Last Sunday I went to Duncanon reenactment fair. Among the Vikings, Normans, English 19th century infantry, the most numerous groups were soldiers from the 2nd World War. There was a quite big group of G-Is, but the biggest was a reenactment group of German SS.
People on the photo are not a nazi and shouldn’t be considered as nazi.
We have reenactment fairs so for me there was nothing new to see both Amercian, German, or Soviet (there was a few), but there is one thing which makes me wonder. Why all those Irishmen want to reenact SS - not real soldiers but the troops in charge of genocide, crimes against humanity, killing Poles, Jews, burning the villages etc?
SS it was the Hitler’s elite force, but it wasn’t army elite, and for sure they weren’t a human elite. They were taught to kill all “untermenchen” to wipe them out from the world, no matter they were to kill children, women or old people. They were also in charge of mass executions of Poles, Jews, Russians, and even German civilians in the end of the war (men who avoid joining the Volksturm).
I just wonder, what is so attractive to Irishmen to pretend being a murderer, a man who kills kids, women, men, who can shoot the mother and her child with cold blood.
Do they admire persons like Jurgen Stroop who was the butcher of Warsaw ghetto?
The second thing that struck me the most, was a number of Irish families with kids, wearing SS / Gestapo hats, especially hats of the SS guards of concentration or death camps (like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Gross-Rosen, Buhenwald etc.). Those guards were mostly former murderers. They were killing prisoners with cold blood, they were brutally forcing people to go into the gas chambers. They were also in charge of supervising and looking after gas chambers and crematoriums in all concentration camps.
I can understand that it was re-enactment, it was a family fair, but for the fcuk sake it is frightening to see kids with their parents wearing hats of the most brutally, most inhuman force in the history. Where is the craic, or maybe it is good craic for the Irish men?
There was also the exchange trade market for original or just reconstructions of uniforms etc. They were selling mostly SS hats or uniforms, or swastikas armbands. Is it a picture of family fair? Kids, parents and nazi symbols?
Do they admire Nazi German war criminals or do they just so ignorant? One thing seems to fits the picture perfectly. De Valera was the only president of neutral country who sent the condolence letter to the German Nazi government after suicidal death of Adolf Hitler.
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