00:00Should you ever be allowed to play the Holocaust?
00:04Well, in some games, you can.
00:06In The Light in the Darkness, for example,
00:09players can relive the story of a Jewish family in Nazi-occupied Paris.
00:14Game developers who tackle this topic do face a challenge, though.
00:18By putting the Holocaust in the game and having even this concept of winning or losing,
00:24we could say, we could victim blame.
00:27We could say, why did this person did this and not that?
00:31And that is why he didn't survive.
00:34Some games avoid this by shifting perspectives.
00:37In The Darkest Files, players investigate Nazi crimes as a prosecutor in the post-war era.
00:43In The Rat Line, a detective tracks war criminals who escaped after World War II.
00:48One idea behind these games, preserving Holocaust stories even when the last survivors are gone,
00:54and telling them in a personal, powerful way.
00:57Gaming is bigger in terms of profit, more than movies and music combined together.
01:04If we're not using it, we are overlooking something that has so much potential.
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