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In reply to the discussion: How did the U.S. reform cult-like, Fascist nations Japan and Germany after WWII? [View all]moondust
(19,956 posts)37. Banning symbols helped.
Illegally displaying Nazi symbols in Germany can be punished by three years in jail. The ban broadly exempts art, but which works are allowed to show swastikas, SS sig runes and such is often more a matter of the medium.
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Germany's confusing rules on swastikas and Nazi symbols
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Germany's confusing rules on swastikas and Nazi symbols
Banning Confederate symbols in the U.S. after the Civil War might have prevented some of the ongoing divisions leading to current radicalization, but I don't know who would have enforced a ban across the large land area that was the Confederate South. Allied troops occupied Germany for decades after WWII and could have quelled any rekindling of Nazism.
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How did the U.S. reform cult-like, Fascist nations Japan and Germany after WWII? [View all]
Yavin4
Nov 2020
OP
The US didn't reform Germany. Germany reformed Germany. Japan is a completely different culture.
Nitram
Nov 2020
#13
Bad history, Left inTX. France punished Germany so severely for WWI that they suffered severe
Nitram
Dec 2020
#30
That's been tried (and failed) on numerous occasions over many centuries. I'm assuming your
Nitram
Dec 2020
#31