The ancient arms of Coburg (left) featured the head of Saint Maurice, a symbol looked down upon by the Nazi party. "This has long been the case for films and with regards to the freedom of the arts, this is now rightly also the case with computer and videogames." Heraldry Nazi era coat of arms of Thuringia with the lion holding a swastika. "Through the change in the interpretation of the law, games that critically look at current affairs can for the first time be given a USK age rating", USK managing director Elisabeth Secker told CTV. On August 9, 2018, Germany lifted the ban on the usage of swastikas and other Nazi symbols in video games. Today, certain countries such as Germany (see Strafgesetzbuch section 86a), Austria, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, China and Israel have banned Nazi symbols and it is considered a criminal offence if they are displayed publicly for non-educational purposes. The Nazis denounced the black- red- gold flag of the Weimar Republic (the current flag of Germany). This colour scheme was commonly associated with anti- Weimar German nationalists, following the fall of the German Empire. The black-white-red motif is based on the colours of the flags of the German Empire. The formal symbol of the party was the Parteiadler, an eagle atop a swastika. The Nazis' principal symbol was the swastika, which the newly established Nazi Party formally adopted in 1920.
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