Is owning things with swastikas on them illegal? The heute-show greeted Austria's far-right election winners with a swastika schnitzel When heute-show, a weekly satirical news program, posted a picture of a swastika-shaped Schnitzel on Facebook along with a joke about the Austrian election in April 2016, state prosecutors did not take up the case - arguing that the swastika was used to illustrate a swing to the right in the Austrian election in an "exaggerated form" and that the post did not constitute an endorsement of an anti-constitutional organization. In March, a 45-year-old man was sentenced to three months in prison after he repeatedly posted pictures of a masked man with tattoos of a swastika and other Nazi symbols on Facebook.Įxceptions also apply to social media, however. Posting a picture with a swastika in it or Nazi slogans on social media is illegal in Germany. Though many gamers argue that video games should be treated as art, others believe that they should be held to a different standard because of their interactive and immersive nature.
Whether video games should be treated like movies and TV shows are has been controversial. Inglourious Basterds was exempt from Germany's ban on displaying the swastika
That means that movies and TV shows - Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Amazon's The Man in the High Castle, among them - are usually allowed to be distributed in Germany even if they feature swastikas and other Nazi symbols. Swastikas and other banned symbols can, however, be displayed in Germany if they are used for "civic education, countering anti-constitutional activities, art and science, research and education, the coverage of historic and current events, or similar purposes," according to the Criminal Code. "There are similar bans - for example, in Austria - but those are a lot less tough," Solmecke said. The Nazi salute and statements such as "Heil Hitler" are also banned in public. In Germany, the law considers swastikas and SS sig runes the "symbols of anti-constitutional organizations." Displaying them publicly or selling goods that sport them is illegal. "Most countries don't penalize the display of Nazi symbols," the lawyer Christian Solmecke told DW. Last week, the USK lifted its blanket ban, though symbols still must be approved.ĭisplaying Nazi emblems in Germany is, naturally, complicated, even without the USK's guidelines for age ratings and game content. Until recently, the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body (USK) had not permitted Nazi symbols - including Hitler's face - anywhere in video games in Germany.
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