Reenactors Quotes

“This, too, was an aspect of the twentieth century that [Civil War] reenactors were fleeing: a heterogeneous society still raw with historic wounds and racial sensitivities. In principle, remembrance of the War could be a way to probe these scars, many of which trailed back to the 1860s. But reenactments did precisely the opposite, blandly reconciling North and South in a grand spectacle that glorified battlefield valor and the stoicism of civilians.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

“For Wolfgang, as for many Germans of his generation, fascination with war was freighted with a much more complex self-doubt. "It is not easy to grow up with the knowledge of belonging to one of the most destructive people in world history," he said. "I think some of the Confederate reenactors in Germany are acting out Nazi fantasies of racial superiority. They are obsessed with your war because they cannot celebrate their own vanquished racists.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War