06-07-2008, 08:12 PM
Quote:I think its pretty pointless to avoid swastikas on reenactment gear, if it had otherwise been historically appropriate for a given impression. That doesn't mean one should thoughtless strive for it, but I can hardly imagine and definitly don't know anybody in my acquaintance, who would seriously believe were was a Nazi-connection to reenactment gear, that is obviously 2000 years "out of fashion" . ... AFAIK for educational reason its use is allowed - even here. I can't even understand the argument, that people would feel bad, just for seeing it. As if nobody here would know what a swastika looks like. Every year hundreds of war movies and documentaries show you.
It would farther be a good opportunity to claim back a symbol and - more important - its power from people who misused it. If one day people will have forgotten what's happened, the cause is surely not some reenactors who decided to display swastika.
I am of the exact same mind! Well said!
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[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel