Here's how the Germans 'censored' the scene with Hitler in Wolfenstein 2

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Wolfenstein 2 takes us into an alternative future in which the Axis Powers have defeated the Allies in World War II, and the US war of independence this time has nothing to do with Boston Tea Party but shooting of a film about the protagonist BJ Blazcowicz that would be directed by the Nazis. The scene we are talking about involves a paranoid Hitler who seems to be suffocating from coughing, but this does not prevent him from emptying a magazine into a person who is allegedly Jewish origin and who addressed to him with the wrong title.

Considering that the Germans also decided to play Wolfenstein 2, and Nazi symbols and references there are prohibited by law; Developer MachineGames had to censor, which, among other things, shaved Hitler's mustache. Similarly, Hitler changed his name to Heiler, his subordinates do not call him 'mein Führer' but 'mein Kanzler' ('my chancellor'), and Hitler himself avoids to accuse an actor of him being Jewish.

Many players disagree with this form of censorship, and one of them stated that they "deprived us of great stories by removing incredible voice acting, resulting in meaningless mess in narrative; and then they were still insolent enough to serve us this while thinking we would not notice those obvious changes".

Tagged with: Controversy, Wolfenstein Series

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Galactic

They should have just cut the content completely instead of making such absurd changes to censor the game




Interstellar

It's ridiculous and absurd, german censorship always tries to beat the shit out of nazi related content, as if it would soften german war crimes.