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“Of course, Activision doesn’t explore the subtle reference much further. No scenes of huddled masses in a cellar being cooked alive by the intense heat. No images of children’s bones turned to jelly. No screams of old women being sucked into a fiery vortex. No agonizing shrills of folks as their feet sink into the melting asphalt. Instead we see a Black man signaling his glee that the city is on fire with a big grin.”

So the Germans under the Nazi regime decimating towns and cities before and at the beginning of the war with Guernica, Spain and Frampol, Poland, or later with Rotterdam, London, Coventry, Minsk, Sevastopol, Leningrad, Stalingrad and Warsaw (twice over) is a no never mind? Spanish, Polish, Dutch, British, Ukrainian, Belarussians, and Russian families being burned, buried under rubble and having their entire neighborhoods and cities wiped off the face of the earth. Then among these devastated towns, you had that overweight commander of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering cracking a joke of how the Luftwaffe devastated Coventry and coined the word “Coventrated”.

Also the game developers wouldn't be allowed to show such graphic scenes of Hamburg devastation or completely describe in greater morbid detail of the cities I listed without risking ban of sale.

To sum up my final thoughts would be a paraphrased quote by Sir Arthur Harris of the RAF: “they reaped the whirlwind.”

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