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Hitler Drinking Game on Facebook Angers War Veterans, Jews
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by Amy Judd | January 13, 2010 at 02:15 pm
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A new drinking game for college and university students to play has appeared on Facebook and the premise of the game and the rules are angering war veterans and Jewish people.
The drinking game is called the Hitler Drinking Game, and although the original Facebook group created by Huddersfield University Students Nicholaas Rowley and Anthony Pike has been taken down, a duplicate page headed by Matt Ham Margera Long has been created with all the original rules.
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The game starts with the participants placing the cards in the shape of a swastika. It says that if you have a joker to draw a funny mustache on it and the it explains that each card has a different meaning:
A - Hitler's Steinkrug. Pour 1/4 of a pint of whatever you are drinking into the communal pint glass.
2♠ - Hitler Card - The person who draws this card becomes Hitler. All other players must refer to this person as "Hitler" or "Mein Fuhrer" for the duration of the game.
5 - Polish Invasion - The recipient of this card keeps it and it is used at their discretion. To use, the holder must shout "Polish Invasion" and touch the floor. All other players must do the same. The last player to do it must do a shot. Only valid once.
9 - Heil Hitler Game - The recipient of the card must salute either left or right, stating "Heil". The game carries on in that direction using the correct salute. If a player says "Heil Hitler" they can flip the salute and the game is reversed. This carries on until somebody forfiets and must do a shot.
Q - Nazi Interrogator - Recipient keeps the card and becomes The Interrogator. Card is used whenever they like. The Interrogator asks a question to a person, If the person answers, they must do a shot. If they reply with "fuck off", The Interrogator must do a shot. Only valid once.
Not all the rules are focused around Hiter or The Holocaust, but the ones above are the directly linked rules.
The game finishes when:
The Holocaust - Once all the cards have been taken, whoever's turn is next must down the contents of the communal pint glass a.k.a - THE HOLOCAUST.
The original group had 12,000 members but this new group has only 111.
In the original group people were asked to submit pictures of themselves playing the game and then they could become 'Nazi officers'.
One member suggested Bailey's liqueur should be mandatory, because: "The Holocaust concludes with necking a Jew's brain."
RAF veteran Alistair Harris from Gloucestershire, said: "It's a disgrace. There's no other way to describe it."
War veterans in the UK are angry that what they fought against so many years ago is now being mocked for fun and games.
Michael Barrie, former chairman of the Holocaust Survivors Associations, said: "It is horrifying any amusement of game can be associated with an event that saw around 11 million people killed."
The university has said that they are shocked by the game and that their students have been taking part in it.
"We will be investigating these allegations, which we take very seriously, and will take appropriate action once these investigations are complete."
Prince Harry already offended war veterans and Jewish people when he dressed with a swastika on his arm for Halloween.
Like that incident, many are wondering why anyone would find a drinking game of this nature funny.
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at 14:20 on January 13th, 2010
My first response was, "What the f*ck?!" It was my second response, too.
I don't know that I'd consider kicking these kids out of uni, though: they are obviously in desperate need of an education.
at 15:36 on January 20th, 2010
I think you need to lighten up a bit and realise that this is a harmless game. If you ever played drinking games (or indeed socialised?) with other people in university you'd realise that university culture is to be taken light heartedly. - look at the various fancy dress nights out that go on, just for a start.Its only when old/boring bastards get a glimpse and compare it to their youth does shit kick off.
at 16:24 on January 13th, 2010
Its just a bit of fun, get over it. Its not about supporting adolf hitler or the nazi regime. So dont take it so seriously.
at 16:25 on January 13th, 2010
Ive played it, and now ive joined the bnp. Up the facists!!
at 16:39 on January 13th, 2010
What a bunch of idiots. There's nothing fun about the Holocaust.
at 15:32 on January 20th, 2010
you're the idiot, im sorry you never had a social life when you were young and are bitter as a result.go find something else to worry and campaign about, maybe global warming??? yawn!
at 20:02 on January 13th, 2010
I have been a student at Leeds for almost three years and have experienced various drinking games, it comes with soical aspect of university. These students are harmless and just having some fun. I am disgusted at the way the media has spun this not to mention the way they have promoted the boys as the conducters of a dangerous rascist cult. There is little indication of nazi revival if you look at the fundamentals, the facebook page reads "This game, group and its creators in no way support, encourage or promote Adolf Hitler or the ideologies of the Nazi party'; is this not enough evidence? It seems like an unprovoked attack on students and an unecessary one at that. What about the punks of the late 1970's who expressed their cultural values through rebellious use of nazi themed attire? It's okay for BBC news to celebrate the Sex Pistols comeback show in 2007 and refer to them as 'legends' yet when some students make a facebook group for a drinking game they are a racial weapon?
at 21:50 on January 13th, 2010
With all the outrage no one has pointed out that this is simply a dumb game.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against a nazi-themed card game. I just think they aught to do a better job, if they want it to catch on.
at 04:19 on January 14th, 2010
FFS people, it's just a bit of harmless fun. The students that play this game should enjoy themselves whilst they're still young. They've got the rest of their lives to be as miserable and humourless as some of your commentators here.
at 10:57 on January 15th, 2010
I go to uni and have known these guys for three years! This harmful joke has spun way out of control, and the consequences have been terrible for what has happened. I am black myself, and Have never had a problem with my friends. If anyone was offended the game would have been stopped immediately with no problems
at 12:38 on January 15th, 2010
For goodness sake. It mocks the Germans, showing them to be mass killiers. So that's OK.
at 17:30 on January 15th, 2010
'The Holocaust concludes with necking a Jew's brain.' Sorry, I'm not sure what necking means in this context. I hate to seem paranoid but, gosh, it does sound a tad anti-Semitic. I suggest that any Christian playing this Hitler drinking game always substitute the word Jesus for the word Jew. It might remind them that Jesus was actually a Jew. Also - when I was at university (or, uni, as it seems to be called nowadays) we wrote papers and read books and had study groups. Anyway, I might not be familiar with some of the new words and expressions, but I do know some of the old words - yob is one of them.
at 05:00 on January 16th, 2010
Seems there's a 9/11 version with quite a following now too!www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=253524038149&ref=ts
at 07:20 on January 17th, 2010
The holocaust never happened.Stop crying
at 15:29 on January 20th, 2010
What is wrong with you people nowadays. find me the word 'Jew' in that game and you can be rightfully disgraced... i personally can't.I think some of you old timers need to lighten up more than just a bit - its just a game, the same as the playground game 'ring a ring a roses' dates back to the bubonic plague and references to the people dieing ... do you want to ban that too because its disrespectful to the thousands of people that died??Seriously, lighten up. if you don't like it, don't read about it! go and campaign for something more relevant, such as making old people better drivers or banning them if they can't perform to todays standards.