Am Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:31:44 -0500 schrieb Warp:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> And similarly, Germany, for example, does have restrictions on some of
>> those games being distributed in Germany, particularly if they depcit
>> Nazi symbols.
> 
>   I find it rather ironic that by banning nazi symbols from a piece of
> art based on historical events, they are actually censoring history,
> which is something nazis themselves did a lot.
> 
>   I can't help but to get the feeling that by banning everything related
> to nazis, they are pretending that WW2 never happened. 

Oh come on - the display of symbols of unconstitutional organizations  
(like the swastika - note that the law doesn't mention the swastika 
explicitly) for educational purposes is not forbidden. It would be pretty 
ridicolous to pretend WW2 never happened - and it is taught quite 
detailed in school - and images of that time with the real Nazis and 
swastikas are in the history books.

Then, at the same
> time, they outlaw holocaust denial.
> 
>   Talk about contradictory behavior.

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