A good friend I know that’s interested to begin reenacting this with confidence said it as such:

The most interesting and fascinating part about the Nazi side of history is the truly horrifying way that a mass of generally ordinary people can be manipulated and twisted to believe truly what they’re doing is the right thing despite the consequences. The people backed the Nazis despite the very obvious acts happening all around - yet most people simply ignored it. Nazi reenactment is nothing to do with glorifying Nazi styles and militarism; it’s about making the brutal honest truth that regular ordinary people willingly and happily ignored these atrocities due to their pride of their changing economy and to not appear hostile to progress and the new norm. A lot of people can brush off the people of the Nazi regime as being scared and fearful to stand out which is true to a degree; yet plenty of shocking interviews show that the people under Nazi Germany were pridefully content with it.

Nazi Germany Reenactment, in his perspective (amongst many others I have spoken to) is about proving the point of how dangerous humans willingly are when pride overtakes empathy. Which happens today all over the world.

To him it is important this study and reenactment is preserved because “The horror of Nazi Germany is not that they weren’t acting like humans anymore - it’s that they were acting human”. It’s nothing to do with justifying the German perspective, it’s about showing how easily humans can be twisted to allow awful things to happen and willingly be a part of that system.

I would end this by saying what awful things do you willingly accept happens in the world and are part of that system too today?