On the subject of swastikas, I was cruising ebay today, and came across the following item for sale:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4717&item=6507242049&rd=1
If you take a look at the link, you will not fail to see that all presence of swastikas in the accompanying photos have been censored out (the swastika is banned in Germany, yes?) But you will also notice that Hitler’s face has also been censored (even though it is obviously Hitler) Are images of Hitler banned in Germany too? This interests me as the IWM has a very large quantity of captured German film, a large proportion of which the Bundesfilmarchive (sorry, not sure about spelling) claims to have duplicates of (I’m not saying they don’t, I just don’t think that our copies have been checked against theirs and vice versa) I guess they can’t do much with their Nazi material if there are such restrictions on the showing of Nazi images?
Ummmmmmmm…what was I going about now? 😀
Ah yes, quite agree with the comments on the swastika being years old (if not hundreds of years old) The Nazis didn’t create it, they simply adopted it. I don’t think it should be banned, for to me that is just brushing the matter under the carpet, and does not address the issue properly.
Just my thoughts.
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