A home video game circulating in Austria and Germany puts the player in the role of a commandant of a Nazi death camp earning points for gassing prisoners and selling gold fillings, a Holocaust study center says.

The game, "KZ Manager," and about 140 others with titles like "Aryan Test" include graphics of swastikas, Hitler, and of gassed and tortured prisoners, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said. "KZ" is shorthand for the German word for concentration camp.

Rabbi Avraham Cooper, associate dean of the center, said he believed that the games were neo-Nazi propaganda aimed at influencing youths through a technology that their parents are largely unfamiliar with. Distribution has been by electronic mail, under-the-counter sales, word-of-mouth and deceptive packaging on store shelves.

The Wiesenthal Center said the games were clearly based on the Nazi genocide, but often substitute Turks, many of whom work in modern Germany, for Jews. Those games also make anti-Semitic references, and the game "Aryan Test" is aimed directly at Jews.