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Did you not read your own link, this was not an attempt to give the tea party a bad name but to siphon conservative votes away from the GOP, fail. Good try at deflection and hijacking of thread.
To quote the Soup Nazi, no soup for you!!
Wrong. Just like they put up someone to draw votes, they could also put up someone for other nafarious reasons.
Regarding Germany's "accomplishments," actually, anyone with a brain should study their military accomplishments. Yes they did it for evil, but a tiny country took so much so quickly and took years for the entire world to defeat. A person into military history can definately admire such a feat despite condemning the evil of the Nazis.
Not necessarily disagreeing, but how does "re-enactment" fit into that? Has any historical knowledge been gathered that we didn't previously have? For education, time spent reading Shirer is better used than time spent on ebay getting that genuine "Meine Ehre heisst Treue" belt buckle.
Not necessarily disagreeing, but how does "re-enactment" fit into that? Has any historical knowledge been gathered that we didn't previously have? For education, time spent reading Shirer is better used than time spent on ebay getting that genuine "Meine Ehre heisst Treue" belt buckle.
Some people like to experience history first hand...closest thing is re-enacting sometimes. A lot of serious historians might get into it...myself, I have a full set of buckskins I've hunted in some, most of a set of clothing for a Revolutionary War era militiaman, and bits and pieces of Civil War and WWI and WWII...
Actually, spending a hot day in a wool civil war uniform, or lugging a smokepole around the mountains, tells you a lot about what things were like that a book can't fully convey.
Looking over the list of units on the "WWII Historical Reenactment Society" site, Waffen-SS is disproportionately over-represented as compared to Heer. People of a WWII reenactment bend appear to want to be Waffen-SS - and one can't help but wonder why.
Interesting. A friend into WWII reenacting (the American side...), said once finding authentic SS units to take part was difficult...maybe it's location or "authentic" where the rub is...
The Germans and especially SS did have some of the best equipment of WWII. Some of the first to use good camo, for instance. The Waffen SS were some of the toughest and best trained fighters.
Are you sure he isn't a Democrat? I wonder if he joined all the communist, marxist, socialist and radical group at the "One Nation Working Together Rally" in DC .
Speaking of which, one of the key "senior managers" of that rally, Roz Pelles, the Washington DC based Civil Rights Director of the AFL-CIO, has direct links to the "Greensboro Massacre" of 30 years ago, in addition to being one of the then leaders of the radical Workers Voice Organization AKA Communist Workers Party.
Of course, such trivialities are of no interest to those who despise conservatives, tea party activists and those political candidates endorsed by them.
The Germans and especially SS did have some of the best equipment of WWII.
I think you may uncovered the reason Waffen-SS is overrepresented - cooler stuff to play with, snazzier uniforms. Because I will admit that the SS was as snappily dressed a bunch of genocidal criminals as any we'd ever had to consign to the darkest pages of history.
I think you may uncovered the reason Waffen-SS is overrepresented - cooler stuff to play with, snazzier uniforms. Because I will admit that the SS was as snappily dressed a bunch of genocidal criminals as any we'd ever had to consign to the darkest pages of history.
Why isn't the fascist, I mean fashion, designer mentioned in the history books?
Until the 60's when they did away with the boots and breeches...the NJ state police uniform was oddly similar to the German military uniforms...actually there's still a resemblance...
Until the 60's when they did away with the boots and breeches...the NJ state police uniform was oddly similar to the German military uniforms...actually there's still a resemblance...
One year, I was shopping through the 50 State Police Uniforms Catalog to find friendly gold badges for my Parking Angels.
Most of the State police badges were nazi-menacing-looking, with those grotesquely stiff eagles dominating.
I purchased the friendliest ones, which happened to be Texas State Police.
I think for purely statist authoritarian expression, the nazi's had it nailed.
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