A Muenster court has reaffirmed the ban on recordings of the Nazi era which a Duesseldorf firm sought to have lifted. The recordings, produced by a Lichtenstein-based company, were marketed in Germany by the firm as scientific documentaries. The court ruled they were nothing but propaganda for the Nazi ideology. The records carried titles such as “Waffen SS”, “Feldzug Im Westen” and “Blitzkrieg In Polen”. They contained speeches, songs and news reports.
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