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- Band of Brothers | Part Nine - Why We Fight
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An incredible and powerful episode
The soldiers executed on the road were Waffen SS, the military branch of the Nazi Party.
They committed war crimes in every theater of the war. From shooting prisoners (which got them the same treatment) to running the concentration camps.
The Allies could find them because they had their blood type tattooed inside their left arm.
@@douglascampbell9809 they also had different uniforms and insignia
Will you react to "The Pacific" next?
I wish you guys could watch a German-Russian 3 part documentary on Stalingrad. This is a part of the war that anglophone world rarely knows about. czcams.com/video/9HX7c1FCroI/video.html Here's a link to the first episode with English narration.
You guys are great!
@@davidatkinson47 Well, the Night of The Broken Glass wasn’t exactly done discreetly. The Jewish stars on businesses and armbands the Jews were forced to wear were public. Anti Semitic propaganda was posted publicly. Foreigners and journalists saw all this, and reported on it. America turned away Jewish refugees. I think most people knew, maybe not the extent of the atrocities, but that shit was going down.
The old-style violin cases have an eerie resemblance to coffins, and the final image of a violin case being snapped shut like a coffin lid never fails to get me.
Reminds me of Schindler's list
...Ow.
Like this episode needs more pathos!
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@@chriskelly3481 No doubt - the episode was already brutal enough.
You could look at it as the coffin being closed on Germany, being the most advanced/cultured society in the world most of the 50 years before
You really feel for Nixon in this episode.
He was a heavy drinker but he was a great officer. For a man who really didn't fire his weapon once in combat, it's impressive. But to lose his men and getting survivors guilt, to losing his own wife and dog and everything. The guy had such a rough time. You got to hand it to Winters for being his best friend throughout all of this.
We all need friends.
Well, his wife left him. He didn’t lose her...maybe his dog to her.
I still don't even know what the hell he did. What sort of officer was he? Obviously not combat.
@ he was an s-2 intelligence officer. At regiment level between the company and the larger regiment. Maps, intelligence dissemination. That’s how he meets up with Winters in the beginning rather than being alongside. He goes up and down chain of command. That’s why you see him in offices, between the battalion (I think) and the company. Relay intelligence and planning back and forth.
@ What the show is missing is the endless briefings. At Battalion level, he would provide military briefings on enemy forces and enemy numbers. At the next level up, he would be briefing the regimental staff and the commanders and S-2 for each battalion. Which is the point of his demotion.
11,000,000 over 3 years is basically 10,000 lives a day, every day, for 3 years.
That is unimaginable...
Not sure of those dates and numbers, they started putting people into camps in 33 and after invading Poland in 39 the mass killings of mentally ill etc. began. This all led to the actual extermination camps being built.
Not to forget all kinds of mass executions and war crimes committed outside the camp, like the casualties among soviet prisoners of war. Its just millions and millions more. Truly horrific stuff.
Jews..... Pols and Gypsies
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That means they were slacking
Americans often think of WW2 in terms of Pearl Harbor to the end, but the thing lasted 6 years folks.
The prisoners at the concentration camp were cancer patients who wanted to help the production
Wow that is amazing! The powerful imagery they were able to achieve with this episode created a lasting legacy
@@TBRSchmitt
_The powerful imagery they were able to achieve with this episode created a lasting legacy_
Yes it did, and many people have come to believe everything that they see in Band of Brothers is factually and historically accurate...but it isn't.
@@iammanofnature235 And what are you implying here? Because from your choice of comment to respond to it seems you're a step away from holocaust denial.
@@RichardStrong86
What I am implying is that what is shown in Band of Brothers isn't necessarily accurate.
For example:
1) The scenes in Band of Brothers showing the 101st liberating _Kaufering IV_ are completely bogus. Kaufering IV was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with the 101st arriving the following day and there were only a handful of survivors found alive...along with about 500 bodies. Colonel Edward Seiller of the 12th Armored Division took control of the camp on April 27 and he was the one who ordered civilians from the town of Landsberg to bury the dead. Colonel Seiller also ordered it filmed: czcams.com/video/NS02Cq3Lifc/video.html (please take note that near the end of the film a total of 5 survivors are shown. Two others had died within a day, for a grand total of 7 found alive when the camp was liberated)
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
_As US armed forces approached the Kaufering complex in late April 1945, the SS began evacuating the camps, sending the prisoners on death marches in the direction of Dachau. Those inmates who could not keep up were often shot or beaten to death by the guards. At Kaufering IV, the SS set fire to the barracks killing hundreds of prisoners who were too ill or weak to move._
_When the 12th Armored Division and 101st Airborne Division arrived at Kaufering IV on April 27 and 28, respectively, the soldiers discovered some 500 dead inmates. In the days that followed, the US Army units ordered the local townspeople to bury the dead._
From the National WW2 Museum:
_On April 27, 1945, the 12th Armored Division reached Kaufering IV. The 101st Airborne Division arrived the next day, with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion and 36th Infantry Division arriving on April 30. The liberators found this Bavarian camp in one of the worst conditions of the Dachau subcamps._
From the U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum:
_At its height, the camp held more than 3,600 prisoners, but in the days before the 101st arrived, the SS had evacuated many of the prisoners on a death march south in the direction of Dachau. Hundreds of inmates were too ill or weak to make the trek, so the SS guards set fire to the barracks at Kaufering IV to prevent their liberation by U.S. troops._
_When the US Army’s 12th Armored Division and 101st Airborne Division arrived at Kaufering IV on April 27th and 28th, in that order, the Soldiers discovered some 500 dead prisoners. In the days that followed, the U.S. Army units ordered the local population to bury the dead._
2) Another example is in episode 10 where the 101st is shown liberating Berchtesgaden and The Obersalzberg but in reality it was the 3rd Infantry Division who liberated both of these towns on May 4, 1945 with again the 101st arriving the following day.
Arlington National Cemetery says best:
_The 3rd Infantry Division Memorial in Section 46 of Arlington National Cemetery commemorates this unit’s battles during World War I, World War II and the Korean War. But one action from World War II stands high on the unit’s list of accomplishments. After Adolf Hitler took his own life on April 30, 1945, and Soviet forces captured Berlin on May 2, only one prize remained for the Allies: Berchtesgaden, the town near Adolf Hitler’s mountaintop retreat, the Obersalzberg (Eagle’s Nest), where many of the highest-ranking Nazi leaders had homes. While the 101st Airborne Division and the French 2nd Armored Division were supposed to capture the historic landmark, it was the soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division, under the command of General John “Iron Mike” O’Daniel, who took the prize._
_Although the popular book and HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers” have supported the myth that it was Sink’s paratroopers who took Berchtesgaden, it was really the infantrymen of the 3rd Infantry Division who made it to the top first._
Wasn't that dangerous when they were having kimo
When Nixon breaks into the woman's house, at that moment she has the moral high ground. However, when Nixon tracks her down in the camp, their roles are reversed - and then some.
That woman more likely informed the SS guards at the concentration camp that the Americans are coming.
@@ShadowMoon878 That woman was widow after Wehrmacht general or high rank officer. Wehrmacht despised the SS.
@@MichalBreslau Not necessarily. Most hated the SS but some of the high ranking officers are Nazi Party members. Three examples are Erich Raeder, Karl Donitz and Alfred Jodl.
@Pat Ludwa Thats bullshit, those camps were so close to cities and towns that it would be almost impossible for the residents to not know about them, most Germans knew what was happening
The man was most likely her husband or something, and he looked SS or something to do with the Party, she also most likely told them the Americans were coming so the nazis fled, whilst literally in control of the camp
Actors were kept away from this set when they prepared this scene. Tom & Stephen wanted a honest reactions from the actors. For those survivors, cancer patients and others from nearby hospital were cast for this important scene.
I have long thought that the translation and its delay adds even more to the drama of that harrowing scene. When you hear his voice break and he cries out only for us to learn he is talking about the nearby women’s camp and likely despairing at the possible fate of any of his loved ones that might have been taken there, my heart shatters and whatever composure I am still holding on to disintegrates. 😢♥️💔
It is a dramatic moment but in reality it almost certainly didn't actually happen. The 101st arrived the day after Kaufering IV, the camp depicted in Band of Brothers, was liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945. And there were actually only a handful survivors found alive when the camp was liberated, along with about 500 Bodies. Colonel Edward Seiller of the 12th Armored Division took control of the camp on April 27 and he was the one who ordered civilians from the town of Landsberg to bury the dead.
Of all the episodes from the Band of Brothers, this one is the most heartbreaking of them all. I can't recall how many times I cried seeing this. Museums and films like this are made so we can remember and not repeat history. 😭
In London we have The Imperial War Museum. Within that they have The Belsen Rooms; piles of baby and childrens' shoes, glasses, little items of clothing. I was 3 months pregnant at the time and was totally aware of Belsen. However, I took 3 or 4 steps and could not go in. I cried and cried. Sometimes it doesn't matter what you know, seeing real items from there was too much. Yes, this is why they fought.
They got an army doctor who had supervised a famine in India and there was a formula they could have, literally called famine food. They were given this and having tragically, unknowingly, killed people with kindness, they then saved many thousands with the famine formula.
The camp portrayed here is Dachau Subcamb Kaufering IV, a labor camp. It was discovered by the 103rd Infantry Division but the 101st was in the area and everyone saw the camp. The veterans refused to talk about it. So the creative decision was to have Easy Company discover the camp.
There's a CZcams video out recently about how the Americans became disillusioned as the war dragged into 1945 and the Nazis refused to surrender, and how that mindset affected their reactions to the Holocaust.
It's likely that the Allied governments had some idea of what was going on, but they refused to believe the reports from "unreliable" sources like the Polish Resistance (a member of which got himself into and escaped Auschwitz) or the Soviets in late 1944 after finding the extermination camps like Auschwitz (thinking Stalin was trying to exaggerate the Nazi atrocities in comparison to his own like the gulags and famines). If the US and British governments did know about the Holocaust ahead of time, they didn't let it be public knowledge to deter antisemitism within their own populations. They didn't want a situation like the 1864 Draft Riots in NYC (watch "Gangs of New York" to see the circumstances of that incident) where public support would turn against the war as men would refuse to fight "for the Jews"
I think a lot of people knew, and even since 42 or 43, but they don't really cared. Americans and Australians refused visas for Europeans Jewish refugees, saying "we don't want to import a Jewish problem here", while in Palestine the British sent them back to their death
The Allie brass knew about these places from aerial reconnaissance photos of a lot of these camps, but didn't understand their purpose. Even after receiving intelligence reports about them, front-line units weren't told.
The names of several episodes have ingenious double meanings, "Crossroads", "The Breaking Point", "Why We Fight", with this one being the epitome.
The hard u-turn on "Why We Fight', from the soldiers, so tired of war, wondering if it was even worth it, as their lives at home are crumbling, to the realization that one of the greatest evils in the world was defeated by those same soldiers.
I can't watch this episode without tearing up.
I remember watching the show for the very first time when it came out. The two things that got to me the most was when the one camp survior saluted Frank, and when open the train car and you see all the bodies, and one of them the arm comes forward as they open the door. Not sure why but that always gets me
That scene always gets me too. I think it's because the guy shutting the door must have just tossed the arm aside to get the door bye, so it was nothing but an annoyance to him - basically complete dehumanization.
The opening scene of this episode is my father's personal favorite and a fine filming scene. Beethoven was German, while Mozart was Austrian. Hitler was also Austrian. In playing this piece, written later in Beethoven's life after he had become death, what those townsfolk are saying is that they are reclaiming their culture, heritage, and nation from Hitler.
I'm fascinated with Nixon's comment near the beginning with that violin music when he say's "That's Beethoven. That's not Mozart. That's Beethoven". Really powerful. Glad you guys' kept that scene in. It's interesting.. there's a similar scene in Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio when Mark Ruffalo says "Nice music. Who is that? Brahms?" Leo replies with "No...That's Mahler." also with the focus being on the horrors of a concentration camp. And also very powerful.
@@lightup6751 Oh wow, that never even occurred to me to think about their nationalities. That's really interesting.
@@lightup6751 Just simply that it had such an impact on me when I first heard it. It's a simple line that doesn't seem like it'd mean that much, but it carried a lot of weight to it when he said it. At least to me that's how it seemed. That and it's just interesting how similar that line is to the dialogue in Shutter Island.
I saw it as a comment on Nixon's character. The fact that he can tell Beethoven from Mozart speaks to his intelligence and upbringing. He says in a later episode that his family owns a factory so it implies he comes from an affluent background and is educated. The juxtaposition of this against the death camp and the well-off German townspeople oblivious to the suffering (or choosing to be oblivious to it) could reflect Nixon's persona as a man of education kind of out-of-place in a savage world.
My great Uncle Charlie was General George Pattons driver. He was with him when they came upon a camp whose name I forget. My great Uncle and Patton both cried like babies or so he said. He was never the same after that. So for me this touched home
Sounds like Charlie made some shit up considering Patton was a massive anti-semite who, by his own words, considered Jews less than animals.
@@7heSlime except he didn't. Isn't it nice when you have a person who just HAS to be a contrarian?
@@Fatherofheroesandheroines Who didn't do what?
Must be nice to make shit up on the internet and call anyone who refutes it a contrarian.
History is not on your side in this. Patton had literally zero sympathy for Holocaust victims. He wrote about it frequently in his diary referring to them as locusts and blamed them for their own misfortune. In fact he was much more sympathetic to remaining nazis, actively refuse to take part in Eisenhower's denazification effort. He put "former" nazis in high positions of power and even put former SS members in charge of guarding concentration camp survivors. The only reason Patton fought the nazis were because the Allies were at war with them. He would have much preferred to ally with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union because he shared the nazis views on Jewish ans Slavic peoples.
@@7heSlime first off I didn't make it up. Since you think I'm so shallow that I would which is kinda funny. Now if Charlie was wrong ok possibly. Yeah Patton was kind of a douche sometimes. But the fact that your going after me like I'm supposed to just now sown and run away or something is weird. I told what great Uncle Charlie said and it's possible he was wrong due to his age at the time. This vehement anger because I called you a contrarian seems to show your lack of maturity. If you think winning points in a comments section defines your life have at it. Doesn't matter to me either way
@@Fatherofheroesandheroines You're right, my bad for caring about historical fact. I should instead happily whitewash historical figures like good old George "Kind of a douche sometimes" Patton who cried for the victims of the Holocaust.
it's a tough watch this episode and it's perfectly named...and I loved the scene where Webster is shouting at the surrendering German army.
"dragging our asses halfway around the world...interrupting our lives like this for what..what the fuck are we doing here"....powerful stuff.
I remember this episode shocking me. They go so long in this series without mentioning that topic and only the little hint of Tom Hardy's character reading the newspaper. When I first saw it I thought they had stumbled onto some secret weapon site like the V2 rockets, and it was because of the smoke that I thought was steam.
After the war, scary officer Spiers was made commander of Spandau prison. Thats where they locked up all the Ss war criminals.
So yeah, he was probably a scary guy.
I hope you'll do We Stand Alone Together (Band of Brothers documentary) at some point. I've really enjoyed watching your reactions to the series. The last episode will be a tearjerker for sure.
The directors actually casted real cancer patients on active chemo to play the concentration camp victims. It was very hard for them to film these scenes, but none of them backed out. They all knew how important the realism of this scene was. Many of them died weeks later.
My grandfather always made it clear he had respect but also regret for how tough the German soldiers were. He was never really particular about it beyond saying they were hard fighters and made them (his unit) pay for every fight.
But he never showed any real malice or animus towards them except the SS. He said the SS were sons of bitches (strong words coming from my mild-spoken granddad). He said even the German troops he met (captured) hated the SS.
But the thing that will always stick with me is how little he ever said to the family about the war, and how much some of it pained him to talk about. He would always get quiet and let his words drift off if he spoke about it for any length.
The one thing I remember him saying scared the hell out of him and his buddies was the Bocage. The hedgerows in France. He said you never knew what was on the other side of that hedge-line at any moment. It could be nothing, it could be Germans and their tanks. The only time I heard him really sound scared was talking about their tanks.
He wasn’t specific, but I got the sense that German tanks killed a lot of his buddies.
Beyond stories he’d tell me (and apparently ONLY me) as a kid, he never opened up about any of it until “Saving Private Ryan” came out in theaters. He asked my dad to see it with him, and that’s when he finally started talking about it with the rest of the family. He’d never even claimed the medals he’d earned (it took the VA telling us for us to know).
He was the kindest, most mild tempered man I’ve ever known, and he always treated me with love and respect. I miss him.
Hello Guys, nice work you two do. I enjoyed every Part of you commenting on Band of Brothers and some other movies. I am from Germany, in my Mid 40s and i am glad than i can say that we here get taught about that evil part of our History early in school. We also had a trip to the Ruins of Dachau Camp. When i was in my Service at German Army there was a big control of Neonazism. And I believe that is all the right way to stop and end that Bullshit. I can say that i am glad that the Allies did end that Regime in the 40s. Greetings...
I think you mean you mean "checks" or "investigations" for Neonazism not "control". In this case you don't use "control" for "Kontrolle", like in checking people's backgrounds.
Sadly there are more and more german soldiers and Special Forces units (KSK) Neonazi affiliations becoming clearer every year and the apparent disinterest of higher ups in how problematic that is.
There's a saying in Germany that is fitting: "Auf dem rechtem Auge blind" - "Blind in the right eye" Not just a problem in Germany.
You have to watch the movie Conspiracy. It is a stunning movie about the architects of the Final Solution. Phenomenal movie and it truly showcases the banality of evil...you'd think these guys are scheduling the overhaul of a naval ship in the way they speak about the genocide of an entire people.
Doesn't matter who you are. If you don't shed at least one tear during this episode you're not human
The brilliance of this episode opening and ending is multi-fold. First it is the immediate clash of the beautiful music surrounded by a scene of devastation. But on a deeper level it is the fact that the German musicians are playing a wonderful composition of a German composer. At the same time during the episode we see the unimaginable horror of the holocaust which the Nazi regime perpetrated and the German people either contributed to or wilfully ignored. It demonstrates the capacity for a people and culture to produce both amazing things and unmitigated horror. Then returning to the original you see this again, the Allied forces have destroyed swathes of Germany creating untold suffering, but in doing so they have prevented the continuation of a horror and suffering on a greater and more actively horrific and malevolent scale. This is an episode of contrasting the beauty of man's endeavours beside the horror which man can instigate. And it behoves all who watch it to understand and guard against that horror while striving to achieve and propagate that beauty.
@@dirus3142 On an individual basis that argument has truth, the White Rose Society demonstrates that opposition did exist, numerous other examples exist. But at the level of a society the simple fact is that many participated to some degree, a majority sat silent and some few opposed Nazism to a greater or lesser degree. Nicholas Stargardt's book The German War is an excellent resource which examines this issue.
You know, if you smile some, you'll be less intimidating.
Spiers: *smiles*
And I was wrong.
Hi TBR & Samantha, apparently, a few people actually managed to escape from the camps, somehow. Through the resistance they got the info back to the Allies, but they found it impossible to believe, at first. In one case, they were asked to bomb a camp rather than let it continue.
As far as I know, they didn`t do it, but they made greater efforts to reach them sooner.
But, the info about this was not passed down to the lower ranks, just kept at a certain command level.
This is one of the most powerful episodes of ANYTHING put on film. If there was ever any doubt, this is indeed why we fight.
I have been enjoying the reactions to the series. It is important to see the ending of the Shoah (Holocaust). It is also important to understand how they got there lest we allow history to repeat itself over and over.
There is also a bonus episode for you to watch after episode 10 Points.
The episode is called We Stand Alone Together - Band of Brothers Documentary
There are currently concentration camps in China, and China is one of the 5 permanent members on the UN's security council. Really makes you wonder what the UN actually stands for.
And U.S makes for like 4-5% of world population but has like 20% of worlds prisoners. Shits a bit fucked up.
@@Foksuh So we should let criminals free? That’s effed up “thinking”.
@@Foksuh There's a difference between locking up killers in jail and sending people to a camp for being Muslim and indoctrinating their children to forget their Muslim culture completely.
Well when China was made a permanent member of the UN security council they were a staunch ally of the US, same as Russia. Things change.
The UN is not perfect, and it does not have it’s own standing army. To stop the Chinese would require a World War, not a UN resolution. The UN does a lot of good work, and has helped prevent any more major conflicts like were seen in the 20th Century.
Great reaction episode y’all!!! Love the channel! What gets me every time is how the prison guards burned the huts with the prisoners in them unable to escape...brutal
Our Intel groups had some info on the camps, mostly from aeral recon,, but didn't know the full extent of what was going on. The rank and file soldiers had no clue.
I wonder how much the general public knew about the persecution of the jews beyond just Hitler's obvious hatred of them.
The US had gotten intel on Auschwitz from a Jewish informant and he requested it to be bombed and said it would saves thousands of lives, but the US high command decided the best way to save thousands of lives was to bomb factories to tear down the German war machine faster.
@@lelouchvibritannia4028 based on what I've read, most people thought it was a fairly normal-for-Europe-historically pogrom type of thing. Bad, but not the systemic type of slaughter it ended up being.
@@christopherkortum5535 Yeah, obviously given how Kristallnacht and many other incidents went down on smaller scales compared to the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps.
@@Maddog-wm5xi Not sure about Jewish informant, but a Polish officer Witold Pilecki wrote a report that was send to London, while being an inmate in Auschwitz.
"Points" is a very good conclusion to the series, where their story during war comes to an end and they earn a much deserved respite from the horrors of war. I can't wait to watch you guys view that.
13:35 From what I've heard and read, intelligence about the possibility of the camps' existence had reached the Allies well before the end of the war, but (1) they at first didn't take the claims all too seriously (high command didn't think something like that was plausible or even possible), and (2) they figured that there wasn't anything they could do about it at the time anyway. So, discovering the camps confirmed the worst suspicions of the Allied high command, but troops on the ground didn't have or use this intel, because it was never used in military operations (simply put, most soldiers had no idea).
I would recommend the HBO movie conspiracy started Kenneth branagh based on the minutes of the conference that decided this apparently the meeting took 1 h 40 mins and the final solution plan was unveiled at a secret meeting. Very disturbing colin Firth is in it as well
this a must watch for anyone.
@@Nick_CF agreed nick
Great movie, great acting in it!
Yea its insane how people can be calm and act like its a normal conversation, They are sick fucks I would gladly put a bullet in everyone of those Nazis. We didn't do enough to Germany after the war.
I don’t remember where this was filmed, but when new traveled around that particular town that Spielberg and The Band of Brothers project was there, the people that came forward to play the imprisoned Jews were terminally ill patients. They wanted to show the world exactly what had happened in those camps and hope that an atrocity of this caliber never happens again. Many of these actors did not live to see this come to the screen.
The juxtaposition between Nix in the old woman in the beginning and end is under appreciated acting. Not a word said but a thousand words said in their physical acting.
Another fact in this ep: Steven Spielberg didnt show the concentration camp set to all of the cast or actors, not untill they started shooting that scene because he wanted to "capture a genuine" reaction from them. And it worked because the actors doesnt have any idea what the set would look like, so they were really shocked when they saw the set, and steven succeeded capturing their shocked and genuine reactions and emotions at that said scene. Also the people in the camp are Cancer patients thats why they are really that thin.
thats just plain morbite to use cancer patients for concentration camp inmates :/
@@SNOOPY_- *morbid. The cancer patients were paid well
@@SNOOPY_- Nobody forced my god you're the reason millennials have stereotypes.
@@SNOOPY_- they VOLUNTEERED.
In addition to excellent makeup and costuming, some of the emaciated extras used for the prisoners were cancer patients.
4:25 Did you get the Saving Private Ryan reference from Perconte? 😉😉😉
"Guts spilled out crying for their momma."
you guys are so good at this. Thank you so much. One of my favorite reaction folks. And the bigger screen is so much better than most others,
The thing that gets me every time -- and believe me, I cry every time I see this episode, including this time, and I must have watched it a hundred times by now -- is, during the scene where the tall concentration camp prisoner (played by the incomperably talented Swiss actor, Anatole Taubman, who excels at these sort of small roles) is explaining that the people here are tailors, and cooks, and artists, and just ordinary people, the look on Ronald Spiers face.
This is big-nuts no fear all go kill-em-all Spiers, and he looks like he's about to burst into tears.
That's what gets me every single time.
I never noticed that before, but you're right
I don't know if you noticed, but the French officer executing germans was Tom Hanks. He has another cameo as a British officer.
This is the hardest episode to watch. There were stories and rumors about the camps from a few people that had escaped. Most leadership thought that it was overstated to build sympathy for the Jewish cause and I think a lot of people couldn't believe any government even one as bad as the Nazis would do something like that. The word Liebgott can't make out from the prisoner they were talking too was "Untermensch" the English translation would be subhumans.
Or Undesirables.
Because the vast majority of the camps were located either in Poland or Germany itself, the full extent of what was happening wasn't known until towards the end of the war. The Russians were the first Allies to discover one, the Majdanek camp in Poland, almost completely intact. The camp portrayed in this episode is a part of the Kaufering complex and one of 11 subcamps that were there outside Landsberg, Germany. This episode is tough, but very powerful and well done. They used actual cancer patients who volunteered as extras and the main actors weren't allowed to see the camp set or extras until filming.
The scene that gets me every time is after they find out who made up the camp population the prisoner staggers off crying for the dead and the other camp, his lament is heartbreaking.
yea me too. "the women and childrens camp is the next railroad stop". as bad as they had it thinking about the women and kids going through the same conditions. really is heartbreaking.
I love this channel! I really enjoy their reactions to band of brothers. This is a beautifully disturbing episode. I love the fact that they clearly showed the duality of man. We are capable of creating such beauty and such horror at the same time. I can't wait for the episode 10 reaction.
How did you guys not realize young Magneto, Michael Fassbender in the whole show?
Also, the camp that the Russians liberated is a very famous camp, Auschwitz.
To think that before the war Germany was a land of great thinkers, beautiful architecture, philosophers, artists and culture. Then it birthed one of the most evil regimes this world has ever seen. It serves as an example of what any country, however civilized, can turn into if monsters are given power.
One of my favourite quotes has always been: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
One of the single most saddest episodes of a mini series I've ever seen it is literally impossible to fathom what those people went through it makes you realize alot of the things we complain about in our daily lives don't mean anything
I get you don't mean it, but these sort of comments can be (and are) used to excuse a lot of abuse and other things, nevermind the lack of social progress, from the people with power.
@@blechtic didn't mean anything bad by it
@@blechtic "I get you don't mean it" Then why did you feel the need to make the comment? Do you expect to shame them into not saying such a thing again? A lot of the things we complain about and argue on the internet don't actually mean anything in comparison to that. Doesn't mean everything is meaningless now.
@@hadoken95 That's my point. Whenever you hear something like this, you should think why they are saying this.
Oh, this one's going to be rough...
Yes it is...
Hi T.B.R. Schmitt & Samantha, did you know that the second 506 P.I.R. Easy Company member to speak was " Shifty " Powers. The Marksman at Foy?
spoilers! they'll find out next week :D
@@durge12 They finished the series already.
@@catherinelw9365 Yep, I knew that. R.IP. " Shifty " Powers.
There is a part in this episode where Webster is yelling at the Germans and yelling out " Say hello to Ford and General Motors" and it's ironic that he mentioned Ford since Henry Ford was a known sympathizer to the Nazi's and was anti-semitic plus GM was also allegedly collaborating with Germany as well. So both Ford and GM were working with Hitler.
May I recommend three movies?
Some have suggested Schindlers List. Which is by Steven Spielberg. Powerful movie.
Also, Woman In Gold which stars Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.
And The Monuments Men. George Clooney and Matt Damon lead a stellar cast in that film.
These three movies are stories centering around subjects about the Holocaust, lost art, and Jewish culture. Highly recommend.
You may not have been taught or learned about Bastogne, but that was a part of a much larger engagement commonly reffered to as "The Battle of the Bulge"
"...the biggest price we pay for war is what might have been." - Stephen Ambrose (paraphrased)
I've , vbeen to Dachau a couplr of times. Anyone who doubts the Houlcaust, go visit the camps. They're still there. You won't come out the same.
Liebgott's face after he has to give the bad news breaks my heart every time I watch this episode.
When they filmed this none of the cast had seen the Camp until the day they filmed it as they wanted to get a real shocked expression of the cast, also the inmates were Cancer patients
Great mini-series, this is the best and most memorable episode.
Non of the soldiers knew of these camps. They battled through France and into Germany. Then....the British army discovered Bergan Belson !
I would ponder upon the mental effect of 'Liberating' a German Concentration, or Death Camp, would have upon the mind of a 21 year old conscripted soldier even though he was 'Battle hardened' by this time in the War. Consider that our soldiers had to return home and engage in 'normal' life as it was before they were conscripted to fight. (The exception being parachutist who were volunteers).
This is why the Nuremburgh warcrimes trials were held.
This must never be allowed to happen again.
Respects to the fallen.
The camp depicted in Band of Brothers, "Kaufering IV," was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with the 101st arriving the following day.
Another important point made of 'why we fight', at the beginning of this episode, when the armed trooper got slapped by the pretty girl, and then LEFT THE BARN. The American army did significantly less raping than any other country's in WWII. At that time, the greatest generation, indeed.
In general, they didn't have to rape. It's amazing how far you can get with the war weary and soon-to-be-defeated locals, when you behave somewhat decently (don't have a reputation for being unwashed savages), and even bring luxury items like chewing gum, chocolate, real actual tobacco, nylon or even in rare cases silk.
One of the best episodes of a
TV show ever and so important.
A lot of people need to see it because of the hard honest way they showed it.
You can see what people are able to do with other people and in which ways it can go and that was the most horrible, terrifying way.
It was so inhuman and there is absolutely no excuse for it.
If you were not to stupid, a lot of the people in Germany knew what was going on,
more than everyone would believe, it's impossible to not known.
And in the last year's it was not really a secret anymore.
One point to think about is,
in Europe soldiers fight for the live and freedom of so many people,
but in the same time a lot of difficult things were going on in the US as well.
And another fact to think about is, that German pows in the US, the enemy of course, were sometimes treated better in the US than parts of their own population.
And in that context, this show is even more important with that episode in mind.
And terrible things are still going on until today.
The most brutal camps were in Poland and the Ukraine, the camps were only their to destroy the people and had no other reason.
Auschwitz- Birkenau,
Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor were extermination camps and the living hell for the systematic extermination of people, especially the Jews.
I always thought the scene between Nixon and that ss commanders wife in red, held a nicely done meaning. For instance, at the end while Nixon is surveying the camp, he notices that same wife, helping clean up with a serious look on her face. Almost demonstrating something horrible happened(this death camp, Nixon divorce) but it was time to somehow move forward
I doubt the rank-and-file American soldier knew that there was a Holocaust happening, but in America there was definitely an awareness, at least among the politicians. In 1939 the Jewish community founded the Vaad Hatzalah organization which worked for years to rescue any Jews they could from Europe and from the hands of the Nazis (through bribes and different under-the -table deals, etc).
A fun fact is that the actors were not shown the camp until they started filming so as they approach it, they are seeing it for the first time. Their first reactions to seeing the men are real and in the moment.
You kids are sweet, intelligent, and beautiful couple. I have been enjoying your reaction videos. Keep it up guys.
Very thoughtful reaction, thank you.
8:40 Man carrying old man, he is speaking Serbian he is saying "People help, please help him, he is still alive, you still can save him"
Only a handful of survivors were actually found alive when the camp depicted in Band of Brothers, "Kaufering IV," was liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945.
The guy executing the 3 Germans at 6:30 is Tom Hanks
00:06:15 Henry Ford sold to both sides during the war, so the Germans already had Ford parts and engines in their military vehicles. That's fantastic, isn't it?
This is the best television show of all time, think of how many that have grown up without knowing that all this happened. This should be shown to every high school senior class in the country. Kids that age are already watching grosser and more violent content anyway.
6:30 I've seen this show several times, but only this time around did I notice that the ones doing the execution are French soldiers.
Supposedly Roosevelt and the other allied leaders new about the camps but they thought the magnitude of it was an exaggeration that people could not do that to others but when they evidence of the camps came out they were shocked.
Before I had watching this movies previous band of brothers above 20 years ago...that's Great movies ever I love it all Hollywood american movies. Yeah that was time from Bastogne is a town in southern Belgium’s Wallonia region. In central Place McAuliffe, a U.S. Sherman tank and a statue of General McAuliffe are reminders of Bastogne’s role during WWII’s Battle of the Bulge.
Hope you guys are gonna watch The Pacific next.
That is the episode that is the most important. So powerful.
As you already know from a previous comment. But the actors playing the Holocaust victims were cancer patients.
The entire camp and the actors in the camp were revealed the day of when the main cast started filming. So their reactions were all genuine.
Concentration camps were not a German invention. Or at least in so far as rounding up large numbers of people to keep them in dire cicumstances and work them to death. However the Nazis effectivised it for use and additionally added the concept of pure "Extermination" camps where the dead were "processed for profit ...
I would just like to say I am enjoying your reactions . My Dad was a navigator on Lancaster bombers in the RAF during WW2.
the guy who asks if O'keefe is sitting on his bayonet is Michael Fassbender. Younger Magneto in the Fox X-men movies.
This episode gets me every time
Such an amazing episode. Almost the entire company is disillusioned with the war and why they are there and then they find a concentration camp and realize what they are doing there. To end stuff like that forever, hopefully, and in a weird way it reinvigorates them.
_Almost the entire company is disillusioned with the war and why they are there and then they find a concentration camp and realize what they are doing there._
Except Easy Company actually arrived the day after the camp shown in Band of Brothers, Kaufering IV, had been found and liberated by the 12th Armored Division.
"I've seen band of brothers before."
Me to man, several times. And it matters exactly zero how many times you've seen this episode.
Having served, I have not yet been able to sit and watch these.
I served as well, and I watched them to honor my grandfather whom was there. He saw these things. He lived them.
Hi from Lyon - France ^^
Please can you try " over there " please ? I really want to see what you think about that US series in Irak
Thanks guys , this is a tough one to watch
Please do watch The Pacific after this brilliant series!
The Allied government had information and knowledge, but it is questionable if anyone knew what it was truly like. Note that Jewish soldiers frequently changed their names and had a different religion on their ID (dog) tags because the Allies knew that the Nazi's would not treat Jewish captives well. However, the general soldiers were by no means informed and even in high command nobody was prepared for the reality of seeing the results of the Holocaust, even knowing what had been found at other camps. As this show demonstrates knowing something is vastly different seeing and directly experiencing that thing. Encountering the Camps had a profound impact on those that actually did so, vastly greater than the many Allied soldiers who heard of what was found but never actually saw it directly. A truly powerful episode.
Another important point to know, none of the Allied Forces knew about the Concentration Camps until they first set eyes on them.
I gotta say, I really love Webster.
When you wonder how they market the war and recruited back stateside, for the most part, they lied, or at least were less than honest. If you look back at the recruiting materials at the time, it was all the glory of war, because it had to be. As with any war, if the new recruits knew what they were in for, most of them would have never shown up. Just think back to the Normandy episode. All the gliders getting blown up, whole aircraft being destroyed before the first man gets out, and it was worse for the navy's landing craft. There is a certain glory and a certain brotherhood in war, but it is still a horrible thing. There are a couple of quotes that apply. The first from John Stuart Mill, “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse." I believe that World War II was very much worth fighting. The philosophies of Hitler, Mussolini and Ito were repugnant and absolutely incompatible with the concept of free peoples. But the second quote is from a soldier, Gen R. E. Lee... "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." With no combat at all, this episode very much shows all the horror that accompanies war, impacting everyone, even those who thought themselves separate from it.
It is amazing how we just hate those who don't descend or believe or fuck the way we do.
Fighting tears when jew was kissing soldier,he was so happy.
You see Magneto at 3:54?
Very powerful and emotional episode. Escape from Sobibor is a true story about a Nazi Death Camp. Very powerful film.
Supposedly the Vatican knew about at least some of what was being done to the jews and turned a blind eye to it, but I'm not sure about the US government. They definitely knew their was serious mistreatment of jews simply based on accounts given by refugees that escaped Europe before the nazi's final solution really got going, but they certainly didn't know there were dedicated extermination camps. They probably assumed victims were being robbed and forced into slave labor camps. Great episode, great reaction. Still hoping you guys roll right into episode 1 of Pacific after BoB👍
Not true. US Government knew exactly what was going on because of intel gathered by Armia Krajowa (Home Army - Polish Resistance). Look up the story of Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki.
I agree, the hardest to watch.
The scene with the butcher saying he was not a nazi... it is often overlooked that A LOT of the german soldiers did fight because they HAD to in order to protect their families. if they had deserted their duty or simply refused to "join" the german army. Their families would have been executed. A lot of the general population didnt agree with the nazi regime as well but for them it was the same...if you were against them, you were dead and all your family too. You didnt need to actively fight or rebel against the nazi regime, passive resistance or denouncing their ways was often enough to have you killed.
a scene in FURY (with Brad Pitt) was one of the first instances that showed this disctinction when the allied troops had the higher ranking SS officers executed right away but the simple infantry soldiers where led away as prisoners of war and the allied officer making that called even mentioning it when they stopped the SS officers from being sent to prison with the others "no those stay here for execution... these are the pigs.. those others are just poor soldiers" or something like that. havent seen the movie in a while
Not only did liebgott want to raise a Jewish family and find a Jewish women, but he was also Jewish himself, which is why he broke down crying and in ep10 he hunted down that nazi soldier in his home because he was killing liebs people