As true of most DM articles IMO, this looks to be full of misdirection to cook up a bigger story.
"....Before the event, bosses at the East Lancashire Railway said that anyone wearing SS uniforms or insignia would be asked to leave or remove offending items, but the standard Wehrmacht uniform of the common German soldier would be allowed.
Mr Paul, of Broughton, Salford, said he saw people flouting the ban by wearing SS uniforms while drinking outside a pub near one railway station...."
So when not on the railway station they should be dealt with by the railway's staff? I'm not sure they have that authority! Perhaps they had just been ejected from the railway station and went to the pub? Or maybe they hadn't got to the station yet?
"A number of visitors were asked at random if they would consider dressing as refugees – but several were Jewish. Among them were Merton Paul, 65, and his wife Barbara, who said they were approached by a re-enactment member and asked to wear refugee outfits to ‘add another dimension to the experience’...."
There is no mention of who the "re-enactment member" was, nor there association (or lack there of) to the railway, yet it is the railway that is being damned for it.
"Sick tribute: Many of the visitors dressed up as Nazi officers for the Wartime Weekend, with these two appearing to have come as Hermann Goring and Adolf Hitler"
Note: Appearing to have come as.
"This man appeared to have come dressed as Goring wearing the peaked officer's cap of the Luftwaffe"
"Flouting the ban: An eagle perched on a swastika was the symbol of the Luftwaffe"
AFAIK, the Luftwaffe uniform was not on the banned list, it doesn't appear to be in the list the DM put up in their article.
"One man's an armband identified him as playing the part of Hermann Goering"
An armband indentified him as playing a part? or is he just "appearing to have come as"?
This story has presumably been picked up from the Manchester Evening News which says....
"British Jew Merton Paul, who went to the festival with wife Barbara, spoke of his anger at being asked to dress like a refugee. The request was made by an participant - not connected the the ELR - at last year's event.
Mr Paul said: “It was an innocent question but of course we wouldn’t want to do that. No Jewish person would.”"
So were they were asked at the weekend or at last year's event? Note how the person who asked was not connected to the railway either.
But they do note that....
"One couple told today how they were asked by a festival ‘actor’ to consider dressing up as persecuted refugees for this year’s event – wearing a yellow Star of David, carrying battered suitcases and ‘looking poor’."
So presumably someone else was asked? Or are they confusing their own story?
It really does seem like a non-story to me.