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The concentration camp set was assembled without the cast knowing about it. The cast members actually did not know what was next and a lot of what happened at the camp was not scripted. It was done to make the reactions of the cast members as realistic as possible. Also, the camp inmates were really emaciated and weak because they were cancer victims who volunteered to be in the film . They (the cancer victims) felt it was important to make the scene as realistic as possible so it never happens again. .
I didn't know that. Every time I see this episode I cry. We cannot, as human beings, allow this to happen again. To anyone. Thanks for the info.
@@kenjisparks That is why we must educate our young ones about history, so that it never happens again.
Like the muhammed caricatures, so that what happened at Charlie Hebdo or to Samuel Paty never happens again.
@@OriginalPuro Absolutely right, that’s incredible
@SLOE RYDER the history of the human race is... horrible. Everyone has committed horrible crimes against another. We cannot forget them. The statues and monuments erected the world over, serve as a reminder of that. "Everyone who ever had a statue made of em' was one kinda sum'bitch or another" how we choose to learn from them. From the dark times of our collective history, is how we move forward. So we font make the same mistakes again.
Watched this back in 2001 twenty years ago.
Saw this come up, looked at the episode, thought to myself "Ellie is absolutely going to cry to this one"
One of the things, in History, that’s always struck me relates to this episode. If you study the early History of the nation of Israel, you’ll be struck with how tough, tough-minded and resourceful the founders of Israel were. This episode provides some of the reasons. The survivors of those camps knew the meaning of sacrifice, discipline and, just, doing more with less. If you came out of those camps and had the opportunity to have your own country, you have the feeling that these people would NOT be denied. You can hypothesize that without the experiences of the Holocaust, there would be NO nation of Israel. I am NOT justifying the Holocaust! I am NOT arguing it had some sort of ‘silver lining,’ but it can still be true that without those experiences, other things that happened later might not have happened.
A friend of mine was in the Australian Army, served as a peace keeper in East Timor from 1997 to 1999
They came across a large house in 1998
He won't go into details to this day
But i read the reports
Imagine a micro version of this
But it was run as an Indonesian Militia rape camp
Full of dead and dying women
Victims of the militia
The fact that East Timor is now independent and free makes me Proud of him and being an Australian
That evil shit was shut down and the militia was destroyed and arrested
A Friend of mine who landed in D Day and survived the Battle of the of Bulge. Helped Liberate Hadamar and Daucha . He remembers seeing rows and rows of Dead Bodies, Men, Women, and Children. Battle Hardened Veterans could be heard in the distance. NO NO GOD PLEASE NO! In an interview he did. At the Holocaust Museum in Houston. They Man could not stop crying. As he remembered seeing those Nightmares. Walking through those Death Camps. May God Grant those Liberators and Victims Peace.
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The liberation of this camp, "Kaufering IV'," is not historically accurate. Kaufering IV was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with 101st arriving the following day. Only a handful of survivors were actually found alive when the camp was liberated, along with about 500 bodies. Virtually all the prisoners had either been killed or forced marched out of the camp by the Germans in the direction of Dachau. 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.
I cry every time I watch this episode, and I'm a 63 year old man. It's absolutely heart-wrenching.
remember similar genocide is happening in china now！im a ethnic mongolian born in xinjiang uyghur autonomous region（indigenous turkic people call it east turkistan） of china，many of my uyghurs/kazakhs/kirgyzs/mongols（basically any non han chinese natives）freinds and school mates has disappeared for past few years，im a lucky one just got out of that living hell right before han chinese decided to go full nazi 2.0 final solution in 2016，i‘ve been in constant sober for fate of my fellow neighbors ～
Be careful friend :(
I love the image of the violin in its box at the end like a lid or a coffin for the once most advanced country/culture in the world.
Civilization right? Human nature at it's worst doesn't care. I wonder when or if we will ever evolve or if we are destined to destroy ourselves one day.
Yep. Actually thought something similar. It's tragic that the most advanced country in the world at the early 20th century could fall so far
The use of one of the very last pieces of music written by the legendary Beethoven underscores this notion with immaculate elegance. 😢 😞 😕
She's the only reaction I've seen who sobbed like I did at this episode. It's absolutely a sob-worthy scene.
She's such a sweetheart.
Popcorn in Bed also sobbed, but pretty much every single reactor cried.
This is why Ellie is the best reactor
Almost every single reactor have sobbed at this episode
i'm a jew and my greatgrandpa had number on his hand and survived the death camps after losing all of his family with weight of 21 kilos when he was 20 years old, ty for reacting to this video!
My mother in laws step mother and her sister survived Auschitz as children. Her step mother forced herself to live life to its fullest. Like in spite of the Nazis but her sister could barely speak she was so traumatized.
IMDb Trivia:
The concentration camp liberated by Easy Company was actually a subcamp called Kaufering. It was actually discovered and liberated on April 27th, 1945 by the 134th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion of the 12th Armored Division. For dramatic purposes, the scene is written to depict Easy finding it.
Thankyou
My family has a tradition where we watch Band of Brothers for Memorial Day. The opening of this episode is my father's personal favorite and one of the most powerful scenes. They think the Germans are playing Mozart, but they are playing Beethoven. Beethoven is German, while Mozart, like Hitler, is Austrian. In playing Beethoven, they are rejecting Hitler and reclaiming their culture and country.
I’m a grown man and anytime I see any kind of scenes or pictures of the Nazi concentration camps I cry. It’s friggin terrible what people can do to other people, but this has been going on for thousands of years, unfortunately this is an experience that happened to people that we know. WWII was the only true world war and absolutely viscous and ugly to the core. I enjoyed the Pacific as well, so I’ll hundredth the motion to watch it.
After Liebgott sat down after telling the prisoners they had to go back into their prisons was the saddest part.
However how they showed and made the camp was highly accurate and this was an outlying work camp rather than full on death camp.
They had cancer patients undergoing treatment etc to play the poor souls there in the episode.
The actors that played the characters we know didn't actually see the camp etc before hand they got offered to but noone went. They wanted their reactions to be geniune to what was there like the soldiers likely would have been.
Imagine if our world was like this again but because you weren't wearing a mask because of a pandemic they put you in a concentration in Camp I think people would be wearing masks and other things if we still had an evil world like that back then
@@shawnwacek6791 what the Fuck
Thanks for that bit of information, I was always wondering where did they get so many people this skinny.
@@jameswg13 hey then people would listen to the government a lot faster lol be stuck in there with people that have Corona already cuz you didn't wear a mask
Let's not forget that not all of these were Hebrews. 6 million died but another 5 million non-Hebrews died just like them, side-by-side that were German political dissidents, Gypsies and other 'offenders' or 'non-complaints' to the NSDAP authority. The squeaky wheel has gotten all the grease, let's not forget the other half that suffered just as horribly and died the same way.
I appreciate your perspectives on Bulgarian history during this period of WW2.
I had no idea that they refused to send people to the camps. Thats pretty amazing.
@@russellward4624 Well, that's only half of the story. Bulgaria helped the Germans to invade and occupy parts of Yugoslavia and Greece. The Bulgarians murdered thousands of Yugoslav and Greek civilians and helped the Germans to exterminate 7,000+ Jews from Macedonia.
General Eisenhower said it best when first saw a camp. He told the mayor and the citizens of the town, "You make me feel ashamed my last name is Eisenhower's." Then ordered the town to bury the and I don't any of them to say that they didn't know.
I show this in my Social Studies and Psychology classes. At the end, I just pause the black screen and wait. Sometimes three or four minutes pass before anyone makes a sound.
Powerful stuff.
Do you mention to your students that the liberation scenes shown in Band of Brothers were specifically written for dramatic effect? How about the fact that the camp shown in Band of Brothers, *Kaufering IV,* was actually found and liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 and only a handful of prisoners were found alive, along with about 500 bodies? Or perhaps the fact that Colonel Edward Seiller of the 12th Armored Division took control of the camp and ordered civilians from the town of Landsberg am Lech to bury the dead?
@@iammanofnature235 doesn’t matter about any of it.
This scene played out in real life. Period. That in itself should be abhorrent
@@blahblah2779 The liberation scenes shown in Band of Brothers are completely fictitious.
This is why my grandfather fought in that war. My ex wife's family, her whole family except her father and grandparents, were murdered in the concentration camps. Her grandparents and father made it out on the last boat from Austria before the Nazi's came storming in. We need to see this to make sure it doesn't happen again. My stepson went on a school trip to Poland, Germany, and Austria and saw the camps in person. Now he knows why I was vigilant when I served.
When I was a kid, my grandfather told me about when they found a concentration camp. It was almost exactly like this one.
They made the civilians from town dig graves and bury all the bodies, and they were forbidden to give them help, no gloves, no water, no breaks, sun up till sun down.
There were experiments conducted with conscientious objector volunteers in Minnesota to study the physical and psychological effects of extreme starvation which was anticipated among the major civilians (and based on the rumors of the camps) so that the doctors knew how to treat these people during and after the war. Those experiments helped save a ton of lives.
Larry is absolutely right towards the end. Unit 731 was like german experimentation on crack but we just don't hear about it cause the japanese war criminals were pardoned in an operation paperclip style trade off.
I watched some of the footage taken when the townsfolk began to recover the bodies. The interesting thing was, they actually handled the bodies carefully, even gently. It was a very good lesson for them, because it shook them to the foundations of their own identities. And this is why they are so rigorous about teaching the realities of the Holocaust in Germany today.
When the survivor in the camp tells them of the women’s camp down the road. His sob/wail as he walks away pointing....... the anguish ......
I remember as a child watching the mini-series Holocaust and having trouble believing it was a true story, so I read as much as I could in the subject and for the first time in my life understood what true evil was. This mini-series brings home what the sacrifice was truly for. Not just stopping Hitler taking over Europe, but stopping evil from eradicating those they found lacking.
Episode 10 is bittersweet. A different kind of tears. Dont forget to watch the bonus episode with the complete interviews and the revealing of names.
Thank you for this reaction! By the way, I would like it if you could make a video about Bulgaria. Many people know so little about your country -- your food, culture, buildings, etc. I would love to see a video about what it is like to live in your country. I'd like to travel across Europe and see places that aren't the traditional tourist places (including places in Bulgaria). My dad lived in Spain and Italy for several years each. During that time, he traveled across the continent. He said that he enjoyed visiting towns and cities outside of the places where more tourists visit. A video would help us to know more about Bulgaria!
Hey guys, just wanted to recommend a similar show to Band Of Brothers. Its called “The Pacific” it was made by the same people who made this show, you guys would honestly love it. It takes place in the pacific theater of war in World war 2.
Nowhere as good
@@kylietasker50 didn’t say it was
Hello! I’m a Jewish israeli and my grandmother is from Plovdiv Bulgaria, she and her family were saved because of your king and I’m thankful for that until today! I wouldn’t be alive if they would’ve shipped their Jews there. I’m proud to be of Bulgarian origin :)) ❤️❤️❤️
WoW that is amazing story :)
This sadly is the episode I’ve been waiting for you to react to. I was lucky enough to meet and know a few camp survivors. Some would openly speak about it, others never mentioned it unless some asked about the numbers on their arms. It’s sad that still today there is so much hatred of people because of the religion they choose to follow. I never quite placed your accents, but it’s so sad to still see so much antisemetism in parts of Europe and even here In the US. My friends father who was at Auchwitz went back about 15 years ago and was doing the tour. While listening to the guide, who was a young man, he kept correcting him. Finally the guide asked “how do you know?” And he proceeded to tell him that he had been there. The guide then let him take over the tour for everyone. #NeverForget
My grandfather liberated a woman's camp and ended up marrying a survivor and he sobbed being Jewish his CO simply told the men in his unit its okay to FEEL if they were cold he wouldn't want a man in his command. The wedding was in the survivors camp to show everyone the Nazi's failed the Jews will live and never kneel again to die to tyrants. Most of the guards were caught and were imprisoned or executed but a few did help the Jews get food and escape and aided the resistance to those noble few may G-d bless them all.
Nix's problems is symbolic in this movie. He grunts on all the situations he's in. But his problems immediately disappear when they find the camp. "Why we fight."
If you have access to it, you should watch the bonus episode where it is just interviews with the real people.
It is on youtube.
czcams.com/video/z6j_nop4wh0/video.html
Glad you made it through, good lady and gent.
And thats why "im just following orders" was not a good excuse for the people on trial for this war crime. They got what they deserved for this injustice. Death.
Band of Brothersis a masterpiece, and this episode was by far the best one of the entire series.
If you haven't seen it already, you should watch Schindler's List.
Yes yes yes
Yes, also produced by Spielberg..
Also if possible The Pianist and Son of Saul. But not in a row though. Gets a bit sad otherwise.
@@pulkmees pianist is really good too
Also saving private ryan
In this episode, it is very symbolic. In the beginning, it shows Nixon becoming a drunk because the shit he puts up with because of the war. Having to tell parents and loved ones that their son died a hero. Going through a divorce. Being demoted. All the atritions of war.
But once the camp was discovered, all of a sudden we see him not complaining so much. He now understands why he is there. Which is why this episode is called "Why we fight".
Movies are very complex like this if you study it good. Like the new replacement being called O'Brien or a different name. But at the camp, he is being called his real name.
Nixon is caught trespassing a house and then stared down by the lady living there. The stare of shame. But at the camp, it is nixon staring her down with the stare of shame. Her thinking that her husband or son probably contributed to the horrors of this genocide.
This movie was very powerful and very well orchestrated with the little details.
Bulgaria was sadly very complicit, in just one case Bulgaria took most of Greeces wheat causing 450,000 Greek to starve to death in 1944…love you guys😊
There's a story I heard where there was one german soldier left at a camp when they found it and so enraged on American pulled he gun and was going to shot the german but a prisoner put his hand on the gun and said something like, "there has been enough killing here already". Turns out the german that was almost shot actually stayed behind to free them and open the food storage so the prisoners wouldn't starve to death, he was an angle on the wrong side of a horrible war.
What do you do when your life is as much on the line as someone else’s if you speak up against how they are being treated? Sadly, far more people would do what he did and “go along to survive” than to possibly die doing what is right. We’re seeing that A LOT all over the world even today.
as someone said down in the comments, some prisoners actually died cause of something called "realimentation syndrome". when a person whose body is starved and in very bad condition like those people is given food too quickly again, induces a shock in the organism which provokes death. is more complex but its basically that. that's why in one part of that scene they dont move the prisoners outside the camp and stop feeding them, so they can treat them properly and give food in few quantities.
This is the same concentration camp my grandfather liberated (Dachau). He only talked about this once because of how horrible the experience was. Miles before they arrived, he said the smell/stench was like no other. When they arrived, piles of bodies were everywhere and the ones alive, looked like skeletons. He and his men were in absolute shock. He further said, not much was spoken that day.
The camp shown in Band of Brothers is *Kaufering IV* (Hurlach) which was one eleven subcamps of Dachau located near the town of Landsberg am Lech known as the _Kaufering Complex._ For dramatic purposes, Easy company of the 101st is shown liberating the camp but in reality Kaufering IV was found and liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 and there were only a handful prisoners found alive, along with about 500 bodies.
Treblinka was worse
There were reasons the guards there were executed by the arriving soldiers
@@jamesricker3997 The same happened at the concentration camp my grandfather helped liberate.
The airport near me has a World War II weekend every year. I actually got to meet the real Dick Winters at the event once before he passed away. What an amazing opportunity that was! Here is a brief video I made of the event (Lt. Winters is not in the video, unfortunately): czcams.com/video/woTwkGB-7io/video.html
17:07 THANK YOU. Oh my god the amount of people in America who need to relearn this….
As i get older the thing i fear the most is pride. Germany had been the home of some the greatest artists and forward thinkers in history yet they allowed themselves to be influenced by a loud hate filled person who stoked false pride after their defeat in World War 1 to the extent that they would eradicate any race he instructed simply because he was charismatic and ruthless.
This can happen in any country in the world no matter how civilised they may seem. I'm British and can already see my country is filling up with people who believe that the super rich hording wealth and paying next to no taxes is less important than refugees risking their lives to reach my country.
I hope one day people everywhere can realise this but as Hitler once said the bigger the lie the more people will believe it
Little known history, when American soldiers liberated Dacau in 1945 they were so utterly disgusted at what they found that they began rounding up and summarily executing Waffen SS guards that they captured. It took the American commanders the better part of a day to calm the enraged GI's and stop the reprisals.
I have visited Auschwitz and Birkenau, you can still feel that something absolutely unholy occurred there, you will not hear a bird sing, it is deadly silent and it is like the earth and soil is 'broken' in some way...you feel it in your soul and it changes you forever.
I did History in school and the scenes of the dead Jews in the camp and living conditions was not only accurate but I'd argue very tame compared to reality.
It was not accurate, if it was suppose to show Dachau. 1. Dachau had huge rail lines and buildings at the entrance to the camp. 2. Dachau had square blok prison bloks, not small wooden ones. 3. Dachau were not a camp for Jews, but Political enemies (Socialists, Communists, Intellectuals), Gypsies, and homosexuals. 4. Dachau was not a work camp as they said, but officially a "reeducation camp".
@@madselmvig1457 From Military History: Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, opened in 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) became chancellor of Germany. Located in southern Germany, Dachau was initially a camp for political prisoners; however, it eventually evolved into a death camp where countless thousands of Jews died from malnutrition, disease and overwork or were executed. In addition to Jews, the camp’s prisoners included members of other groups Hitler considered unfit for the new Germany, including artists, intellectuals, the physically and mentally handicapped and homosexuals. With the advent of World War II (1939-45), some able-bodied Dachau prisoners were used as slave labor to manufacture weapons and other materials for Germany’s war efforts. Additionally, some Dachau detainees were subjected to brutal medical experiments by the Nazis. U.S. military forces liberated Dachau in late April 1945.
@@madselmvig1457 it wasn’t representing Dachau it was showing the liberation of Buchenwald
@@mattharris1065 ahh then I stand corrected
Ok let me tell you about Bulgaria in WW2. At first we didn't want to join the war since it was not so long after WW1. When Hitler came he gave us 2 choices to take us by force or we join their side. Half of the war we were neutral. After those events king Boris of Bulgaria didn't want to sacrifice his men and army so bulgarian troops were something like police in the balkans.
About the jews. Bulgarian writer Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov also known as Elin Pelin was very close friend to king Boris. When Hitler wanted from Bulgaria all of their jews it was exactly Elin Pelin who told king Boris not to do it. So Bulgaria - country smaller than Romania, Serbia and Turkey managed to save more than 50 000 jews.
sorry for bad english
I have never been to Bulgaria, nor do I know much if any of your history, unfortunately, but I want to ask you about collaborators? People who willingly worked with/helped the Nazis in their respective countries. What is the narrative in Bulgaria regarding those people?
I ask because I have studied the Holocaust in pretty good detail, particularly in Poland and Hungary. In each of those countries, their governments have purposely changed the true narrative so they don’t look as bad to themselves, and they are trying to do it so the rest of the world believes it, too. Saying it was just a “few bad apples”.
In truth, there were many collaborators in Poland, and an entire para-military group called the “Arrow Cross”, made up of thousands of men in Hungary, willingly and with pride, killed tens if not hundreds of thousands of Jewish people and others.
Again, I’m strictly asking your country’s narrative because I do not know anything really from there and I’m interested.
Your English is actually really good, by the way!
@@charlesedwards2856 Well im not familiar with this topic because during the war the communists comes to Bulgaria so all of those people who supported hitler were killed so probably nobody will know about them. Never the less i did some research. Bulgarian Jews were promised to Hitler at the begining of those kind of relationship with nazi Germany. Most of the bulgarian elite like Dimithar Peshev and Kiril of plovdiv, Bulgarian Orthodox Church bishops Stefan of Sofia persuaded the Tsar first to stop the deportation temporarily in March 1943, and two months later to postpone it indefinitely. Their property were still confiscated and they were relocated to diffrent parts of the country. People who could work were sent into labour. The condisions were far better than those in Germany and Poland.
After the war some of those jewish people were killed by the communists as political criminal.
I know that Prime minister Bogdan FIlov marginalized Zakon za Zashtita na Naciyata or Law for the Protection of the Nation which restricted the rights and activities of Jews. Alexander Belev had been sent by the interior minister Petar Gabrovski to Germany in order to study the racial laws the legislation was modelled on the racial code of Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg Laws.
Thats all the names i found about this topic. Hope i answered some of your questions.
The Pianist is a good one to watch next. It from the early 2000's, and is about a Polish Jew who survived the holocaust while a lot of his family and friends perished.
For a true downer, check out "The Grey Zone".
@@gregall2178 Sounds good...I'll check it out.
Little fact about leipgott he was actually Roman Catholic not Jewish like his fellow soldiers thought however he did have German heritage and was truly disgusted and upset by what was happening etc
I also think they took some artistic license with the character to make it more dramatic when they are talking about Jews and with this episode. You have this guy you’ve gotten to know and how will he feel if/when it gets to this moment.
In that one quick scene on the boat in episode 1, Spielberg and Hanks got the entirety of American culture summed up. Going to fight a war to save people (whether they knew or not beforehand) who they themselves make off-hand, anti-Semitic remarks against.
It is my understanding that many of his fellow soldiers ASSUMED Liebgott was jewish because of his name and his hatred for Germans and Nazis. Apparently he didn't do anything to dispel the rumor.....
David Bennett I think he was Catholic but had Jewish blood.
Ahh this episode :( Glad you guys watched it it's tough to get through.
You will get a lot of suggestions for “The Pacific” and “Generation Kill” but checkout “Kilo Two Bravo” it’s a movie and earned a perfect score on rotten tomatoes and I trained several of the real guys involved
I second this! Kilo Two Bravo is unforgettable.
(Thank you Sir, for what you've done for us.)
yep amazing movie also another worth checking out is The Outpost (2020) true story about Battle of Kamdesh a real hell hole of a camp marines was based at
@@maddermax74 Oh thank you! I want to see this but wasn't sure if they'd spinned it to make the US look like we randomly go invade nations!
Now I can watch it!
"Don't watch these certified classics, watch my movie that no one has ever heard of!" Might as well not even mention you were involved dude, doesn't help you in being persuasive.
CashPrizes watch it - like I said, perfect score on rotten tomatoes. It’s a British movie, so may not be as well known. I won’t apologize for my connection - why should I? I have a connection to the Pacific and Generation Kill too! Anyway, it’s well worth the time to check it out. Have a great day
Such camps were not far from the places where people lived. The first concentration camps were organized in the Third Reich in 1933. It is impossible for people not to know what was happening in such places for 10 years. In 1933 the SA, the SS and the German police organized further camps, incl. in Oranienburg, Berlin (the so-called Columbia-Haus), Königsberg (Quednau), Papenburg, Esterwegen, Kemna bei Wuppertal, Sonnenburg, Sachsenburg, Lichtenburg. In 1934, the concentration camps were subordinated to the SS, and the Dachau camp became a model camp.
when i first watched this episode was hard but also couldn't even imagine what my grandfather must of been going through he liberated bergen belsen in ww2 he was a medic in the British Army he only ever spoke of it once.
hello there! seeing the lady crying made me remember my reaction when i first saw this when it was released years ago! this is one of those most heartbreaking moments of the series. esp. when they had to stop giving them food! liebgot must be torn and broken! all of them must be!
I wish things were as rosy as we'd like to believe. What wikipedia says: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Bulgaria.
A lot of prisoners did die from the shock and stress of having to digest real food again.
These are just men from the U.S. and went to war for the first time and had very horrible experiences if they live. War and combat sucks, nothing is glorious in combat because everything smells bad and what you had to go through just to live one day at a time is terrifying to think about what's going to happen when you wake up. I was going like this everyday when I was in Iraq being an infantryman. Being on convoy escort, combat patrol, or doing combat itself. We can die at any moment. Life is never fair, but keep going. I seen guys after their combat tours go crazy at home and live either got very lucky and not get wounded. But seen their friends die or get wounded. I was fortunate to have my Dad when I was younger. Dad was a Paratrooper and combat infantryman from the end of WWII to Korea. Dad only spoke to me and my 2 Brothers about his experiences in combat as we grew up. He never spoke about glory but he warned us about getting hurt and the terrible sights to what he saw and dead buddies. I was terrified of his stories and only mentioned them to only of my close friends. Dad only talked about this privately to me and my Brothers when he got too drunk. Dad was only very open but private only to his friends that were with him in combat. They would drink and recount stories of everyone they knew dead or alive. We were close by and listen and it was horrible sometimes funny when they talk about the fun times before or after combat. One day Dad took us boys into some woods just us. No Mom or our sisters as we got older. He gave us a very important message about life in our future growing up. First is people are always going to die, that's life either quietly or tragically, that's life. Wars are always going to be part of life either we are apart of it or not at all. If disappointments come and destroy you, don't despair. Because more will come after. If you ever live through combat, rejoice for that one day because the next can be your last. There is no such thing as cheating in combat. If you are not cheating in combat you are not trying hard to stay alive. Life is never fair, don't ever trust anyone to include family. Not everyone is in your better interest. Everyday you wake up is a victory, but be prepared to meet it's challenges because life is not very kind no matter how it unfolds upon you minute by minute. Not being paranoid but his message is live life and roll with it. We are not alone, we all face the same thing.
Most of these men didn't know about the camps until later. This is why they were suprised when they found a camp.
This isn’t entirely true. Multiple Jewish people escaped, some wrote letters that got out to relatives overseas, and reconnaissance planes were taking photos of camps pretty much as they were being built, if not sooner since Dachau existed since the mid-30’s.
They may not have totally known the scope of what was happening there, but there were plenty of rumors going around by the time they shipped out to England for the invasion.
Germany had a systematic system though on top of other atrocities on how they killed people in these camps.
Quite a lot of the camps the more permanent death ones survive today ( some were prisons after the war ) as memories and museums so people don't forget what happened even after the survivors of such camps pass on. I've been to one of them Sachsenhausen just outside of Berlin. Segments of it were destroyed or no longer remain as we're not permanent structures however enough is left to see how terrible it was.
One of my friends is also a expert historian on all of this especially Auschwitz and all that happened there.
You must react to shindlers list after this episode.
Yeah, nothing is better than watching a heartbreaking movie after a very heartbreaking TV show episode.
One of those great movies that you can only watch once - not because it is bad but because it shows us vile things so clearly.
Someone has probably dropped this little nugget but it’s beautiful so I’ll drop it again. The concentration camp actors, some were cancer patients, some terminal, who put themselves at risk to help make this episode so impactful. Some of that emaciation is real or just enhanced with make up. Some of those moments still make me cry and I’ve seen this series so many times. Really great reactions.
I dont think anyone has said yet, but the camp they were referring to that the Russians liberated with the execution chambers and ovens was Auschwitz.
No matter how many times I see this episode, it’s so hard to watch. Still hits hard each time I’ve watched it.
every school in the world should show this
You killed them. You bury them. That is true justice.
This is the most heart breaking episode of the whole show.
This episode hits me the most. Knowing that my grandpas father side of the family came from Poland. They lived in an area where the population was mostly Jewish. Krasnosielc was the town. Some members escaped to come to America, but some stayed to help others. Those who stayed behind, I don’t know much about them, which is sad. :/
Look at Spears when they find the camp. There's a little emotion there. I guess he's human after all. I loved his character in this film. I wonder how accurate the portrayal is?
sometimes i have to revisit reactions to this episode to remind me portions of the internet has a soul. if this doesnt tear people to their core, they have no soul.
When I was a boy one of my father's friends told me they could never make a film that would show how bad it really was, for one reason. The smell. He said guys were getting sick when they were a half mile from the one they liberated, because the odor of death was everywhere. When they got to the camp, they could not escape it even from being up wind. He had fought from France to Germany and he still said it was the worst thing he experienced in his life.
My father liberated a few concentration camps , and then was an SP Guard at Nuremberg trials. ( cyanide was offered to a regular army commander "because he was just following orders" and they hung the Nazis) ...there are over 1 million Weagers in Chinese concentration camps today.
To the Homies: You are right in feeling proud that Bulgarian cooperation with Germany was limited concerning the murder of its Jewish subjects. Bulgaria stands with Italy and Denmark in protecting and saving most of the Jewish population in their respective countries. The Archbishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Bulgaria appealed in a radio address during the War to his countrymen not to cooperate with the Germans in the deportation of the Jews to the death camps. As a result, roughly 80% of the Bulgarian Jews were saved. Much the same occurred in Denmark and Italy. I salute you!
Recognized Tom Hardy as the naked soldier at the beginning?
i am a german... i am sorry for this time...!
Not your fault. Don't feel guilty.
Not your personal fault... That craziness was the spirit of time (discrimination against other races, nationalities, ethnicities etc.) Just we should behave the other people as if they're like us NOW that I mean the time span we live in personally.
I am a WW2 buff, and I just found out about 2 years ago that the Vichy French sent Jews to the camps along with the Germans.
Yes, and they also had their very own militia, The Milice, which fought the French Resistance and helped round up Jews.
11,343 ... Almost all of the Jews living in Bulgarian occupied regions of Yugoslavia were deported by the Bulgarian authorities and sent on through Bulgaria to the Treblinka extermination camp in German occupied Poland. ... Wikkipedia.
The chick was worried about a dog being shot. A little later she gained some perspective .
I didn’t know this history of Bulgaria.. thank you for educating me!
8:00
It’s Serbian. He is saying:
Please help my father. He’s still alive. Please help him.
It wasn't just Jews, Gypsy's , Slavs , poles etc sent to the camps. Some prisoners included spies , resistance fighters. Hostages / very important people Germans wanted to keep alive but safe to be used in case of end of war and losing. While hostages etc were usually kept in better conditions and the Nazis even tried to hide what they were doing from the hostages, the hostages were still able to hear and see what was going on in many cases
When Larry gets teary eyed you know it's serious.
Most of the camp survivors shown here are cancer patients from nearby hospital. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg kept this scene as a secret from the cast until it is ready to be filmed. Because they wanted honest reactions from the actors. I knew this going to make her cry.......
yeah, those musician's Survived titanic to play here :p don't know if anyone else picked up on them.
Dude, objectively this is hilarious, but some people might take it seriously.
Were they playing the same song in both? I refuse to go back and watch Titanic again to find out, hahaha!
There’s no way the locals didn’t know about the camps.. many of them worked in them. True.. some Nazi soldiers didn’t know.. they’d heard rumors but simply couldn’t believe it. The Nazi regime tried to keep it quiet,, but no way did the locals not know. They generally assisted in the operation of the camps.
No matter how many times I've seen this series, the concentration camp scene always hits me hard.
If I recall, Nixon had the most combat jumps ever. Maybe still does.
Stalin actually killed more Russians before the war then Hitler killed jews during, Stalins purge. He killed a large amount of his own army because he feared they would grow too powerful and kill him. Also Karl Marx was a German he wrote the communist manifesto, das capital. He was deeply unpopular among the Conservative thinking Germans and was chased out of the country. He actually wrote it in Brussels and moved to London where he died. So communism might be German thinking, but it was born in Belgium
You sweet woman. Your reaction tore my heart. As a Jew I've delt with this all my life, and growing up in L.A. knew many people with numbers on their arms.
Sweet, gentle Ellie, when your tears flow, mine follow.
I recommend you all watch and react to Schindler's list. One of the most important films ever created. As close as it gets from the eyes of Jewish people in the 1930's and 1940's (WWII). We as human beings must know our history and do everything in our power not to repeat it.
I know that your Band of Brothers experience is not over yet and it is 100% one of my favorites, but you should definitely watch The Pacific. Just about the same creators of this show, but in the pacific theater with the US Marines Corps fighting the Japanese.
the prisoner at 8:00 who is carrying this old man is a Serb: he says help please is still alive you can still save him
It just boggles the mind and leaves you baffled. Like are human beings who were born from the womb of a mother really that capable of such hatred and evil?? What makes it’s so scary is that these atrocities weren’t carried out by monsters, they were carried out by men, men who were educated, men who had families, men who had experienced love in their lives, men who have prayed before. These were carried out by men who thought they were doing the world a service. How could such a level of cruelty be so justified in their hearts and minds? Just baffling...
I suggest react to "Generation War" three episodes only TV miniseries (2013): the german perspective. ("Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" [Our mothers, our fathers], written by Stefan Kolditz and directed by Philipp Kadelbach.)
To clear up a misconception that I heard, Bulgaria's government and armed forces were involved in the deaths of Jews in the Holocaust and antisemitic oppression.
"As an ally of Nazi Germany, Bulgaria participated in the Holocaust, causing the deaths of 11,343 Jews, and though 48,000 Jews survived the war, they were subjected to forcible internal deportation, dispossession, and discrimination" - Wikipedia citing the Holocaust Encyclopedia by Walter Laqueur et al.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_during_World_War_II
This is not to single out Bulgaria, blame for the Holocaust can be placed across the board, even to Allied countries like the United States.
"It has been estimated that 190,000-200,000 Jews could have been saved during the Second World War had it not been for bureaucratic obstacles to immigration deliberately created by Breckinridge Long and others" - Wikipedia citing a PBS article on U.S. Secretary of State/State Department employee Breckinridge Long.
The best example of the cost of these anti-immigrant policies is the infamous SS St. Louis "Voyage Of The Damned" event.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_United_States#The_Holocaust
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
I believe the townspeople hiking to camp were happy like it was a lark. they chose to not hear the truth .but after seeing everything,that changed and were ashamed,the look of the woman,seeing Nixon was shame,reverses from him invading her home.
You should listen to Jordan Peterson a psychology professor in Toronto. He became famous on CZcams several years back. He dedicated his career in. Large part to understanding how an ordinary person could not only become a nazi concentration camp guard but to also enjoy being one. Really interesting.
I remember my brother askinwhy there were no children and elderly people around and i told him thats because kids and old people were executed upon arrival to those camps
Totally Agree, I also wonder like Ellie how someone could commit something like what the Nazis did.
When you say, “ Not me”, don’t be so sure. This type of killing wasn’t reserved for the Germans and not so long ago as 1945. Stalin was quite the butcher, as was Mao. Read up on Pol Pot or Ceaucescu. All of them needed quite a bit to do their damage.
That was only 11 million in just the camp that's not to mention all the soldiers in all the countries all the civilians caught in the war the number is way greater than 11 million
The actual number is closer to 12 million
The Nazis were stopped just as they were getting started. Generalplan öst called for the extermination of 285 million people in Eastern Europe.
The extermination of the Poles had just begun when the Soviets overran Poland
the one prisoner they interviewed played as a nazi in captain america.
When somebody has gone without food for a long time, food must be reintroduced slowly and carefully. Otherwise the electrolyte balance can get blown and stop a person's heart. It's called refeeding syndrome.