EA accidentally gave a Battlefield 5 Nazi the same name as a real WW2 anti-fascist
Turning a war against fascism that occurred within living memory and resulted in the deaths of more than 70 million people into a mass-market entertainment product is inevitably going to be an undertaking fraught with risk. It's easier in single-player games—Nazis are bad and you do interesting things to them with hatchets—but how do you handle a multiplayer experience where one side has to portray literal Nazis? It's a situation that can bite you in the ass in all sorts of unexpected ways.
Case in point, a recently-revealed Battlefield 5 Elite character named Wilhelm Franke. He is very Nazi as portrayed in his promo trailer, kind of like a cross between Hans Landa and the Red Skull, although he studiously avoids wearing a swastika because that would be awkward. But what's really awkward for EA, as noted by Vice, is that Wilhelm Franke is the name of an actual member of the anti-fascist resistance in Germany before and during the Second World War. He was arrested at least twice for his activities, according to Wikipedia, before he and his family were killed in the Dresden firebombings.
