Monday, December 27, 2010

Holocaust video games - a way to learn or trivializing?

What do you think? Should Holocaust video games be allowed?


Holocaust video game pulled

Protest from Jewish organizations causes Maxim Genis to withdraw SonderKommando Revolt whose aim is to escape camp, kill Nazi soldiers
Goel Beno, Ynetnews.com
Published: 12.26.10

Programmer Maxim Genis has decided to withdraw his Shoah-based video game following widespread protest against the use of the Holocaust as a backdrop to this kind of activity.
The video game, titled Sonderkommando Revolt and set during a violent prisoner uprising at the Auschwitz death camp, was created by the Israeli video game developer using the real-world uprising at Auschwitz in October 1944 as the backdrop for the game...Read more...

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