Just to clear things up a bit.

I´m German and a scale modeller for 35+ years, building mainly US-Cars and WW-2 tanks and planes.

Here in Germany ANY insignia of the III. Reich that are not used in a historical context are banned, and showing them in public is VEBOTEN.

And yes, that includes model kits and renders of CG-Models.

Showing or trading historical photographs are OK, trading with medals, coin, stamps that show the Swastika or SS-Runes is OK , too, as long as it is done for HISTORICAL RESEARCH only and very limited.

(So no German publisher would be able to print a comic like ILSA, for example. Strictly speaking, you are not even allowed to host a picture like that on a German server, because the SS-runes pictured are used just for entertainment, not for historical schoolarship and research.)

Renactment (Public AND Private) of any kind is STRICTLY VERBOTEN. You can collect and own German uniforms for research, but you are not allowed to wear them.

Parading around in a WW2 Uniform or showing Nazi insignia in the German public for whatever reason will earn you jail time, period.

Enforcement once was so strict that even the tiny swasticas on an Afrika-Korps Palm symbol of a 1/35 scale tank had to be blackened out before the kit could be sold here.

Built models that were shown in public exhibitions must have had Swastikas or any SS- symbols removed or covered.

Standard German WW-2 crosses (Balkenkreuze) and standard German Army (Wehrmacht) symbols are OK, though.

But things have relaxed quite a bit and at least in regards to scale modelling these laws aren´t really  enforced anymore.

But still, any PUBLIC exhibition of Nazi symbols, especially with the intention to show one´s political opinion is still STRICTLY prohibited and will be prosecuted, as we unfortunately (Like any other country) still have our share of right-wing nutjobs, who would like to bring the "Good old times back",

Just a sidenote: It took the German Television over 30 years before they dared  to show StarTreks TOS "Pattern of Force", and I think Fawlty Towers episode "The Germans" still hasn´t been shown.

;-)

Stahl "Don´t mention the war" Ratte