ooo NO ONE ooo, on 20 August 2019 - 04:31 PM, said:
Again not defending the Germans or Japanese. Do you think German civilians didn't suffer unbelievable atrocities too? How about 2 nuclear bombs on Japanese civilian cities?
Yes, they did suffer atrocities. But suffering atrocities is not the metric we use to judge culpability for the war and ALL of the atrocities that came therefrom, and the moral judgement of history - and the expressions of that judgment (in this case the illegality, and moral offense, of display of the Nazi swastika, et al). The culpability lies with the aggressors. Notably the Imperial Flag and Nazi Flag represent fascism, and regimes that entered into wars of annihilation based on racism and ethnic superiority. Target populations would be erased, or literally enslaved.
That the German population suffered atrocity does not erase the crimes of the of the Nazis, or provide a moral counterbalance to allow for the display of the Nazi emblems.