1939

[perinickel]

It's a great game, I'm really enjoying playing it.

But I'm uncomfortable with the image for 1939 (Jewish Badge). it's jarring to have iconic Holocaust imagery, a symbol of the oppression and systematic mass murder of Jewish people, in an otherwise light and fun card game. (I'd feel the same if it were a swastika). Any possibility you'd consider changing the artwork?

[Cwali]

Thanks for your message.
In the game's prototype phase, some wanted to make the 100 years in the game a list of funny facts, or extreme facts, or silly facts, etc.
But I wanted to make it a "document" about the 20th century.
The subjects are of course arbitrary, but it would be strange to keep the century's most horrible subjects out of the game.
Then choices for the cards texts and objects still are arbitrary. But a fabric Jewish badge in my opinion tells much more than for example a swastika sign. Many reallife musea and exhibitions about WW2 show Jewish badges. It captures that 1939 card subject more than anything else IMO.
In the preparation phase many proofreaders, in different continents, did check the cards. I got reply similar to your message, about several cards, from the Burma railway to the Palestinian flag, etc. We considered those things again, but didn't change much.