A float at today’s Rose Monday parade in Düsseldorf. Float by Jacques Tilly and his team, photo by Christoph Schroeter
It’s part of a set of satirical floats, all made by Tilly. Here is the rest.
Interesting, this doesn’t violate German laws regarding the showing of a swastika?
That’s a common misconception. German law actually allows the public display of swastikas in certain, so called socially adequate (that’s an actual legal term), situations. Satire is one of those. If anyone can see that you are making fun of Nazis it’s allowed. Another of those adequate uses is in art. The use in video games used to be prohibited for reasons that are to complicated to explain in this comment (involving an actual Nazi and a pirated copy of the game Wolfenstein 3D) but now they are counted as art as well so it’s fine there as well.
The use in video games used to be prohibited […] but now they are counted as art as well so it’s fine there as well.
This one depends on context as well. But as a rule of thumb, as long as the game uses them in a setting that doesn’t glorify Nazis or maybe in an educational/ “edutainment” way (e.g. the FMV game “Attentat 1942”), it’s ok.