'Call of
Duty: WWII' takes one
step forward, many steps back in its
handling of the Holocaust
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details from the ending and epilogue in Call of Duty: WWII.
Maybe there are places that certain games should never really go.
I've been struggling to gather my thoughts on
Call of Duty: WWII and its
handling of the Holocaust since I completed the campaign last week. It's a tough topic, and one that
Call of Duty — for all its past trips to the World War II setting — has never tackled until this game.*
Maybe that's for the best.
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Let's be clear: Sledgehammer Games didn't wholly fuck it up. The campaign mode has its own issues, but at least this is a World War II game that acknowledges the Holocaust as something that happened.
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