captain carot said:
The rule has the simple reason to be against gloryfying/advertising Nazis. You're not allowed to show a hakenkreuz (swastika) or SS-rune tatoo for example, you're not allowed to paint a hakenkreuz on your car and so on. Holocaust denial also is sanctioned in Germany. There are exceptions for showing Nazi symbols for historical, educational, artistic and some other reasons of course. The problem tih games, acording to the 'Oberste Landes-Jugendschutzbehörden (basically federal youth protection authorities) was that they so far made a difference between passive and active media and until now had been under the opinion that Nazi symbols in games were a case for the courts. Thus, so far the OLJB had denied games with such symbols for USK ratings. If any publisher had gone through a lawsuit we could have this 'ban' (which actually wasn't one) years ago. |
Regardless of your reasoning behind it, humans shouldn't be baby sitted in anyway by hiding or lawfully forcing images, logos and icons away. If that's the faith the government has on its people than there afraid of there people and don't trust them. Its like calling everyone blood thirster murderers so they have to be tamed. Same goes with banning video games etc. We are humans not animals.
If anything the more you hide something the more you have people out there to find the truth or reasoning behind it which than causes underground clans and cults aka Neo Nazis.
