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I'll be there in mufti. This year they are not allowing SS units to be politically correct.
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I'll be there in mufti. This year they are not allowing SS units to be politically correct.
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Are you serious ? If that is true this will be the last year I attend.
I'll be there in mufti. This year they are not allowing SS units to be politically correct.
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Truth be told, I'd rather be Heer. My mother's a lilttle upset with me for it - she was born in Denmark three weeks after the Germans rolled in and grew up under occupation.
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What is the noise level like at these events? I think my 5 year old would love it, but if it's earplug level, it might be too much for him.
It gets pretty loud, they sell ear plugs there but I use to bring my own when my son was little. You can google Battle for the air field re-enactment and watch the video to see what you think.
"Hogan's Hero's" will be banned as well as "Rat Patrol", "Combat", "Guns of Navarone", "Tobruk", "Where Eagles Dare", "Von Ryan's Express", "The Dirty Dozen", the list goes on.
I said to my wife over a month ago jokingly, "watch they will ban Gone with the Wind soon." A week later a theater in the south banned it from viewing. WTF???
Email conversation with my unit leader:
Me: Is this the event we're going mufti? Why?
"There's no SS allowed"
Me: ?!? Perhaps we should have Heer tunics; looks like a great event.
"Its a great event i used to crew 9th SS Tiger tank at that event, and last year i drove Bob Collings original Panther."
Me: Is there a Heer unit we're friendly with we could play with next year?
"Not likely most heer units won't let the SS come play. There used to be SS until last year. Then the neighbors made a stink that Bob bought 25 tanks so now no SS to keep everyone quiet."
Me: We can't wear smocks and play? I don't get it. Newbe to politics. But at least no SS insignia nor on the helmet with a cover. Decent compromise to me.
"SS Smocks are different"
"Most Heer units look at the SS guys as knckle dragging thugs and don't really give us respect. Some do. But its just like the 1940s the Heer wasn't happy when the SS turned up"
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At least one SS crew is here and they brought their Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer tank destroyer. Very nice.
Hopefully picture shows, from the phone at the show.
Ban the History channel.