GameRager: Parodical I think I meant. And also the gamer lobby could possibly support it, ot free speech groups in Germany. :\
Hmmm. I don't think there is a "gamer lobby" in Germany - even if it exists, it certainly isn't a political factor right now. The few media-relevant people who _do_ appreciate games have their plates pretty full with convincing politicians that video games do _not_ cause amok runs and school massacres (which some members of the conservative party claim they do). If these people tried to stand up for free nazi symbols they would shoot themselves in the foot spectacularly. In a situation where games are used as a scapegoat for several problems of this society already, the only people who speak _for_ games would then be easily associated with neo-nazis, i.e. the only political force that is detested by all others. That's political suicide.
There is no specific "free speech" movement in Germany. Free speech is guaranteed through the Basic Law (which serves as a constitution) anyway. As in all countries, the basic right of free speech is then limited by other laws, especially youth protection, morality, slander/libel, classified information, etc. Each country has its own peculiarities with regards to such limits, and a specific German peculiarity is that nazi ideology is a much more sensitive issue here than anywhere else, because (as the country from which this ideology originated and which committed atrocious crimes in its name) we have a specific responsibility to not tolerate it ever again. For 65 years now it has been a consensus among all political parties (except the neo-nazis) that this specific responsibility weighs in heavier as the "free speech" ideal (up to the point that stating the opinion that the Holocaust never happened, or was "only" one historic mass murder among others, constitutes a criminal act). Again: this has been a consensus among all democratic German parties for more than six decades. It's deeper ingrained in German culture than (for example) the right to bear arms is ingrained in the US culture. A couple of people who'd like to have uncensored nazi symbols in their video games are not going to change that.
As a side note, I don't think that the depiction of nazis and their symbols in most video games is parodical either. In most cases they are simply used as a cookie-cutter evil adversary, specifically one that is so well-known that no further explanation about its evilness is necessary, and one that is so immoral that any means to stop them are justified. In many cases nazis (as depicted in video games) are simply interchangeable with demons, both share the same game-relevant properties. id software actually made exactly that switch between the original "Wolfenstein 3d" and its successor "Doom". They didn't meant to do a satire or parody on nazis, they simply wanted an adversary for their game that would justify the carnage without putting any work in a backstory. Nazis and demons both fit the bill, but nazi depictions run into the aforementioned historically grown problems in Germany, so they chose demons for the later games.
