From: utzoo!utcsrgv!bobr Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Nazi symbols in Das Boot and other movies Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.484 Posted: Mon Jul 26 17:32:10 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 17:40:20 1982 There certainly is "some sort of" a ban on Nazi symbols in West Germany. I'm rather ignorant about the the details, BUT I'm convinced that (e.g.) Fassbinder did not do anything remotely illegal when he used Nazi symbols rather extensively in his 1980 movie "Lili Marleen". Christoph Bobrowski ..!utcsrgv!bobr