"...then I read the details, and oh man, they actually ADMIRED those Nazis and that's why they were doing it..."
I was afraid of that.
I mean, FFS, I'm German, and you'd have to do some pretty hard convincing about your motives to get me to participate in a reenactment that included Nazi officers (then again, my being German is probably part of the reason why). That's on top of all the skeevyness issues I already have with most historical "re-enactments", especially the ones that gloss over the not-pretty aspects of the period being re-enacted (RenFaires, I'm looking at you, never mind the historically wrong bits).
Then again, my Oma lived through the period in question, so I know from second-hand some of the psychological trauma that comes with being complicit in that shit.
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Date: 2010-10-13 03:53 pm (UTC)I was afraid of that.
I mean, FFS, I'm German, and you'd have to do some pretty hard convincing about your motives to get me to participate in a reenactment that included Nazi officers (then again, my being German is probably part of the reason why). That's on top of all the skeevyness issues I already have with most historical "re-enactments", especially the ones that gloss over the not-pretty aspects of the period being re-enacted (RenFaires, I'm looking at you, never mind the historically wrong bits).
Then again, my Oma lived through the period in question, so I know from second-hand some of the psychological trauma that comes with being complicit in that shit.