Towards an Affective Ludo-ethics of Re-enactment: Witnessing (in) Attentat 1942

Since time immemorial children have been playing and re-enacting wargames, individual battles or whole campaigns, recreating the ambience of military conflicts. Wargames imply strategic choices, hence decision-making which also occasionally involves ethics. History itself can also be seen as ‘merely the sum of millions of human decisions’, as Robert Cowley suggested in a commentary on the everyday choices which ‘can alter our lives, sometimes in drastic and unforeseen ways’.