WWII Reenactments I used to be a member of the WWII Historic Reenactment Society.  In Colorado we portrayed 2 main groups, the 10th Mountain Division and the 5th SS Wiking Division recon unit.  The German unit had a 1941 Mercedes sedan and a 1943 BMW motorcycle with a sidecar but we still needed another vehicle  to carry all the  troops so we used my 1941 Dodge pick up.   The Germans did actually capture these trucks during the war and reissued them to their troops! 1941 Mercedes owned by Harry Conners, Our commander!  What a wonderful car! The 1943 BMW motorcycle, also owned by Harry Conners. This was not a political organization, we were all history buffs and militaria collectors. We used all the original equipment we could find. Uniforms were usually reproduction but we drove old vehicles and used real WWII German supplies and weapons including machineguns.  Even though we were using blank ammo, the machine guns were fully functional registered weapons. We always had to notify the local police and law enforcement agencies that we would be using machine guns so they would be ready for the phone calls from excited people who didn't know what we were doing.   Some reenactment battles involved as many as 70 reenactors and there was a lot of gunfire.  We really freaked some people out!  But it was just a hobby!