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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ragboy" data-source="post: 1739435" data-attributes="member: 4151">And depending on your campaign mood, you may want to plumb those depths even deeper. The horror potential alone is worth a look. And not just war crimes, but the situation in Germany as the war was winding down (and after). I believe Clive Barker had a book set at the end of the war or just after (Damnation Game?). You'll definitely want to cover these topics if you're leaning toward the dark side of the RPG experience. If you're looking for Blood n Guts, you probably don't want to dwell. Lots (most) of WWII books and movies don't even touch on the subject, so it really depends on the mood you're going for.  And I think playing the other side isn't necessarily a bad thing. Yeah, the Germans did some very disgusting, very evil things to the occupied countries and their own citizens, but there were also normal soldiers on the ground that were not fighting to destroy/take over the world. They were in a situation that was handed to them, or forced on them, and had to deal with it, same as the American/British/Russian soldiers. If you exclude the Germans because you claim the whole population was morally suspect and complicit in the regime's crimes, then you'd have to exclude playing Russian soldiers, French resistance (or any resistance force, really), American, British, etc... Every soldier in the war was a killer. Every government was practicing wholesale slaughter. Everyone had their propaganda machines churning out catchy slogans and jingoistic causes. And every soldier on the ground would kill the man (or woman) across from him so that he could eventually go home alive (regardless of what they believed they were fighting for).  Sorry. Not to get the discussion off track, again. I have some stuff together for my own WWII campaign. Most of it is SOE related, but I'll post the resources I drew from when I'm at my home computer.  One book you probably want to get if you're interested in resistance in Europe and the SOE is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585674613/qid=1094238175/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/002-9015660-4259257?v=glance&s=books" target="_blank">Secret Agent</a>. Lots of good crunchy stuff to draw on there.</blockquote>

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