If you watch Angels and Demons Robert Langdon is actually doing a speaking about ancient symbols and one of which is the Swastika, it's been used all over the globe in ancient cultures.

I've been there as well, I think you misinterpreted the general feeling among the people of Germany. They're not "butt hurt" that they lost, they're mostly deeply ashamed of letting Hitler take power and of the Holocaust. They definitely take the "no Nazi imagery" thing way too far, but I can understand it.

I'm German myself, and live in Germany. We aren't "butthurt", we simply hate Hitler more than anyone else in the world. Get educated...



First of all, we were in a severe depression before Hitler was elected. He told our people that he would restore Germany to glory (what people don't want that for their nation in a time of crisis?), and being the sophisticated speaker that he was, we believed him. Soon after he enacted laws that made him unable to be expired from his position and declared himself basically, a king. From there he started killing our people and trying to take over the world for HIS own gain, not for the people of Germany. The nazi party was not supported by true Germans, and we were his first victims. We didn't get our ass kicked, in fact, we were liberated by the Americans.



Also the swastika was originally used as a sign of good luck (NOT peace, like you think), protection, the changing of the seasons (hence the four quadrants), and the materialization of life.



You need to realize that the reason why we have such laws about anything to do with Nazism is so we don't have to be reminded of the oppression and fear we all felt in our country's darkest hour. Much like people in Iraq today don't want to see Sadam's face all over the city anymore, they tear it down. The wound isn't that old. Most Germans my age lost grandfathers to Hitler's fanatical reign. If someone who murdered most of your relatives and friends had a symbol associated with their terror you probably wouldn't want to see it on a daily basis either.

I would totally enact laws prohibiting the use of my family's murderer's name or his image! I would make it AN OFFENSE to paint a picture of his face and I would BAN everything and anything with MERELY A HINT OF IT.



Also, I laugh heartily at the thought of "true Germans" not being part of the Nazi party. Hitler and his cronies had the bulk of Germany's population under their spell regardless of what your books and teachers tell you. Whether it was willful membership or propaganda-induced blindness, Germany was pretty united and determined in starting and winning WWII.

they shouldnt have allowed their grandaddy's get tricked by Hitler's monkey a**



lol but come on man, just because of a swastika?? why dont you just censor it?

just a little background on me before you flame me.... I am german and american, much of germany was very united during the time of WWII but as sublime said, they were in a time of crisis before that is why they elected hitler. Both nations America and Germany have done terrible things because the majority believed it was the right thing to do at the time. The germans saw the Jew's doing very well for themselves because of their work ethics and thought that they must be the reason that they are suffering so much thus hitler used them as a scapegoat and uniting the majority.



While for the Americans, we believed it was our destiny to take over the North american continent because of all of the struggles we had been through to survive in the new world, they believed that It was god's will for Them to take over. -------- (manifest destiny) . We americans killed and stole so much land from the natives that it was an absolute genocide.



Both nations were flawed, as every nation has their darkest hours. My personal opinion on the the game being taken out of germany is that it is very ignorant, The only way to make sure that the holocaust or any terrible event never happens again is to remeber it and be reminded of it. Those who fail to know their past are doomed to repeat it - i think that isnt exactly how the quote goes but you guys get the idea.



PS don't flame me for grammar and i didn't mean to be offensive to anyone

You're thinking of The Da Vinci Code ;)



But it's true, I remember watching a documentry on it once in School

that is the type of thinking that starts ***** like the holocaust. I live in America too as i said before......

All of the stuff you mentioned would be stuff conservatives support and I absolutely hate conservatives. But, they exist in all countries, just because they got their way here doesn't mean they cant get their way in other countries too. The only country that is really better then America is the UK, though they have a horrid video game rating system similar to Germany.