10 Things You Didn't Know About Inglourious Basterds
9. No Swastikas Allowed
Rather than submit Inglourious Basterds to the German film classification board and risk it being banned due to Nazi references (which it would have been), Tarantino decided to have all shots featuring Swastikas removed prior to submittal. For anyone not aware of German law: the country bans any use of Nazi imagery unless it is for historical purposes. Due to this, it was highly likely - if not 100% certain - that Inglourious Basterds would have been banned outright from being distributed in Germany because of its extensive use of said imagery. The classification only covers Nazi imagery though, so the use of a fictionalised Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Nazi death didn't seem to bother the classification board that much: all of that remained. We can only imagine that any film scene depicting the death of Adolf Hitler is one that is welcomed in Germany.
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