Playing Pokemon at Germany's Holocaust sites

[maz]

 I think the Holocaust Industry is right to be worried about this. I don't know about how this game works, but the trolls need to get on this ASAP.

'Please stop playing Pokemon at Germany's Holocaust sites'

German Holocaust memorials and research centres are concerned about how players are able to catch Pokemon right at sites meant to honour those murdered by the Nazis.

Nintendo and developer Niantic's Pokemon Go has been sweeping the world since its release last week in select countries.

The augmented reality technology allows players to physically walk around their surroundings to search for and 'catch' the cartoon monsters anywhere, using their smart phones' camera and GPS location features.

But this has already caused alarm in the US as users reported finding the pocket monsters at sites like the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and the Arlington military cemetery. Auschwitz has also reportedly been a site for Pokemon-hunting before the game was even officially released in Europe.

In Germany, filled with significant sites for mourning the Second World War and the Nazi's genocide, Wednesday's release raises even more concerns.

The director for the memorial at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which had one of the highest number of deaths of Nazi camps inside modern-day Germany, told The Local that they have forbidden such games from being played on the memorial and museum site, but this can be hard to regulate.

"It is hard to control and to know what people are doing on their cell phones," said memorial director Dr. Günter Morsch, though he didn't know of any cases of people playing Pokemon there yet.

[Christopher Marlowe]

That would be awesome it someone could implant a pokeman with a name like "Jewbanx"