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* Rich Iott, a Tea Party candidate for Congress in Ohio during the 2010 elections, made national news when it was discovered he does (did?) Nazi [[Cosplay]] as part of a [[War Reenactors|World War II reenactment group]] that specialized in taking on the roles of a Waffen SS division. Apparently, he got into it "as part of a father-son bonding experience."
** Military history buffs are famously non-judgmental in their attitudes toward different countries and factions, measuring an army's greatness by how ingeniously and bravely it fought rather than by its moral motives. This may be a holdover from [[World War I]], where the participants mostly had national rather than ideological motives and soldiers from enemy nations were known to fraternize off the battlefield.
***If you are going to do a reenactment someone has to play the other team whether you like them or not.
* The Chilean army was restructured according to Prussian military tradition in the 1890's, right down to the spiked pickelhauben helmets. Now their parade uniforms are the same as those of the Wehrmacht...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xorK15uzvOg&feature=channel_video_title They even goosestep!]
* The real-life incidents behind [[The Wave]] (fictionalized) were dramatic cases of this trope in their own right.
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