SIR – I found the negative response reported at Haworth to certain members of World War Two re-enactment groups, such as those in German uniforms of the Wehrmacht, SS or Afrika Korps, both disturbing and rather petty.

Because these people with an obvious historical interest were not preaching or trying to justify Nazi ideology, but portraying things as they really were, not in some hypothetical sanitised way.

In contrast, there is an English Civil War society called The Sealed Knot and no-one objects to their displays, yet the history of that conflict is littered with all kinds of atrocities by Cromwell’s New Model Army aka ‘Roundheads’ in England, but especially in Ireland where Catholics faced extermination on a par with the Holocaust, notably in Drogheda: the conclusion of that episode a ‘show trial’ of King Charles I, who was then executed.

D S Boyes, Upper Rodley Lane, Leeds