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Since I am one of the few with direct memories of those days, I have a different reaction than an SS = LARP villains equation.  If he were doing a Wehrmacht unit, I would have no problem with it.  However, the SS were not just defending their country, but took a second oath to Adolph Hitler personally.  All were Nazis.  The Wikings were recruited primarily from occupied Norway (Quislings), with lesser numbers from Denmark, Netherlands, Swedish volunteers, and the Baltic Republics.  They were traitors against their own countries.  While many SS units behaved quite properly under the rules of war, Wikings were responsible for a higher percentage of atrocities than other SS units, excluding only the Totenkopf units which were in charge of the concentration and extermination camps.

This is a permanent alignment - costume and equipment costs alone makes it well beyond the usual to play both sides of the same period. (It is reported that he also did Civil War reenactments, on the Union side.)  Thus it is quite different from the tabletop or even usual LARP where one may be hero or villian from one session to the next - or if played really properly, stages in between like real people.

Yes, politics aside, there is a real difference, and my party doesn't even have a candidate in that race.

Paul Cardwell

born a month after the Third German Empire