Can GOG publish games with nazi symbols or is this impossible because German laws about that can be applied worldwide if Germans can buy it?
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a for details about the law)
For example, Indiana Jones 3 had the swastikas censored in the German version (see http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=4013 when the website works again) and surely would be a good old game.

It seems that all of GOGs titles so far are the North American/US released version, so I really wouldn't expect it. Besides, with some of these games, they probably can't modify them to remove the symbol (not that they should anyway).
EDIT - Now that I am re-reading that wiki page, assuming the law as stated is correct, it wouldn't even apply to GOG since the law specifically addresses producing and/or distributing the symbols domestically (within Germany). GOG is a Polish company so they are not bound in the least by the law.

Those weird Germans and their as much as strange laws :-P
*Just joking*

Coming from an Italian where the Prime Minister introduces every year laws with to sole purpose, to prevent law enforcement on himself.
*No joking*
:)

Thank GoG, they're not German. Alas, they are Polish, so probably games with inverted crosses will be bad.;>

Me => :-(

And games with homosexual characters. Didn't Poland try to ban the Teletubbies because one of them carries a purse? And as we all know, seeing a handbag in the hands of a completely sexless fictional creature will turn any male child watching it into a homosexual.
Still, GOG has never shown the slightest signs of censorship. Let's hope they're never forced to start.

I don't think the laws of Germany apply to a Polish company...yet.

Banning nazi symbols is a really stupid and Orwellian idea anyway. Germany may feel bad about its past, that is understandable, but you can't simply rewrite history and pretend it didn't happen.

Aside from things like VAT, I don't think that GOG is bound by any regional laws. They certainly don't seem to be bound by German censorship laws.

The ban on swastikas has nothing to do with the country of origin of the company involved. Most WW2 strategy games made by companies worldwide use the Iron Cross as the standard Nazi symbol because of the swastika ban, otherwise their games cannot legally be sold in Germany.

Yet it happens all too often. Both Germany and Japan have done it with WW2.

In very different ways, though.
Germany at least admits that its actions during the war were unjustified. In recent years, Japanese History texts have still been proposed that describe Japan's actions as necessary, and gloss over such things as the Rape of Nanking as really not being that big a deal.

However, the German effort is a curious two-pronged attack, since in Germany it is also a punishable offense to deny the holocaust. So the ban on swastikas is not so much a denial of history, more a desire not to be reminded of it.