According to the West German government, Gunship was guilty of “promoting militarism,” which made it “particularly suited to disorient youths socially and ethically.” Germany has a complicated relationship with its last hundred years of history. In 1986, a sizeable percentage of the population still held the horrors of World War II in living memory. There was—and still is—a profound sense that the cultural conditions leading up to it must never be allowed to happen again, and many corrective measures were imposed both internally and externally during the postwar years.
