There are a few rare occasions where the wording of the script strongly references Trump, and I really wish the developers hadn't done this. I soon begin to skip huge swathes of text, and the emotional impact is reduced to a fraction of what it was. A second playthrough however shows that the story is rigid, and the choices I make there often have little or no effect. The steady drip-drip-drip of Nazi horrors through newspaper headlines pierces me with cold reality again and again, while seeing people suffering in the story sequences urges me on to do whatever I can during turns on the map.
The first time around, it's all extremely powerful. There's an option to ignore the situation but, even on a second playthrough, there's absolutely no way I can bring myself to do that.
Early on, I come across a Jewish man being beaten by members of the SA. Yet I'm emotionally invested enough to try my best. How could I? Even when I find somebody that seems to offer a ray of hope-somebody that one way or another promises help from the outside world-little or nothing tends to come of it. When I come across strangers, I don't know whether I can trust them or not. The steady drip-drip-drip of Nazi horrors through newspaper headlines pierces me with cold reality again and again. There are vocal and angry critics of the Nazi regime, but they risk not only arguments with their peers, but the potentially deadly wrath of the authorities.
Most of these supporters of fascism, rather than being cartoonish villains, are otherwise unremarkable and… nice. Friends, neighbours, even children nobody around me can be guaranteed immune to the toxic charms of the charismatic Hitler and his all-powerful party.
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