As of Friday, video games with Nazi imagery can be sold in Germany, after a regulatory body lifted the ban.
According to CNN, the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body allowed games to be given ratings even with the imagery if the symbols' use is considered "socially adequate." The symbols must have artistic, scientific, or historical relevance.
Late last year, a debate was raised around the video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, which features a Nazi victory in World War II and an elderly Adolf Hitler. For the version sold in Germany, Hitler's characteristic mustache was removed, and the swastikas were altered to triangular symbols.
Other games have also been edited in the past.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, this ruling doesn't change German law, which still comes down hard on Nazi sympathizers or Holocaust deniers.
This ruling comes ahead of the world's largest gaming convention, Games Con, which will be held in Cologne from August 21 to 25.
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