"A Bond That Exists Only In Combat." - Band of Brothers (2001)
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Band of Brothers is a 2001 American war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan. Episodes first aired on HBO starting on September 9, 2001. Critically acclaimed, the series won the Emmy and Golden Globe awards for best miniseries.
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A speech given to a unit of German soldiers by their general, and is translated by an American soldier. What stands out about this quote is how, despite who is speaking it, it is true for any and all soldiers. The speech's themes of brotherhood and shared trauma may be targeted at German soldiers, but are true for the Americans as well. It is an inspiring and honest piece of dialogue that encompasses much of what Band of Brothers is about. (Screen Rant)
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It’s almost like soldiers on both sides of a war aren’t too different! 😮😮😮😮
Wowsers!
@@randomguyonyoutube4833 They both committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, just one side was to a far greater and aggressive, industrial extent.
@@antorseax9492 Sadly that hasn’t changed much in the last 60 years
Yes, the Wehrmacht worked tirelessly protecting the swarms of SS as they filled pits along the Eastern Front with men, women, and children.
@@antorseax9492 cry more 🤣
The actor who played the General is the most German looking German to ever German.
Bro this is great 😂😂😂
Lmfao! 🤣
The GerMan
Fuckin right
Most German sounding too
He made the rank of general not because of his military achievements. But because that jawline is a weapon in all its own.
His jawline makes him the most general looking general I've ever seen. Hell, I'd take orders from that guy! 😂😂😂
The Knights Cross of The Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords says that he had some impressive military achievements.
He missing the facial scar
It would definitely shatter some fists
Ape with the big jaw be da boss man😮
A better translation is “a bond that only combat can forge”, which I think is even more beautiful given the context
Forgive him. He learned German from his mother. And he was a poor student.
No doubt But the Joe character would likely translate just as he did.
Kampf has so many uses, the German even not translated its a beautiful language.
Some of the hats worn by the German soldiers were Engineer caps. I found one in an antique shop along with a shell of an American WW2 helmet. The place sometimes had north Korean propaganda posters too. It was in Sugar Creek, Ohio.
For my experience studying language, Some translations are more art than science.
"Men you're damn lucky you're on the Western front"
Oh, they knew. 90% of them came from the Eastern Front for the great offensive.
Some still believing the German scientist would pummel the allies with new, secret Uber Weapons.
That is one of the most humane and heroic speeches I've heard in an awfully long time, thank you it means a lot to me
So true lol but the Russians weren’t that far them.
I heard it's quiet there
@@Notorious_G.O.O.S.Ewrong war dude
The realization they get at listening the "Enemy" went thru the exact same things they went through, to see every single soldier understands/relates to that feeling....
Difference being they chose to do this. We were forced to do it to stop them
@@RichardOwen-js6zpthe average german soldier was forced to fight especially at the end of the war, and please don’t say “we” like you did anything 😂
@@Rmeister333 We clearly means the "allies" as that's the side and POV we are on x
@@RichardOwen-js6zp German men were also forced to fight don’t forget x
@@bigtony1434
No! Germany is the big bad! There's never been anyone, place or thing more evil! Every German citizen personally held polish and jewish babies down while Uncle Addy himself used a spoon to carve out their innards, which they then roasted and ate! All Germans from 1933 to 1945 were the human incarnation of Satan himself! None of them were innocent, not even babies born May 8, 1945!
Am I doin' it right?
The general is played by Wolf Kahler, he also played Major Dietrich in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” so I’d like to imagine he earned a couple promotions in the Stephen Spielberg greater WWII universe.
Also his IMDB is just like “German soldier, German soldier, German officer, German officer”
Promotions, assuming that he survived his encounter with the Ark, lmao
I knew he looked familiar...
Thanks a lot!
Now i can't see thus scene without thinking of his face shriveled as they open the Ark
Damn, that’s the same guy?
@@DangerousDavies2008
Yep.
Now think him giving that speech as the Ark is open
This was one of the best scenes in the whole series. Winters knew.
You can see by the looks on their faces, the men of Easy company are listening,(as Liebgott translates) and they agree with everything he is saying
Yeah it's some great acting, you can tell they all think that's exactly the same thing they'd say if the roles were reversed. Really drives home the whole idea of "why are we fighting each other, we are the same"
@@SmoothBaracuda Well, you see, the Germans were invading other nations, killing people, and forcibly subjugating them. Oh, and also the genocide. So no, we're not the same.
@@DerekS-kq3zh
Yawn.
left out the best line - at end he said " it's been a honor to serve with each and every one of you".........
@@csnide6702No, he didn't. Watch it again. Also, he didn't say that line at the end. There's even a line after that one.
Open your fucking ears and eyes before you start yapping.
His jawline is so German, my Toyota is now a Volkswagen 😂
So is my former Peugeot.
@@ColinH1973 it's a Porsche now
Considerate of the General to pause long enough to allow Liebgott to translate...
Or maybe those pauses are because he forgot what he wrote down and had to remember because he was arrested and forgot his paper at home. Haha.
SOmeone do a bigbang theory no laugh-track version of this.
That's just how German leaders do their speech. even Hitler pauses after each sentence
I mean, he IS a general and it seems like a good general. So he might have actually thought of doing this. As he knew his words applied to all solidiers, not just Germans. And allowing the allied soliders to understand his words could help them treat the Germans a little better. A good general is never NOT thinking about what to do next and how to modify the current situation to better his (the people he commands) position.
Hilarious…a see a couple of other commenters lost their sense of humor
"You deserve long and happy lives in peace.. " 😭❤
I can't help but think this is a deliberate echo of Winters' internal monologue at the end of the "Day of Days" episode, where he says that he swore that if he survived to D+1 and made it home again, he would find a quiet place and live in peace for the rest of his life.
This speech was legendary.
As a german it's wonderful to see some respect for our guys from the us dude's. Thanks for that!
That whole concentration camp thing was pretty messed up
@@fredlebhart1393 Those were hardline Nazi's, not regular army, which these guys were.
Still fighting for the same thing, unless the argument is they didn't know.. but I guarantee they would have kept fighting anyway. Most people would in any country. It's easy to get brainwashed..
@@RevolverOcelot79The Wehrmacht did commit war crimes too. But yeah only a specific part of SS were the "camp guards"
@@RevolverOcelot79 What about eastern front? Milions of dead soviet civilians. You really think SS did all that? no. The Wehrmacht did their fair share of genocide.
But yes, camps were under SS generaly.
He summed it up for every soldier who fought during the war - any soldier. Couldn't disagree with anything he said. A good leader for sure.
I remember seeing that scene several years ago for the first time time and it brought me to tears. I was a Sargeant of the Bundeswehr in the mid 90's and I have still this soldiers heart. Thought about grandad who was also a Sargeant but of the Wehrmacht - thought about what might have been... He fell in '42.
Sorry Brother.
Lets make sure it was not all in vain.
British Soldier, Nordrhein Westfalen.
Both my grandfathers were officers in the Polish army during WW2. I don't know much about what they went through. One of them was a prisoner of Auschwitz KL. He survived it. I don't hold any grudge against Germans today. War is hell.
Half of my family is Jewish.
I'm happy that Germany is a member of NATO.
Honor and Respect from across the pond, My great grandfather was Field artillery in WWII, I have his uniform displayed alongside my grandfather's and my dress uniform. US Army, 2/218 FA 🫡
Two of my grandmother's brothers fell in Europe.
My cousins are German.
Life moves on, and all we can do is make it wasn't in vain.
I was friends with a WW ll veteran from the York, PA area. Bill Housman was a 155mm artillerist who served throughout the European campaign. He became friends with a veteran of the 12th SS, Hans Knass (sp?), who was just an enlisted tank crewman. Mr. Housman often said they were enemies by chance, but were friends by choice.
One of the most moving moments in the series.
My great-grandfather who fought in WW2 and Korea told me a story about a chaotic firefight he was in during Korea. Much like the show, a torrential short burst of incoming erupted and he jumped into the nearest foxhole he could find. Upon landing in it, he looked up in shock to see an enemy combatant. They both stared wide-eyed at each other.... and endured the barrage as fellow men trying to stay alive. When it ended, the enemy jumped out and ran off. He was a body-stacking dude, but he said at that moment they were just two scared men. He respected both the Germans and the Koreans/Chinese. Brutal fighters who were well trained and formidable enemies.
Perhaps the only ww2 american production i've seen that didn't demonize the german soldiers. They were portrayed as they were.... just soldiers
Careful now. You're gonna get the professionally morally outraged in here to shit all over you talking like that. How dare you not hold the viewpoint that every German alive from '33 - '45 was basically Beelzebub.
What about poor old Hinkel's buddy? He certainly got made fun of. =D
At that point, most of the German volunteers and fanatics from the beginning of the war were either dead, or part of the SS. The regular army was patched up from tired, broken, disillusioned men, young boys and the elderly. The regular army just wanted to give up and return home.
And produced by Spielberg, a Jewish guy, too. I’m Jewish. We know the Germans weren’t all bad at all. They got caught up in a horrible circumstance. Ok there were a few that were rotten but that’s life.
Not true.
Watch: The Enemy Below, The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, To Hell and Back, or The Eagle Has Landed, just to name 5 of the most prominent movies made before 1985 and many combatants were still alive.
A very honorable ending to hear. And to be told that they were proud to have been alongside you says very much of what they went through. This bond they have can only be forged out of combat and nothing else
One of the best scenes in the series for me.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to day that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother
Written by the bard
William Shakespeare
I say it all the time. Shakespeare was a vile propagandist, but damned if he wasn't the greatest dialogian in the history of the English language. The St. Crispin's Day speech is some of the finest prose ever penned.
Kenneth Branagh's rendition of it may be the apotheosis of its performance. It never fails to inspire me.
Best scene in the entire series. Goosebumps every time.
I can’t tell you how beautiful this speech is to me. The power of the words the way the German language sounds is just incredible. 😮😊
The general speaks beautifully, and Winters has a profound moment where he realizes that the Germans are a mirror image of themselves, just cogs in a machine of death and destruction.
When I first saw this. I felt that he was including me and all my friends I grew up with in that speach. Most of my friends enlisted and most... didn't make it.
This scene is one of a Kind. I love that miniseries. No other came close
IMHO the best scene of BOB,BTW my dad was a a D-DAY plus Combat Engineer. Greatest Generation! Barb
Your dad was most definitely a badass human
Band of Brothers marked my life and turned it into a direction that cannot be driven away. I became a history lover due to this, i tried to join the officers school in the army but was rejected due to my twisted spine, became an avid reader and have into my collection lots of history books about the second world war, vietnam and others; it even drove me to learn english, german, japanese and so many others things... I still don't know what kind of life or what kind of guy i would have become if my mother haven't showed me this over 20 yrs ago.
Shit. I guess I have to watch Band of Brothers now 😂😅
@@forsaken7161amazing series
Yes bro highly recommended@@forsaken7161
This was the best part of the entire series. No contest.
In the end we are all human. Great series. ❤
The finest miniseries ever made.
God bless all the soldiers who fought for eachother.
One of the best TV series ever. This and The Pacific is a yearly watch.
BoB is much better than TP. Both are great, but BoB is in a different league.
@@DarkMatterX1 Both set out to portray something very different to the viewer. BoB romantises war, The Pacific shows the brutal reality of war.
@@filan_cabinet
I don't think BoB romanticizes war at all.
Both were great…but I can’t seem to finish Masters of the Air, I watched the first five episodes but something is missing from that…it hasn’t drawn me in like BoB and The Pacific did..
@DarkMatterX1 I love both, but I always thought that "The Pacific" was slightly better
GREAT SCENE GREAT SERIES
The General is played by German actor Wolf Kahler. You might recognize him as Dietrich, the uniformed German officer who melts when they open the ark in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
He made quite the recovery!!❤️🩹
I was in the fire service. Our bonds were forged in fire. They were the proudest days of my life.
But it’s incomparable to the bonds which must form amongst soldiers. A great scene from a great series.
Just to say it, don't compare or downplay your service. Firemen are a necessary and irreplaceable part of a functioning civilization. Your call to duty was no less sincere or remarkable. Bravo.
@@DarkMatterX1agreed.
So poignant and so sad.
A great screenplay.
Very, very well brought to life.
Both sides went through the same crap.
This series is perfect.
When it comes to quality of TV series, this is the very best I have ever seen.
Military service may be one short chapter or paragraph in people's lives. As a leader, you have a responsibility for the people under you no matter how short or long that time is. People will likely remember that time forever, good or bad as well as the leaders they had. Not in a narcissistic way but it is important to be keenly aware of how much you can impact your people's lives. This General, in the aftermath of defeat, summarized the meaning and importance of all their hardship and suffering. Everyone knows that a nation needs men to go to war, but a nation needs men after the war too.
I loved how the German General was addressing his men and the same words are also address the men of Easy Company.
Difficult to capture the essence of humanity in television but this scene really framed the whole series.
Luftwaffe Field Cap in there? Nice touch if so
They borrowed actual uniforms from various WW2 National War Museums. And gear, and equipment.
The props were often actual weapons from the actual battlefields of WW2.
@@CornpopBadDudeYes. Also, the setting was 1945. Germany's military was in shambles and remnants of units who still could fight were mashed together, which explained the variety of their equipment
The Fallschirmjager, paratroopers, were actually in the Luftwaffe. He may have been a fallschirmjager in command of a standard, although hastily thrown together infantry unit
@@russhoffman6301 Yes of course, there were also Luftwaffe field units made up of ground crews and the like
Greatest story ever told
So much truth in what he said. This is felt for real in life on the battle field!
that speech gives goozebumps
his speech sums up the theme for the series
Forged in Fire
We bond in pain.
Buy one
You get one free.
Even in combat, the people you're fighting are still human.
The best scene
Reminds me of what Shifty said: "We might've been good friends" if they weren't in different armies. War is Hell.
Excellent speech.
„Was im Schützengraben passiert, bleibt im Schützengraben, General.“
One for all, and all for nothing.
Even though they are the enemy, they went through similar experiences.
I recently found out my battle buddy form Iraq died at the age of 39. This speech makes me think about him. After the war we lost contact. He left the Army and I stayed in. I always thought that we would reconnect and be old men talking about the war. Instead he died 18 years after we came home. RIP Charles Wesley McKinney
Yeah, that's true. Shared hardships, fears, faillures and victories forge a bond between men that made them brothers.
This scene is the perfect summary of what combat does to men. It crystallizes it into a few sentences. The most heartfelt moment in the whole series and yet the roles are reversed and we feel sympathy for the German troops forced into a war they didn't want to be in.
This show was a great representation of what many people, including me call the greatest generation ever.
Truer words were never spoken😢
Man them Germans sure did know how to dress back then,General looking sharp in that werhmacht uniform.
Honor on the battlefield.
The respect the Americans showed a worthy opponent was well earned on both sides.
My favorite scene in the entire series.
Fun fact, the general is played by the same man who played Col. Dietrich from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Shit. Beat me to it. I just posted something similar.
Good job.
I really liked this show. This short clip showed a level of honor between American and German forces even though this was a war. At the same time, black Americans where being discriminated against, locked out of opporunities, and at the recieving end of all types of injustices. Despite having fought in this war, no black americans are shown in the show if my memory serves me correctly. It didnt make sense to me when I watched the show because i was very young when it was produced. Now that im much older, some things make more sense now.
No more brother wars
Even in loss, they were still proud to serve for Germany
The greatest success of Band of Brothers was that it doesn’t demonize the enemy… even an enemy so clearly in the wrong.
The reason the other side fought was wrong, but many were swept up in the whole war effort outside of fanaticism. They were the baddies for the rest of the world, but those sins rest on those who started and committed the atrocities. Many just wanted to keep their loved ones safe.
In what way? England and France declared war on Germany and rejected peace offers. Poland was territory taken from the Germans in 1919. The Allies funded Communist Russia and Eastern Europe fell behind the iron curtain. Patton knew we chose the wrong side.
The aftermath of war, and the horrors of combat breed a unique group of men. After all the politics, flags, patches, medals, and rank are stripped away you will see truth. An honorable group of men who will put fear aside, men who will bleed with their brothers.
To many people see all Germans that fought in WW2 as Nazis… Many were of course, but the vast majority were no different than American, British, French or Russian soldiers, simply loyal and honorable men fighting for the sake and love of their country and countrymen standing beside them
Great movie
Greater words never spoken since ancient times
That Hasselhoff jaw tho.
Today there is no respect for the enemy. You don’t come face to face with your opponents anymore. You see their death from afar or a computer screen. These men hated each other but they truly did respect each other for what they had all gone through even though they each put was the bringer of the others misery and death.
You didn't see the guy you were shooting back then eighter. Not really. It was rare to ever see the enemy.
Unless it was a screaming Russian with a shovel in Stalingrad.
We did come face to face in the Angolan war. We had contacts at point blank range and assaulted an entrenched Brigade. We didn't fear our enemy, we trained harder because we respected them. Once you capture an enemy who had his compass shot off his wrist in a contact 200km south and had walked for days, to the point that his ankle bones were no longer bleeding, you cared for his wounds and you fed him, and let him sleep knowing he would be treated as if he was one of ours.
@@williambotha5864 I don't mean offense. But that is not a war. That is something even worse. That is a Police Action with elements of a war in it.
You shouldn't never have to see, or take enemy soldiers prisoner until you have crushed their souls.
Everything else I agree with. Poor saps didn't want to fight you to begin with. If they did, they wouldn't have begged for mercy from you. Would they have shown the same mercy to you that you showed them though?
Such an odd creature is man.
@@CornpopBadDude No offense taken. The other comments in the thread were propounding the thought that modern combat (virtual, disassociated) no longer allows for respect as one no longer smells the blood of the dying, the malodourous fumes of a three-day WP-boiled human, or hear them call for their loved ones when they shuffle off the coil. And that small 'police-action' certainly did that for me. (Oh, by the way, I haven't seen a 'police action' that includes naval, air, land forces or tanks, artillery and trenches.) It certainly started as a police action, but it became an unconventional, counter-insurgency war, but it was war. And because military action is but the last resort of failed politics, we lost it.
I’d take it a step further…I think many of these people did not hate each other; they were just doing their jobs. Germans were deeply embedded in our culture, and we all came from the same roots. There was a large overlap in our values, which are exemplified in the General’s speech. So, it was easy to respect those who hadn’t perpetrated atrocities, and for them to return the respect.
Maybe the best TV show ever made
this mans jawline made chuck norris think twice
That realization when the words of the German General apply as much to the American soldiers as the German soldiers.
the German general basically summarized all of easy company's experiences LOL especially in Bastogne
This scene was great, especially for me as a german. They were the enemy all the time, but still humans. Great series
When you realized the evil ennemy is not the evil you thought it was
The moment they realised after all the senseless murder they were all the same after all.
It's not murder. Words have meanings. Not all killing is murder.
@@DarkMatterX1 when it's one man taking another's life it's murder I don't give a fuck about your semantics and rules of war bullshit. It's homicide on a mass scale.
It’s crazy to think since humans have been fighting since like the beginning of time there has probably been countless moments like this throughout ALL of history. Start to now.
That German general has a jawline like an anvil
Everyone will remember his name, DRAAGOOO
Awesome series. The fact we keep doing this to each other for governments that use us worldwide is a crying shame.
Unfortunately not everyone will live a life of true peace. Haunting memories will follow many and few will accept what they experienced in their own way.
I thought he was vaporized on that unnamed island after they opened the ark of the covenant.
Peace is not for free
The wrong side won.
i always loved how the nazi commandant paused so liebgott could translate
Just remember people. If they didn’t have the SS lightning bolts, they more than likely were just some father or son who was forced to fight a war that wasn’t his. Just like so many of the boys on our side in the war, and in Vietnam.
The translator is the main villain from the series white collar!
Very powerful speech
I love this scene ..makes me emotional
I'm surprised they didn't have Winters get up and salute the General.
If the General is not accused of Crimes, the UCMJ would have required him to salute his superiors.
But in this case, the General isn't addressing the butter bar. He's addressing the 6th. Not the 101st.
@@CornpopBadDude he was stopped by Babe Hefron and refused to surrender to a mere Private. As Lipton had just been made a 2nd Lieutenant Winters sent him to receive the General.
Lipton would not be a "butterbar" he was a mustang, promoted in the field.
Lipton received the surrender as he was the designated Officer of The Day (OTD). It's a common practice in most armies to have one to share the load around. The General understood this, and that's why he wasn't slighted or insulted.
Well said sir
I watch the whole series when it originally aired. If my memory serves me right, the General ended his speech by stating “we are a Band of Brothers”.
imagine if our work bosses showed appreciation like that !
A true Soldier. An Honorable man who was defending his fatherland. He's obviously no Nazi. It looks like he has an edelweiss in his Cap. And freak. his uniform just looks awesome!