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Actmentes as a american soldier. he said this was, in large part, to help educate people about the war. we'll talk to him in a moment but first we want to focus on the idea that this was about educating people. as you see, mr. iyod's group seem to have left out a lot of history including the holocaust. here's a kre krumt video from his group. a recruitment video. that's what they look like when they march around which interestingly, their website description with the fifth ss division, what the vikings were all about. they emphasize that the vikings were emphasizing fighting the soviets and in...

Were you aware of the atrocities that this particular group you were dressing up as, were you aware of the atrocities they have been accused of? >> what happened in germany during the second world war is absolutely one of the, the low points in human history. in fact, as you mentioned on the website, it talks about what happened and that we don't support that. we don't support the political or the a ideological motives of that time. we're talking strictly about history. it's important for us to remember the history. >> were you aware of the history. the atrocities of this group? it wasn't like...

My question is why this group you're a part of seems to be a sanitized version of this ss group? >> certainly, what you see on the website is -- that's not the story that one is communicating to the public about the war. that's a recruitment site for people that are interested in it. >> why would you do that on a website if you want -- if you want to educate people isn't the website the place to educate people? >> no. the whole purpose of historical re-enacting is to educate people one-on-one. and that is done by going out and participating in re-enactments. doing displays, optimal set up disp...

Air shows and events like that with americans and brits and poles and germans. an opportunity for the public to come in and talk one-on-one. >> if you're trying to recruit people into this group, was the point of the website and the video, and you make the effort to give a whole history of this group, this ss group, you would think you would give an accurate history and it's clearly not. >> that's not it at all. what we're talking about is just, you know, the highlights of it. remember, this website is not designed to educate people. this is designed for people who are history buffs and may ha...

And atrocities including the death marches of the jews in sprang of 1945. german authorities say former members of the unit rounded up dozens of jewish slave laborers, forced them to kneel and shot them dead. nowhere on the vikings website is the word jew, jews, gypsies or anything ever mentioned. as for the notion that these volunteers were idealists. their countries were invaded and occupied by nazis. there were resistance fighters that died opposing this. but this whole idea of him dressing up, they were volunteering for their invaders. they were what a lot of people would call "collaborato...