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Nazi game sparks fury
Israelis, Jews working to end marketing of Nazi concentration camp game, in which players are encouraged to kill as many Jews as possible
Itamar Eichner
A strategy game sold on an American website offers players to act as SS Nazis and kill as many Jews as possible taking part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, a governemtal forum against anti-Semitism has uncovered.
The board game is on sale for USD 16. The player in the game is a fighter in a Nazi unit made up of a few dozen SS soldiers, in possession of tanks, mortars, and machine guns. Every round in the game symbolizes two or three days of fighting. The player receives a map of the ghetto and must "purify" it.
"Good god: The Jews have weapons," the game's instructions for players read, also quoting the words of the uprising's commander Mordechai Anielewicz.
"Suddenly a shout was heard after SS soldiers were shot as they were entering the Warsaw Ghetto," a description says in the game's instructions.
Jewish and Israeli sources are planning on submitting a complaint to the American authorities against the game's distributors.
The governmental forum against anti-Semitism stressed that the game is anti-Semitic, and that it's distribution is banned by US law.
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