That's what makes me sad the most about this.

Astounding, but not at all surprising, considering how ahistorical the typical American mind is.

Mind you, in my part of the country one can easily find antique shops carrying "big black mammies" and other such racially offensive items. And yet the complaints, they do not come.

Or Math.

aye, vikings, Celts, Germanic tribes - they all used variations of the same symbol

Very true. And yet no one thinks to ban Wagner.

The swastika was used by german nationalists long before Hitler took it as a symbol for his NSDAP.

Or Wernher von Braun.

Cripes, I guess we need to pull System Shock 2 now as well, since one of the spaceships is the Von Braun.

It turns out that the german launch was a disservice to german customers. Most of them speak english well enough to buy games on gog.com and one major advantage of this site was that it did not have to obey the excessive german censorship regulations.

(This is coming from a german)

I see myself as an Earthling (sometimes even this is hard) and am sick of all this.

Maybe GoG should really run a nation, maybe a little enclave in Poland, but I won't march in there first, it would give people ... erm... the wrong impression.

"For fifteen years after World War II, von Braun worked with the U.S. Army in the development of ballistic missiles. As part of a military operation called Project Paperclip, he and his rocket team were scooped up from defeated Germany and sent to America where they were installed at Fort Bliss, Texas. There they worked on rockets for the U.S. Army, launching them at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. In 1950 von Braun’s team moved to the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala., where they built the Army’s Jupiter ballistic missile.

In 1960, his rocket development center transferred from the Army to the newly established NASA and received a mandate to build the giant Saturn rockets. Accordingly, von Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel Americans to the Moon."

Well there were "some" german scientists that found promising work in the Army after WW II.

I agree.

Hey, this is really OT, kind of, but is the uncut "Clockwork Orange" still unavailable in the U.K.? Is there a regional lock for that stuff?

Whaaaat? I honestly hope you are joking. Why would that ever happen?

Oh yes, I am quite familiar with Operation Paperclip. Just one of the many shadowy decisions made by my government. I personally think that von Braun and the rest of his Nazi cohorts should have been held to account, rather than whitewashed into American life (including giving von Braun a role as the face of space science at Disney). But then I am probably too moral a person to engage effectively in realpolitik. And "too moral" is a surprisingly low bar in that arena.

It's a joke aimed at a certain Romanian who likes Sacrifice a bit too much.