"Flooding the market with Nazi symbols is not something we want"

Game MD Felix Falk on the long struggle to allow games tackling Nazism and its imagery to be rated in Germany, and the responsibility of being part of "the social discourse"

In Germany, video games are able to depict many things, but they can't depict the events, icons or symbols of that part of history.

"It's not just swastikas," says Felix Falk, managing director of Game, an organisation that represents the German games industry. "It's a number of symbols and contents from that Nazi era, which are used in films or books - like Schindler's List, or other stories like The Diary of Anne Frank - but the same symbols would not be allowed in games.

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