Beltring War & Peace Show 2006 - 2012

This was our stand - plus Jeep on the right.

 

Tanks on show, or rather those I managed to get to:

 

More:

 

etc:

 

Pity I couldn't go this year. Unusual not to have a sunny Beltering though. Would have liked to have met Beharry.

Oh well maybe next year it will be back to using the old Green Godesses to keep the dust down!

 

I wonder if Kyt will notice the 4th Ind Div staff car?

I wonder whether it belongs to this lot:

http://www.4thindians.co.uk/

Nice pictures guys - christ, I always thought it would be rough going for me normally but all that mud is my worst nightmare. At least the organisers didn't wimp out like our local music festivel last week.

That Jeep camo on VP's last picture is disgusting.

 

Nice photos Adam. I regret not getting round properly this year, but the early part of my week got FUBAR so I was stuck on my stall. Oh well.

 

In the UK, the Panorama TV series has a documentary on Weekend 'Nazis' next week. It's on BBC1 at 8:30pm on Monday.

The BBC's website says that:
Re-enacting battles from World War II is a popular summer pastime in the UK. But although we won the war, it's the Germans that most people want to portray and the SS who are the most popular of all. All good clean fun for most of those involved but there's a dark side too.

John Sweeney tours the biggest event of its type in Kent and discovers David Irving, jailed for denying the holocaust, signing books, a trader selling a relic from Belsen and some Nazi enthusiasts expressing extreme racist views.

Britain went to war to defend free speech but should it now be the home of activities which are banned by law in Germany and in future perhaps, across the EU?

BBC - BBC ONE - Listings

I don't know if this means the War and Peace show but the place, size & Belsen Trolley suggest that it does. I wasn't, however, aware that Iving was present, although I only attended for one day.

I am in the 'why can't they do the Afrika Korps or the Fallschirmjager or the Panzer Lehr rather than the SS' camp & I found the sale of the Belsen trolley to be extraordinarily tasteless but I'm sure that there were more British & American than German re-enactors there, at least on the Wednesday. The SS did have a prominent position but there were many more British vehicles if you walked round the whole park. There were also Israeli re-enactors.

 

Yes, incredibly Irving was there. I found it hard to believe, but sadly it is quite evident that there are many who attend this show who all too readily appear to agree with the senitments of what he stands for. Will be interesting to see what this programme makes of W&P.

 

Just posted this on the "War & Peace Show 2006" and then realised my error so I'm posting it again here (oops !)

Have just finished watching the BBC documentary on the War & Peace show at Beltring.

One of the exhibitors was David Irving flogging his Holocaust Denial merchandise.

Say no more :frown:

Ron