swastika


i noticed the swastikas in this movie were the wrong way...is this becuase its banned in germany?

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If you use them in movies, swastikas are not banned.
Maybe a mistake.

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That would be my guess (I doubt it was a "mistake" as the previous poster suggested, rather it was [IMO] reflecting the reality that actual neo-Nazis in Germany *would* be wearing reversed swastikas, because it is illegal to display one outside of a historical and/or artistic context.)

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By "Whitewashedpride"11

That was something I noticed that was odd when I first saw this movie. The way the Swastika armbands were worn was the original "counter-clockwise" way while Hitler had made the simple "clockwise". The swastika, "SS" lightning bolts and even pictures of Adolf Hitler and the other Nazi leaders are still banned in Germany to this day. Whether present day Germans like it or not and sure it was a "bad" part of their history, but the "third reich" era(1933-1945) is still part of Germany's history.

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Just to clear things up, in Germany it is illegal to display swastikas or other symbols used by the Nazi party during the "Third Reich" (such as the SS symbol), but use in motion pictures, or theatre performances and the like are alright. Pictures of Hitler or other Nazi celebrities, on the other hand, are not at all banned.

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