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I second the Iron cross,

that way you can be the black Templar of chaos.

 gmatthews wrote:
Its not like im modelling a little hilter and death camps for objectives, i'm borrowing a real world armies theme for use on my Guard. Doesn't make me nazi. Problem is cenorship, people want to censor everything. Bottom line, its my army and if i think it looks cool im going to do it anyway.

It's nothing whatsoever to do with censorship. You're not being told that you can't use the swastika. You're being told that it isn't a good idea because it will upset people.

Not doing something that you know will upset people isn't being censored. It's making a concession for the sake of getting along... which is a part of fitting in in a social situation.


By all means make your Nazi-themed army. But don't be surprised when people make assumptions about you as a result.

 gmatthews wrote:
Its not like im modelling a little hilter and death camps for objectives, i'm borrowing a real world armies theme for use on my Guard. Doesn't make me nazi. Problem is cenorship, people want to censor everything. Bottom line, its my army and if i think it looks cool im going to do it anyway.

Cool, then since the SS weren't an army then you don't need to have SS symbol and swaztica everywhere.
We can't make you paint them anyway but we can object to it being in our tournaments.

It is censorship, deal with it. If you want to integrate with the wider world you need to either self censor or be told that certain things aren't cool. GW's grimdark future has many types of discrimination within it but it's not against human beings, of any kind. I doubt any GW will allow a Nazi/SS themed army in the store as it can conflate the xenophobic anti-alien nature of the 40K universe with the xenophobic anti-semitic nature of nazis. That is just bad PR.

The IG is somewhat inspired by the Nazi Party, what with commissars and the Steel Legion, but otherwise are mostly unassociated. If you wanted to make an SS commissar as a SHOW model for yourself/as an awesomely painted mini, and not a playing model, that's fine, but just don't use it on something you're going to bring to someone else's home or your FLGS. I'm going to third the Iron Cross idea, because people will still recognize it as being German, but not associated with the holocaust.

EDIT: Underlined text is incorrect. Commissars are actually inspired by Russian commissars, not German SS officers, and the Steel Legion is more WWI than WWII. My bad.