Yet a Czech company did in fact come up with the brilliant idea of creating an escape room set in a WWII-era concentration camp. That's right, now you can, for fun, experience what it was like for people to be herded like cattle toward their unspeakable deaths, only with puzzles. It's reprehensible, right? Well, Dostan Se Ven, the architect behind the most despicable attempt at making $15 of all time, played the ignorance card when people suggested a holocaust party game was in poor taste. He thought breaking codes in a simulated human oven might help educate! Like a museum! If only those poor souls at Auschwitz knew to turn the lights off to read the glow-in-the-dark ink on their name tags to get the combination for the pink lockbox.
Details on what this monstrosity would include in its gameplay have been scarce, but it was confirmed that part of the "game" would involve you taking "the shower." Which means, Jesus fuck, part of the team-building party activity would have simulated being murdered by Hitler in a poison gas room. How do you look a person in the eye after something like that? If you told someone you spent the night hitting cats with sticks to record samples for a song in support of Jared Fogle, it would be less repulsive than saying, "My work friends and I played Holocaust. I died from Zyklon B, but I was the one who thought to turn the dead baby over to find the last word puzzle, so we won with seconds to spare!"
And while we're on the Holocaust ...
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