WW2 German Army Uniforms at Galas.......thoughts

Just as all British soldiers swear allegiance to the crown but this does not make them all Royalists. Whilst conscientious objectors were allowed in the UK, the same option did not exist in Nazi Germany - you could have tried but you would have been shot at best. The fact that many former combatants have met and formed post war firendships would seem to indicate that not all German soldiers were monsters. I've met a couple of German war veterans, the father of a German penfriend and the father of a school mate. Both were ordinary guys who would have much rather there not been a war and have been able to have lived normal lives but that option wasn't open to them. Digression over.

 

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One preserved line, sorry I forget which had one station dressed up to look like a British station in WW2, the other end of the line like one in Germany, whilst the one in the middle was transformed into a French station during the Occupation and near there train passengers could see "members of the resistance" in combat with "the Wehrmacht".

I believe the SVR did well last year when the public could attend the 40's weekend wearing Luftwaffe, Wehrmacht or Kriegsmarine uniform, but not that of the SS, Hitler Jugend or Madchen. As Adolf Galland stated "the Luftwaffe flew for Germany, not that bunch of beer swilling thugs from Bavaria".

 

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german uniforms at steam events in the Uk arent historically accurate but then again nor is having a Dukedog at the Bluebell or a King at Didcot. Not my cup of tea but Preservation is largely in the entertainment business not the Museum business. Not really my idea of entertainment

 

Slightly off topic, but has anyone thought about American, Canadian, Australian or even Polish uniforms.. afterall they were allies and were based in the UK.

 

American WW2 uniforms are popular at these events and I have seen Red Army ones too.

 

I only have experience of the SVR 1940s weekends, but they are extremely popular, with large numbers of people attending in period costume / uniform. Behaviour is universally extremely civilised, it's as if the time warp imposes its own standards, to which visitors happily subscribe. If you don't like the idea, don't come. As for the people in uniform...whatever floats your boat.

 

"appropriate," that weasel word again. What, precisely, does it mean? Who is going to judge what is, or is not, "appropriate?"