"Have you noticed that our caps actually have little pictures of skulls on them?"
Posted on 06/17/2023 11:16:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
WWII re-enactments draw dozens in Nazi uniforms — and one Jewish educator working to make sure the Holocaust is remembered (Can only be linked to, per FR rules)
Yeah, we gotta watch out for those Nazi uniforms and symbols, so potent that they caused the Holocaust, all by themselves.
When one forgets history it will be re-enacted?
They borrowing the Nazi stuff from the Ukraine military? The symbols of the 14th SS Grenadier Division seem to be popular there.
It is the people who are attracted to those symbols that are disturbing.
Yeah, seems like that’s been referenced before. “Those that ignore history will make a wrong turn in Memphis..” Or some such.
When I was a kid going to gun shows there were tables and tables of Nazi memorabilia everywhere. That’s all it was, viz. memorabilia. Don’t see it much anymore at gun shows.
I think it was Albuquerque.
True, which is why such people may merit scrutiny, less so the inanimate symbols. Toward that end, there is something to be said for possible kooks displaying their affiliations. Seriously dangerous people of course tend to hide what they are about.
My impression about the German reenactor groups (back when I followed reenacting) was that they realized they were under intense scrutiny, took what they were doing as living historians very seriously, tended to focus more on equipment and tactics than the period politics, and kept the unhinged and problem cases out of their groups.
The most problematic reenactor group I ever witnessed was a Free Polish group.
When I was a kid there was an abundance of all sorts of WWII stuff available. The surplus stores were a gold mine for boys.
Yep. There were buckets with Lugers for $25/each. Before my gun buying days though. You could buy them from the back page of the American Rifleman (NRA’s publication; before LaPierre destroyed the NRA) and have them delivered to your house via USPS.
When we played army, we had dummy mortar rounds, dummy grenades, gas masks, pilot oxygen masks, field telephones, backpacks, web gear, entrenching tools, first aid kits, ammo boxes, pretty much anything an army would need in the field.
"Have you noticed that our caps actually have little pictures of skulls on them?"
Sadly, the Allies forfeited much of their moral standing with the Free Poles when the British failed to provide pensions or medical care for them after the war. They were left to hardship as individuals in exile in the West, with the Polish nation itself abandoned by the West to domination by Soviet Russia.
Of course, whether as ill-treated soldiers, their later day reenactors, or as a nation in captivity, Poles have a tendency to be troublesome. A fairly good case can be made that the USSR and Soviet communism dissolved because Poland and the Poles proved to be indigestible, ready for the bitter glory of guerrilla warfare if they could bring down Soviet Russia in the process. Not even the Kremlin was willing to accept such a risk.
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