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Scotian · 03-21-2005, 11:47 AM

I can see a company wanting to sell to Germany, and taking such actions, but considering what it is they are making (i.e., professionally made historically accurate models), I would think they would find another way. Two versions of the model would be expensive, for German customers anyway, but it is their stupid law that would require it.

I call the law stupid because certainly by now merely seeing a swastika would turn a German into a Nazi supporter no more than an American seeing a *** symbol would turn him into a klansman. I would say this is a European phenomenon, but even here in the US we have idiots kicking children out of school for making a gun out of their fingers during recess. But this is probably not a discussion for this forum.

I wonder if selling the things with appropriately colored tape over the mind-controlling symbols would satisfy both the German law and the German collectors -- it apparently worked at the toy fair. Non-German collectors may end up buying both versions -- you know how obsessed collectors can get.

I have heard that in some history-related circumstances the swastika does not have to be hidden in Germany, but I guess the law doesn't include these models, no matter how historically-minded they are.

03-21-2005, 11:47 AM	#4
Scotian Junior Collector Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 9	I can see a company wanting to sell to Germany, and taking such actions, but considering what it is they are making (i.e., professionally made historically accurate models), I would think they would find another way. Two versions of the model would be expensive, for German customers anyway, but it is their stupid law that would require it. I call the law stupid because certainly by now merely seeing a swastika would turn a German into a Nazi supporter no more than an American seeing a *** symbol would turn him into a klansman. I would say this is a European phenomenon, but even here in the US we have idiots kicking children out of school for making a gun out of their fingers during recess. But this is probably not a discussion for this forum. I wonder if selling the things with appropriately colored tape over the mind-controlling symbols would satisfy both the German law and the German collectors -- it apparently worked at the toy fair. Non-German collectors may end up buying both versions -- you know how obsessed collectors can get. I have heard that in some history-related circumstances the swastika does not have to be hidden in Germany, but I guess the law doesn't include these models, no matter how historically-minded they are.