German neo-Nazi gang 'developed Monoploy-style game with death camps'

[vminfla]

Source: Telegraph

Called "Pogromly" and intended for other far-right extremists the game has the names of four Nazi concentration camps instead of the railway stations found on the traditional Monopoly board.


Players have the chance to buy Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald and Ravensbruck, with each camp costing 4,000 reichsmarks, the currency used in Hitler's Germany.


A number of sets of the game were discovered in a garage used by the gang the self-styled National Socialist Underground amongst bomb-making equipment and unused nail bombs last month.


Players start on a square emblazoned with a swastika and also have the chance of landing on a numbers of squares marked with the SS emblem. The board also comes with pictures of Hitler and sinister looking Jews.


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Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8935834/German-neo-Nazi-gang-developed-Monoploy-style-game-with-death-camps.html

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Can't even begin to describe the level of disbelief that I have.

[murielm99]

1. Fuckers.

This needs to be reported to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The domestic Nazis will surely want to import it for Christmas gifts.

[vminfla]

10. Sadly, you may be right

I did not think that once the game was produced in Germany, it may have an international market abroad.

[sakabatou]

2. What an awful game.

But it's not surprising.

[sakabatou]

3. dupe

[Behind the Aegis]

4. I am shocked!

Oh, wait; no, I am not!

[dipsydoodle]

5. Not a very nice thing to do

:(

[christx30]

6. So the player markers are

what... Hitler, Himler, Goebbels, Darges? Or maybe a Luftwaffe plane, a Panzer, infantry solider? Doubt you'd need more than 3 or 4 pieces. People like this usually don't have enough friends to get more than a couple of them together at any time.
But when I play, I'm going to save my "Get out of Sobibor free" card until I really need it.
"Operation Barbarossa bogged down by mud. Lose 3 turns"

[doc03]

7. Sounds like the Rethugs description of the HCR bill. n/t

[vminfla]

8. An unfair comparison by any standard

But thanks for taking care of Godwin's Law so quickly in a thread ripe with Godwin's Law opportunities.

[freshwest]

9. BP had a board game too, with payoffs when someone was killed at refinery, etc.

I just wonder who employed these creeps, what kind of economic power they had, their connections. I hope they get to the bottom of it.

[pbrower2a]

12. It's plagiarism

Copyright violations would prevent importation of this bilge to the US. Parker Brothers owns the rights to Monopoly and enforces them strictly... and I can't imagine Hasbro Corporation (which owns Parker Brothers and hence the rights) to tolerate a perverse and anti-social variant game to appear on the market.

[AverageJoe90]

13. One instance where copyright law in its current form would actually do some good. nt

[lbrtbell]

11. Someone needs to send these bastards to the death camps

Show them how "amusing" the Holocaust was. :mad: