SIR – I fail to understand the furore over some people attending the 1940s Weekend in Haworth, whether invited or not, in SS uniforms, because like it or not the SS or Waffen SS is part of that period of history.
Also, do many realise that recruitment to the SS was not restricted to German nationals? Far from it, with members from every occupied country in Europe volunteering to join up, many serving with distinction on the Eastern front, not in favour with Nazi ideology but hoping to halt the spread of Soviet-style ‘Communism’ or free their country from the domination of Joseph Stalin.
As well as Second World War re-enactment events, there are also regular English Civil War ones organised by the Sealed Knot Society, and any student of history of that period will know that Oliver Cromwell perpetrated atrocities as bad as Hitler against Catholics at places like Drogheda in Ireland! Yet no-one seems to object to those events.
D S Boyes, Rodley Lane, Leeds
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