FHF

Members

The Germans

The British

The Russians

fhfreenactor@gmail.com

Fronthistoriska Föreningen - FHF is a Swedish Living History society established in the autumn of 2008. We portray German, Russian and British infantry soldiers of the World war II. Our focus is the daily life of these soldiers from the end of 1943 - 1945 (a period often referred as “late war”).

During FHF’s first years we focused entirely on eastern front scenarios with German and Russian sections. This changed during 2011 when we set up a British section and gave ourselves the possibility to do both western and eastern front scenarios. Three sections sounds perhaps to be one or even two sections to many, but in Sweden there are very few other active societies/groups. As a result, FHF can put on events and displays that show both Allied and Axis forces.

In the German section we portray SS panzergrenadiers (infantry), mainly from three different divisions - 'Nordland' (Rgt 24), 'Götz von Berlichingen' (Rgt 37) och 'Hohenstaufen' (Rgt 19). We have also portrayed Heer (Army) soldiers during some public events and have decided that this could be done more frequently in the future.

Our Russian section portrays scouts from the 188th Guards Rifle Regiment (63rd Guards Rifle Division). They have also portrayed Partisans and fighters from the French Resistance.

The British section portrays soldiers from 2nd Battalion, the Essex Regiment (56th Independent Brigade, 49th Infantry Division).

In FHF we will always strive for the highest possible authenticity in the use of uniforms, equipment and how we behave in field. We see this as an very import aspect of the hobby and it’s only second after the highest priority - to have fun!

Every year since the beginning in 2008 members of FHF have participated in public events in England and Denmark. We have also experience from events in Slovakia and Russia. In Sweden we give priority to tactical and field events, sometimes during quite harsh conditions.

Today we are proud to have friends from other groups in Denmark (we actually have some Danish members), England, Holland, Germany and Finland and we hope to be able to invite and visit them all during forthcoming events!

FHF is entirely a non-political organization that take clearly distance from all sorts of extremism. We do not have any intention to glorify violence or to understate or deny crimes committed during the time we have chosen to portray.