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Originally Posted by tater
I don't think that drawing swastikas IS a real problem in Germany, that's my point. I think that such free expression would receive the marginalized treatment it would deserve. Immediately post-war, when virtually every adult member of society (barring those who actively fought against it) was in fact at least passively complicit, it made sense. For the modern generations of Germans, there is nothing to see, move along.
So to be clear, I think that germany has gone well beyond the stage where such limitations do anything useful. You're better than that.
So that's the point. Banning expression is pretty much never the right solution.
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Well the swastikas have been banned some 30 or 35 years ago, i cant even remember.
You know we dont need legalization of swastikas, because the history is all around us.
I live in Augsburg not 300 Meters away from the Citizens Registrations Office, as i moved to Augsburg, i went there to get my registration and there was a memorial Plate at the building. At the Place was the local Gestapo Jail until it was destroyed by allied bombs in 1944.
You know alone in Augsburg are at least 20 Places with such kind of a history. I could make a tour with you in the Munich Augsburg Landsberg/Lech Triangle and we would need at least one week to see all the Place with a Nazi History.
Its easy for you guys over there in the USA to say, you are not free because you ban symbols or the original Nazi Party, yeah all those nice looking Parades with all the Flags at History Channel, but behind these flags and this party there was the terror and the massmurder.
We dont need swastikas beeing legal, we see swastikas with our mental eyes every day, where ever we go our History follows us permanently.
And should anybody ever dare to show a swastika in a place where iam around, i take his flag and shove it up his a@@.