Oh, that's super-interesting, thanks for the link. I didn't know about that.
And yeah. I've known a few people who have played Nazis in WWII reenactments that were about educating people about the horror of that war, and not about running around playing dress up. And it was serious, uncomfortable, solemn business for the folks, who were willing to take on filling the necessary Nazi roles.
But man, every year when it's "oh, look, Nazis" time at Dragon*Con in the bar, I am pretty unhappy (largely, because there is a fairly responsible core group of WWII reenactors who go to D*C, but when people show up in the bar in Nazi uniforms, no one comes out of that happy. Or shouldn't anyway).
This dude in Ohio, as you say, looks like it was even worse than "oh, pretty uniforms!" which is the usual level of assholery, you see. This was just... I still can't even quite get my head around this existence of that one.
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Date: 2010-10-13 03:34 pm (UTC)And yeah. I've known a few people who have played Nazis in WWII reenactments that were about educating people about the horror of that war, and not about running around playing dress up. And it was serious, uncomfortable, solemn business for the folks, who were willing to take on filling the necessary Nazi roles.
But man, every year when it's "oh, look, Nazis" time at Dragon*Con in the bar, I am pretty unhappy (largely, because there is a fairly responsible core group of WWII reenactors who go to D*C, but when people show up in the bar in Nazi uniforms, no one comes out of that happy. Or shouldn't anyway).
This dude in Ohio, as you say, looks like it was even worse than "oh, pretty uniforms!" which is the usual level of assholery, you see. This was just... I still can't even quite get my head around this existence of that one.