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Many a World War II–based game will not use a swastika (Hakenkreuz) to symbolise the Nazis, instead using the Iron Cross (still a symbol of today's German Army, Bundeswehr, albeit a modified version), the red-white-black tricolor of the 1871–1918 German Empire (which was briefly re-used by the Nazi regime alongside the Hakenkreuz flag from 1933 to 1935), or alternatively the Balkenkreuz (pictured at right). There's a simple reason for this — in Germany, Russia, and some other countries, the display of anything Nazi-related in public is prohibited unless it's for educational, artistic, or scientific purposes, plus a lot of other contexts. This allows for the use of these symbols in World War II–set films (which are considered art — yes, even Indiana Jones). However, toys and games were not usually covered by these exceptions (at least in Germany) until August 2018, when the German video game rating bureau USK decided to allow swastikas in video games on a case-by-case basis provided they were "socially adequate", meaning they have to serve an artistic purpose (such as in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus) or be used to represent historical events. Also, neo-Fascists have been known to appropriate various other symbols for their own ends, usually pagan ones. German Neo-Nazi groups choose to use symbols of Imperial Germany instead, which highly annoys German monarchist groups. The USK also refused to rate video games which use swastikas in their non-historical context, meaning that a swastika had to be an explicit reference to the National Socialist German Workers party and any other references that is attributed to the swastika (such as a Buddhist symbol for good luck, a fictional villain or cartoonish Nazis) were not allowed. Consequently, Nazi symbols are still not used in games released in Germany, probably due to developers worldwide being so accustomed to being unable to put them in the games, and thus voluntarily continuing the tradition of an utter lack of Nazi symbols themselves. It saves money to have only one version, avoids losing a market with over 80 million residents, and if the game is online, it makes sure that the German version is compatible with that of the rest of the world. It is odd that video games do this, as Germany is a relatively poor market for war-based games to begin with, especially compared to the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom. The only markets that prefer niche Japanese games at all times (like Japan and France) and places where the video game market is small. That being said, really mainstream FPS titles (like Call of Duty) do fare well and still sell in the millions. The German video game market is also only the biggest market for simulator titles and city building games. These are all genres where a swastika has no real reason to appear or exist besides for humorous purposes. So most of what makes Germany's thriving video game scene has almost no real reason to use World War II symbolism. However, practically no one in English-speaking cultures knows this. Thus this trope, which often leads to censorship of swastikas in contexts that have nothing to do with the Nazis. Not only were the Nazis, well, Nazis, they were also plagiarists (unless they were time travelers). When people in English-speaking countries hear that there are No Swastikas because of German censorship, this may lead to Unfortunate Implications, as it is tempting to conclude that "the Germans are trying to push revisionist history and pretend the Nazis were never in power!"; and it's not only them, even modern Germans may offer this suggestion as the reason for excessive No Swastikas trope use. The official explanation is, of course, the absolute non-endorsement of the symbol, which even got a politician in trouble when she used the symbol in a context of anti-Nazism (to elaborate, a fist crushing it), but for this kind of use, the symbol is alright after the German equivalent of the Supreme Court changed things for such cases. (For the record, conspiracy theories denying The Holocaust are also illegal in Germany.) That said, the older tradition about Buddhist and Hinduist swastikas, used as a protective symbol, can sometimes be found in supernatural series like Kolchak: The Night Stalker and The X-Files. There was even a real life instance during the Rape of Nanjing when the German businessman (he worked for Siemens, and was also a Nazi Party Member) John Rabe set up a protected area for refugees from the Japanese terror under the German flag, with its big swastika. Thus, for thousands of Chinese, even the Nazi swastika returned to its Hindu meaning. Technically, the relevant law in Germany prohibits "anti-constitutional" symbols (movements openly seeking the overthrow of Germany's democratic system), not just far-right ones. The West German government initially deemed the flag of East Germany to be a criminal symbol and outlawed it, before lifting the ban in 1969 with the normalization of relations with their East German counterparts. To this day, the flag of the former Communist Party of Germany (KPD) is banned, although the hammer and sickle is not. Many countries have similar bans on the display of "totalitarian symbols" — Hungary, for instance, bans the display of the symbols of the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Arrow Cross Party. Lithuania passed a similar law in 2008 — also extending it to Soviet symbols. And Latvia was warned in 2006 not to put swastikas — an ancient propitious symbol for them, too — on gifts intended for NATO ambassadors. After all, the Germans wouldn't have been able to take them back home... There is one particularly annoying case with the swastika when it is used as a Buddhist symbol of peace. It's shaped like a straightened Swastika, but may be mirrored compared to the Nazi swastika (clockwise or counterclockwise vs. the Nazi swastika's invariably clockwise), which leads to confusion in Western countries, as well as the Moral Guardians running around like headless chickens whenever one appears. As the export market has become increasingly important for Japanese creators of anime and manga, and despite the fact that swastikas are okay in Japan due to their original Buddhist significance, many creators are nonetheless preemptively avoiding swastikas in order to make their works easier to export.note The swastika symbol is an actual character in both the Japanese and Chinese written languages, with a character for both the original and a mirrored version. It's called "manji" and "wanzi" respectively. Examples include Naruto, where the swastika on Neji's forehead was changed to an X, and One Piece, where Whitebeard's logo was changed from a swastika to a cross. While it may seem like these changes were Bowdlerization by foreign localizers, these changes were actually mandated by Japanese executives, presumably so that foreign localizers wouldn't have to go through the trouble of doing the Bowdlerization themselves. Contrast with Non-Nazi Swastika. Examples |
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Hidden & Dangerous simply avoided hanging swastika banners in the levels, and the enemy models aren't detailed enough to tell if they're present on uniforms or not. Portraits of the Fuhrer turn up a few times, however. | |
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The Abridged Series lampshades it during his fight; Yusuke calls him a Nazi then his opponent corrects him by saying it's a Buddhist mark (which the swastika was, until Hitler warped it into the symbol of hatred and evil most of the Western world knows it as today). | |
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Velvet Assassin, because it is set in World War II and because Replay Studios is a German company. | |
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Company of Heroes: German flags have the swastikas replaced with Iron Crosses. The German soldiers are also never referred to as Nazis; instead, they are called "Krauts" and "Gerrys" by the American and British soldiers. | |
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Clone High briefly features Adolf Hitler's clone, who has a peace symbol on his armband instead of a swastika. It also refers to the show's premise: the clones came out totally different from the historical figures they come from. | |
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In-universe example: in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, at Bill and Fleur's wedding early in the book, Viktor Krum nearly attacks Xenophilus Lovegood because the latter is wearing an amulet in the shape of the Deathly Hallows symbol. To Lovegood this just symbolizes the Deathly Hallows and the search for them, but to Krum and everyone else who's a recent alumnus of Durmstrang, it has come to be associated with Gellert Grindelwald and his reign of evil. It is interesting to note the year of Grindelwald's defeat by Dumbledore (1945) was the same year as Hitler's death — and this was intentional on the part of J.K. Rowling. Whether this was merely to show Grindelwald as the wizarding world's equivalent to Hitler, or to indicate an actual alliance between Hitler and Grindelwald, is unclear. |
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In the father's various flashbacks to World War II in Life with Louie, no Swastikas appear anywhere, however, the German soldiers do have SS insignia on their helmets, so Nazi imagery still appears. | |
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An odd example appears in Sonic Unleashed. In Holoska, there were snowmen wearing clothes. If Sonic were to stop running (fight the urge) and look at these clothes, swastikas could be spotted. This has since been patched. | |
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In the German release of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, references to Adolf Hitler were removed, which was problematic as Hitler turns out to be a crucial plot point to the game. Recovering one of the MacGuffins determines whether or not he becomes the dictator of Germany, and the German release tries to severely downplay the "Nazi victory" endings. | |
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In K, when there are flashbacks to the trio of scientists in Dresden in 1944-45 who found the power-giving Slates, no historical names of people or groups are mentioned (although they do their work in a real location), and although the German siblings wear red armbands, there is no insignia shown on them at all. The brother who survives the bombing ends up being memory-wiped and body-swapped into the main character, so it would be particularly troublesome to have pictures of him wearing them. For the record, he probably wasn't too aware of what was going on around him, and what his superiors would have done with his magic device had he completed his work on it for them. | |
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The X-Men villain Holocaust had to be renamed Dark Nemesis when ToyBiz produced an action figure of him during The '90s. When Hasbro later featured the character as a Build-A-Figure in their Marvel Legends line, they stuck with the Nemesis name as well. Nemesis was also used as the character's name in the Hero Clix game. | |
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The Richard Burton film Bluebeard (1972) is set in Austria in the 1930s, and the title character is seen wearing what looks like a rather goofy-looking workaround for the swastika◊, but it is in fact a real-life symbol that represented the Fatherland Front, a fascist group that did rule Austria in the 1930s before Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. (Nazi Germany's desire to annex Austria is why they ironically, despite being fascist, were fervently anti-Nazi.) Why this retelling of the Bluebeard legend was given such a Setting Update is anybody's guess. That being said, outside the insignia, Bluebeard and his group seems to try to look more like the Nazis, since their standard resembles the Nazi flag more than the Fatherland Front's actual flag◊. | |
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Bleach: The quillon of Ichigo's sword is swastika-shaped. In keeping with the Buddhist symbolism for harmony of spirit, Ichigo's journey through the manga has been one of seeking balance and harmony with three different aspects of his soul. For much of the manga, this quillon only appears when he activates Bankai. This is almost a pun as the kanji for "ban" in Bankai means "complete" or "final". While Bankai is the "Final Release" of a Zanpakutou, an alternate reading is "Final Solution". In the Lost Agent Arc, when Ichigo's power develops the shape of his sword's quillon, the anime changes the shape slightly to a square despite retaining the true shape on the sword itself. The Quincies have always had extremely strong Teutonic Knight themes. When they modernise, their Teutonic Knight themes morph into Nazi themes that also possess very heavy Imperial Germany overtones. This creates a military uniform that is extremely similar to the Nazi uniform and an organisational hierarchy that is inspired more by the German Empire than Nazi Germany. The new Quincy Cross is influenced by the Iron Cross, not the swastika. So far, despite the Nazi themes of the Vandenreich, the swastika itself has barely been associated with them and predominantly remains Ichigo's symbol. Ichigo is later revealed to be half-Quincy via his mother and his power, which manifested the Swastika symbol, was actually his Quincy power masquerading as Shinigami power. When his true Shinigami power and Quincy power are properly balanced, the Swastika disappears. |
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The Hellboy fan/photo comic Abe and Kroenen uses action figures of said characters. One of Kroenen's figurines is from the beginning of the movie and omits the white circle and black swastika from his red armband (he gets to keep his hat and Badass Longcoat). | |
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A Hitler-expy escapes Hell with the rest of the dead in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn. His flag has an X similar to a Tomanian flag from The Great Dictator instead of a swastika. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons (1983) featured an episode where Venger brought a WWII Luftwaffe fighter to the Realm. Both the plane and its pilot were swastika free. | |
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This is the norm in Germany, where the swastika on the covers of imported books (like the English paperback version of Robert Harris's Fatherland) has to be covered by a sticker when on display. | |
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Great Teacher Onizuka confused many Westerners when in one episode where Onizuka brings back his old bike gang together, he is seen covering his face with a swastika. It is a full on German right-facing diamond-shaped swastika (but roughly drawn and lacking the white circle). It is currently unknown how this was handled in Germany, as it is uncensored in the English dub (hard to believe, I know). | |
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The German version of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus really goes off the deep end in that regard. Not only are swastikas replaced with other symbols in that game such as the weird-looking triangle, but they have changed practically everything else as well, to such an extent that it borders on intentionally trolling the users of the German version (i.e. including things that were legal even according to German laws). This becomes almost hilarious in the Hitler scene, who is now called "Heiler", is addressed as "Kanzler" (chancellor) instead of "Führer", and doesn't have his infamous mustache. | |
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The episode of MythBusters dealing with The Hindenburg disaster omitted the swastikas from their models of the Hindenburg (justified as cosmetic accuracy is hardly a priority for them). | |
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BloodRayne features Nazis as the main antagonists; however, in the Xbox and PC versions of the game, all swastikas were replaced with triskelions (which, coupled with the color and layout of Nazi flag, looks exactly like the emblem of South African White Supremacist organization AWB) and references to the Third Reich were removed. | |
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Flames of War zig-zags this a bit. Nazi Germany avoids using the swastika when it comes to faction emblems, instead using symbols such as the Balkenkreuz or the Iron Cross. In-game however, some models are provided with swastika decals where appropriate. Finland is also represented with a swastika as their emblem. | |
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The Justice League episode "The Savage Time", set during World War II, does exactly this, but justifies it; Vandal Savage has used Time Travel to hijack the Nazi war effort, and they use his symbols instead. Savage's later appearance in "Maid of Honor" has no problem referring to him as a "Nazi war criminal". It's worth noting, though, that the insignia he uses is the SS insignia (half of it, at least), Hitler's elite guard, and it actually makes sense in the context of the story: an ancient symbol that arose individually in almost every basket-weaving culture and which just happened to be used in the flag of a fascist nation? BAD! A symbol for a group of soldiers from said nation who were primarily responsible for the Holocaust? A-OK! More specifically, the Sowilo rune is used, which was a common Nazi symbol (as its German meaning, "sigel", was a symbol of victory). | |
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The manga Blade of the Immortal has the Manji as the emblem of the main character, whose name is Manji also. Many of the collected manga have an explanation about it in the foreword. The German translation outright turns it into an X-mark,◊ while the 2019 anime modifies it to be a bit less recognizable.◊ | |
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In the manga series Naruto, Neji Hyūga has a seal with a swastika on his forehead. In the anime version, the mark was changed to resemble a simple "X". This is also the case with Hizashi Hyuga, resurrected by Kabuto's Edo Tensei spell. While the monthly releases of the English manga have the swastikas replaced with x's, the symbols are retained in the volume releases. | |
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Commercials for Turning Point: Fall of Liberty - which America never entered World War II, Germany beat Russia, and Britain was no match for the Axis, and Nazis are now taking over 1950s America - originally showed the Iron Cross on the flags. Thankfully this seems to have been changed to be more realistic. Preview pictures seemed to do a similar flip-flop. | |
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In the German language version of Illuminati: New World Order, the "Hitler's Brain" card is replaced with "Jack the Ripper's Diary". Yet they were able to keep "South American Nazis", which the Germans find funny rather than offensive, apparently. |
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In the adventure game adaptation of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, we learn that Nimdok was a scientist working for the Nazis during World War II. His scenario takes place in a concentration camp, but all the swastikas are changed to a stylized "AM" logo (AM being the name of the psychotic Deus est Machina Master Computer who's created the cruel scenario). Somewhat justified in that all of it seems purposely censored by Nimdok's guilt-ridden mind—the words "Nazis" and "Jewish" are conspicuously avoided (they're only referred to as "The Regime" and "The Lost Tribe") until he remembers his past. This didn't stop them from entirely removing Nimdok's chapter from the German release, though, which made the game almost unwinnable. | |
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Averted in the final season of The Durrells when members of the Corfu Patrol use their flags to form a swastika, much to Leslie's embarrassment. | |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers has the titular characters confront Hitler in his stereotypical khaki uniform, if not for the fact that he looked next to nothing like the real Hitler, wearing a Fu Manchu instead of the infamous toothbrush mustache. Not only that there were no swastikas to be found throughout the episode, but the show refuses to explicitly mention Hitler's name either. | |
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Avengers Assemble does the same thing. Any episodes dealing with World War 2 have HYDRA as the bad guys, and neither the Red Skull nor Baron Zemo are ever referred to as Nazis. | |
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The Judean People's Front Suicide Squad in Monty Python's Life of Brian march around speaking in hacked up German accents wearing a swastika intertwined with a Star of David on their heads. A rare deleted scene (you can find it on some versions of the DVD) has Brian talking to the leader of the squad, Otto, who tells him that their mission is to create a 'pure Jewish society' without all the "gypsies and gays and suchlike". | |
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In the first season of Kamen Rider, the villain organization Shocker, though being Neo-Nazi terrorists, featured only a dagger-like cross, an stylized eagle and altered SS runes in their symbol. Also, their salute pose had them raise the right arm diagonal sidewards instead forward and had the "Sieg Heil!" replaced with their famous trademark battlecry of "Yii!". | |
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In Alex Cox's Sid & Nancy (1986) the numerous swastikas worn on Sid Vicious' and other early punks' apparel is replaced by a hammer-and-sickle design. | |
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Final Fantasy Mystic Quest managed to slip a few Swastika symbols into the game. Tristan's Ninja Star and the drain icon in the armor status is shaped like a Swastika. Another example of getting Swastikas past the Nintendo censorship. | |
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The game's naval companion, World of Warships, takes this a step further by replacing the German Imperial flagnote This game features many vehicles from WWI unlike Tanks, mostly due to the vastly longer service life of ships compared to tanks with the one described above. This is because said flag is often used by neo-Nazis as a substitute for the Nazi flag, as the populace at large doesn't recognize it. Plus, consistency. | |
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X-Men: Evolution also plays this straight, but when Wolverine mentions that Captain America was a Super-Soldier, Professor X does ask whether this was intended as "The master race." Granted, he may not have quite meant it that way, but it's still a little surprising to hear. | |
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The German version of Call of Duty: WWII lacks swastikas as well, and the multiplayer on all versions replaces the swastikas with the Iron Cross so Germans can play with the rest of the international community. | |
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Lego Marvel Superheroes, like LEGO Indiana Jones, does this; while villain Red Skull is clearly a Nazi in comics and the MCU, he uses red and black banners with no iconography in the game. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Baroness Paula von Gunther is a Nazi in the Wonder Woman comics, but her affiliations aren't mentioned on the show. Her costume sports a stylized lightning bolt insignia rather than any Swastikas. | |
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The two secret levels are absent in the German version, as they are literally updated ports of two Wolfenstein 3-D levels, swastika-banners and all. Doom Classic Complete (as can be downloaded on the PS3) and the BFG Edition (available multiplatform) include the two secret levels, but with some major changes: Everything reminiscent of Wolfenstein 3D has been completely purged, all enemies have been replaced with standard Doom II opponents, and the levels themselves have been renamed ("Wolfenstein" to "IDKFA" and "Grosse" to "Keen"). The only thing that remains is the layout of both levels. No Swastikas nor Hitler portraits, the SS guards are replaced by zombiemen squads, and the unique map music themes have been replaced by the theme of MAP05 for both maps | |
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A roundabout version of this happened in Irregular Webcomic!. Swastikas themselves do appear in occasional storylines, but LEGO does not make a Hitler figurine. So the author made him a Brain in a Jar. Before World War II. And later he's represented by the author himself when Hitler's brain is put in his body. | |
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Lost Horizon, a product of Germany, has no swastikas. It is replaced in all contexts by the Iron Cross. It's particularly noticeable during a visit to Berlin while the 1936 Olympics were on, since there are flags and banners all over the place. | |
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Civilization: In Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword, Franz von Papen is the leader of Germany in the European Blitzkrieg scenario, and Isoroku Yamamoto is the leader of Japan in the Pacific one. This is in spite of the fact the game allows players to play as Chairman Mao or Stalin. There are mods that allow you to play as Hitler and Hirohito. Which, of course, made Germans complain that they couldn't play it in public. The exclusion of Hitler and the inclusion of Stalin and Mao (among other equally unpleasant historical leaders who are included without complaint), a somewhat contentious topic among fans, is typically explained with the objective observations that A) Hitler was a rather asshole leader, and, while Stalin and Mao left their nations as super-powers, he left his a smoking ruin and B) even if Hitler's incompetence is ignored, he is far from the first candidate for inclusion. However, the fandom is united in their criticism of his absence in mods of the appropriate era. The North Africa Campaign map that was bundled with the original release got around this problem by having the civilizations "led" by the various actual North African theater commanders - meaning, yes, Rommel for the Germans. They still had to go with the Iron Cross as an emblem, though. Civilization V tried to clean it up somewhat by digging deeper into history, with Otto Von Bismarck leading Germany, Catherine the Great leading Russia, and Wu Zetian leading China. |
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The 'The Diamond' heist trailer in PAYDAY 2 shows the history of the diamond's owners, the part in Nazi Germany has flags that just have featureless circles instead. | |
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The Rebel Army of Metal Slug has no connection with the Nazis (or even Neo-Nazis, but a strong resemblance to WWII German forces), including emblems that are strangely reminiscent of Nazi ones but "poorly censored"—their symbol is a black "X" on a white background within a red circle, resembling a Nazi swastika with the outer arms removed, but also a phoenix that bears a more than passing resemblance to the Nazi Eagle. This is so blatant that some people who don't realize this was also the case in the JP version think they actually are poorly censored Right-Wing Militia Fanatic Western Terrorists. | |
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In the remake of Persona 2, when the Last Battalion (supposedly a group of Nazis that smuggled Hitler to safety when he was supposedly killed) invades Japan (thanks to a conspiracy theorist and all rumors coming true), their tanks and planes sport the modern Iron Cross, rather than the swastika, which at first gives the impression that it's modern-day Germany invading Japan. The rerelease of the game still has Hitler present, but gives him big sunglasses and only ever has him referred to as "The Fuhrer." This was averted in the original release, where swastikas and an eyewear-lacking named-aloud Hitler could be seen clear as day. | |
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The second game in the Japan-only RPG series Tengai Makyou that was first released on the PC Engine (which has the distinction of being on the top ten all-time most popular games in Japan) was titled ... Manjimaru, named after The Hero. Swastikas are featured prominently on the title screen, and in many, many occurrences throughout the game. Come the Nintendo DS port, and the Nintendo GameCube remake, both Japan-only, and most of them are inexplicably removed! | |
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In Hearts of Iron 4, the German version of the game has Adolf Hitler's profile picture as a shaded silhouette of the original picture. The in game Nazi Germany flag also replaces the swastika with an iron cross. | |
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In Germany, posters and DVD covers for Inglourious Basterds showed an exploding laurel wreath instead of the swastika. | |
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In the Spider-Man and X-Men cartoons from the 1990s, Captain America was shown in World War Two fighting nondescript Germans; there were plans for a Captain America series that would not feature any references to Nazis. | |
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Wolfenstein: The New Order: The German release has all references to Nazis changed to "The Regime", with all Nazi insignia changed to the generic Wolfenstein logo. The European release is geo-locked to not be playable in Germany. Thankfully, every other version averts this. However, the model screenshots that show different characters use the censored versions, for some reason. | |
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The writers of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes decided to create an alternate timeline with HYDRA as an enemy of the Allies during WWII, assisted by villains traditionally associated with Nazis. Word of God stated that this was the result of an ultimatum from Standards and Practices: they could have swastikas or realistic weapons and they chose the latter. The head writer also tried to justify the change here by saying HYDRA served as merely a branch of the Nazis. In the episode "Meet Captain America", the Red Skull's SS uniform suggests the Nazis existed in this universe, but the opening newsreel only shows HYDRA taking over Europe. (As a result, viewers who have not read these Word of God statements tend to assume this series disregarded the existence of Nazis altogether. It doesn't help that the map depicting HYDRA's conquest of Europe shows them steam-rolling out of Russia to conquer all of Europe, Germany included.) Unfortunately, the fact that HYDRA is still pretty powerful in the present suggests the Allies failed to eliminate the threat of another Axis takeover. | |
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The third Harry Palmer film, Billion Dollar Brain, has its main villain in the demented, Communist-hating General Midwinter and his private army. The logo on Midwinter's oil tankers, placing an 'M' directly over a 'W', seems deliberately meant to resemble a swastika. | |
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As does Facebook with any picture with a swastika in it, including historical ones no matter the context. The resulting weeks-long bans or accounts deletion pissed off posters and group owners who were involved in non-revisionist/non-Neonazi groups about history (including Holocaust history) that got cleansed of the symbol. The phenomenon has also been observed with photos of Adolf Hitler himself. It also extends to Facebook pages used by military modellers, who tend not to be political at all. Keen modellers of Lutfwaffe aircraft are often politely requested to leave the tailplane bare if they're publishing photos, or else to blur out the distinguishing swastika insignia from the tail. |
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Any toy line (such as the ones for Captain America: The First Avenger and Avengers Assemble, or Hasbro's Marvel Legends) featuring the Red Skull will invariably refer to him as a HYDRA member and not a Nazi, with his swastika armband usually replaced by a HYDRA logo. A common theory is that this is a large part of the reason why Marvel had him explicitly betray Hitler and the Third Reich in the film; there'd be less backlash from the Moral Guardians over selling toys and apparel featuring the Red Skull if he belonged to a fictional evil organization instead of a very real one like the Nazi Party. It sometimes leads to odd compromises, like the Marvel Famous Covers figure from ToyBiz, the Silver Age statue from Bowen Designs or the bust from Gentle Giant, all of which featured the character wearing a blank red arm band with no actual logo. | |
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Battlefield 1942 uses imperial symbols for Nazi Germany; the German flag, for example, is the Imperial flag with an iron cross in the middle. | |
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An episode of Iron Man: Armored Adventures features Magneto as a villain and, despite recapping his origins, neglects to mention that he was a Holocaust survivor. Instead, his hatred of humans is chalked up to tortures he endured while being experimented on by Weapon X. | |
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In certain circumstances, the Nazis did this themselves! In 1938 feature film The Four Companions, a German romantic comedy set in Berlin, there is not a swastika to be seen anywhere, not on the streets and not on any uniforms. While the Nazis did produce overt propaganda films, some of which were truly horrific, much of German cinema in those days was light escapism. So a film like The Four Companions which was designed to keep German moviegoers happy and quiescent avoids political symbolism. | |
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In Black Lagoon, the Neo-Nazi group that the cast fights against for two whole episodes is using the old SA logo, possibly a reference to Neo-Nazi groups evading the Swastika ban by using other symbols in real life. Their employer wears an SS ring, and in flashbacks to the event that launched the arc — the last trip of a German submarine right before the end of the war — some Swastika flags are seen. | |
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Sniper Elite V2 and Sniper Elite III lacked swastikas, replacing it with either a stylized eagle symbol in V2, or what appears to be a double-cross symbol similar to the one Charlie Chaplin used in The Great Dictator. | |
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Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich also featured no swastikas. Appropriately, one of the first mods made for this game allowed the player to include them. | |
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In The Skinjacker Trilogy, the Hindenburg crosses into Everlost, but its Nazi swastikas are stated to have been denied admission. | |
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In Commander Keen 5, one level had pipework forming a mirrored swastika, probably in reference to the then-forthcoming Wolfenstein 3-D. As with the one in Doom, it was removed shortly after release. | |
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Used a couple of times in The Ren & Stimpy Show first in "Maddog Hoek" when their wrestling opponents dress them in Nazi uniforms telling them they are the enemy the symbols on their arms and hats are x's (notably this scene was cut in the German dub), and in "Ren's Bitter Half" near the end Ren's evil side is dressed in a uniform reminiscent of a Nazi uniform and the symbol on his armband is an "R". The latter episode was pulled from Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, and NickRewind reruns because of this. In "Stimpy's Cartoon Show", Wilbur Cobb's nonsensical monologue includes a mention of Nazis (pronounced Nazzees). |
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The German ships in KanColle have no swastikas on their uniforms. Instead, they get the German Ritterkreuz where the swastikas would have been. | |
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Godzilla Raids Again: The nightclub scene includes stock footage of an actual Japanese stage show. This would be fine as far as it goes... except that the performance was very painfully obviously taken from pre-1945 propaganda footage, complete with draped Imperial Japanese, Fascist Italian and Nazi German flags. This predictably causes problems for most everybody who wants to release or air the film today. Most times, they superimpose a black or grey disc over the swastika and call it good... which invariably fails as the disc is stationary while the film has the traditional jitter. | |
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Doom: A map area in the original Doom was originally a swastika as a homage to Wolfenstein 3-D — this was changed in v1.4. In Doom II: The two secret levels are absent in the German version, as they are literally updated ports of two Wolfenstein 3-D levels, swastika-banners and all. Doom Classic Complete (as can be downloaded on the PS3) and the BFG Edition (available multiplatform) include the two secret levels, but with some major changes: Everything reminiscent of Wolfenstein 3D has been completely purged, all enemies have been replaced with standard Doom II opponents, and the levels themselves have been renamed ("Wolfenstein" to "IDKFA" and "Grosse" to "Keen"). The only thing that remains is the layout of both levels. No Swastikas nor Hitler portraits, the SS guards are replaced by zombiemen squads, and the unique map music themes have been replaced by the theme of MAP05 for both maps The GBA version censors the two secret levels but in a much tamer way, replacing Swastikas and images of Hitler with imagery from Return to Castle Wolfenstein (such as the Hitler portrait now being series Big Bad Deathshead). The SS Guards were untouched, German dialogue and all. The Unity engine port restores the original textures and level names, but replaces swastikas with the alternate triangular-shaped symbol seen in the newer Wolfenstein games, changes Hitler's face to not have a moustache (essentially turning him into the Staatmeister from the SNES Wolfenstein) and redubs the SS enemies to say "Schutzkämpfer!" instead of "Schutzstaffel!". |
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Somewhat odd case from Dies Irae. Before the formation of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden, none of the Nazi characters are shown with swastikas on their uniforms despite having the signature red armband. After the Orden's formation they have its sigil on the armbands instead. This becomes even clearer in the anime adaptation which has a scene with the distinct red banners present at a political party, yet they are adorned with the Iron Cross instead of the Hakenkreuz. What makes all of this odd is the fact that a Swastika forms a core plot element of the story, being a huge magical ceremony meant to be in its shape and is seen in full. | |
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Subverted in Fury Unleashed. While it doesn't use a swastika in the WWII themed area, it uses a Death's Head, or "Totenkoph" on the nazi flag (although it's A) just the skull, not skull-and-crossbones, B) far more stylized then the symbol on SS cap badges, and C) seen straight instead of 3/4 view). Of course, it's stated to be because a neo-Nazi group went back in time to give the original nazis modern technology, so it very well might be the symbol they used In-Universe. | |
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A variation of this trope was used in Steven Universe. Early storyboards of the episode "Giant Woman" show that originally an action sequence was going to incorporate a swastika symbol into Opal's pose◊: however, this wasn't a Nazi swastika, but rather the original spiritual symbol common in eastern religions. Despite this difference, the design ultimately wasn't used. | |
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One of the episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! was an Indiana Jones parody, in which Koopa and his minions all wore Nazi uniforms with the swastikas replaced with a capital K. | |
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Battlefield Heroes' features the Royal and National Armies, modeled off the Allies and Axis respectively. However, they are stated not'' to be that — they are armies fighting over, amusingly enough, Olympic cycling results. As such, despite the obviously World War II setting, there are no swastikas. There are instead black skulls-and-crossbones. | |
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War Thunder takes place during World War II (sort of), but labels Nazi Germany as "Axis" and uses the German imperial flag rather than the swastika. | |
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When The Sound of Music first opened on Broadway, the Nazis neither wore swastikas, nor name-dropped Hitler. Later productions, including the movie and TV adaptations, made the Nazism references more explicit. | |
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Downplayed in the episode "M.I.A." of Gargoyles set in London in 1940; the German planes do have swastikas on them, and the characters openly discuss Nazis, but the Iron Cross and a generic skull and crossbones are much more common and easily visiblenote the swastika is almost exclusively drawn on the planes' rudders; the Iron Cross and skull get the fuselage and wings. We also don't hear any details about what they do apart from the fact that Griff is passionate about helping to stop them. | |
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In the first Golgo 13 game for the Famicom, Duke Togo fights against a group of Neo-Nazis led by a cyborg version of Adolf Hitler. In the NES version, they were turned into a generic terrorist group named Drek and Hitler was renamed Smirk. Like in Bionic Commando, the developers made no attempt to alter Hitler's likeness for the overseas release. They also forgot to remove the swastika from the book Duke recovers in one of the maze levels. | |
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In the Wonder Woman, episode 'The Nazi Wonder Woman' the eponymous character turns out to be just an ordinary spy skilled in judo rather than a blonde version of Lynda Carter with her Leotard of Power festooned with Swastikas (as the producers were wary of creating a pin-up girl for fetishists/the far right). | |
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Indiana Jones video games: The game LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures uses generic German soldiers. However, the coloring of the Colonel Vogel minifigure seems to suggest a Nazi eagle and all soldiers have blonde eyebrows and blue eyes instead of the standard black/brown eyebrows and black eyes every other character has. In the level "Opening the Ark" there are several red flags hanging around that are obviously Third Reich flags, sans swastika; without said symbol, they do look rather odd, almost like a large red rug with black stripes hanging up to dry. The German version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, is heavily bowdlerized, with swastikas replaced by black squares and blank circles. There is a recurring omission, probably an overlook; when a guard is knocked out during a fist fight, stars in swastika form do appear over his head. In contrast with Indy's previous adventure, there is almost zero Nazi imagery in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and the flag shown inside a German submarine uses the Iron Cross. This trope factored into the cancellation of Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix. Intended as a follow-up to the Fate of Atlantis, LucasArts realized a game with a plot about a post-war attempt to resurrect Hitler might not fly in the German market. Perhaps not coincidentally, this was around the time series director Steven Spielberg was making Schindler's List, an experience which opened his eyes for the first time to the gravity of what the Nazis did, making him swear off any future use of the Nazis as exploitation villains like he'd done in the initial films. |
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And of course, that's before we get into how later productions, primarily Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Gundam 0080, push the "Zeon = Nazis" thing to great lengths with uniforms and flags that are explicitly modeled on Nazi regalia (the only change being the Zeon emblem replacing the swastika). And then you recall how as of late, more and more Gundam stories paint Zeon as brave rebel heroes... What is funny is that the ideology of Zeon is called "Zeonism" and has been interpreted both with Hitler's "Master Race" and Zionist "Chosen People"-angles throughout the series, depending on whether Zeon is painted as sympathetic or not. It's also "funny" that the name "Zeon" was apparently taken by Tomino from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Patterns of Force" — that's right, the one with the Nazis. Except... he accidentally borrowed the wrong name. The Zeons were the analogy for the Jews, with another group, the Ekosians, actually being the Nazis... |
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Any appearances of the swastika are routinely edited out by German publishers of the medium. However, in an issue of the DC/Marvel crossover event "Amalgam Comics" (Namely, "Super Soldier", a mixture of Superman and Captain America), two thirds of a swastika on the edge of a panel were missed. This was apparently enough to warrant a thorough search of an unfortunate comic book store by the related authorities. | |
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Andrew Doran: The original covers for The Statement of Andrew Doran and Andrew Doran at the Mountains of Madness had these since, well, Andrew fights Nazis in WW2. The revised version removed these out of sensitivity according to Word of God. | |
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In the Pokémon card game, the Japanese version of the "Koga's Ninja Trick" card showed a swastika-like symbolnote Actually omote manji, a good-luck symbol from Buddhism in the background along with illustrations of a Golbat and Ditto, which was edited to a generic Asian-looking seal on the international versions of the card. This is the reason why a few Jewish groups thought that Pokémon was anti-Semitic, according to The Other Wiki. On the other side of the coin, the Islamic authorities in Saudi Arabia noticed that one of the energy symbols (a six-pointed star) vaguely resembled the Star of David, declared the game to contain subliminal Zionist propaganda and banned it. |
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The German version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, is heavily bowdlerized, with swastikas replaced by black squares and blank circles. There is a recurring omission, probably an overlook; when a guard is knocked out during a fist fight, stars in swastika form do appear over his head. | |
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In World of Tanks, the flag for Germany tanks in the garage is a red flag with black stripes, however the swastika is replaced by the Iron Cross. The game comes from Belarus, where swastikas are also very taboo. The German tank line also includes a few post-WW2 tanks, where swastikas would be completely inappropriate to begin with. The game's naval companion, World of Warships, takes this a step further by replacing the German Imperial flagnote This game features many vehicles from WWI unlike Tanks, mostly due to the vastly longer service life of ships compared to tanks with the one described above. This is because said flag is often used by neo-Nazis as a substitute for the Nazi flag, as the populace at large doesn't recognize it. Plus, consistency. German ships that were built during the Nazi government fly a variation of the Kriegsmarine ensign, with the swastika replaced by a Tantzenkreuz. The two games also use the modern Japanese flag rather than the Imperial rising sun flag which has similar connotations in East Asia to the Swastika in Europe. |
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Electroman has a (mirrored) swastika formed by pipes on Level 6. | |
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When Extra Credits began their series on the battle of Kursk, they released a video called On Nazi Symbolism explaining that they omitted Swastikas deliberately so that the video could be watched in Germany without treading on legal toes. In their quickly-notorious "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video, they repeatedly refer to the Iron Cross as a hate symbol to watch out for. While some Neo-Nazi groups do use the Iron Cross as a symbol, that's not the one most people are thinking of when they think of Nazis. (It's also still used, in a heavily-modified form, by the German military.) |
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It's also "funny" that the name "Zeon" was apparently taken by Tomino from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Patterns of Force" — that's right, the one with the Nazis. Except... he accidentally borrowed the wrong name. The Zeons were the analogy for the Jews, with another group, the Ekosians, actually being the Nazis... | |
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1941: Counter Attack pits you against World War II Germany. However, you never see a single swastika or a reference to Hitler. | |
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In One Piece, the symbol of the Whitebeard pirates in the manga originally had a swastika in it, but the anime adaptation changed it to a cross made of bones, and it was changed later on in the manga with an in-story Hand Wave. | |
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In Azur Lane, the Iron Blood takes on roughly the same role as Nazi Germany did in real life (though the artbooks imply that they're actually a direct continuation of Imperial Germany instead). As such, their shipgirls generally use either use some variation of the Iron Cross or a black X. That said, a good few Iron Blood shipgirls also wear either a Reichsadler with its Nazi styling or its opposite-facing Parteiadler counterpart, with its only change being to replace the swastika in the wreath with an "X" for those cases where it's actually large and detailed enough to see what's in the wreath. | |
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The Pokémon Registeel in the Japanese and North American versions of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl appeared to be making a rather familiar-looking salute◊. This was edited in European releases, with this edit being used in the Platinum version worldwide (However, Platinum had new sprites for many other Pokemon, so this change is unlikely to come off as unusual to players in Japan and North America). | |
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The Combat Mission series, despite being extremely accurate wargames both in mechanics and graphics (down to what kind of uniforms and patches were worn on a given month of a given year by a given unit) didn't include any swastika, be it on flags or armbands. The game is highly moddable though, so many many user mods exist to bring the Hakenkreuz back. | |
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As part of the promotion of the German stage version of The Producers, the theatres it played in were decked out with Nazi regalia, albeit with pretzels in place of swastikas. See here. | |
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Its modern-day sequel, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, had some changes in the German version such as crosses in place of the swastikas, but a patch is available that restores the uncensored graphics. | |
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The Sound of Music has swastikas everywhere after the Nazis take over Austria and yet no one questions the film's family-friendly credentials. One of the Von Trapp children even innocently refers to it as "the flag with the black spider". The live NBC version also averted this trope, leading to this. | |
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Also ignored in the original The Legend of Zelda- the layout of the third dungeon forms a Manji symbol. This was never censored because doing so would require redesigning the entire dungeon, along with other dungeons because the dungeon maps are designed to fit together to save space. It's played straighter in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, which changes the symbol on the Forest Medallion from four leaves in a circle to three to lessen its resemblance to a swastika. | |
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The German release of South Park: The Stick of Truth was delayed because the Nazi zombies' dialogue came from actual Hitler speeches, and many of the zombies had swastikas on their armbands. | |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover where Adenoid Hynkel from The Great Dictator exists in place of Hitler. Here the fictional Tomainia's "Double Cross" flag is used in place of a swastika. | |
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Early versions of the original Day of Defeat Half-Life Game Mod prior to it being purchased by Valve Software had the swastika as the German control point flag. The current versions of both Goldsource and Source Day of Defeats use an iron cross in place of a swastika. Also, the two teams in Source are "US Army" and "Wehrmacht", though the latter should be "Heer" as the Wehrmacht was the entirety of the armed forces, not just the army. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2, Battle Tendency, is actually set just before World War II (1938 to be precise) and features Nazis prominently. The original manga didn't shy away from using the term, but the Animated Adaptation simply uses "Germany" or "Germans" instead. This includes the memetic part where Rudol von Stroheim declares "German science is the greatest in the world!", but he still does the infamous Nazi salute while saying it. | |
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The game LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures uses generic German soldiers. However, the coloring of the Colonel Vogel minifigure seems to suggest a Nazi eagle and all soldiers have blonde eyebrows and blue eyes instead of the standard black/brown eyebrows and black eyes every other character has. In the level "Opening the Ark" there are several red flags hanging around that are obviously Third Reich flags, sans swastika; without said symbol, they do look rather odd, almost like a large red rug with black stripes hanging up to dry. | |
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In the IL-2 Sturmovik combat flight sim series, the German planes never carry the black swastika and the Finnish planes do not carry the historical Von Rosen cross, a light blue swastika on a white circle. This, despite the fact that the adoption of the Von Rosen cross predates the adoption of the swastika by the NSDAP by several years, and in any case was done to honor the Swedish count Erik Von Rosen, who had donated planes to Finland during their civil war. Soviet planes in the same game still carry the red star, which of course has unsavory connotations for many Westerners not part of left-wing organizations. In the real world, the Russian military still use the red star, despite the Soviet Union having been gone for 20 years, although the version now carried by the Russian Air Force, at least, is a red star outlined in white and blue, thus including the three colors of the Russian Federations's flag. | |
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The Japanese martial art of Shorinji-Kempo, strongly influenced by Buddhism, used a Swastiska as its symbol, as seen in Sister Street Fighter. | |
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The SNES game Secret of Mana has a boomerang weapon called Cobra Shuttle that's shaped like a Swastika symbol which somehow managed to get past the Nintendo censorship. | |
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During the filming of the fifth Indiana Jones film, a sequence set on a Nazi train was filmed on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in England. As trainspotters noted, when the train was being moved around while not being filmed the swastikas on the train's exterior were covered up. | |
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The "Fascist flag" in Warship Gunner 2 uses a plain black cross instead of a swastika or iron cross. German warship hulls are also missing the bow swastika. | |
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In Epic Rap Battles of History's "Darth Vader vs. Adolf Hitler", Hitler's armband doesn't have a swastika; it has a rock-and-roll horns symbol instead. | |
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In contrast with Indy's previous adventure, there is almost zero Nazi imagery in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and the flag shown inside a German submarine uses the Iron Cross. | |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III censors all instances of the swastika to make sure that the Germans don't have a cut-down, unplayable game (Like back in BO1's zombie mode). Most notable inclusion is in the "Giant" zombie map, which featured prominent nazi symbolism(Taking place in a nazi Wonder Weapon Research Facility). Now, the facility(Taking place after october of 1945) is littered with red flags with iron crosses and the iconic nazi zombies bear meaningless, plain red armbands in place of swatikas, putting a bad taste in the mouths of countless fans who remembered the iconic look of the map, and taking the "Nazi" away from the fan favorite Nazi Zombie map of the fandom. The German version of Call of Duty: WWII lacks swastikas as well, and the multiplayer on all versions replaces the swastikas with the Iron Cross so Germans can play with the rest of the international community. |
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In Kid Dracula for the Game Boy (Akumaj� Special: Boku Dracula-kun in Japan), the first boss were hooded klansmen with swastikas on their head. The US version completely removed the swastikas and the klansmen's sprites were tweaked to look more like ghosts. | |
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In an episode of Two and a Half Men, Alan, while impersonating his brother, goes on a one-night stand with an apparently okay girl, who for some reason Charlie rejected. Turns out she's a Nazi-themed BDSM fetishist, wearing stylized bondage stuff, using a German expletive and permanent-marker inking a Hitler-stache on Alan's face, obviously all without the pretense of hiding the reference (Alan even comments on the core aspect of this trope, saying that the mustache itself doesn't look bad, "shame one guy had to ruin it for everybody"). But then the network had to pull this off, by digitally covering a swastika in the girl's armband with a (badly-drawn) Hitler-stache'd smiley face. The writer was clearly pissed, later venting off about this trope in one of his vanity plates. | |
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Averted in Hellboy (2004), where even the German dub didn't bother to censor the swastikas seen on banners in the prologue scene (set during World War II) and on a bar of Nazi Gold. Of course, as mentioned in the trope description, film was and is considered a protected art form, so there was no need to censor these swastikas. | |
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Oddly averted in the Doctor Who story "Silver Nemesis", in which De Flores is never actually said to be a Nazi living in exile (even though he obviously is), but his hideout is full of swastikas anyway. Swastikas are also shown in a WWII context in "The Curse of Fenric" and "Let's Kill Hitler". | |
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American publishers generally prefer not to include swastikas on covers, though they're usually fine with having them in the interior artwork. One example: the third issue of Fury: Peacemaker, a Marvel Comics series set in World War II, features a Nazi officer on the cover. His outfit is drawn to be historically accurate, which means it includes a swastika on his hat. Rather than change the art, Marvel strategically placed the book's logo so it covered up the swastika. You can see the untouched artwork in the collected edition of the series. | |
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YouTube does not like Nazi Germany swastikas in videos or video thumbnails and will demonetize videos that feature the symbol, regardless of the context it's used in. Youtube may also decide to block such videos in countries where the swastika is banned. This has made it necessary for creators to blur/pixelate the symbol or replace it with something else. | |
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In Doom II: The two secret levels are absent in the German version, as they are literally updated ports of two Wolfenstein 3-D levels, swastika-banners and all. Doom Classic Complete (as can be downloaded on the PS3) and the BFG Edition (available multiplatform) include the two secret levels, but with some major changes: Everything reminiscent of Wolfenstein 3D has been completely purged, all enemies have been replaced with standard Doom II opponents, and the levels themselves have been renamed ("Wolfenstein" to "IDKFA" and "Grosse" to "Keen"). The only thing that remains is the layout of both levels. No Swastikas nor Hitler portraits, the SS guards are replaced by zombiemen squads, and the unique map music themes have been replaced by the theme of MAP05 for both maps The GBA version censors the two secret levels but in a much tamer way, replacing Swastikas and images of Hitler with imagery from Return to Castle Wolfenstein (such as the Hitler portrait now being series Big Bad Deathshead). The SS Guards were untouched, German dialogue and all. The Unity engine port restores the original textures and level names, but replaces swastikas with the alternate triangular-shaped symbol seen in the newer Wolfenstein games, changes Hitler's face to not have a moustache (essentially turning him into the Staatmeister from the SNES Wolfenstein) and redubs the SS enemies to say "Schutzkämpfer!" instead of "Schutzstaffel!". |
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NationStates specifically prohibits the usage of swastikas in any of its nation's flags, even if the nation created is supposed to be a Nazi nation (or even if the swastika's usage is meant to be used as it was originally intended, as a religious symbol), as the symbol has too much negative connotations to the average viewer. | |
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An early example of this appeared in 1936's Charlie Chan At The Olympics, which were, of course, held in Berlin that year; all the numerous swastikas that appear (including on The Hindenburg) are carefully blotted out. | |
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Buddha-Jumps-Over-the-Wall from The Tale of Food used to wear a Non-Nazi Swastika and actually brings up the trope in one of his lines until said symbol is removed from his design and the dialogue replaced. | |
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Subverted with the German superheroine Iron Cross. During a fight with some Neo-Nazis in All-New Invaders, she defends her choice of name by pointing out that the Iron Cross as a symbol predates the Nazis, and has nothing to do with their hateful views or actions. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show follows this trope during Granny's World War 2 flashback. | |
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Alternate History Hub got around YouTube's ban on the swastika in any context by replacing the swastika on anything representing a Nazi Germany uniform with a black YouTube logo. | |
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In the video game Bully, for Halloween one of the male student characters (Gary) is shown wearing a version of Nazi uniform with the actual Nazi insignia clearly absent. This appears to be just a fact of gameplay rather than an individual case of censorship- the game was aimed at (and met) the requirements for a Teen rating, despite Jack Thompson's best efforts. And — teenage boys — school setting — not even Bullworth is that shit of a school. Later in the game, the nerds' leader Earnest has a flag design for his presidential campaign: a green flag with a white circle in the middle and a tilted black "E". |
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The Forza series, which allow user creation of racing car vinyls and such, forbid any form of "notorious iconography" such as Nazi swastikas, Japanese Rising Sun flags, Iron Crosses and even Confederate flags. Even when they added Nazi-era racing cars into their roster, they wiped out Nazi references in car descriptions. And though the games namedrop The Dukes of Hazzard as being The Red Stapler for the 1969 Dodge Charger through its customized model the General Lee which has a Confederate flag painted on its roof, chances are you'll receive the banhammer for driving a show-accurate General Lee replica online. From Forza Motorsport 6 onwards, all Chevrolet Super Sport cars have their SS branding removed, likely to avoid any references to that other famous SS. |
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Maken X and Maken Shao confused themselves over this one. German fighter Margarete and her troops wear red Nazi armbands and her fortress is full of Swastikas in the original Japanese version of Maken X. In America and Europe, all swastikas were replaced with the equally geometrically pleasing but less-offensive Chinese character 'mu'. Apparently somebody liked this choice, or just didn't want to repeat the censorship, so all versions of the remake Maken Shao use the same symbol. American and European Maken X also found the roman numerals on The Pope's wings changed (and the fact that he was The Pope was phased out), and a Muslim enemy's crescent-and-star design was erased. | |
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Subverted by the skateboard truck manufacturer Independent Truck Company, who used a variation of the Iron Cross as their logo. Co-founders Richard Novak and Jay Shiurman expressed concerns that the logo looked "too Nazi", but Jim Phillips, the logo's designer, was able to justify the logo by showing a TIME Magazine cover◊ of Pope John Paul II wearing vestments with the symbol in question—'Well, if the Pope has it, it must be okay!' They did however put up a disclaimer explaining their use of the logo and disassociating themselves from any supremacist hate group. | |
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In the South Park episode "The Passion of the Jew", Cartman starts a Nazi-like group disguised as simply a "Mel Gibson fan club" to eliminate Jews. The group includes all sorts of Nazi paraphernalia, such as uniforms and flags, with the Swastika omitted. Of course, South Park has no problem with offending people, and indeed had used swastikas before when Cartman dressed as Hitler◊, so the lack of the swastika was probably to make the group's real intentions less obvious to the people in the show — although considering the obviousness of Cartman's outfit, marches, and chanting in "Aramaic", one wonders if they'd have noticed. | |
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One chapter of Apollo's Song has the main character incarnated as a young soldier in Nazi Germany, escorting a trainload of prisoners to a concentration camp. Naturally, there isn't a swastika to be found. | |
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Some Asian tile sets for Mahjong have what may appear to be a swastika, on the Characters tiles. This however is actually a "ten thousand" character (wán in Mandarin Chinese, manji in Japanese). This ideogram of course never appears on Western sets; one of the other two "myriad" ideograms is used instead. | |
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Averted in A Foreign Affair, which is set in postwar Berlin. It even jokes about it with a former Hitler Youth who can't stop drawing swastikas wherever he goes. | |
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Strife has the evil Order, whose symbols include the Sigil (an O shape with three flames coming from the top), a stylised comet shape, and a Y shape. | |
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The Saboteur completely averts this trope, featuring swastikas on flags, Zeppelins and on armbands of Nazi soldiers. However, no direct reference to Hitler is made (only ever "The Fuhrer") and from early release trailers, all swastikas were replaced with the Iron Cross. Also, when Sean disguises himself as a Nazi, the armband disappears. German version still plays this straight, even with removing the few lines of Hitler taken from an old speech. Also, the game has a list of all people you killed, with "neutralised Germans" instead of "killed Nazis". Strangely the list says "killed civilians" instead of neutralise. |
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In The Great Dictator, a Double Cross functions as the Nazi's arc symbol. | |
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Played with in The Three Stooges' You Nazty Spy!: Moronica's national symbol is a swastika made of two snakes tied in a knot, and not rotated like the Nazi symbol (partially visible in this still◊). | |
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Oddly, the symbol can be found on the second boss in Bonk's Adventure. | |
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The villains of Bionic Commando (1988) were Imperial Forces trying to resurrect Hitler. For the English release, their symbols were changed, and even the mention of the Imperialists being Nazis were removed (the Nazis were instead known as the "Badds"). Hitler himself got a name change to "Master D," and his face was changed on the Evil Overlooker cover, though his in-game graphics were unaltered, including the famous animated picture of his head getting blown up with a rocket launcher after the Final Boss battle and the word "Damn" slipping past the Nintendo censorship. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam the cries of "Sieg Zeon!" at the state funeral of Garma Zabi and at all other points were changed to "Hail Zeon!" for the English language version. This may have been somewhat more effective if the Zabis weren't so blatantly Nazis IN SPACE!. Ginias Sahalin in the English dub of the 08th MS Team also uses "Sieg Zeon!" as a rallying cry, at least in the uncut dub. The Nazi motto Sieg Heil literally means "hail to victory". Sieg Zeon just means "victory Zeon", which makes no sense except as Gratuitous German for "Victory to Zeon". It was modified into something more grammatically correct and sensible for the English dub. Related is a scene late in the original series, where Gihren Zabi is compared to Hitler by his own father, and subsequently turns it into Insult Backfire; the Toonami broadcast had them discuss fascism instead, though the uncut dub retained the original dialouge. And of course, that's before we get into how later productions, primarily Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Gundam 0080, push the "Zeon = Nazis" thing to great lengths with uniforms and flags that are explicitly modeled on Nazi regalia (the only change being the Zeon emblem replacing the swastika). And then you recall how as of late, more and more Gundam stories paint Zeon as brave rebel heroes... What is funny is that the ideology of Zeon is called "Zeonism" and has been interpreted both with Hitler's "Master Race" and Zionist "Chosen People"-angles throughout the series, depending on whether Zeon is painted as sympathetic or not. It's also "funny" that the name "Zeon" was apparently taken by Tomino from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Patterns of Force" — that's right, the one with the Nazis. Except... he accidentally borrowed the wrong name. The Zeons were the analogy for the Jews, with another group, the Ekosians, actually being the Nazis... |
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In the episode of Hey Arnold! featuring Grandpa's war story, the German soldiers had scowling face insignias instead of swastikas. Quite funny, considering how they were allowed to show Hitler himself. Probably helped that Hitler was shown being noogied and wedgied by a younger Grandpa Phil. | |
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There were Bowdlerised versions for the PC made specifically for Germans, who could then download a patch to revert the game to its original form. Its Game Within a Game parody from The New Colossus, Wolfstone 3D, plays it straight, with all references to Nazis, Hitler, and swastikas replaced with the Kreisau Circle and its symbols and members, including B.J. Blazkowicz. And it's not just that, but some rooms shaped like swastikas in certain episodes and floors had to be redesigned. Two examples are Episode 2, Floor 5 (where the floor is redesigned not to look like a swastika), and Episode 6, Floor 3 (where the entire multi-swastika floor is redesigned to look like a Kreisau college or university). | |
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In the original serialization of Kaiju Girl Caramelise, Rairi's makeup bag had an image of a manji on the front, referencing the slang phrase "maji manji" popular among teenagers. This was changed to the text "Maji Manji" in stylized English for the official Japanese volume releases. | |
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In YuYu Hakusho, one of the contenders in Genkai's tournament has a swastika tattoo on his forehead. Naturally, it was edited from the Toonami airing on Cartoon Network. The Abridged Series lampshades it during his fight; Yusuke calls him a Nazi then his opponent corrects him by saying it's a Buddhist mark (which the swastika was, until Hitler warped it into the symbol of hatred and evil most of the Western world knows it as today). The manga version keeps it, but drops a long footnote explaining how it is most certainly not a Swastika in the first panel in which he appeared. |
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The German version of the 2009 Wolfenstein was heavily censored in Germany because of violence and swastikas, but oddly enough the censors forgot a small swastika from a note in a hospital in the game, that survived into the German version. After the website schnittberichte.com that likes to point out censors of all kinds in German media, jokingly pointed this out, Activison immediately called to return every copy of the game because of a "not outstanding element" to convert all copies. | |
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City of Heroes: Hitler's name is automatically censored by the profanity filter (mind you, it's easy to turn off said filter altogether). Said profanity filter is lifted wholesale from other games by the same publisher, so this may not be that special. The overthrow of the Fifth Column by the Council has been accused of being a retcon (for history's sake, read more here). The dev position was that it was part of the Myth Arc and now the Column's coming back, for real, good, and sure, with a character named Reichsman taking a leading role. Really Seriously. We can stop the debate now. Though there are still no swastikas, the 5th's logo is a V with a stylized skull over top of it. |
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Both averted and played straight regarding the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle. Since Nazis rule (half of) the United States following a German victory in World War II, swastikas are everywhere. They're on posters, on party member's armbands (modified with red and white stripes, since these are American Nazis), and even on the American flag (the stars are replaced with a big swastika). The advertising, on the other hand, plays the trope straight. The swastikas is nowhere to be seen. Even the aforementioned Nazi-American flag is modified with a Nazi eagle clutching an iron cross, instead of the single big swastika. The modified imagery still caused an uproar when it was plastered all over New York City subways. | |
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