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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heavily censored in Germany apparently, which kinda seems odd and protective of Nazis

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah they have a blanket ban on Nazi iconography with no carve outs for art, even if antifascist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Almost correct, but artistic depictions of Nazi iconography actually are exempt from the ban (falling under "Kunstfreiheit" - artistic freedom).

The reason why Wolfenstein still had to be censored was because video games were not really seen as a form of art for quite a long time. But AFAIK that has fortunately changed in the last years and you can now legally obtain uncensored Wolfenstein versions in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wonder if that's harmful in the long run, cause you're not allowed to make the bad guys look like what they were, bad guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They changed it but you could always just have them as definitely-not-Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That statement is not true and it never was.