The Reich Reenactors: VICE Reports 

VICE there are thousands upon thousands reenactment groups(not counting Air soft , paintball) from Moscow to Vancouver & Manila that do events like this. Seriously get the fuck out into the world and actually cover news

Congratulations VICE! You managed to show a laughable shitty reenactment performance (you were in the UK, so what was expected to begin with?" Next time go to a normal reenactment in Middle Europe, like Slovakia, with actual experts and reenactment groups, not one where they will dress up any random guy as an american, with soviet partizans, armed with a lee-enfield. This shit would not be tolerated at normal reenactments.

When you call the entire German armed forces at the end, "genocidal murderers", I think you loose credibility. If you took the time to realize that the Wehrmacht were (for the most part) nationalistic men serving their country, you can see why these reenactors take offense to you calling them Nazi's. Furthermore, "Nazi" is just a derogatory term for National Socialist. If you called the average German Soldier a Nazi, he'd probably beat you up. I understand the negative connotation surrounding the SS, and it isn't far fetched. However, for the sake of history, I think removing the SS entirely from all reenacting groups for sake of political correctness, is a terrible idea. To cast such a negative light on people trying to preserve history is doing a disservice to them, as well as those who they are trying to honor.

VICE Considering Britain's own militaristic imperialism of the world with a special acknowledgement to the enslavement and killing of the peoples of Africa, India, and China I don't think any Briton has a right to criticize the Third Reich . And don't go putting a timetable on events from the past, the moment you start doing that you start giving a pass to those atrocious acts done by this party or that !

Not to mention fucking Communism and the fact that Mao Zedong's face is still on money.

I agree with you. Glad to see my favorite YT reenactment channel here :)

Love your channel man! Glad to see you here on this awful video.

chad moment

Hey, nice to see an expert give his two cents

Boy am I glad to see you here!

I hate how they don't realize Nazi was a political party. It's like saying Democrat soldiers instead of US soldier.

Cougar Davis and what’s nazi short for? National Socialist. But most people who throw the term nazi around liberally never use the correct name.

I hate how they call the S.S. Monsters. Because my great grandfather was definitely not a monster

The nicht nice Guy sorry but we’re talking about reenactors not actual SS. Waffen SS soldiers were ideological tools of the national socialist party. Completely different. The SS committed horrendous crimes and are rightfully condemned as monsters. These guys are just reenactors.

Exactly I agree

patrick to man ray when he dropped his wallet

He's literally talking with people who are specifically defending the SS, so I don't know why you're asking about the difference between the SS and Wehrmacht like that's relevant

@@robrotron2084 even when he's speaking directly to the reenactors in a derogatory manner?

Wehrmacht is a regular German armed forces. SS is a soldiers that directly take order from you know who, basically political soldiers, or loyalist forces (loyal to certain someone not Germany). So yeah, it's different. Then again it would be asking too much from this reporter to look up that fact. They just want to score some brownie points not reporting facts, like your usual leftist

@@novanoir8309 true.

@@robrotron2084 He is not, and the difference is relevant. When in the video are they ever specifically saying: "The SS was good"??? Theyre trying to convey the whole time that theyre not nazis. And sure lets say reinacting german soldiers during ww2 isnt ok. They still never said they were defending the SS, sorry your point doesnt hold up. Think before you write.

Apparently neither do any of the people dressed up in nazi uniforms

@Chicha 17 sure they are

@@hardcoreallstar "nazi" uniforms ?:DDDDDDDDDD what a uneducated fuck

@@hardcoreallstar go home!

@@polygonalfortress no you go home YOLO 0430

Plus the gunfights, the interaction, that's Airsoft reanactment, it would be insane to see a big team trench warfare match with whistles blowing and people storming

@Edward Cardona *gasp* he said something neutral-positive about germany cancel him! #notmypresident #hillary2020

This seem cool but the helmet from the thumbnail used to be an aerial warfare not a landbased troop If they just put the SS insignia it would be look much accurate

They still dont have to reenact SS. They could just as well be wehrmacht

@@granola661 you mean heer?

Now that’s funny

He should lose his job

No he shouldn't

@@gorguts5537 why not, He's just spouting lies

@@noname7187 absolutely not, I am a reenactor though and I am on the German side and I know they aren't Nazis. Nor am I.

@@noname7187 What does being a liberal have to do with literally anything he said, I think VICE is one of the worst and most misinformed news agencies out there, the vast majority of his claims are unfounded and have no evidence or really almost any argument to back them up, the only thing I could say is like I said in my other comment some units do legitimately believe in Naziism but they're so rare and ostracized that it's unfair to treat everyone doing it as a Nazi, he is indeed lying through his teeth most of the time to cater to a certain audience so he may perpetuate their echo chamber, especially in a time so "Nazi Heavy" as this where everyone gets called a Nazi if you disagree with someone politically.

Incompetency at ones job is a valid reason, but then again you can't just lay off your whole company *cough 5% laid off so far

PC people becoming Reporters will be the end of us all

Fun Fact, he did actually lose his job after making this! I guess Vice noticed the backlash and wanted to save face

Will Girvan the entire company is like this, they are thick in the damn heads

Agent Ohio THATS FUCKING AMAZING! VICE should just go fucking belly up because they are such a left sided pos company

Tankies???!!!

He lost his job after this video was released lol

@@mrkiiprototype2938 bruh .. probaply because vice couldnt accept that they were wrong

Letsss gooooooooo

@@WW3Polak look up vice news thinks wwii reenactors are nazi on yt. The creator mentions he lost his job.

mrkiiprototype what a tool lol

Thats how they think, they try to spin a political narrative on everything. It's sickening and a tactic of manipulation.

@loudatyourdoor The most common rule is that you'll get thrown out if you show any nazi beliefs, either at a unit level or otherwise. They just want to reenact history, and keep the politics out.

@loudatyourdoor is it political if we reenact napoleonic battles? Nope, it isn't. It isn't political either when ww2 documentaries are made, this also applies to ww2 reenactment since WW2 reenactments are just how the battles play out

@loudatyourdoor war is political, but i fail to see how reenacting an event is political. It's like saying a history book is political, it shows us past politics, but the book, just like the reenacting, isn't political

@loudatyourdoor what makes a book more objective? Just like a reenactment, it is ment to portray what the author/actor interprets of the events.

And just mocking them and being absolutely disgusting and vile. Guy should lose his job for this unacceptable garbage.

Next time in a reenactment, just try to ignore these shits. They just want money

@@CT-hr9nk thankfully, he actually got fired after making this documentary. It’s good to see people like that face karma for their actions

@@Slash766no vice probably only fired him because they were facing the consequences, and I’m not 100% sure that he was the only one who supported this video at vice.

Most likely they lied their asses off the entire time and the organization that let them come and film had NO IDEA that this was going to be a smear campaign against what they do. Probably why they don't mention a group name these guys are with because they'd probably have sued VICE for defamation and won millions.

Finland either.

Oh boy if this "man" would see Finnish airforce units *current* flags he would flip out

@@KoteDarasuum Well they dont have them anymore :/

@@namastedikka2985 yes we do have them still today on our unit flags contrary to popular belief. We took these airforce flags back in 1955 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Air_Command

@@KoteDarasuum it was changed 3 days ago without any statement

Problem is we really don't know all that much about what REALLY happened to regular grunts in ANY war other than a few isolated incidents where those guys spoke or wrote about it and even those are up for debate if there are contradictory statements.

I agree

But they are offended by history books...

Why would they fire him? They are the ones who sent him out to do this.

Misanthropic Servitor of Mars If you send a guy to buy you bread but you find out he bought you cheap hot dog bread you would be pissed

it's like being offended when you play as the nazi's on call of duty

HAH right on the button

Alfredo Re this is hilariously true, AKs all the way

Yep

*Is auto-balanced to terrorists during a casual game.* The 40 pounds of C4 that magically materialised in my car trunk:

fun fact, osama bin laden had counter strike on his hard drive so there is a chance someone played against bin laden on counter strike

Typical cat the re-enactors or vice?

Bro Facts

@@KNNY_-sp6kq vice

Typical cat ye

holyshit yeah or play "violent videogames"

Never let him be a soldier in any capacity, he's so fat he'll eat the unit's entire cover out of boredom

@@JohnsonTheSecond XD

@paul its true

@@JohnsonTheSecond He'd fit a good Franz Neuhausen

Snipers, who wait in the same spot for weeks or months: *Laughs* “you fucking idiot!”

At this point “self proclaimed history nerds” are literally calling every german soldier a nazi. Bro what is happening to this generation…

He didn't say anything about the Americans as well

VICE and their filthy Journalists should be silenced and eliminated and it should be ruled out as "suicide". China does a great job on that so why dont we??

@@mosesImmanuel-sc6zy americans weren't that bad in ww2 tbh, other wars it's a different story.

That's because vice looks at topics with the brainpower and maturity of a 2nd grader

@@orangesel9338 Compared to Germany, Russia and Japan they weren't that bad but still not good. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_liberation_of_France en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead

That Idiot probably just pissed of every busdhist ever

idk how vice could get any fucking dumber

So Buddhism is Nazism now? A religion that is centuries older than the Reich that barely lasted 15 years is still Nazism? O k

@@joshuatumambo5674 NO, The Swastika actually Symbolizing Prosperity and Good luck. But the Nazis changed it into a hate Symbol.

Just poor choice of words on his part. That really should have been edited out. The Eastern history of the Swastika is hardly obscure or unknown.

Go ahead and do it. German is kinda expensive if you want to do it right (and not like these FARBs in the video), but it is fun. Also I have the feeling a few Jews on the German side would really help take away from the stereotypes we reenactors face. And honestly I would find it hilarious to have an Event on a jewish holiday and have a whole company of wehrmacht soldiers celebrate channuka or the like

Shhhhhhh, wouldn't wanna upset the anti America circle jerks... they don't like it when people have an opinion.

@The_Jaguar_ Knight Honestly, I've seen Soviet reenactors take far more flak then any German reenactors.

I do Soviet reenacting and this double standard is too common. I've been to events where SS impressions are banned, but you can have a photo of Stalin and hammer and sickle flag publicly displayed and no one says anything. Seriously people, either accept that it's a reenactment and don't object to anything or be offended by all the bad guys.

The prince of Nigeria *remove the glass and black hat* I.. agree

I think this " journalist" was a vulgar buffoon. Reenacting can draw an odd one from time to time. Be it playing a Brit, Russian, German, Marine, Japanese or other. One constant throughout all of it is that no radical ideology or politics are welcomed, and they will be quickly asked not to participate. I think the journalist may be cut of the same cloth in not being able to differentiate reality from reenacting. Then again, kids who don't understand something and may be a little frightened pick fun as a defense. It's the cooler thing to do besides learn or accept.

Yeah people seem to forget that the average german soldier has nothing to do with a concentration camp and jews. Also people seem to forget there were tons of valid reasons for Germany to go to war prior to ww2. Unfair payments for the prior war for example rendering the country crushed economically. In my opinion our actions after WW1 really caused Germany to go to war.

@@user-dd9dh9kw5c Victoria bastard children is the cause. ww1 i call The Family Schism. Britain Russia France Germany they were all related. Nicolas II and king George V can be mistaken as twins but are cousins.

@@user-dd9dh9kw5c Blame France for the "Treaty of Versailles". They're the ones that wanted to punish Germany more harshly for ww1 and said that the Treaty treated them "too leniently".

@@Become-Eggplant we did a oopsy

@@Become-Eggplant Not harshly enough if you ask me but that's a different topic

Same 😂

And I’m a capitalist billionare because I play the Americans

I’m a baguette for playing French

See you in Hague then.

sorry man i am a stalinist for playing as the ussr in hoi4 and aoc2 D;

Yeah I agree...it is all weird!

@@TBFSJjunior it's not weird some people just enjoy reenacting

Jakob Schulze dang let people do what they want especially since they’re not hurting anybody

It is different still no problem.

Ssshhhhh keep your voice down or else they'll make a video calling Confederate renactors white supremacists.

I'm pretty sure he did get fired for this one

sign me up

Probably every major media outlet like vox and every other one that has just kept going down hill.

Imagine Baggins God that interview is so fucking brain dead he is fine with a Soviet soldier but not a Wehrmacht

@@magicman3163 he'd like to be a Soviet soldier probably

Its a shame they used to make some fantastic content

And thats why i love vice

Vice tends to shift from reporter to reporter in terms of quality, a similar video on Americans who re-enact the Vietnam War was done very well, and much of their legitimate news (Not human interest) reporting from active war zones like Iraq and Crimia is very well done.

Ben Anderson is a great man, check him out

Which works 🤣🤣

I knew for a fact vice was dead once it sold. They stopped doing actual dangerous or important journalism and instead started doing stupid pieces like this.

i definitely understand how this could look to some people, but its honestly just a hobby, its all about being fun and educational

the big thing a lot of people seem to forget, is the German army, and the German people are not Nazis, Nazis, or the Nationalist Socialist Party, are the political group, not the army, which was called the Wehrmacht, most soldiers in the military, including some SS groups, were conscripted, and forced there by threat of harm to them and they're family, the SS was also larger than just people like the Gestapo, I'm not 100% on this, but I'm fairly certain the Sturmtroopers were also a part of the SS and they were the equivalent to let's say the US Army Rangers, they were shock troopers of a special forces back ground. Most people today are forgetting a lot despite the whole "Never Forget" ideology. Nazis have absolutely nothing to do with these people here re-enacting Wehrmacht units, the legitimate average joes, as you said "Cogs in a machine" as are most soldiers from any country unfortunately, the guys re-enacting the SS unit, i understand the people of that unit in history have committed terrible crimes, but these people haven't. Like that guy said this unit was the first unit into Stalingrad, that is huge historical significance considering the battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the war with the Eastern front which led to a Russian advance all the way to Berlin to end the second world war. To someone who isn't interested in this stuff particularly I understand why a lot of these opinions are said about this, but also as someone who doesn't have these interests I don't blame you for being jaded against the idea of it, and anyone who hasn't thought about how it could be viewed negatively is lying lol, however, if you were to research this more you would see that with this history of what really happened these people aren't pretending to be Nazis, they're just playing army in the woods, except now they can afford cooler sticks lol the other side to this, is you not wanting to be a German in a ww2 re-enactment 1 makes sense, and 2, is more commonly the thought process, so if everyone shared the same view of that, everyone would be fighting on the allied side as what ever GI they want right? In this case you were a paratrooper from the 101st Airborne regiment, probably the most famous unit from ww2, if everyone is an American GI, who would you fight against? if everyone had the same interest there wouldn't be anyone pretending to be Germans for you to shoot at right? Growing up in North America I was subject to all of our equipment at family days and even when I was an army cadet I got trained on the C7 rifle, I know lots about our stuff, that's why I personally started collecting Soviet stuff, because its different and I get to learn about something new

@Crishai X because they know a large mass of the population willfully believes anything if they can google it. whether they be facts or lies

this isn't harassment

They really ran out of ideas didn't they

Harassing people that willingly allowed him to film and play with them? Isn't that a bit if a stretch?

Well constantly calling them nazis when they're not is at least very disrespectful

Joel Dorne So you want censorship?

No, no need to remove it, but its still one sided, but we all knew that was coming the second we saw it was vice

Thomas Giblin So you want to ban one sided journalism? What about freedom of speech?

Guten Tag mein Name ist Freedom of speech is bullshit when degeneracy like this is released.

@@lololololololol He wasn't saying they should ban it, it's like me saying I don't like the color purple. Not saying I wanna ban it, just that I don't like it. Also these assholes are pretty one sided from time to time but they do make some good content on some topics non political

WW2 Reenactments without the Germans would be like a Star Wars movie without the Empire/Separatists. It would suck without it & completely ruin the point of it existing.

This ^

Wait, didn't the host say right at the beginning that they weren't Nazis? Why is everyone white knighting on behalf of these guys? They're grown, educated men with a hobby they know is weird.

O ya baby I like it when you're angry. Haha who cares man. Haha i straw manned your ass and got you to write a paragraph trying to defend yourself

Are you actually laughing at your computer? Because that's weird. When was the last time your dad said he loved you?

kissfan7 well actually because of such heavy marxist indoctrinations in university these days it has degraded alot of people down to the status of sheeps and cucks considering all this safe space, special pronoun trigger warning mumbo jumbo that only over grown children could actually make relevant in modern society. Another point is that because of all this brainwashing some people wouldnt be capable of understanding that people wearing swastikas in historical reanactments arent actually nazis so typicaly a lefty propaganda outlet like vice has to keep reassuring its hive minded viewers that which is really dum dum.

Vice is the tool bin that only has a left side

They are run by biased tools

Miss old days when their CEO with mf balls of steel making good content about warlord, terrorist, etc

@@adamhielt1945 ahh the good ol days of vice. *Abu hajar!!!*

North Korea actually makes more informational news than this

Damn

@@jakartagamer6188 that's just kind of sad

@PanzLevz yeah I high,y doubt that. Why are you neck beard nazis so cringey...geez

@@ms.bunniesarecute2287 Just because you doubt something doesn’t make that something any less true lmao.

Exactly

An american unit in the infantry had a swastika part of their patch, changed during ww2. This guy is a little ignorant prick

@@Smitherrrrs 100% correct!

Swastika is basically just a good luck symbol, has been part of European culture for thousands of years, still a big part of Asian culture, sure it was used by bad guys, but they also used eagles, does that mean eagles are bad? they used the colour green! By god! Green is a nazi colour!

and does it even matter. Do they not understand the meaning of reenactment. Like wtf.

I wanted to like, but the number of likes is perfect...

Theanimatronix hAHaHaAHa 69 is sooo funny Shut up

fUcKiNg BoOk

Reenactments don't teach history dumbasses

Most people are offended by history now days

Ahh, please, go ahead and enlight me about what the Partisans did wich was "bad".

@@ernstschloss8794 Does terrorism, the murder of civilians and POW's qualify as bad for you? I'm not defending what the german side did, I'm saying that war crime, is still, a war crime, independent of ideology, purpose or means. One side doing war crimes doesn't justify, morally or factually the other side doing the same. In war, there are no "good guys", just victims, psychopaths(which sometimes are victims too) and everything in between.

@@HansChucrute88 I say violence leads to violence. And I fucking hate liberal crybabies and hypocrites judging both the nazis and their enemies as equals, as there was not one side attacking and one deffending. Also, I'd love to see the result of politely asking the nazis to leave. I agree, War and it's crimes are independent of ideology. Thus, try asking the Red Army to restraint itself after recovering inch by inch of soviet soil and finding out what the germans had done there. Or even more so, the Partisans ( for it was THEIR VERY OWN familys, farms and villages being pillaged, raped and burnt) "Yeah comrades, but it's not the germans, Ohh no! just the nazis. Besides, it's not proper socialist to hate everyone" Good luck on that one too. "You reap what you sow".

In albania partisans were the good guys.But the leader of them started a dictatorship after the war.But still we thank them for liberating our country from germans and italians.

Ernst Schloss well the partisans were fighting to free their country but they sometimes would be extreme. The are cases of Americans having to liberate German POWs from French partisans since they were know to execute prisoners on mass.

Allahcuckbar next they'll be after your profile name

Louis Burke or be on the Eastern Front for that matter, farby fat fuck.

Cyber Stein Okay, but how would a No4 Mk1 Lee Enfield end up on the Eastern Front in the hands of an American soldier?

That annoyed me too lol

Colton Seems you have forgotten that it’s a fact the Americans sent fighter pilots for Air support on the eastern front and did get into dog fights with the Russians over Russia same with the British don’t be so ignorant now

I saw that two said nothing

she represents potatos

Gage Larkin GLORIOUS POTATOS FOR FATHERLAND

They do. And you just called them Soviets rather than Russians. Pretty much the same as saying Nazi rather than German.

@@MrCmon113 The soviet union was a state, and thus, they are soviets. But I agree on the nazi thing, no one is calling US soldiers democrats.

HexxyEEE I'm sure he would prefer to play Xbox

Yeah, that fat idiot reporter. Get of his fat ass and get some fresh air.

1: spending time OUTSIDE 2: walking = exercise = bad 3: carrying HEAVY old rifles all day is more excersize 4: doing thing IRL is harder then in a videogame 5: he didn't want to be a Nazi so they went out of thier way to accommodate him... 6: they didn't have to give him a gun or uniform, they could have just been "oh you're a battlefield reporter, u get no uniform" and been done with him Day just TOTTALY wasted

@@chriscary4074 Wtf is your comment? I really don't understand what you typed. Proofread before you post.

@@ve6009 all the reason the fat kids day is ruined, work on your reading comprehension skills

It seems weird to say you love it history is pretty much nothing but people hurting each other and it's even more strange when the specific history that you're focusing on is one of the most gruesome events ever recorded I'm not just trying to have some moral High Ground or point a finger at you but genuinely I truly don't understand how you feel love towards history I find history very interesting and i enjoy learing about it but I wouldn't say I love it I'm not glad that these things happen but it sounds like you are like you're glad World War Two happen because now you get to watch movies about it that's truly what it seems like

@@rickyjiggens2180 I didn't mean that I love history as all its deaths and all of its genocides, I just like learning about it.

Listen to how he calls a soviet soldier "team mate." Lol. Edit: As an 'American' soldier.

Ofc, next week in VICE= Why real communism will work (and why Mao's purges were beneficial for humanity in the end")

When you ignore how the soviets looted and raped as they went through Germany and treat them like the good guys

@@herrbear3049 to be fair the germans did the exact thing went they went into russia so retribution? and the allies to though the latter to a lesser extent so ehhh good guys in war is a a more of a lesser of the evils concept ngl

Kevin Tan they did loot and commit war crimes like killing civilians and prisoners but raping was seen as a major crime and was severely punished

He’s a “self proclaimed journalist “

I love the way he cares about the Nazis but not the Soviet uniforms

Nah vice is just garbage in general

Friend of mine did something similar when he went to teach English in Japan lol.

And is just downright idiotic. He calls the Luftwaffe the SS. And wore a US uniform on the eastern front.

lol historical inaccuracy go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

@@WiseMysticalTree7 He explained why he wore that uniform you idiot.

@@HUNKunit and why is that exactly?

Yes

Exactly!

@@josecolon2717 You should know, the acronym is "Nazi"; not "Natzi". If you study WWII, please learn that. Jeez.

Joseph Dockemeyer sry auto correct... actually how did that get in the auto correct dictionary like that, that’s not the correct form of spelling either...

@Chicha 17 "Nazi" was actually used because non German speaking people couldn't say Nationalsozialismus. My Great-Uncle was Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, the famous WWII flying ace. You can find him on Wikipedia and see videos about him here on RU-vid. My Great-Grandfather was Josef Hartmann and he waa a Colonel in the Wehrmacht. He owned an Import/Export company in Berlin before and after the war. One of my relatives worked for Deimler-Benz while they made Panzers for the war. My Great-Great-Grandfather was a general to the Czar of Russia and the family owned a large estate in Ukraine. I was born in France and live in the States.

Its not even about the Crimes in Reenactment, its about showing historical relevant conflicts. Its not like they show the execution of american soldiers or jewish childs as a screenplay or something.

@@Intrepid17011 most of reenactments are just documentations.

@@magnuscritikaleak5045 True, Live Action Documentarys.

In all fairness some of the guys in the video are playing Fallschrimjägers.

Anthony Downes ok and? They were paratroopers I don’t get what you are trying to say the were luftwaffe.

@@anthonydownes2286 What's the point? Are you just pointing out that there were paratroopers in the video too? Or was there some other meaning you were trying to get across that isn't very clear?

Jesus Christ not really, I mean you could but I don’t have a issue with the ENLISTED AND NCO group I can’t emphasize that enough. As the Wehrmacht did commit war crimes on a smaller scale. However saying that does that mean ever Soviet soldier was bad? Or Japanese? Of course not.

They can get sued for defamation and they should

he was fired

@@syndicate4417 oh blyat, really?

@@syndicate4417 really? hahaha. u have a link for that?

Infantry Films because he thinks he will be thought of differently at his job

You are expecting too high of an intelligence from the ape.

Because he does not understand what context is.

But I'm still glad it highlights how many Brits, both then and now, were and still are huge fanboy supporters of literal Nazis! ;) Edward the 8th stamp of approval!

@@LB-uo7xy they’re not fans of Nazis they’re fans of history

@@LB-uo7xy so reenacting makes you what you act as? So Soviet reinactors are communist? Japanese rein-actors are super nationalist. Must be wired when they switch uniforms and have to undergo an entire ideological shift.

They enjoy reenacting. They love history, and don't deny it like so many others. REENACTING as a German soldier is way different from AGREEING with the Nazis. It's a hobby. It's not meant to be political in any way.

Rookield he also ignored soviet/Japanese re-enactors who did just as much if not more than the Wehrmacht

YT removed my dislike so I came back and added it

Yeah, it's like what are they gonna do? Take the Swatikas off, but otherwise use Kar98ks, MP40s, and other German equipment, German tactics and everything else? Then they're just hiding the fact that they are pretending to be Nazis.

That’s the thing. Not everyone can be the good guy, some has to be the bad guy.

@@Draftspike "bad guys"

@@tommykirk3403 you're delusional to think you even knew what I was implying.

This is the political machinations of Left Wing fanatics.

​@@MrSeekerOfPeace are you referring to my comment or the video?

@@tommasoguandalini2256 video. He's supporting you

@@fr1dge350 Thanks... sometimes I have trouble understanding what people are talking about, seeing as my english is pretty terrible.

Hey a fellow Beatles fan history buff

Swastikas in finland: 😕

Fun facts the 45th infantry division a American division had a swastika on their division patch and then well kind of the Nazi situation happened

Swastikas in Vietnam: 😕

@@turtleruski1915 ikr

@@sirpotato9371 fun fact: Finland still uses the swastika on airforce ceremonial flag.

Andrew Feurig that’s true Mr Boss did design their uniforms

Airstrip One TV, no it isn’t. He and his company only manufactured them.

@@Airstrip1TV How do people still think that's true? You have the internet you can fact check anything before you say it... please stop spreading this false info.

You can't just become an NCO. You actually have to start out as a private.

@@aaroncampbell2180 yup your right if you want to be an nco you have to start as an SS-Mann

Abensberg He most likely meant Leningrad. Das Reich sometimes take part in a re-enactment outside st Petersburg of the siege of Leningrad. Gets broadcast on Russian tv apparently. Supposedly it’s quite a big event. There’s a whole defensive line that’s still left over from the war that they use and everything

Abensberg there were soldiers of the ss polizei division in an airfield in stalingrad

@@riccardobrusaferri7614 Can you verify that?

franklinnose i’ve read some reports and some forums about this and there were Also people after the war Who catched in Stalingrad some ss relics

The Einsatzgruppen traveled with the 6th army and they are SS as for Das Reich it never fought in Stalingrad the closest the division got was the battle of kursk. Below is a list of all major operations the division fought in. Battle of France 1940 Operation Barbarossa Operation Typhoon Battle of Kursk Operation Overlord Battle of the Bulge

Like, the Wehrmacht itself did terrible things as well as the SS - they were not absolved from blame. But remember that 65% of Germans didn’t vote Nazi. Most conscripts weren’t Nazis - and just by sheer force of numbers, most German soldiers weren’t horrific people.

The heer and the waffen SS also never got along with eachother

That reminded me of the wallet scene from spongebob 😂

@@yashiorist3642 unless it’s committing war crimes, then they are in the same boat

@@West_Coast_Mainline True, but i think the Waffen SS commited more crimes than the Heer