Hudson restaurant apologizes for not making couple of WWII re-enactors take off their Nazi uniforms before sitting down for dinner

Kith and Kin in Hudson posted this morning it regrets an incident last night involving a "group of living historians" who'd just come from an annual World War 2 re-enactment in town, two of whom were still dressed as SS officers.

One patron who was waiting for a table reports he walked out when he saw the Nazis walking in and being seated.

The restaurant wrote:

Last night, a group of living historians from the American Heritage Museum dined at our restaurant. The table of eight showed up in their costumes: four US soldiers, a military nurse, and a couple dressed as SS soldiers. In hindsight, they should have been asked to change before being seated. Even though we knew they were living historians, at a time when acts of anti-Semitic violence continue to rise, we should have realized other diners might not be aware of the local WWII re-enactment. We would never intentionally do anything to offend or hurt anyone in the community. If we truly thought these individuals held anti-Semitic beliefs, we would never have allowed them to step foot in the restaurant. As a small, family-owned business, we strive every day to do our best and are continuing to learn and grow. Last night we fell short, and we deeply apologize.

A Bluesky user, Coffeemancer Vanvidum, posted last night:

We were waiting to be seated at a restaurant when a group of people came in... dressed in Nazi SS uniforms. They had a reservation.

We walked out rather than share space with that and ate somewhere else. I don't know where those assholes came from, and I've never had to walk out of a place before.

Another Bluesky user wrote the president of the American Heritage Museum to express her disgust that it lets re-enactors leave the battlefield still dressed as Nazis.

She reports he initially replied part of the goal of the re-enactment is to show disgust at what Nazis did, but adds that when she followed up by asking for some details on who owns the uniforms and what the protocols are for wearing them, he responded that all the re-enactors are volunteers, they own their own uniforms and "It is not even clear at this point that they were registered reenactors as there was a dinner for all of the participants that evening," which makes it sound like there might just have been Nazis in full regalia marching around Hudson - at the end of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.