it depends. The swastika in general is illegal, there is only exceptions for
- historical depiction in a non-affirmative manner
- non-affirmative education
- non-affirmative cultural works (recently including video games)
NuWolfenstein 2 for example has 2 versions in germany, one where swastikas and nazi portrayal is removed & replaced by fictional regime flags and one where it isn't (both versions are uncensored in depiction of violence).
This is because the exceptions where just extended a few years ago.
However in general it is still verboten. If you for example are an antifascist and have like a flag with a swastika and below the writing "nazis bad" it's still not allowed.
Also recently a sceptic german content creator got into legal trouble because he shared how an image AI that was prompted to "create a germany ribbon" created a swastika ribbon. He wanted to raise a discussion why the AI automatically associated patriotism with national socialism and posted the uncensored AI image on twitter. He then got fucked by a NGO that charged him, despite it being contextually obvious that the guy is not appreciative of natsoc. He had to pay 4-figure fines in an agreement with the court
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