The Crescent-News

WWII reenactment at AuGlaize Village canceled due to rain, flooding

For this year, some 140 reenactors from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and many other areas were headed to the village to take up roles as U.S., German, Russian, British and Italian ...
Stars and Stripes

In a recent WWII Days reenactment, some participants played the Nazis; here’s why they did it

ROCKFORD, Ill. (Tribune News Service) — Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. “It’s a costume, man,” one guy in an SS uniform told me. They were also here as educators, as ...
WVXU

An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake Erie

D-Day Conneaut bills itself as the nations largest WWII reenactment and the world's biggest D-Day reenactment. Every August on a small Lake Erie beach in the far Northeastern Ohio city of Conneaut, an ...
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In a recent WWII Days reenactment, some participants played the Nazis — here’s why they do it

Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. Otherwise, how do you teach history? I heard this a lot. Whenever I would ask anyone portraying a German soldier at Rockford, Illinois’ ...
Texarkana Gazette

In a recent WWII Days reenactment, some participants played the Nazis -- we talked to them about why they do it

Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. Otherwise, how do you teach history? I heard this a lot. Whenever I would ask anyone portraying a German soldier at Rockford, Illinois' ...
AOL

In a recent WWII Days reenactment, some participants played the Nazis — we talked to them about why they do it

I’ve been attending World War II Days in Rockford for about six years now, on and off, as a spectator. It’s the second-largest World War II reenactment in the country. For 26 years, in early autumn, ...