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Monday, February 7, 2011 17 24 GMT First published on Monday, February 7, 2011 17 24 GMT.
Since it is illegal in Germany to show almost anything linked Nazis, it may be a surprise that a game Top Trumps style with Hitler lasted so long.
But two years after the Tyrants game hit stores, prosecutors are investigating whether it breaks German law by using the symbol of an unconstitutional organization a swastika, half obscured the Hitler card.
Prosecutors in Nuremberg also examine whether the German manufacturers, Weltquartett have acted illegally by using the dictator's face showing her face can be problematic, says Antje Gabriel Gorsolke, chief prosecutor of the city, but we are especially concerned about the swastika this instance.
A copy of the game 10, which has no connection Top Trumps was seized at the fair Friday the Nuremberg toy Hitler appears alongside Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin and Joseph Stalin Nazi is the top asset der Blitztrompf because " he was responsible for most deaths 55 million, according to the game the other categories include age to take power, the time of the power and private wealth.
The game was invented by Jörg Wagner and Jürgen Kittel Kittel Hamburg police said, they said that we were lucky that the swastika was covered mainly we told them that luck wasn t; Before we purposely started making the game, we did that we knew the section of the Criminal Code which deals with the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations We never sought legal advice, but we thought we respected .
My colleagues and I are convinced that we have done anything wrong, but I can not say for certain that we won t finish in court there some time a leftist organization was fined for printing T-shirts with a swastika on them, even though the swastika was crossed out.
Kittel said he had the idea of a German version of Top Trumps several years ago when he found some classic games in the attic of his mother.
He insisted he was not glorifying Hitler and said that games were never to be taken seriously, but information they could be of course, the game is not to the taste of everyone Everyone finds this kind of black humor, sarcasm, funny.
The game continued the tradition started by Charlie Chaplin in the film The Great Dictator, Kittel added.
It could be a costly joke According to Gabriel-Gorsolke in the prosecutor's office in Nuremberg, if officials are found guilty of violating the law on unconstitutional symbols, they could face up to three years in prison.
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