Let it be ... What would life have been like for Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison if Hitler won the war? Source: Supplied
A NEW computer game which imagines a world in which Adolf Hitler won WWII and The Beatles sang their hits in German has been slammed as "offensive" by one UK politician.
Liverpool Labour MP Steve Rotheram said Wolfenstein: The New Order had overstepped the mark by associating The Beatles with Hitler's regime.
"In my opinion, it is abhorrent that game-makers are using any form of Nazi connotation in the production of their computer games. Hitler and his evil philosophy is not something that should be championed for money-making purposes and certainly isn't something that should be associated with Liverpool's most famous sons," he said, according to The Independent .
Ticket to Reich ... German Chancellor Adolf Hitler gestures during a speech in May 1937. Source: NewsComAu
The computer game shot to the top of the bestsellers list in its first week of release. It is set in the 1960s and imagines what the UK would be like if Hitler won the war. The Beatles are given a choice to either sing in German or be imprisoned.
They change their name to as Die Käfer and release a hit album called Das Blaue U-Boot instead of Yellow Submarine.
The Beatles, who started playing in Hamburg in the 1960s, did actually have to record two songs in German by their producer George Martin. Martin made George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr sing German translations of She Loves You ("Sie Liebt Dich") and I Want to Hold Your Hand ("Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand").
Reps for the band declined to comment.
Another road ... The Beatles as seen on their Abbey Road album cover George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon. Source: Supplied
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