'Call of Duty: WWII' won't ignore the Holocaust anymore

Video games set during World War II tend to be Holocaust deniers. Video games weren't mature enough to tackle difficult topics when World War II shooters were in their heyday. Wolfenstein 3D established Nazis as uncontroversial villains, but there wasn't room to respectfully explore war atrocities in a game that ended with a boss fight against "mecha Hitler." For roughly the next decade -- until Call of Duty 4 popularized more modern war settings -- mainstream shooters set during WWII followed a similar pattern. Developers avoided touching on the Holocaust, and in doing so they also built up a body of work that denied its existence.