What's What! Video Game Facts (82/365)

As you can imagine, Germany doesn't care to much about a couple of years of its history, you know which one of them, but Nazis and everything that comes with them, are something of a sensitive subject. The German government doesn't acknowledge video games as art, and thus doesn't offer it the same protections like movies, and like many video games developers use these infamous historical characters in their plots, the true is, the Nazis are the perfect villains fascism, racism and hatred in its maximum expression, but if companies still want to venture into the German market of video games, they had to give their arm to twist and modify some aspect of their video games.

The most recent example is the games Wolfenstein: The New Order that for the German release of the game, all Nazi symbols and references were removed, because it is a criminal offence to display Nazi imagery on toys in Germany, toys not art again, to please the local censors every single reference to Nazis were removed and rename the Nazis to The Regime.

All swastikas were eliminated as well from the German version, so if you guys have played any game of the series of Wolfenstein, you will know that the Nazis are like central keys of the plot so that such modification of the parameters of the game must require a lot of extra work, surely they have to change names, faces and dialogues as well. I think it's silly but it's the law, even so I think that ignoring the story and one as dark as that is to tempt fate so that someone repeats it.

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