Men dressed as Nazi SS clash with furious locals as cops escort them off high street during Sheringham 1940s weekend

A GROUP of men dressed as Nazi SS death troopers sparked fury at a 1940s festival - before cops escorted them away following a fight.

Pictures show at least ten men in leather trench coats, SS markings on their collars, Swastikas and evil 'Totenkopf' skull badges.

Eyewitnesses claim the men were "laughing and joking" outside a pub at Sheringham 1940s Weekend in North Norfolk on Saturday.

But event marshals were forced to step in and police intervened when a furious member of the public attacked the WWII re-enactors.

Norfolk Police say one man had reported being assaulted amid the carnage, which the force were investigating.

There is no suggestion any of the men in the pictures were involved in the altercation.

People at the event, which attracts around 25,000, many in period dress, said the men tainted a normally "joyous" day.

One fumed on Facebook: "I was surprised how upset I felt and think it was totally inappropriate at a joyous occasion."

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While a second added: "I witnessed them laughing and joking outside a pub.

"My dad served throughout the entire war in the Royal Navy and I don't thunk he would have considered it appropriate."

The SS, or 'Schutzstaffel', was the leading paramilitary death squad in Hitler's Nazi Germany led by Heinrich Himmler.

They were the enforcers of ‘Aryan’ race ideology who rounded up Jews and other minorities for either immediate execution or concentration camps, which the SS ran.

The 'Totenkopf' skull worn by some of the men at the weekend was used by front line Waffen-SS fighters in the 3rd Panzer Division, comprised of Hitler's most hellbent fanatics.