What Happened? What is Going on?
Both Portrait of Erwin Rommel, a German field marshal, and Yamamoto Irosoku, a Japanese Naval Marshal Admiral, has been quietly removed without notice. Just like Before, When they Removed Panther A “R02” From the game.
Were they Guilty War Criminals?
Definitely Not.
Neither of Them both was a War Criminal, and haven’t sympathized with their “Leader’s” Ideologies. They Were just Soldiers, Who fought for their Country as they should.
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel was a soldier who fought in both World War I and World War II. He was an officer from a commoner background, and did his best only as a soldier. He was later implicated in the attempted assassination of Hitler and forced to commit suicide.
He didn’t defend Nazi ideology unlike some of the SS and some of the generals, but rather looked very negatively at the crimes of the German leadership.
He was mostly against Politics, Unnecessary deaths and War crimes. He even once said :
“Justice is the indispensable foundation of a nation. Unfortunately, the higher-ups are not clean. The slaughterings are grave sins.”
Yamamoto Isoroku
Isoroku Yamamoto was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Combined Fleet. He commanded the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Guadalcanal, and several other naval/air battles. He hasn’t been involved in any war crimes, even though he was a very high-ranking general of the Japanese Navy. He was killed in 1943 when his G4M was shot down by a P-38 while inspecting the island of Bougainville.
He is still highly regarded as a master of aircraft carrier tactics, which pioneered modern aircraft carrier operation methods for the first time.
Are they Illegal to be used?
Definitely not, Even in Russia. I’ve even checked the Law Against Rehabilitation of Nazism.
The law introduced Article 354.1 to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, making it a criminal offense “to deny facts recognized by the international military tribunal that judged and punished the major war criminals of the European Axis countries [this refers to the Nuremberg trials], to approve of the crimes this tribunal judged, and to spread intentionally false information about the Soviet Union’s activities during World War II”
According to Article 354.1, To Deny Facts or To Advertise The Criminals who were recognized by the Nuremberg Trial is illegal.
But both Yamamoto Isoroku and Erwin Rommel Have NEVER been Recognized or Reported as War Criminal. It was by both Their Death before end of war, and Their innocence.
They both were just Soldiers who Served for their country, and tried best in their state. They weren’t involved in any War Crimes, and could be used Legaly, unlike the LSSAH marking on “Panther A No. R02”
Rommel, For Example, Even his book “Infantary Attack” has been selected as one of the recommended books list of Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Commonly known as Frunze Military Academy) and United States Military Academy (Usually known as “West Point”).
Why have you removed those Portraits?
There is no reason for this, this is Ridiculous and Un-understandable. Despite it being Completely Legal, Devs have Removed those Portraits. Even without any Notice or News.
In the case of Panther, it can be understood that the SS symbol is illegal in Russia.
But this situation is beyond anyone’s comprehension. Why did you delete the portrait that was Completely Legal?
@ChuchaDrucha @1942786 Please, Could you Please Answer and Bring those back?
Unlike Panther, Those Portrait has No other Legal Issues. It Could be added without Fuss. Why are you already afraid of a problem that even can’t exist?