I need Swastika decals for the fin of my Stuka, Me 109e and focke wulf 190 they are 1/18th scale and came without political markings, so lame!
Maybe the Germans would have won the war if they didn't have swastikas on their planes. :roll: More stupid political correctness crap. :evil:
yeah... here in Holland it's inpossible to get any set with swastika decals. I don't get it... what's the problem with those? It would only make my models look better...
I sort of understand about the part about swastikas being an offensive emblem. But then again, I seriously doubt that somebody offended by the Nazi symbol would buy a Stuka model otherwise.
I was going to buy a model of a dutch Fokker monoplane fighter with Finnish markings in Germany untill I opened the box in the store and saw that all the Finnish swastikas had been painted out on the decals, not even descretely either, with great blobs of gold paint!!! I can understand not wanting to glorify the Nazi regime, but this does seem a bit petty.
I seem to remember that the Swastika symbol is illegal in Germany in anything but historical documentation, which may be why they're so fanatic about removing it from models.
Even then (AFAIK) it has to be covered when on public display, I can recall going to an antiques and collectors fair in Germany in the early 1990s where some Nazi era memorabilia was on sale - all had the price tags strategically placed to cover the Swastikas. Apparently even German veterans if they wish to wear their medals for remembrance services or similar occasions have to have the Swastikas covered or removed.
Just wondering... are Axis Facist symbols (Such as the Italian airforce roundel, always looks like three guns to me but to be honest I'm not really sure what they are! Or the Spanish Facist cross?) also banned in any countries?
I don't think so - after all they carry far less negative connotation compared to the Nazis. Remember that there is a difference between Fascism & Nazism (basically one is a repressive regime, one is a repressive regime that does ethnic cleansing on an industrial scale). A stylized representation of the Fascina, the symbol of authority/power in ancient Rome and where the word 'Fascist' derives from. It is basically a bundle of rods with an axe in (the sticky-out bit is the axehead), bound with rope.
I am not aware of any other nations symbols being banned. The russian army even still has the soviet red star as it's main symbol....
Thanks Ricky for the explanation, and thanks Castelot. I didn't expect any other symbols to be banned to be honest, I was just wondering if any were.
It's a fact that Germany is more conscious of its own past than most other countries, possibly even more than is good for them because they're really shy of even facing some parts of it such as the Swastika on model planes.
You think it has to do with conciousness about the past? i don't know, could be. My guess would be that they wouldn't like it to distribute the swastika over europe (and the rest of the world) again..
