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More recent historical research has debunked this: while the big camps might've been not known to most, most towns had smaller camps and most German citizens knew some degree of what was happening, since it was pretty much impossible not to.


** Public opinion of you is determined by how many inmates you kill off, despite the well known fact that concentration camps were a secret even to the average German citizen, who had no idea what was happening to all those Jews getting shipped away on trains.
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: At the beginning of the game there is a question asking you "How do you view Turkish People", with two good answers [[note]]"I view them as helpful people", "I view them as kind people"[[/note]] and two bad answers [[note]]"I view them as dumb people", "I view them as someone who uses welfare"[[/note]]. Picking either of the good answers kicks you out of the game immediately.

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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: At the beginning of the game there is a question asking you "How do you view Turkish People", with two good answers [[note]]"I view them as helpful people", "I view them as kind people"[[/note]] and two bad answers [[note]]"I view them as dumb people", "I view them as someone who uses welfare"[[/note]]. Picking either of the good answers [[PressStartToGameOver kicks you out of the game immediately.immediately]].
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In this game, the player is a Nazi [[POWCamp concentration camp]] [[VillainProtagonist director]] who has to manage the "HumanResources" (Jews, Turks and Gypsies) by [[WorkingOnTheChainGang making them work]] to meet the costs of the lethal gas and the burning of the corpses. If you don't execute enough inmates, your public opinion will drop and you will eventually lose.

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In this game, the player is a Nazi [[POWCamp concentration camp]] [[VillainProtagonist director]] who has to manage the "HumanResources" (Jews, Turks and Gypsies) Romani) by [[WorkingOnTheChainGang making them work]] to meet the costs of the lethal gas and the burning of the corpses. If you don't execute enough inmates, your public opinion will drop and you will eventually lose.



* {{Dehumanization}}: Jews, Gypsies, and Turks are presented as "subhumans" to be murdered and enslaved.
* FinalSolution: You're implementing it against the Jews, the Gypsies and/or the Turks.

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* {{Dehumanization}}: Jews, Gypsies, Romani, and Turks are presented as "subhumans" to be murdered and enslaved.
* FinalSolution: You're implementing it against the Jews, the Gypsies Romani and/or the Turks.
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There's no evidence of the author's intent behind the game.


* AuthorTract: Maybe. The publisher's name is "German Elite", which doesn't sell well for the game simply being a morbid document and not a representation of the creator's beliefs, but it's possible it was simply made to be offensive and not out of genuine racism.
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** Turks were never targeted by the Nazis for extermination. While some Turks died in the Holocaust, their murders generally had nothing to do with them being Turkish. Their inclusion is likely due to tensions with Turkish immigrants in post-WWII Germany.

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** Turks were never targeted by the Nazis for extermination. While some Turks died in the Holocaust, their murders generally had nothing to do with them being Turkish. Their inclusion is likely due to tensions with between German nationalists and Turkish immigrants in post-WWII Germany.
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** Turks were never targeted by the Nazis for extermination. While some Turks died in the Holocaust, their murders generally had nothing to do with them being Turkish.

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** Turks were never targeted by the Nazis for extermination. While some Turks died in the Holocaust, their murders generally had nothing to do with them being Turkish. Their inclusion is likely due to tensions with Turkish immigrants in post-WWII Germany.

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* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Public opinion of you is determined by how many inmates you kill off, despite the well known fact that concentration camps were a secret even to the average German citizen, who had no idea what was happening to all those Jews getting shipped away on trains.

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Public opinion of you is determined by how many inmates you kill off, despite the well known fact that concentration camps were a secret even to the average German citizen, who had no idea what was happening to all those Jews getting shipped away on trains.trains.
** Turks were never targeted by the Nazis for extermination. While some Turks died in the Holocaust, their murders generally had nothing to do with them being Turkish.

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'''KZ Manager''' is a Austrian game (with many clones) whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]][[labelnote:*]]"Konzentrationslager", concentration camp[[/labelnote]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].

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'''KZ Manager''' is a an Austrian game (with many clones) whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]][[labelnote:*]]"Konzentrationslager", concentration camp[[/labelnote]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].
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* VillainProtagonist: You play a ''Nazi concentration camp director''

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* VillainProtagonist: You play a ''Nazi concentration camp director''director''.
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* GasChamber: Present, of course, given the setting: you must send there your inmates.

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* GasChamber: Present, of course, given the setting: you must send there your inmates.inmates there.
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See also VideoGame/EthnicCleansing, a similar game.

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See also VideoGame/EthnicCleansing, ''VideoGame/EthnicCleansing'', a similar game.

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'''KZ Manager''' is a Austrian game whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]][[labelnote:*]]"Konzentrationslager", concentration camp[[/labelnote]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].

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'''KZ Manager''' is a Austrian game (with many clones) whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]][[labelnote:*]]"Konzentrationslager", concentration camp[[/labelnote]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].


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* AuthorTract: Maybe. The publisher's name is "German Elite", which doesn't sell well for the game simply being a morbid document and not a representation of the creator's beliefs, but it's possible it was simply made to be offensive and not out of genuine racism.
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'''KZ Manager''' is a German game whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]][[labelnote:*]]"Konzentrationslager", concentration camp[[/labelnote]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].

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'''KZ Manager''' is a German Austrian game whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]][[labelnote:*]]"Konzentrationslager", concentration camp[[/labelnote]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].
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* ArtisticLiscenceHistory: Public opinion of you is determined by how many inmates you kill off, despite the well known fact that concentration camps were a secret even to the average German citizen, who had no idea what was happening to all those Jews getting shipped away on trains.

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* ArtisticLiscenceHistory: ArtisticLicenceHistory: Public opinion of you is determined by how many inmates you kill off, despite the well known fact that concentration camps were a secret even to the average German citizen, who had no idea what was happening to all those Jews getting shipped away on trains.
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* ArtisticLiscenceHistory: Public opinion of you is determined by how many inmates you kill off, despite the well known fact that concentration camps were a secret even to the average German citizen, who had no idea what was happening to all those Jews getting shipped away on trains.
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* NaziProtagonist: Of the "outright villainous" variety. Considering you play as a concentration camp director, it's no surprise.
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* GasChamber: CaptainObvious, given the setting: you must send there your inmates.

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* GasChamber: CaptainObvious, Present, of course, given the setting: you must send there your inmates.

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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: At the beginning of the game there is a question asking you "How do you view Turkish People", with two good answers [[note]]"I view them as helpful people", "I view them as kind people"[[/note]] and two bad answers [[note]]"I view them as dumb people", "I view them as someone who uses welfare"[[/note]]. Picking either of the good answers kicks you out of the game immediately.
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* UsefulNotes/NaziGermany: CaptainObvious

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* DeadlyGas: You must buy it for your {{Gas Chamber}}s.



* DeadlyGas: You must buy it for your {{Gas Chamber}}s.
* FinalSolution:You're implementing it against the Jews, The Gypsies and/or the Turks.

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* DeadlyGas: You must buy it for your {{Gas Chamber}}s.
* FinalSolution:You're
FinalSolution: You're implementing it against the Jews, The the Gypsies and/or the Turks.
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See also VideoGame/EthnicCleansing, another game created by White supremacists.

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See also VideoGame/EthnicCleansing, another game created by White supremacists.
a similar game.



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Yeah... It's a kind of a game.

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Yeah... It's a that kind of a game.



* {{Dehumanization}}: Jews, Gypsies, and Turks are presented as "subhumans" to be murdered and enslaved.



* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: We are here way ''beyond'' mere potential, given [[FinalSolution the thema]].

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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: We are here way ''beyond'' mere potential, given [[FinalSolution the thema]].theme]].
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'''KZ Manager''' is a German game whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].

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'''KZ Manager''' is a German game whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]] KZ]][[labelnote:*]]"Konzentrationslager", concentration camp[[/labelnote]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].
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In this game, the player is a Nazi [[POWCamp concentration camp]] [[VillainProtagonist director]] who has to manage the "HumanResources" (Jews, Turks and Gypsies) by [[WorkingOnTheChainGang making them work]] to meet the costs of the lethal gas and the burning of the corpses.
If you don't execute enough inmates, your public opinion will drop and you will eventually lose.

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In this game, the player is a Nazi [[POWCamp concentration camp]] [[VillainProtagonist director]] who has to manage the "HumanResources" (Jews, Turks and Gypsies) by [[WorkingOnTheChainGang making them work]] to meet the costs of the lethal gas and the burning of the corpses.
corpses. If you don't execute enough inmates, your public opinion will drop and you will eventually lose.
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Yeah..It's a kind of a game.

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Yeah..Yeah... It's a kind of a game.

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'''KZ Manager''' is a German game whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]] [[ExactlyWhatITSaysONTheTin Manager]].

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'''KZ Manager''' is a German game whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]] [[ExactlyWhatITSaysONTheTin [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manager]].



See also EthnicCleansing, another game created by White supremacists.

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See also EthnicCleansing, VideoGame/EthnicCleansing, another game created by White supremacists.



** The game use ''Müllberg'', or "pile of garbage", for describing the corpses of your inmates once you [[GasChamber gas]] them.

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** The game use ''Müllberg'', or "pile of garbage", for describing the corpses of your inmates once you [[GasChamber gas]] gas them.



* TitleDrop: In [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin [=KZ=] Manager]], KZ is an abbreviation for '''''K'''on'''z'''entrationlager'' or "concentration camp".
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'''KZ Manager''' is a German game whose earliest version has been devellopped in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]] [[ExactlyWhatITSaysONTheTin Manager]].

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\n'''KZ Manager''' is a German game whose earliest version has been devellopped developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]] [[ExactlyWhatITSaysONTheTin Manager]].



If you have not enough execution, your public opinion will drop and you will eventually lose.

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If you have not don't execute enough execution, inmates, your public opinion will drop and you will eventually lose.



* NaziGermany: CaptainObvious

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* NaziGermany: UsefulNotes/NaziGermany: CaptainObvious
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'''KZ Manager''' is a German game whose earliest version has been devellopped in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ]] [[ExactlyWhatITSaysONTheTin Manager]].

In this game, the player is a Nazi [[POWCamp concentration camp]] [[VillainProtagonist director]] who has to manage the "HumanResources" (Jews, Turks and Gypsies) by [[WorkingOnTheChainGang making them work]] to meet the costs of the lethal gas and the burning of the corpses.
If you have not enough execution, your public opinion will drop and you will eventually lose.

Yeah..It's a kind of a game.

This game is, of course, very controversial.

See also EthnicCleansing, another game created by White supremacists.

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!!This game presents examples of the following tropes:
* DeadlyGas: You must buy it for your {{Gas Chamber}}s.
* FinalSolution:You're implementing it against the Jews, The Gypsies and/or the Turks.
* GasChamber: CaptainObvious, given the setting: you must send there your inmates.
* HumanResources:
** You ''[[MadeASlave buy]]'' your inmates.
** The game use ''Müllberg'', or "pile of garbage", for describing the corpses of your inmates once you [[GasChamber gas]] them.
* MadeASlave: What happens to your inmates once you buy them.
* NaziGermany: CaptainObvious
* POWCamp: You run one.
* ThoseWackyNazis: You play one.
* TitleDrop: In [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin [=KZ=] Manager]], KZ is an abbreviation for '''''K'''on'''z'''entrationlager'' or "concentration camp".
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: We are here way ''beyond'' mere potential, given [[FinalSolution the thema]].
* VillainProtagonist: You play a ''Nazi concentration camp director''
* WorkingOnTheChainGang: You can make the inmates work so that the money gained can be used to buy the lethal gas or pay for the cremation of the bodies.
* YouLoseAtZeroTrust: If you don't exterminate enough "subhumans", public opinion will drop until you lose.
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