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dc.contributor.authorPfister, Eugen <Hochschule der Künste Bern – HKB, Bern, Switzerland>
dc.contributor.authorZimmermann, Felix <a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne/University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany>
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-20T16:15:27Z
dc.date.available2023-02-20T16:15:27Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationEugen Pfister, Felix 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, pp. 35-46, https://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2021-2020it_IT
dc.identifier.issn2567-1111it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2021-2020it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/6396
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-4469
dc.description.abstractFor 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 in particular remained conspicuously absent. In this article we show that discussions about the fundamental suitability of specific media or media forms for dealing responsibly with the memory of the Nazi regime’s crimes have already taken place several times and that similar arguments can now be applied to the digital game. With this in mind, we pursue the question of whether only so-called serious games are suitable for this purpose, or whether, on the contrary, mainstream blockbuster games – here specifically the first-person shooter Wolfenstein: The New Order – can find ways to maintain the memory of the Holocaust without trivializing it. We approach this question by analyzing chapter 8 of Wolfenstein: The New Order, in which protagonist William “B.J.” Blazkowicz allows himself to be deported to a Nazi concentration camp. We discuss this camp scene dialectically, on the one hand, as an encouragement to rethink the first-person shooter and, on the other hand, as a reproduction of a superficial iconography of the Holocaust.it_IT
dc.format.extentP. 35-46it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherE. 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. 1it_IT
dc.rightsWalter de Gruyterit_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectDigital gamesit_IT
dc.subjectContemporary historyit_IT
dc.subjectHolocaust studiesit_IT
dc.subjectPopular culture studiesit_IT
dc.subjectWolfenstein: The New Orderit_IT
dc.title“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 Orderit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Public Historyit_IT
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