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Men in coffe shops during the 1940's discusing current events.
2003
Ashern Museum grounds
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Men get together today in Ashern Coffee Shops to chat about the weather, current events, etc. just as they sat around in the grocery store in the 1930's and 1940's.
One day curing the 1940's local men felt that perhaps Ashern should realise they must be perpared in case the Germans threatened Ashern, so they dressed up as Germans and invaded the Railway Station.

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German invasion of Ashern Railroad Station during D Day.
2000
Ashern Museum grounds
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Two men arrive at the CN station in Ashern wearing German uniforms. They raise their guns and aim them at the people on the platform.

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Passengers held at gunpoint by Nazi Invaders on the platform of the Ashern Railway Station.
2000
Ashern Railway Station on Museum grounds

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"We are taking over this railway station in the name of the Third Reich!"

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The Nazi Invasion of Ashern Railway Station.
2000
Ashern Museum grounds

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"Folks, stay where you are! We are taking over the town . Hail Hitler!!"

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Newsclips of Invasion!
2000
At the Ashern Pioneer Museum

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After frightening the people and the station agent, the men revealed their trick. Such was the joke played on the CN staion after D-Day in 1945.