No Nazi’s Allowed (except the Wehrmacht)

This weekend saw the Rossendale Wartime Weekend, actually no longer called the Wartime Weekend, it’s called the 1940’s weekend.  For anyone wanting to wear uniform the ELR made this statement:

1940s WEEKEND 2014, 24 - 26 MAY

Any visitor or re-enactor wearing the following uniforms will be refused access or required to leave:

Schutzstaffel (SS) staff

Allgemeine SS forces

Waffen-SS

This includes any uniform or clothing displaying:

The Totenkopf (Death’s Head) symbol

Red armbands emblazoned with the swastika

or any other overt Nazi insignia.

This restriction extends to certain German Officer

uniforms that were connected with the more

controversial elements of the Nazi regime.

Thank you for your co-operation.

I love the weekend but this made me angry.  Weren’t Nazi’s the main reason we had a war?  And isn’t the war the main reason we remember the 1940’s?  And we did win!  What good are we achieving from banning Nazi SS uniforms?  Alright, ban Nazi’s and their ideology but don’t ban nice people wearing the uniform.  For the same reason we should ban kids wearing Zombie outfits during Halloween, the Japanese, men with big moustaches wearing flared jeans (because they look like the IRA Obv!) and anyone wearing a back pack.

The Wehrmacht however were allowed.