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Nearholmer Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Aren't the members of the Maerklin Collectors Club looking older these days? And,good to see a Southdown Queen Mary, although I slightly doubt its 1940s credentials. K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jim76 Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Looks like a good event... but why do people feel the need to dress up as Nazi officers? Have always found this quite a disturbing and sinister element to these 1940s events at preserved railways etc. which personally would put me off going. I for one certainly wouldn't want my children to see it. I mean it's not even like the UK was even ever occupied. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Baffles me too. Something to do with guys who feel thwarted in daily life, putting on a uniform that invokes feelings of awe and fear, and feeling powerful inside for a weekend? About the only realistic portrayal of German troops in the UK would be as POWs undertaking farm work or road repairs, it would seem http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/german_pows_01.shtml , but I don't suppose that dressing-up as a captured conscript, digging turnips under they eye of a weary member of the Home Guard, would help make anyone feel better about themselves. This is very interesting http://www.tonbridgehistory.org.uk/archives/war-diary.html Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted May 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2016 About the only realistic portrayal of German troops in the UK would be as POWs undertaking farm work or road repairs Or the newly arrived Rudolf Hess? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nearholmer Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Personally, I wasn't angling for you to do that. In a sense, having the photo there made for a more complete record of how one corner of England has decided to portray the 1940s. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Or the newly arrived Rudolf Hess? Meanwhile, in the Channel Islands... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 I was wise to that one Horsetan, which is why I said "UK", of which I'm pretty sure CI are not a part. My guess is that if/when the CI commemorates the 1940s, German Officers are not thought of as "pantomime baddies". K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bernard Lamb Posted May 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2016 Or the newly arrived Rudolf Hess? Wrong location? What gets me is that they go to so much trouble and then put a strange coloured liquid in the glass of the one on the left. Black beer might be OK but that mid brown liquid. Never. Then there is the variation in the colour of the uniforms. Good job they were in the UK and out of sight of the boss as he would not have been very happy if he had seem them looking like that. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 I was wise to that one Horsetan, which is why I said "UK", of which I'm pretty sure CI are not a part..... Crown dependencies only. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted May 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2016 Haworth - 1940's weekend... Radstock - May 2016 weekend more like! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 ....Radstock - May 2016 weekend more like! You could get The Wurzels to perform. That would bring the crowds in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted May 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2016 Welcome to Radstock You'll Never Leave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Welcome to Radstock You'll Never Leave Please Invade Carefully Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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