel bad that most of your content is relatively obscure, but I know I've done all I can to help. Great vid man. 👍
Gundi Eberhard was also so amazing as the female player voice in Fallout 4, I don't think I would like the game as much if it wasn't for her performance. She nailed every line, especially the sarcastic dialogue options.
Also on another note, the voice actor you thought might be the same as Ellis in L4D is actually the same as Bubi.
Ohh, didn't know she was in Fallout 4! Have to check that out.
And yes! I noticed that about Bubi while playing the Old Blood :)
I've been waiting for this one!
Honestly, I'd love if you could do Blitzkrieg 2 for voice acting alone.
The Tank Destroyer units have burrowed into my tiny brain since 2004.
"KAMPFEN?!"
As a fellow German, the switch from dialects to high German really surprised me. not that i mind, it just felt odd, given how most lines are German already, apart from the real references, why recast them?. I agree on the regime, given its so generic, what kind of regime? It also was odd how they censored names that didn't have too, like Berlin is just called the capital through out. Or how Über/super soldier are Maschinen soldaten, if you consider RTCW had it unchanged in the German version
Ok here's a really stupid question: Does Deathshead still say ”So long since I've practiced my English. It's a dying tongue.„ Or has the line been replaced by something else?
Oh yeah, he doesn't say that! He just says "It's been a while since I've met people like you": ruclips.net/video/HwM7S2V_UUY/видео.html
These changes are even more obvious in The Old Blood, actually!
The old blood is one of my favourite games of all time (partially because of the Bombenschuss) so I'll definitely be looking forward to that.
Slight corrections. Nazis did not call themselves Nazis. Hitler actually hated the term and its not something you would want to have called a nazi to his face as you'd probably end up arrested. The term Nazi is older then the nazis and ment a "backwards peasent"
If true, that's really interesting (not calling you a liar, I just don't know enough about the German language to know whether or not that would be a meaning that would have been understood by the average German).
I took it to be a contraction, but if it's derogatory in the way you said it does line up quite well with the historical context with the much wealthier urbanised population being mostly liberal leaning and keen to justify the poverty of the rural working class as something relating to their character, as opposed to being the result of systemic repression and the German government offloading the failures of their attempts to challenge the other colonial powers of Europe onto the working class (whilst there were a growing number of socialists and anarchists who had been organising at grass roots level, they were not nearly as well represented in electoral politics due to a lack of class consciousness amongst office and clerical workers, who were relatively happy with the status quo and didn't want to risk their position of relative privilege. The left also also couldn't really make any headway in rural areas due to the combination of widespread poverty, low levels of education, youth exodus to industrial areas, lack of alternatives to farm work, and restrictive government price caps on food that were implemented to help with the previous hyperinflation, meaning that the people they were hoping to reach out to and connect with were more socially conservative, had lower levels of literacy, and also had limited scope to organise for better conditions. It's a bit difficult to get people to strike when the most likely outcome is that their place of work won't actually stay afloat due to how narrow the margins are and the people who they work for were likely to also have the ability to evict them, or even just enlist the military or a private militia to massacre them on the picket line.)
Given how Hitler himself was mocked by the establishment for the way he spoke with a silly accent and didn't use sophisticated language, or even particularly well thought out arguments, in his public appearances, coupled with the majority of his supporters during the early part of his political career being from rural backgrounds, it definitely seems in character for the political mainstream to label them derisively as a bunch of ignorant bumpkins.
It reminds me of the supporters of UKIP (UK Independence Party) over in my country pre-brexit. They acquired the nickname 'Kippers', as in the phrase 'strung up like a kipper'.
Yes. It's like saying the communists call themselves "commies".
@@AKKK1182 we do call ourselves Commies.
Nazi is just a corruption of NSDAP, the German Socialist Party that turned heavily towards Fascism by 1928; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
@@seeingred1409 We?
The "wolf" logo kinda reminds me of the STAG logo from Saints Row: The Third.
I can see it!
im interested to see what they did with the scene with hitler in the new colossus
Your channel is one of my favorites out there, especially regarding the Wolfenstein games. A lot of my extended family are German (my grandmother fled from Germany during WWII) so it's interesting seeing how these themes are handled today.
Hey, GermanPeter! What do you think of Skullgirls **REGIME** references being censored and removed? I'm pretty sure they even removed anything resembling it in the original concept art book. The game has been out for around 10 years.
Great video, by the way!
Great work as always, and thanks for asking for feedback regarding the whole “pee babies” thing. Can’t wait to see what you do next 😊
love these videos, so well researched and presented
For me this game is a solid 10/10.
Cmon! Die Käfer & Co. are amazing
New Order was my first Wolfenstein game, followed by Old Blood and New Colossus. But I did manage to track down an original PS3 copy of the 2009 Wolfenstein, which is what leads directly into New Order. One thing I always found curious is that in RTCW and Wolf 2009, Deathshead is seen wearing a monocle, which is conspicuously absent in New Order. It was also stated somewhere that Deathshead is nearly a hundred years old in 1960.
46:21 I just noticed that Bubi's face clips into the player's 1st person view.
As someone from sweden and knowing a bit of german myself not fluent but at a pretty good understanding. and seeing bit about the german versions just by googling. I got to say i really like the amount you cover about the german versions. And i wonder if you have plans to cover the well sniper elite Zombie army games if they have alot of bigger diffrences or if it's just swapping out a word from the eng version to german version?
I might give the Sniper Elite series a go one day, but no guarantees.
When you wake up and check RUclips to the video you’ve been waiting for👌
My favorite german has uploaded a new video
Deathhead's English VA, Dwight Schultz, usually plays varying degrees of good guys. Sometimes nebbish, sometimes cranky, sometimes off-the-wall wacky. So to hear him playing this irredeemable monster, and play him so deliciously evil, was quite a shock for me. He was Mung Daal on Chowder for crying out loud! XD
No shit for real? That’s mung daal??
@@paulshaum3421 Its really him!
Watching this video while listening to "Change over day" or any other songs from Wolfenstein is great.
I always figured that they replaced their name with "Das Regime" because now they are no longer 'just' a force you're fighting on the front lines, or a specialized group hiding in a castle and trying to raise the dead - they've actually managed to take over (most of) the world. They went from "That one country attacking people" to "The actual literal dictators of most of the planet".
On another note, I absolutely love the work they put into this. Having actual proper German, even in the English version, adds so much to it. It makes it more real, less silly, and makes watching the original version of the game so, so much more fun as a German person. But even the German version's full dub, as you said, is absolutely fantastic. It really is much like a movie in some respects, and BJ's voice actor especially absolutely knocked it out of the park. It's a shame about the Polish/Yiddish and accents, and some of the censorship, but besides that it's a real 10/10.
New Germanpeter vid just dropped :0
This is the first time I've seen anything from the German version of this game, and I gotta say I agree with your point. The censorship and removal of context was so much that it almost feels like it changed the tone of the game. These aren't fictional "space Nazis" like in Star Wars, this is very clearly meant to be set during WWII and these are very clearly meant to be real Nazis. So sanitizing everything to this extent almost makes it feel like a parody and borderline disrespectful at times.
boi german peter is kinda cute and I love this long video made my day better good night!
I'VE MISREAD THE TITLE AS: "The Quirks of JERMA"
I'm waiting for this video now
That thumbnail leads me to believe there’ll be a bit of Retaliation in this video
I feel like censorship like this is kinda concerning, its obviously fictional but Wolfenstein is one of the most anti nazi main stream games there is and removing all references to the nazis not only lessens the impact of the game but it almost feels like its lessening just how bad the real world nazis were. Im sure german citizens are well educated on how bad the nazis were already so its not like this is a major issue but still downplaying their severity in media seems like the wrong type of censorship to me(sorry if my thoughts aren't particularly coherent its 4 in the morning and i didn't reread it lol)
You can freely buy uncensored Wolfenstein in Germany now!
Like mentioned by someone else if you buy the Wolfenstein games on steam you will also get the uncut version of the game to your library. So they are available if you so choose.
Furthermore I have to add that it's suprising how little you actually get taught about WW2 and the Nazis themselves. I find this extremely questionable, especially the fact that our politicians are trying to basically erase that part of the history from the peoples minds which is very problematic.
If you so much as mention anything particular about the Nazis there is a good chance a few people will think you are a Neo-nazi which makes zero sense.
I mean in Germany simply flying the modern german flag or displaying it for example on your house will immediately cause you to be called a nazi. Ridiculous.
LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another fantastic video, can't wait for "The Old Blood" video❤
Anyone else get reminded of the Retaliation album cover by Carnivore from the thumbnail?
is this the second coming or the fourth reich?
@@dimples9746 Hear me my fellow Nazolics!
48:30 Looking at Wikipedia, Bodo Wolf also was the German voice of Rene Auberjonois' (R.I.P. :( ) Constable Odo in Deep Space Nine, which might be a little-known (*wink*) role that people know him from... ;)
Excited for this one!
Friendly fire will not be tolerated
they cut out the brain sequence scene for the UK version, it just showed BJ face of horror of what happened.
Yo yo yo! Fan with a suggestion here! How 'bout after you're done with the "Quirks of German Wolfenstein" series, you make start up the "Quirks of German Doom"? It would be real cool!
Oh, I already got you covered ;) That's exactly what I planned on doing! Even wrote down a bunch of things.
@@GermanPeter Sehr gut!
@@GermanPeter By the way, I have a fun fact!
Although I don't live in germany, I have a german copy of CoD:IW!
Took bro 1:09:49 to say “thanks for watching” ain’t no way
Longest outro ever
Great video!
Oh wow it's out!
hey peter i have been watching your videos for awhile now and i woul like to thank you for making them so thanks for that. i also wanted to point out that i prety sure hitler's nickname was wolf so that could be the reason why they chose to include the wolf symbol? i could be wrong thanks again for all of your awesome videos im glad there is a German person reviewing these titles
They likely chose the Wolf symbol because the game is called Wolfenstein :P
Die geschnitte Version hat mir das Spiel damals so vermiest.
4:56 Looks like something straight out of transformers
wait, is the word gullible pronounced naive in german?
Yes!
I noticed a weird inconsistency when checking out the character models in the model viewer after watching this video and they have the German censored insignias instead of the ones they actually have in game
Maybe I forgot, or didn't realize that Dwight Schultz was Deathshead in these games.
I'm glad that when you buy the Wolfenstein games on Steam these days, even in Germany, you get both the German cut version and the original uncut version.
Original is much better to play. I never touched the cut version.
Silly German saying the Wolfenstein logo is good enough.
52:53 WAIT, “Naive” is the German word for gullible? I had no idea!
Why is that so surprising? :D
did you move the sections around after writing your script? seemed a bit strange to finish the dubbing section with "but how's the censorship? let's find out" when you already covered that.
that little thing aside, as usual great video. I find these fascinating :)
In regards to the VAs, imagine the brilliance of having Til Schweiger voice Blazko, a character modelled off said actor who possibly despises Nazis just as much
Love the vid and have been waiting for this one since the Wolfenstein 2009 one. glorious. is it possible The Old Blood will be covered aswell?
I don't think I'd want anyone but Berenz for BJ, honestly. He really shines in this role. Also, BJ isn't modeled after Til Schweiger, that was just a coincidence. The devs said as much. And yes, The Old Blood is being worked on. Will be out next week for patrons :)
@@GermanPeter ah the model being a coincidence is new to me. Glad to see that clarified. Gotta agree with the choice of the current VA as it really sounds like he's carrying a weight that can't be dropped. Brilliant analysis overall
The quirks of the Xbox 360 version of Wolfenstein: The New Order…
4 discs, swapped every few chapters, needs an 8gb install, and the port has some physics and texture bugs. Still was worth it considering I didn’t have a PS4 or Xbox One when this game came out.
The German Totenkopf sounds sooooooo The Joker to me. 😅
With wich wolfenstein game should I start?
They're all good, it just depends on what you want. Wolfenstein 2009 is in my opinion the easiest and simplest to get into, and it has the most fun mechanics. The New Order and onwards aren't bad, I just think the gameplay gets frustrating at times and they're HEAVILY story-driven. You play one level and watch cutscenes that are longer than the actual level at times. Also lots of padding in New Colossus in my opinion.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a classic, but I think it's also too frustrating at times. Not a bad game, but not as good as 2009 in my opinion.
And Wolfenstein 3D can be extremely confusing, and might be too basic for newcomers.
@@GermanPeter thank you :>
@@GermanPeter I think Ill start with 2009
I am the only one, who thought that BJ from the new order was a Punisher type character?
Not gonna lie, Frau Engel's actress in the german dub would have been perfect for a younger Frau Engel.
What people don't know about The New Order is that it's actually a continuation of Wolfenstein 2009
Not really. They used some of the same characters, like Totenkopf and Caroline Becker, but that's about it. And even then, Caroline is MUCH older than she's supposed to be (she was about BJ's age in 2009 but is way older here), and it's completely up in the air if 2009 even happened in this universe. 2009 was a direct continuation of RTCW, but that game was re-imagined with The Old Blood, which stopped basically where the first act of RTCW ended (after killing Olaric). And afterwards, BJ directly flies over to Totenkopf's compound, which not only means he never had the time to do whatever he did in 2009, but Totenkopf wasn't even in Isenstadt at all.
The developers also directly stated that they're ignoring 2009's place in the timeline.
24:41 That FUCK felt so edited in because of how english it sounds
i actually kinda liked the different accents in the original. yeah might have been a little bit too common (especially in berlin itself) but I enjoy variety. But I have to add that I do am pretty good at understanding accents, so there's a good chance this is just me
11:25 the switch from: - >:(
to 11:30 : - :D
nice
Lets goooo
Did he say “revolver head” for gunslinger?
"Revolverheld" = revolver hero. Slang for a cowboy.
@@GermanPeter ah, thank makes more sense. “Revolver hero” is fairly apt, I like it.
1:04:27 This oddly sounds a bit like Santiago Ziesmer (German VA of SpongeBob.).
Why only issue with a lot of the German VA is when they say a name it always sounds a little off, almost like the actor was pausing to say it. When Wyatt says "Fergus Reid" it just sounded strange.
after the series is done could you do german gta series? i believe there are lots of differences especially in gta 3s combat.
>Machinehead´s Wolfenstein games were a much more serious take
Hm...I think we have very different recollections of New Collosus and Youngblood
Compared to the old Wolfenstein titles with zombies and wizards and dominas... yeah, it's more serious. Over-the-top in a way, but still serious.
@@GermanPeterI think Old Blood and New Order nailed this more serious while still being over the top aspect quite well. But the New Colossus and especially Young Blood went way too over the top.
It must be interesting to talk all about a videogame series that are based [Redacted] meanwhile being German.
Am starting to play the new order via xbox pc gamepass.
Yes
lol nice Carnivore reference
Thanks for the warning.
19:09 kotono mitsuishi is the japanese VA not the character lol
i think we should talk about Nazis because if you forget history its bound to repeat itself but we also cant just call everything we dont like "nazis" or it will become a buzzword
2:05
For some reason I somehow never thought about the fact that you would speak in German when not in a RUclips video context.
Honestly, I kind of prefer the Wolfenstein logo to the Swastika in that context...just fits better, perhaps because it is more visually interesting. Those wolf symbols are honestly really good! I quite like that. Well...that is a dumb name. Why would they do that though? Wolves is such a cooler name even if they were absolutely horrible people.
Something that makes me really sad about the Nazis is that the common Soldat and just every officer was a regular guy taught to be evil. Not a psychopath, just the guy across the street given absolute power and told to kill. Everyone has the capacity for evil, just most never get in the right situations. (Added later after he mentioned it) In a way, I feel bad _for_ the common Soldaten who would have had a completely average life beforehand but instead was indoctrinated by the Nazi party to not see people as people.
31:53
My first thought on him was "Wow, he looks like Duke Nukem"...his voice definitely does not match that.
33:51
Reminds me of Miracle Max from The Princess Bride.
39:49
I really like the way you said "probabilities" for some reason.
I...really like Tekla, have never played the game but wow, I feel bad for her dying just from those couple minutes of dialogue.
The woman with a golden gun.
Wow, Strasse's German laughing actually made me laugh from how unrealistic it sounds!
Would have been neat if, instead of completely removing the lines, have Some of the Bavarian and possibly Austrian lines kept in as well as adding more non-Bavarian German ones to add more diversity in the accents.
57:40
It is like if you are playing Crysis and understand Korean the hardest mode's change of language becomes moot
(Also, in looking up some translations of German words for a part of the comment not included I found that if you look up "German word for" one of the top results is "punchable face"...guess people need to know how to punch people in German. According to Google it is "stanzbares Gesicht".)
Also, something I noticed about myself, when writing RUclips comments I tend to make at least 3 typographical errors in long comments like this. I only noticed it after starting to put them in a Google Doc in case RUclips decides they wanted to be deleted. I genuinely thought I was able to mostly fix my dyslexia-misspelt but apparently I still do it a lot. Not important to the video I just found it interesting. In this comment I misspelt "definetly", and "Barvarian" without even noticing, usually there are more, commonly I misspell soilder. Anyway, thank you to everyone who actually reads my waffling, you absolutely do not need to, I just like commenting and talking about things.
"It doesnt sound right in english, say it corectly: TOTEN... KOPF"
my favorite part of wolfenstien is that Blazkowicz is what they would consider “perfect” and he’s Jewish, Blazkowicz is the living embodiment of how flawed their beliefs are
being from germany, i think the censorship of these games was handled pretty well but what i think was handled extremely poorly is the transition from the censored to the uncensored editions of this game seeing as everyone, INCLUDING those who already owned the censored versions of the games like myself had to buy them Again as opposed to just making the uncensored versions free DLCs like they did with games like half life 1 and left 4 dead 2.
i recall writing to both bethesda and steam support about it like a year or two ago but as far as i can remember the replies on both ends were just telling me to go bitch to the other one so, yknow, not exactly helpful.
Only now i noticed, usually this series thend to have a silly thumbnail, with a stereotypical German or Just a lego minifigure, but not this one, this one is Just serious since the games itself are a lot more serious about the theme
Well that all Nazi symbols where removed in the german version, is simply to explain. All symbols of the Nazis, like the Hakenkreuz, are forbidden by german law. (§86 and §86a Strafgesetzbuch)
The only exception for this, is when those symbols are visible in "Art", like exhibitions or movies (who are considered art). There is a discussion that goes literally for YEARS if not decades now where people wonder, why games arent considered art and need to get censored.
And one of my favorite "Funny BJ Momends" is, where he stabs a sleeping Nazi through the mattress of his bunk bed and is just like: "Aufwachen! Du bist tot..." ("Wake up! You're dead...")
Nope! Already addressed that in my Wolfenstein 3D video. You're close, but it's not quite like that.
Good video as always. TNO is my favorite and I played it all day when it got released. It's sad to see they ruined the IP with the sequel.
11:07
your little rant here went so hard for no good reason at all
edit: oh wait it went hard because ITS TRUE
How fitting that Dwight Schultz played a fascist when he's a fascist in real life.
Aw damnit, he is? I just read he's conservative, what else did he do?
I played these games back when they first released. Old Blood being my favourite of all of them. I found the German dub to be serviceable but I still prefer the original dub. I also prefer the original since killing Nazis is much more satisfying than killing unspecified evil Germans. It’s why I don’t want the nazi symbols to be removed since they aren’t being portrayed in a positive light whatsoever here.
It's annoying to see one of my favourite games butchered in such a way that it removes a lot of the impact in an incredibly obvious way.
I dont even know why they do it. In germany the swastika is considered "art" in video games and is allowed same for the SS etc...
Watch my Wolfenstein 3D video, I answer that there :)