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The references to Richtofen as a sort of Christ figure has always rubbed me a certain way.

His initial journey to Shangri-La has so much to unpack within the real life context and reference to Nazi conspiracy and Asian mysticism. The Nazis visited Tibet in the late 1930s in what some believe to be an attempt to further their search for Agartha, with Asia as the continent they believed to house knowledge of such a place. (The map is called Shangri-La in obvious reference to the fictional "promised land" in Tibet of the same name. Of course it is referencing the real life expedition.)

The idea of the indigenous peoples there worshipping him as a sort of God is obviously a play with him being a megalomaniac and charismatic enough to convince anyone to worship him, but it's so deeply rooted in the idea the white saviour- the idea that these people are so uncivilised that they worship the first white person they see.

The Nazis were believed to have visited Tibet to research whether it was fit to be "the cradle of the Aryan", and through the writings about the Vril-ya that is also incorporated through the CODZ storyline, we can assume by this it's meant that they would annihilate the indigenous peoples of this space to have it as their own.

While Richtofen is a character in a story (of a Call of Duty game, no less) you have to be very careful with the way you depict things like this without it bordering on propaganda. Obviously that's what Call of Duty is, and I can't imagine reading it as anything beyond delusional, but he is a product of conspiracies that are rooted in Nazism.

The idea of a promised land where he can be The One, the direct references with the usage of words like Agartha and Vril, the references to him as a Jesus-like figure with "the carpenter" and "the second coming" and "the one".