06-12-2010, 12:14 AM
As an AFA supporter I must say that here in the Netherlands re-enactment groups are watched by AFA, not with animosity but with vigil. Also the groups themselves, and especially the Wehrmacht/Fallschirmjaeger groups have a very thorough ballotage, which prevents any NS supporters from joining, and if they are found out, they get kicked out.
Here the sensitivity lays also with the swastika, unless used in context on the uniform. No SS or any other political NS organisation is allowed, and anyone having NS sympathies will be an outcast.
I was with the FJ group some years ago when two drunk Poles made the Nazi salute on which 5 FJs jumped from the truck shoved them against the wall and made verbally very very clear that we do not support that behaviour.
Whether or not Viking groups use a swastika, fact is that only in historical context and when it has been found on any artefact or relief it could be shown, but the showing comes solely on the account of the person or group using the symbol.
It is good to have a discussion about it, but when it starts to be a discussion about Viking or late Germanic groups who have nothing to do whatsoever on a Roman display, unless they are Gothic, Visigothic or Alamanni *who to my knowledge did not use the swastika not was it ever found in their context* , it is a discussion which should be held on their own appropriate re-enactment fora and not on Roman Army Talk.
Merovingian as well as viking groups should stay away from Roman events, unless it is a multi period event stretching into the middle ages.
Also, late Roman groups should not ever be mixed in displays or even campsites with first century Romans, something which all too often happens and paints a totally distorted picture of their separate periods.
Just my two Hs.
M.VIB.M.
Here the sensitivity lays also with the swastika, unless used in context on the uniform. No SS or any other political NS organisation is allowed, and anyone having NS sympathies will be an outcast.
I was with the FJ group some years ago when two drunk Poles made the Nazi salute on which 5 FJs jumped from the truck shoved them against the wall and made verbally very very clear that we do not support that behaviour.
Whether or not Viking groups use a swastika, fact is that only in historical context and when it has been found on any artefact or relief it could be shown, but the showing comes solely on the account of the person or group using the symbol.
It is good to have a discussion about it, but when it starts to be a discussion about Viking or late Germanic groups who have nothing to do whatsoever on a Roman display, unless they are Gothic, Visigothic or Alamanni *who to my knowledge did not use the swastika not was it ever found in their context* , it is a discussion which should be held on their own appropriate re-enactment fora and not on Roman Army Talk.
Merovingian as well as viking groups should stay away from Roman events, unless it is a multi period event stretching into the middle ages.
Also, late Roman groups should not ever be mixed in displays or even campsites with first century Romans, something which all too often happens and paints a totally distorted picture of their separate periods.
Just my two Hs.
M.VIB.M.
Bushido wa watashi no shuukyou de gozaru.
Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
