Wow. 11 years after this thread and I’m replying. I was just replaying Bioshock 2 and wondered if anyone else had noticed this and found an answer. She says words like ‘und’ and ‘Herr’ which are German. Her name is TENENBAUM for crying out loud. (German for 'fir tree.) Anyone with a tiny bit of Germanic knowledge shouldn’t need to listen to the audio audio diaries to wonder of she’s German.
For the folks in this forum whining that someone is ‘griping’ about the accent…take a hike. It’s not griping, it’s wondering what the heck is going on here. I’m so confused as to why she’s speaking like a German but her accent is eastern European or Russian. I’ve wondered this for years.
Apparently Brigid Tenenbaum’s father was German but they hailed from Belarus, Eastern Europe. She didn’t go to the Auschwitz concentration camp until she was sixteen, and remained working for the Nazis throughout the war, which explains her use of German vocabulary.