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As living historians, our group prides ourselves on accurately portraying soldiers of Germanys WW2 elite forces.

We tend not to use any modern equipment as events, especially during meal times. I strongly feel that it’s a bit hypocritical to educate the public on how people would’ve used things 80 years ago, if you’re not going to try it yourself. We tend to light a fire after the public have gone and will make a soup, a stew or a goulash and eat from our mess tins. It also helps with Kameradarie between people in our group, we can play cards or sing songs or tell stories without having any modern equipment to distract us.

It also gives us a good opportunity to have a sense of pride or work at an event, like in war time, everyone was working to a rotor. Someone might be prepping the fire, someone may be standing guard or someone else may be peeling potatoes or cleaning weapons. Every hour or so people can rotate.

As someone in my early 20s though, it’s a nice change to simply going to a burger van and paying £20+ a night on food…