They have an official repo with all the government takedown letters: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns (Only from China, Russia and Spain at the moment).
As a result, a government takedown request can bring a rationale country like Germany on the list, doing the right thing, and still be viewed by US standards as violation of free speech.
Legal is different in each country. And honestly, Spain has a territorial integrity and a working democratic process.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/germany-ha...
But with all things learned, "our identity" certainly has a comparably low priority.
I cannot tell you who is in the right in Spain, but I am certainly cautious not to justify a crackdown on content by authorities.
And while it is true that symbols associated with the nazi-era are prosecuted, I do believe that the goal is immediately lost if used as a justification to restrict freedom of expression, which this immediate case could constitute. Maybe not, but I like to defer judgement.
With a perspective on current world politics I have the impression that the German solution is fairly inadequate. That is why I do question it.
Kind of a lesser of evils. Yes, we could blacklist all of Spain from seeing the takedown request and publish it in its entirety. Instead a bit of a screw you to the Spanish government. We can’t say what we had to blacklist, but we had to blacklist something, so wink wink, nudge nudge.