'The Darkest Files': Investigate true crimes from the Nazi era

Countless video games see players battling Nazis – but rarely are we doing the fighting not with guns, but with the law. 'The Darkest Files' aims to turn the true stories of post-war legal investigations into Nazi crimes into entertaining gaming. Can it work? — Photo: Paintbucket Games/dpa

BERLIN: It's a gruesome case that public prosecutor Esther Katz wants to solve in the early days of the Federal Republic of Germany: A retired man was executed in the final days of World War II, allegedly for high treason. But many things don't add up in the first case to be solved in the game The Darkest Files.

Esther Katz is on the team of the real-life prosecutor Fritz Bauer, one of the most persistent investigators of Nazi crimes in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s.