The problem with that is limiting the restrictions of so called *free speech*
You know that the neo-Nazi were allowed to march and demonstrate last week near Berlin on the anniversary of Rudolf Hess' death in Spandau Prison? There were many legal restrictions -- no Nazi flags, Nazi songs ... etc.
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The crimes of the wartime regime are a matter of great sensitivity in Germany, where symbols of the Nazi regime, such as the swastika flag, are banned and where education about the dangers of totalitarianism and racial politics are a staple of the school curriculum.
But Berlin's senator for interior affairs said banning this gathering would have been impossible to reconcile with the political freedoms of a democracy.
"I would have been delighted with a ban," said interior affairs senator Andreas Geisel. "But we looked very closely at the matter and concluded that unfortunately arseholes also get to benefit from democratic freedoms."
Hess, who was the last war criminal in Spandau Prison when he died aged 93, was appointed Hitler's deputy when the Nazis came to power in 1933, a position he retained until 1941, when he flew solo to Britain, believing Hitler wanted him to negotiate a peace between the two warring sides.
He spent the rest of the war in prison in Britain before being convicted of crimes against the peace at the Nuremberg military tribunal.
https://ca.reuters.com/article/topNe...CN1AZ0G6-OCATP
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