Reply To: Remembering D-Day and the difficulty of being a German

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I’ll throw another two cents in. (Mainly to cover myself for the Bootcamp! :O )

So on top of Fallschirmjager, Royal Ulster Rifles, Army Rangers, and 1980’s 82nd Airborne impressions,  I also portray the Norwegian Conscripts/Volunteers with the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division “Nordland”.

Now (as a disclaimer) like any sane person I deplore Nazism. My Grandfather was at the Beach 75 years ago today trying to stop it. However, I feel that these types of representation are acceptable if the people portraying them are:

A) Sane
B) Well informed
C) Portraying it within context
D) Objective

I also use my own spin, that being using it to teach people about how evil Nazism is by showing them what it made people do/forced them into. I could go on with examples of the foreign legions etc, but hopefully you guys catch my drift.

(And now I wait for the ban hammer :P)

PS: Stay tuned to the Boot-camp blog for some cool sh*t. 😉