Swastikas and Germany in the modern day...

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Originally Posted by Friscobay

True enough, but may we infer that there should have been no representation whatever of the swastika in say, ''Saving Private Ryan'' ''DAS BOOT'' or ''Band of Brothers'' because of the fact that not a single actor or director in any of these historically-based films lived under national socialism either? It is thus not so much an ''eagerness'' as it is a simple desire to closely match modern interpretations of past historical events with accuracy when it is provided.

Like I say, it is a paradox once history is brought into the discussion.

As I said, displaying the Swastika in a historical context, just like in movies, is perfectly legal in Germany.

The problem with PC games is that they still are considered "toys" in Germany, yanno? Stuff for little children. Rather debateable, but that is the sole reason why you do not see swastikas even in an historical context here when it comes to games.

What i find strange is, that just of all in Russia, but also in the US, there are so much sympathizers (with the Nazis) who openly use the symbols, and obviously welcome National Socalism.
I mean, Russia ? What do they think the real Nazis thought of them ?

Well, contrary to popular believe, Slavs were not considered "Untermenschen" per se, but just a lower form of Aryans. Fair skinned, blue eyed and so on and on. But then again, these categories were always a bit sketchy and changed according to need, like when the whole Lebensraum stuff became an active policy. And the slavic folks always had their very own superiority/minority complexes, starting with Panslawism.
So them folks just translated the germanic compontents of national socialism to the slavic elements.