"FReepers are wrongfully looking at this from an American viewpoint. "
The American viewpoint is what put an end to those attrocities.
During WW II, Americans were ALSO "looking at this from an American viewpoint. ". View from a German viewpoint in WW II, Americans would have been considered wrong.
Simply, this is a case where we are right, and they are wrong.
"The American viewpoint is what put an end to those attrocities"
actually, the american and the soviet viewpoints.
Wrong! America got involved two years after WW2 started, when Germany declared war on it - and even then, 2 1/2 years passed until real action was taken (and Germany´s Eastern front already moving fast towards Berlin). So, the "American viewpoint" is one without any touch to the horrors of a Nazi government. America went to war, just like it went to war in Korea or in Nam. You never experienced the Nazi terror first hand. And imagine being a Jew today - if it were allowed for Neo-Nazis to display the swastika during a march through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin! No, it´s completely understandable to prohibit expressions of support for the Nazi regime. It´s not that the thoughts are criminal - expressing the thoughts in public is.