Visitors walk off in disgust when people turned up to D-Day event wearing German uniforms
One man even belted out three songs in German on the eve of today’s anniversary of the Normandy Landings in 1944
OUTRAGED visitors walked off in disgust when people turned up in Nazi uniforms at a D-Day event in Yorkshire yesterday.
One man even belted out three songs in German on the eve of today’s anniversary of the Normandy Landings in 1944.
He then handed the mic to organisers of the weekend bash in Brighouse, ahead of a memorial service featuring a minute’s silence for the war dead.
Thousands attended but many were so appalled by the Third Reich costume antics that they left.
Martin Walker, 50, said: “I popped along to see some war memorabilia with my kids, but didn’t want to have to explain why we had Nazis walking down the street.
“My father and grandfather would be turning in their grave to know this is happening in Britain more than 70 years after Adolf Hitler died.
“It is appalling.”
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Another spectator said: “These people should hang their heads in shame.
“The Holocaust was an atrocity and the war crimes the Nazis committed are alive until this day with prosecutions still being taken against people involved in running the concentration camps.
“I cannot comprehend how grown men think it’s a good idea to parade around the streets of Yorkshire looking like Nazis.
“I am not alone in thinking this is very wrong.
“My father fought the Nazis and many people in Yorkshire lost family in the Second World War to people dressed just like that.
“It should be outlawed here just like it is in Germany.”
After complaints a few years ago, organisers of the event in Haworth explained how it was impossible for them to ban the uniforms outright as the event takes place in a public place and there’s no law covering it.
The majority of visitors dressed in Allied uniform or traditional 1940s outfits.
A collection of Second World War exhibits, equipment and paraphernalia were also on display.
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