Charles Games, the developer of WW2 action-adventure game Attentat 1942, announced a confirmation from the Google Play storefront that Attentat 1942 was being rejected for release in countries including Germany, France, Austria, and Russia. This is despite the fact that Charles Games had already received explicit approval by German regulators.
In an email from Google that Charles Games shared online, a representative confirms that the dev's appeal to have Attentat 1942 published had been denied. The reason why being that Attentat 1942, a historically accurate game, contained references to Nazis. Said Charles Games, "How we're supposed to make an historically-accurate game about WW2 horrors without Nazis?"
The biggest issue that Charles Games has is that Attentat 1942 had already been approved by German regulators, and it seems Google may have blocked this game because it expected Germany to block it. Further, the game was made with the direct involvement of historians from the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Since this was the rejection of Charles Games' appeal, the team has no further recourse outside of publicly appealing to Google. The intent to release Attentat 1942 in Germany is still there. Charles Games hopes that Google will retract its decision, that the team's goal is to "keep history alive," and that when banning anything with "controversial keywords no matter the content, everybody loses." One small historically accurate WW2 action-adventure game can make a difference.
Attentat 1942 is currently available on PC.