When there are World War II reenactments, someone has to play the bad guy. “It’s a costume, man,” one guy in an SS uniform said. They were playing a role, but they were also there to serve as educators, as amateur historians.
"We deliver a story, say what happened," say some who don German uniforms at Rockford’s annual World War II Days. But some historians and Holocaust experts say that kind of reasoning can be shallow.