Whoa! WWII re-enactment? I'm all ears (pun intended)!
Allright, sorry for an off-topic post.
Actually, not a re-enactment, to be precise, but a LARP (Live Action Role Playing), sorta like theatre with 50 actors and no audience (you play for yourself and the other players), in which you don't know the full script in advance and can substantially influence the outcome of the play. Everybody has a lead role in their own story. Plus there's bunch of people playing the non-player characters. Really REALLY immersive experience, hard to explain how it makes you feel... you get to understand and appreciate the history a lot more, because you've sort of... been there.
It's more about personal stories, moral dilemmas etc. than about any realistic simulation of combat (although you do get to smoke some nazis).
The topic of this particular LARP was the aftermath of the defeated uprising against the nazis in Slovakia in 1944, so the characters were an assortment of guerilla fighters, communist plotters, escaped Russian POWs, Czech soldiers, Slovak soldiers, fascists who decided to switch sides, etc.... I played a French socialist who went through Spanish civil war, North Africa and Eastern front in search of revenge on the fascists.
It was great.
You can check out some photos here (I am the only guy with a submachine gun):
https://www.facebook.com/pg/EXPit/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1908640445854211
