Epic WW2 Reenactment - Rockford 2011

The WW2 Days reenactment in Rockford, IL with over 1,000 reenactors. All musical credit to Immediate Music and Groove Addicts.

The soundbites go as follows:
0:08-0:26 - Hitler, speaking after his election to the Chancellorship, 1933.
0:29-0:46 - Churchill, his Great Declaration before the Allies, 1941.
0:47-1:18 - Goebbels, delivering his "Totaler Krieg" speech, 1943.
1:32-1:45 - (same as above.)
1:46-2:00 - Roosevelt, praying for troops on D-Day, 1944.
2:07-2:17 - Hitler, speaking after his election to the Chancellorship, 1933.
2:20-2:30 - Eisenhower, speaking to troops on D-Day, 1944.
2:37-2:55 - Churchill, his Great Declaration before the Allies, 1941.
3:02-3:17 - Goebbels, location and date unknown to me.
3:18-3:33 - Churchill, speaking in County Hall, London, 1941.
3:34-3:47 - Hitler, speaking at a (Nuremberg?) rally, date unknown to me.
3:51-END - Roosevelt, Flag Day Address, 1942.

This year, I decided to go even bigger than just the battle itself and attempt to explain why these nations are fighting one another. This is where the soundbites come in. At the deepest root of German expansion is anger - anger for a humiliated and collapsed Germany in the wake of WWI. This is why Hitler is speaking of financial collapse at the video's beginning, and also why I twice put in soundbites emphasizing November 1918 - when Germany surrendered. Many Germans felt they had been betrayed by their leadership, and felt they could've continued and ultimately won the war. And now here at last, as they saw it, was the opportunity to set things right, to finish WWI and redeem the weakness that followed. WWII was a direct result of WWI, and in many ways its continuation.

The United States, on the other hand, is fighting, not for its immediate survival, but for its ultimate survival, as both Roosevelt and Eisenhower point out. This is America's sole interest; not to seize other lands for itself, but by securing the safety of other countries, as Americans believed, it would guarantee its own safety at home. As for Great Britain, represented by Winston Churchill (whom I have simultaneously used to represent the feelings of the Alliance as a whole), they are fighting for their immediate survival against foreign governance and against an ideological regime that seeks to impose and fulfill its own evil goals.

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• rockford
• reenactment
• ww2
• war
• battle
• serenata
• immortale
• interstellar

[NYRangersDude12]

At the end of the war Germans fought and died to preserve Germany and protect their family from the allies. Those men didn't care about Hitler or the Nazi's they fought for the same reasons as the Americans.

[MrRochiam]

3:26 the best death staging.

[MauserKar98k]

Excellent video, filmed very well, music and narration fits perfectly.

[TheScottGordon]

lol i love the guy who gets shot on the German side, i think he was in the one before 2010, and he died in exactly the same way hahaha nice one!

[Curtiss Dega]

Agree so good the way he acted it out.

[theheadcamman]

why are you saying this to me

[theheadcamman]

i would love to be in this but i would be the british though as i am fully english

[ginjaninja1988]

Awesome video...but as usual too many Rangers and Paratroopers.....

[Dylantuning1995]

That dude @ 3:26 is damn good in reenacting.. THAT'S THE WAY WE LIKE TO SEE IT !!!!

[NielsHammersMusic]

take no prisoners

[M29WeaselDriver]

I'm well over 50% german but i'm American first and formost and I was in the Army so its fun to portray a ww2 version of myself. Not that there's any thing worng with joining a German unit. There are some good German units out there. Actually I know people that do both. If your near MN or WI id recomend the 30th ID for a group to join if ya want to do American. if your interested check out the ww2 HRS web site they have lots of units there to join and contact info for them

[vXDeathX]

I have never washed my uniforms (not yet) but you get them dry cleaned if you want. And i'm only 19 lol but i just bought my stuff one thing at a time over a year or so cause i'm in college and my job only pays minimum wage. The most expenisve purchase at one time was my Kar98 which i got for $325. it is a hobby where rich folks get all the fun toys though :P I wanted a mp40 till i found out they were $18,000 and blank only $2,500 to $5,000