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    • “No One is Ever Ready for Something Like This.” – On the Dialectic of the Holocaust in First-Person Shooters as Exemplified by Wolfenstein: The New Order 

      Pfister, Eugen <Hochschule der Künste Bern – HKB, Bern, Switzerland>; Zimmermann, Felix <a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne/University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany> (E. Pfister, F. Zimmermann, “No One is Ever Ready for Something Like This.” – On the Dialectic of the Holocaust in First-Person Shooters as Exemplified by Wolfenstein: The New Order, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, 2021)
      For almost three decades, the depiction of the Holocaust was considered taboo in digital games. While World War II became a popular historicizing setting for digital games, the crimes of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust ...