Nazis As Virtual Monsters

Filed under:Gaming,Technology — posted by Q Ball on 11/15/2008 @ 6:56 pm

I just finished reading a very interesting article at Ars Technica in which the author discusses the the way we view history through the eyes of video games. In the new Call of Duty game the “bad guys” are the Nazis. When referring to World War II we separate Nazis and Germans. The author takes issue with this separation stating:

Saying there is a huge gulf between the German people and the Nazi characters would would be like saying it’s okay to kill Republicans in a game, but you have issues with Americans being the bad guys.

The reason we separate the two is because of what the Nazis represented: the Holocaust and their dangerous ideas of fascism.