Concentration camp manager

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KZ Manager is the name of various computer games that glorify National Socialism and racism . The original version of the game was programmed for the Commodore 64 in the 1980s, indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM) in July 1989 and drafted nationwide in November 1990. On June 11, 2014, the game was entered on Part B of the list of carrier media harmful to minors and is therefore still subject to a distribution ban . KZ Manager is an economic simulation in which the player takes on the role of an administrator in a concentration camp . A Windows version of this game exists under the name KZ Manager Millennium .

In addition to the C64 version, the game is also available for other computer systems. In a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center , written in 1991 by Linda Rohrbough, an Amiga version is described which, in contrast to the "technically primitive" C64 version, has a very good graphic quality; the authors of the game have knowledge of computer game production.

In Germany, concentration camp managers are often cited as a prime example of games that glorify National Socialism or racism. This connection ranges from being mentioned in media such as Telepolis , Die Zeit online to the description of the facts “glorification of Nazi ideology, racial hatred” on the BPjM website.

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  1. ↑ a b “Glorification of Nazi ideology, racial hatred” on the BPjM website ( memento of October 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); also BAnz AT 06/30/2014 B8
  2. ↑ BAnz AT 06/30/2014 B8
  3. ^ Report on the connection between right-wing extremists and computers on the website of the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento from May 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Linda Rohrbough of the Simon Wiesenthal Center on racist computer games
  5. ↑ TELEPOLIS article "Social dialogue or gun on the chest?"
  6. ↑ ZEIT online "Me against all"