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DoD is pretty awesome :D The closest thing I've found to it is Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. I can't personally vouch for Linux compatibility, but it seems like it would work fine.

Hell I have yet to play a WW2 game that lets me fight as a Nazi! Where are the Italian/Japanese/Nazi campaigns in these games?

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (and it's free).

Nearly all the games have good intro-level webpages up there to cut down the barrier to entry. For ET, you'd try:

RTCW & ET 4 Dummies

As for finding servers and not feeling pereptually useless, that's a bit harder. Mostly it's trial-and-error with anything, and even most servers have different feels with no admins, specific admins, or a whole bevy of them. You could start looking here but that's geared towards semi-competitive types. Good clans that run somewhat more gentle servers aren't listed there - but you could certainly ask on some clan forums. The Teamwarfare site, btw, includes easy ways to find both the clans, and their contact info (web pages or IRC channels).

With the multiple classes in ET, there's almost always something you can do to be useful even if not the best shot. Being the guy who tags along after your team's alpha male... running around the corner to revive and give health... can be a great way to get appreciated while coming up the curve. Just whatever you do, don't do any more than dally as a Covert Ops player... they're almost universally reviled among server admins.

Screencap from Fuel Dump posted at Planetwolfenstein.

There's a config around to let people play with one hand only when playing wolfenstein enemy territory. The config was made by a guy called Iffy, he has an excellent help and how-to wolfenstein site at http://planetwolfenstein.com/4newbies/

However, some of the FPS games have evolved. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, with the introduction of the ability to gain experience points/skills, and a strong focus on different classes and teamwork/coop, is terrific fun. And it runs on Linux, too!

Download here or read more about it

You guess right.

Die Nazi scum.

i love mine... And for any of you slashdotters reading this, I suggest you try it out. I paid $69 for mine and $30 for the NIC. It's a great toy to play with... you can VNC, SSH, Telnet, IRC, mount SMB shares, play MP3s... (all after you hack it)
and now its even easier to hack thanks to the CF card images found on AudreyHacking, or you can update via Marimba update like I did.

At any rate, the Audrey probably would have sold much better than it did had the price not been so high ($499). I wouldn't go so far as to say it's just bad-ass - but it is cool (esp. for $89).
(I used to play GrooveRadio's RealAudio stream on my audrey while i played RtCW. (can't do it any more cause the way grooveradio streams their broadcast now...).)

in short, i love mine - recommend you try one for yourself...
wanna see how one looks? try out the demo linked on my site www.neodux.com/audrey