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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- "Kleinigkeiten: Anachronisms in Cultural Depictions of World War II
• KLEINIGKEITEN: Anachro...
From the @HandGrenadeDivision channel
Image of "Iraqi POWs, 1991" from Stars & Stripes
Image of Tuskegee Airman by MSgt Stanley Coleman, USAF Public Affairs
Photographed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, 3 May 2009.
"Soviet Execution" video recorded at World War 2 Days, 8 Sep 2018, Dellwood Park, Lockport, Illinois
• Soviet Execution
Other reenactment footage courtesy
First Special Service Force Living History Association, Alberta
More information on the German Army in general, and the 65th Infantry Division in particular, can be found at www.handgrenadedivision.com and @HandGrenadeDivision
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100% agree, the "get on knees" thing is a big issue with GI reenactors
Yes, it is the standard now in many militaries, along with zip tying hands. They just didn't do that stuff in 1944 though and it looks awful to those who know the history.
@HandGrenadeDivision luckily where I reenact, it has dyed down, and you don't see it as much, and I'm starting to see the more historically correct casual surrendering. Especially late war
I was a WW2 reenactor about 15 years ago and I can safely say that a lot of those involved are not interested in the history as much as they are the “theatre” of it all. I was in my early 20s and those of us that were younger found it a constant battle with the older heads. We were more about the history, accuracy and research and wanted to get it correct. Having realistic displays based on actual campaigns and having battles based on real engagements. The older ones would say we were being too strict and would be more interested in just generic “allies vs axis” battles and displays showing rows of tents and equipment. There would often be arguments around what was “acceptable” to reenact and what wasn’t. They had their list of things that were not acceptable under any circumstances and executions was one of them. We always argued that if you were replicating a battle where executions did happen (d-day or the bulge say) then it should to be acceptable to show providing context was given. They just couldn’t get their heads around reenactments of real battles and showing things that actually happened over just generic “good vs bad” battles in which good wins 99% of the time.
Keep it real...and authentic, even if not always dramatic.
Agreed man, and one other thing I'd like to mention is Americans being rough with peoples items. I once had a GI throw my buddies p38 in the mud (which was a pain to clean lol). And I've seen GI search dead Germans and take their sidearms without permission. And personally people should ask before touching things at public events.
Awesome to see my Grandfather's unit patch from WWII in the footage