Australian Jews reacted with outrage upon learning that a Melbourne games store was selling a Nazi-themed party game aimed at kids.
The game, “I Would Kill Hitler: A Party Game of Hilarious Hypotheticals,” was discovered by Natalie Siegel, a Jewish woman descended from Holocaust survivors, when she was shopping in the Games World store for her 11-year-old daughter, News.com.au reported.
The game described itself as “the first game made out of spite!”
It went on to explain: “The game is simple! Players answer “What Would You Do?” to original hypotheticals using cards in their hands to complete their story!”
“The game is inspired by an improv warm up exercise the creators play before performances, but has been fine tuned and workshopped to be EXTREMELY approachable.”
According to the report, the game said it was for children over 14, and it is available at five or more Australian shops.
“When I saw the words “Hitler” and “hilarious” in the same sentence, I was disgusted and shocked,” Siegel told news.com.au. “Hitler killed six million Jews. He gassed my relatives. It”s really sickening that someone”s making money off this game and that Australian shops are endorsing it.”
The store”s manager told the news outlet that the game was supposed to be kept behind the counter and not on a shelf where shoppers could see it. He added that he personally did not like the game”s name.
“Although the name is controversial, I think it was designed to attract attention, rightly or wrongly,” he said.
The Anti-Defamation Commission”s chair, Dvir Abramovich, demanded that the game no longer be sold by the store.
The game is published by AdMagic, which also released a game called Secret Hitler, in which players take on the roles of liberals and Nazis in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic, with one player becoming Hitler.
Abramovich decried the game, saying it amounted to Holocaust trivialization.
“This game provides another popular avenue for Hitler”s name to be normalized and reach a new generation of young people who may think Hitler is actually cool,” he told the outlet.
