Wolfenstein II wants to laugh at the present without commenting on it

Midway through the recent press preview of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, I (as protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz) found myself sneaking around a secret base in Nazi-occupied 1960s America, getting ready to stow away on a train to Area 51. On the catwalk across from me, I heard a couple of heavily armed soldiers lamenting the state of the American resistance.
“I have no sympathy for terrorists,” one of them complained in German. “How can they promote violence toward us, just becau