Hi Uriah,
sorry for not commenting more often; I have been having a huge workload in the last months. Regarding your question, I can give you my informal legal opinion as a German lawyer that depicting people showing the salute is admissable in Germany. I hope you understand I can't run that through our opinion committee, though, so I can give no reliance on that
Reason is basically that depicting a swastika - that being a graphic symbol - means using it, while depicting the Hitler salute - being a gesture - does not mean using it.
Yes, it's weird, but anti-NS-legislation has some of the worstly designed provisions in German law (including tax law
). Our federal constitutional court has recently ruled that some of these provisions are basically unconstitutional, but that they won't strike them because Nazis are evil. Quite literally putting it that way.
Allright, I have to go back to catching up on your AAR. You owe me several fingernails for the French incursion! I hope you can beat them back...
PS: it may make sense to contact a mod beforehand, since forum rules may well be stricter than German criminal legislation.