

This list does not include levels that merely feature swastikas in the coloration of wall tiles. Many levels of Wolfenstein 3D feature levels and rooms that are designed in the shape of swastikas, often to a preposterous extent.

Wolfenstein 3D often incorporates swastikas in level design, like this level, Floor 3 of Episode 6. Wolfenstein 3D levels with swastikas in the level design German versions of Wolfenstein still use some of the censored version's symbols however. On August 9, 2018, Germany relaxed the ban on the usage of swastikas and other Nazi symbols in video games including Wolfenstein, as per a ruling deeming video games as an art form under the social adequacy clause required for media to be exempted from censorship under § 86a StGB. In Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, the censored symbol is a triangle with extended arms.


The inclusion of the swastika led to uncut versions of games from the Wolfenstein series being banned in Germany due to cultural stigma associated with the symbol, which is legally enforced through the Strafgesetzbuch section 86a as well as the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (German: Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien or BPjM) As such, the censored version of games normally replace the swastika with either the stylized letter W logo of the Wolfenstein series or the Iron Cross, a cross pattée symbol that per-dates both World Wars. The swastika appears throughout the games of the Wolfenstein series, and is included not only in the textures, but the level design of Wolfenstein 3D. Historically, it has been used by multiple cultures which attributed to it beneficial meanings (the name "swastika" means literally "to be good") but in the context of the Wolfenstein series, its most important use is that by the Nazi Party, who used it as their emblem back when the swastika had a boom in popularity in the early 20th century. The Swastika, also called the Hakenkreuz or Hooked Cross, is an ancient symbol, an equilateral cross with four arms bent at four right angles.
