Fun fact #3 17:47 if you are in a starved state and eat a large amount of food abruptly you can actually die. Regulating their food intake actually was the right call. It is the same way a person gains muscles. You increase the amount of exercise you do overtime. If you use your muscles too much at one time you risk tearing them and causing permanent damage.
Indeed, while it was probably an incredibly difficult thing for these guys to do; putting those people back in the camp was the right call and the best way to make sure they survive.
It gets worse: hundred of concentration camp victims actually died AFTER their 'liberation' because there weren't the resources available to support them fast enough, and because doctors and medics simply didn't have the experience to know how to deal with them propoerly and made several mistakes in doing so.
Unfortunately from what I remember hearing, the Russians got to some of the camps in Poland first and because they didn’t have any experience with this level of starvation they fed the prisoners too much too fast and some did die
Want to hear something really cool? All the actors in the concentration camp were cancer patients. They felt this was an important story to tell, so they readily accepted the chance to be in the show.
That was so mind blowing to me. Cause I was telling myself there was no way they could have made these people look like this. They were really like that.
I never heard that, that's amazing. I am always astonished at how skinny, and sick they truly look. That makes perfect sense What an incredible but of info
Fun fact: Spielberg (the director of the series) didn't let the main cast see the concentration camp set until it was time to shoot. He did this to get genuine reaction from the main cast for the scene.
I grew up in Germany as an Army Brat. The Dept. of Defense Dependent School System (DODD) made sure we learned history as well as touring the battlegrounds. I served in Germany when I was older and saw even more things that happened during the war. I thought I saw everything on history shows as well as growing up over there. I was wrong! In the late 1990's I did artwork for the Wings of Liberty Memorial at Fort Campbell, KY. for the 101st Airborne Association. They gave me access to their photographs for reference material. Some photos I saw still upset me to this day, and when I hear theses scumbags that say the Holocaust never happened run their ignorant mouths it take everything I have not to kick their teeth out.
I agree, as I was a USAF brat (1959-1975 ) who was likewise shown photos and some film from both the American and Russian soldiers who first encountered these camps. Also taught about the testimonies from the Nuremburg trials; though not a lot about the Wannsee Conference in 1942 where the details to the Final Solution; concerning the Jewish Question was hammered out; because we were still too young at that time. HBO would later do a film on that in 2001 called Conspiracy; as actors like Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci played those men who drank fine wine and ate the finest food while plotting out the slaughter with a cold mechanical efficiency.
Not only that but they also basically had to quarantine them. Imagine the diseases and parasites these poor souls have contracted. You couldn’t just let them scatter into nearby towns carrying all that into the public. The important thing is that at least they were safe and in good hands.
@@dastemplar9681 truth, I watched a documentary that said almost 4000 prisoners died from typhus because they weren't properly quarantined and treated after being liberated from I believe Bergen-Belsen. So horrible.
I'm Jewish and I've learned about the Holocaust basically my entire life. The fact that people think it wasn't real angers me so much; especially when my great grandmother lost her whole family (grandparents, parents, siblings, and possibly aunts, uncles, and cousins too) in the war.
@Graze Palestine didn’t exist. There were people there, but there was no governing body. Reinvention of history. And I’d say the Jews deserved a safe place to live after all of that. There was no better place to create a Jewish state, or a more logical one for that matter.
@@graze1177 what… Palestine has nothing to do with all of this. not all Jews support israel and that government, you should know that. the two things have nothing to do with each other.
Even this day and age people like this still exist - just look at all the reports coming out from Ukraine about Russian war crimes. Civilian buildings bombed, torture chambers, mass graves, but no, according to some idiots sitting in the comfort of their own home it's all staged and the war isn't real.
My father told me this opening was his favorite scene in the series. Beethoven is German; Mozart, like Hitler, is Austrian. This particular piece was written later in Beethoven's life, after he had gone deaf. What the Germans are saying by playing it is that they are reclaiming their culture, their heritage, and their nation from Hitler and are rejecting him forever.
"Boys, *this* is why we fight." -Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 27, 1945, after the 4th Armored Division discovered the Ordruff Arbeitslager outside Weimar, Germany. The quote that the episode is named from
THIS is what pisses me off - and I'm sure angers every person who lost relatives in the holocaust - when people throw around the label "nazi" to describe anyone they dislike or oppose politically. It's a tremendous disrespect to those victims of such unthinkable atrocities to equate THIS level of evil with whoever they want for their own selfish reasons. My family lost contact with our relatives in Hungary after the nazis occupied it. To this day we don't know what happened to them. All we know is, we never heard from (or about them) again... So, please people, take care who you call nazi.
Sadly, there were neo-Nazis today. But, the term is over used, cheapening jt. Most of my family was killed in the Holocaust. Untill, they died, my grandparents hoped to find or hear from more relatives.
@@ronmaximilian6953 Gave thumbs-up out of solidarity. I feel you and your family's anguish. We are the only ones left to see that their story isn't forgotten.
I don't want to be a grammar Nazi but, why did you capitalize THIS? I'm gonna watch that Seinfeld episode about the soup, I forgot what it is called. Get over yourself you fucking tard. The holocaust was real. Nazis are and continue to be bad and MTG is a nut job.
This is why it's important to study history and learn from it. In all its glory and horror, the good and the bad, your own and that of others. To see more, put things into perspective, not forget, become complacent and worse, repeat it.
Most of what is seen concerning the liberation of this camp almost certainly never really happened. The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is Kaufering IV which 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, not the large number of survivors shown in Band of Brothers. 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 the town of Landsberg to bury the dead.
Yes it is true that Michael Fassbender does in fact speak German fluently, BUT he is an actor, he was chosen to play the part of a REAL person Christensson BECAUSE he looked like the real man Christensson from photos of him taken from 1940-1945, and Christensson DID NOT speak any German, to keep the story true, the liberties that i think that you are suggesting, can not be taken that you find "IRONIC" so i do not see any of the "IRONY" that you are elluding to. it is known that in Easy Company of the 2nd battalion, of the 506th Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, only Webster and Liebgott were fleunt in German and were often used as translators, but only Liebgott spoke Hebrew (Jewish) as well. so please explain to me what you see as "IRONY" because i do not see it
If you eat too much after a prolonged starvation, you will get refeeding edema (water retention). Your body will swell with fluid and it can gather around your heart, it is often deadly. They truly learned about this after WWII, when trying to refeed a large population of people who had been living on very little food for years. It actually affects how anorexia patients are treated to this day. WWII is a horror the world has never known before or since, it still affects so much of our daily lives. We need to educate our youth on this incredibly important event forever, never forget.
A few years ago, visited a town about a half hours drive north of Berlin called Oranienburg, which is where Heinrich Himmler ran the entire Nazi concentration camp system. In that town was a camp called Sachsenhausen. Everything that happened in all the other camps happened there first. It was where the SS trained the guards for all those other camps. It looks today much as it did then. Walking around the grounds you won’t see a bird flying, you won’t hear a bird singing. It’s as if life itself died there.
Also they were told that it was animal slaughter houses nearby, and the SS saw the camps but actually did compare my people (by race) to animals for the slaughter
I’m not sure if you caught it, but the translator, Liebgott, that Winters used to talk to the prisoner, Liebgott WAS Jewish. Can you imagine the sense of betrayal against his own people he felt having to tell the inmates they had to be locked up?
@@japman17 if you want somethng that is not the usual hero perspective you could try under 'sandet/land of mine' aswell, it does not have action fight scenes, but it does have suspense, basically German kids just after WW2 sent to disarm mines in Denmark: ruclips.net/video/4Kao3t0NBMU/видео.html what is with the shit english names for european movies and series? unsere muter, unsere vater ( our mother, our father) = generation war under sandet ( under the sand) = Land of mine La casa del papel ( the paper house) = Money Heist!
It made sense to keep them in the camps temporarily. You wouldn’t know how diseased and riddled with fleas and lice they would be, also they were severely starving, so they couldn’t eat too much than they want to otherwise they destroy their digestive organs. They needed to be quarantined in order to be fed properly and medically taken cared of. Made sense, but I don’t blame a single one of them not wanting to go back into the hell they were just liberated from. Also when you see the next episode, don’t edit out the end. It’s an absolutely heartwarming conclusion to such an amazing series.
The 761st Tank Battalion liberated a work camp and gave some food to the inmates but when medical personnel arrived were told to stop because the starvation they endured they had to be fed slowly almost like feeding infants. One of my father's comrades in the unit was upset because one of the prisoners died from the food he gave him. He was doing a good deed but didn't know. It wasn't his fault.
Mom and dad had numbers on their arms... I am not following that family tradition. I was in the IDF. In the Armoured Corps, our motto was 'Never Again' Thank you very much for your reactions and views. I love your humour and intelligence. You are what we call a 'Mench'.. a real human being who understands what 'humanity' means.
My uncles served in WW2 and liberated a concentration camp. Whenever I see this series, all I do is think about how young they were, how much this war affected them and what they saw, all the sacrifices they made and how important it is that we never, ever, EVER forget. Thank you for watching this series ~ I hope others who haven't watched it yet or don't know much about WW2 may be inspired to do so because you have. I know it was a hard episode to watch, but thank you, thank you, for bearing it and sharing it.
The half naked guy in the beginning of the episode having sex is Tom Hardy. Many Hollywood actors were in the series before they were stars. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, & Simon Pegg.
It hit me the other day that Ron Livingston was, probably, the "biggest" name of all the actors in this series at the time it premiered (coming off of the success of Office Space). Damian Lewis was making a name for himself in the UK but was relatively unknown in the U.S. Several of them were able to springboard off of BoB and turn their success in the series into bigger roles. For most of them, BoB was their first major role and each of them did an amazing job. Hard to believe it's been 20 years.
Hell, you got Magneto AND Professor X both in this. To say nothing of Venom/Bane. Hell, right after this Tom Hardy played Picard's younger clone in the next STar Trek movie!
My father served with the 25th Infantry Div. from the Japanese occupation until 1955 after having fought in Korea for the entire duration. He was later stationed in Germany until the end of his tenure in 1958. During those three years he got to visit some of the camp locations, and he said that there were a few places where the stench of human decay still clung to the area. That was ten years after WW2 had ended.
Some Germans didn't know about the camps, I don't remember the named of the town but in the German state of Bavaria, I think, the mayor and his wife saw the camp after it was liberated by US forces, the mayor closed his eyes and his wife began vomiting, the two of them killed themselves the following evening.
some of them knew and some of them didnt know. There were millions of people in Germany its not realistic to make generalizations about all of them like that.
@@joshuaortiz2031 Also, how many just wanted to keep their head down?! Not to make excuses but you have to be quite brave to oppose a totalitarian gouverment especially your own.....
What happened to Nixon, with his wife leaving him like this. Same happened to me while I was deployed in 96. It fucking sucks. Thousands of miles away and you cant do a dam thing about, and still have to keep your head in the game. My great Uncle was in the actual Bat. that actually liberated that Concentration Camp. He saw it first hand. After all the horrors he experienced. This is what caused him nightmares till his dying day. I did some research on this. The actual civilians on the town honestly did not know that camp was ever even there.Much less what was going on. With the exceptions of the SR German officers that lived there. They would the locals stories and blockaded the road towards the camp so the locals couldn't get close enough to see it. On the pretense of safety. Telling them its because of Allied troops in the area.
you have to remember that most of the population knew it was happening but they were afraid to say anything because going against the flow would put them in the same place or executed on the spot.
You said something that caught my attention, I do know that i am one of the last in my family that is 100% German by blood, but I am an American by birth, and although I know that on my paternal side, first arrived from Germany to the U.S. in 1882, and on my Maternal side first arrived from Germany to the U.S. in 1894, both of my grandfathers fought in WWII, fortunately they both survived the war, but it never occurred to me how many of my blood family that were still in Germany fought against the U.S. I truly do not have a clue as to how much of my family tree did not survive the war, i do know that i lost a couple of great uncles, both on my mothers side, kind of interesting that i had never thought along those lines before.
That guy kissed and hugged the soldier and was crying like he's been waiting for freedom for four miserable years. Many of his family members dead already.
The one of the most heart breaking things about the concentration camp scene, is that the polish prisoner who walked towards easy, with a seemingly dead body in his arms, when translated from Polish was actually saying, please help them they are still alive , please help them.
Well... did they think that all the Jews were going to fairy land? Go watch some survivors talk about coming back to their homes and towns and people being like: you are back? I thought they killed you all. Not letting them returning home and collect their things, many were denounced by their neighbors and good people that tried to help the Jews were denounced as well. So they did know. They helped. And this happened all over Germany occupied countries. So let’s just agree to disagree.
Liam O'Brien again go watch survivors tell their stories about being denounced in big cities, small cities, it didn’t matter, about how they were treated after coming back from the camps. Informe yourself please. You can find the USC Shoah Foundation Chanel here in RUclips and watch a couple of them, your opinion about how much people knew will change, you will know how people just took things from the Jews, not the SS per say, but their neighbors, employees etc. I thought like you that people didn’t really know, but after watching like 30 testimonies I completely understand that I was wrong and the “normal “ people not only knew but helped.
@@camilarodrigues1007 Plenty of germans had no clue the Jews were being exterminated and tortured in such a way. He about you do research? You cant use examples of some citizens knowing and just say every German civilian knew and helped. That is ridiculous.
Thank you for reacting. I’m jewish and my family was saved from those horror and moved to Israel as fast as they could. This hits home. I cry everytime I see this episode. I can’t believe people did this to people... just because we’re Jews... =/
Keep in mind that Germany had lost the first WW and had to pay absurd amounts of war reparations to the other countries. Plus the crash of the market made people desperate for change and someone who could drag them out of the darkness. Finding a scapegoat and making people believe is easy then. Plus propaganda is still very effective to this day.
Germany was also wrongly accused as being the instigator of the war in the treaty of Versailles - which made Germans extremely angry and bitter to the rest of the Alliances
I was lucky enough to have taken a Holocaust Literature class in high school and my teacher showed this bit of the show to us. We read books, watched movies, and did projects on people and things that happened during the war. (Elie Wiesel's book Night is a must-read I've read it twice, it is about his experience as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.) My favorite thing is that my group's final project (me and just three other students) had an Art Show and Speaker event, all of the art was past projects and new art works themed around the Holocaust. And our speaker was Sonja DuBois, a Dutch Child Holocaust Survivor, and she sold and signed her books there. It was a fantastic learning experience and awesome to meet her. I always encourage others to learn about it as much as possible.
@ManicMeeks I knew this was going to be toughest episode in the series for you. When you asked how could people let this happen, it reminded me of the quote from Voltaire " Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Love your channel, your spirit and your energy.
Frank Miller bullshit my man. The reason why this is so significant is that this was the first time industrial killing took place this way, and the only time in history it went to this scale (before you name Stalin - he didn’t kill industrially, he was just a very bad leader with bad work camps)
FYI: It doesn't get mentioned in the series but at the time that Nixon's wife was divorcing him, he has a Mistress that he was carrying on a relationship with back in England. This makes him a bit less sympathetic.
@17:15. That is EXACTLY what I feel about Brexit. EVERYONE in the UK blamed foreigners for their woes. And now the country is in the deep shit that it deserves for voting to leave.
The actor playing the regimental surgeon (Corey Johnson as Major Louis Kent) was also in Saving Private Ryan as the radioman on the beach who was hit in the face.
I mean keeping the people in the camp and treating them better way better and medical treatment and food was better then keeping them in your army camp in the sniper zone and get killed any moment or just let them go for just to get them killed again so ya the airborne 101st and airborne 82nd division was the first on the frontlines and the first ones to get to the frontlines even tho the biggest invasion was done by the infantry most famously known as the big red 1 airborne dropped behind enemy lines
That one soldier, I swear the actor is a very young Tom Hardy, when the prisoner hugs and kisses him and he tries to tell him it's okay but you can see on his face that he's about to lose it himself? But he keeps it together. Because he's the liberator, the savior. Can't show weakness at a time like that. Great...GREAT filmmaking.
They actually made the Germans dress nice. They told them to dress up to go to the camp. They wanted the juxtaposed of them being dressed nice to hammer in that while they were sitting in their nice houses this was happening miles away.
Last months of the war, dearest. Bull’s episode was “Replacements.” Easy ‘celebrated’ Christmas in Bastogne. So, that’s December of ‘44. The rest of the series will be ‘45 until war’s end in April, I believe.
it needed to be done, imagine being so hungry that you eat till you get poinsoned, you body simply cant sintetize the amount of food and the organs actually shrink so they cant take in the same amount of anything, being liberated was just the half of their recovery, still , at least they were alive and most likely survived
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God bless you for your tears, dear lady. I'm English and one of my grandfathers was in the 7th Armoured Division - I learned at his knee of the reality of things like the concentration camps and how the people of nations can do terrible things, or at least allow terrible things even if they are not evidently evil in and of themselves.
That is why Eisenhower insisted that the liberation of these camps be recorded so that there could be no doubt as to what had taken place. He knew that sometime in the future, people would deny the existence of these camps.
You're so fucking right when you say it's important to not be complacent because it doesn't currently affect you. Fascism needs to be fought by everyone at every opportunity.
As promised, my concentration camp story. I’ve spent 22 years overseas so far. A total of 12 years, both before and after the wall fell, in Germany. My last tour I was stationed in Grafenwoehr. Not too far from there is KZ Flossenburg. It was a bright sunny day in late spring when I finally visited the Concentration/Work Camp. The moment I stepped through the gate I got a chill down my back that only left when I was able to get back to my car in the parking lot. Thanks to my Family Heritage, Irish, Scots, Prussian, English and Cherokee, I’m sensitive. Not the “Prince/Michael Jackson” kind of Sensitive, but the “I’ve had to deal with ghosts for most of my life” kind of Sensitive. It was still a bright sunny day but the light took on a flat lifeless darker aspect that stayed with me the whole time I was there. I could just about make out dozens of faces in every dark corner staring back at me. I could feel people all around me also. The pile of ashes from the crematorium is still there. That area had a weird smell to it. This was a work camp so only about 30,000 were murdered there and in it’s sub-camps. It was something I had to do and I’m glad I did it but it is an indelible memory. ruclips.net/video/czbUP6cl2NE/видео.html To Paraphrase the band Queen, "Nice round bottomed and big soft titties girls make the World go Round." and you, Kiddo, are making it go round very nicely. Very nicely indeed! :)
I'm with you, I was in I think my sophomore year of high school when I read Night by Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust smacked me in the face. My dad was a Holocaust denier and a f**king racist prick, and reading that book altered my life, because I already knew but couldn't put into words why what he said and preached was wrong. And then I got obsessed with the Holocaust and with Apartheid and all these other things that humans do to each other, and became a history buff of these things, and you know, felt the fury and felt the shame of being white in the US, and trying to figure out why the f**k we aren't doing what Germany did and facing our history and teaching it and accepting our culpability to this day and doing reparations here, and just all of that. And it's because we don't honor history, and we still have leaders who play us against each other so they can stay in power, same gotdamn thing and nobody will admit it. I had the privilege in college of going to an event where Mr. Weisel spoke about the events happening in Kosovo and how we are repeating history's mistakes yet again, and it hit so hard, because Apartheid had basically just ended and why the f**k are we doing this again? Anywhere?Before he got there, while we were waiting outside, there were people actually protesting that he was coming, because of course they denied the Holocaust happened... We were all so furious seeing these people come there spouting their asinine sh1t after what that man had been through, any of the people who had been through that, that they have to face that kind of bulls**t on top of everything.... We were locking elbows against them and this gentleman, he was in his '70s or 80s or whatever at the time, on crutches, came out front and was thundering his witness to these deniers, because he was a vet and had liberated a camp like this with his unit... and these ba$tards are always talking about how they hold these men from that generation in such high esteem, but then they turn around and call them liars for witnessing what they did, it doesn't make any gotdamn sense. We managed to essentially block them out before Mr. Weisel came in so he didn't have to hear that s**t (not that he's obviously not heard it, but...) Yeah, it's just amazing how incredibly idiotic humanity can be.
Captain Nixon took part in Operation Varsity. It was the largest air assault in the war. He was assigned as an observer to the 17th Airborne Division. Varsity was another operation to get over the Rhine which it succeeded in. Market Garden's goal was also to get a bridge head over the Rhine, however it failed. Nixon is one of a handful of men in the 101st that have 3 combat jumps. The series changes some facts for story telling. The 101st did not find this camp, however it did help with liberation. They had to keep the prisoners in the camp because it was the only way they could manage all of them and get them the aid they needed. They could not feed them real food because it would have killed them because of their level of starvation.
The concentration camp they liberated was Kaufering Lager IV. of the Dauchau system in Landsberg Germany. Of you look up photos, it is exactly replicated on Band of Brothers.
I’ve always wondered how much the German people knew. No internet, no free press, the German people have a characteristic of loyalty and trusting of government. There could be a camp 10 miles from town and no one would know it was there. Part of me also wonders, how could they possibly not know?
Let's all laugh At Humanity 'Cause we never learn from anything Tee Hee Hee My grandfather and his company toured the camp shown in this episode after things had wound down. They were told that people wouldn't believe them when they got home, and that ended up being true.
I think that through my whole life, having both of my grandfathers who fought in WWII, one landed on Utah beach, the other on Omaha beach, I heard stories from them both my whole childhood, and the 1 most critical lesson that i learned, is that no matter what country you are from, you should NEVER allow your government to remove firearms from the hands of the populace, this is a mistake that you can only make 1 time, and after you do, you will NEVER get them back, and all your freedoms will disappear shortly after you allow such a thing, and you will never get them back, WWII is the PERFECT example of why we should never allow that to happen here, in 1935, Adolph Hitler convinced the people of Germany that they would be safer after they turned in all their firearms, once collected, the POPULACE could no longer oppose him internally and then he drug the entire world into a brutal world wide war that cost the lives of more than 80,000,000 people, more than 11,000,000 were rounded up and murdered in the camps, these people were NON-COMBATANTS, this is the real cost of "GUN CONTROL" unfortunaately Germany is not the only example of this in the 20th century alone, U.S.S.R. in 1918, Germany in 1935-1936, China in 1937, North Korea 1950's, as well as Cuba, in the 1950's, Vietnam, Loas, Cambodia and Iran in the 1970's all of which was immediately followed by a "PURGE" and MILLIONS were murdered by the very government that they surrendured their last means to fight an oppressive tyrant. The DEMOKKKRATS in our country are quite willing to allow and facilitate the killing of MILLIONS BEFORE they take our guns away, they have already put policies in place that kills more than 1,000,000 babies every single year in our county, (MOSTLY BLACK BABIES), what do you think they will do IF they are sucessful in disarming our people?
Today, milians of North Koreans have starved to death and been exicuted by the brutal Communtst Kim regime. But We in America are badicially shrugging our sholders if even that. They are suffering under the most evil regime of our current time, and the world does nothing. When will we learn?
You never know who did and didn’t know about the camps back then. Those who knew kept it quiet and those who didn’t were none the wiser. Can’t go blaming them all when not all knew. Generalizations breed divisiveness.
A lot of combat veterans by 1945 looked with jaundiced eyes at West Point class of 1944 graduates just getting into the fray months later. June 6, 1944 Lieutenant Jones to be in combat with the war almost over he had to earn their respect quickly.
Also in real life, Joe Liebgott was actually Roman Catholic , but I guess his fellow soldiers probably thought he was Jewish, since he had a notoriously huge Hatred of the Germans, but it may have actually been the fact that he was of German heritage, and could speak fluent German.
Ok I guess most people here in the comments didn't understand this. The problem wasn't putting those prisoners back in the camp. It was what they were saying to them when they were making them go back inside the camp. "This is for your own good". Most people will think - Well it was for their own good - but in reality that same line was used by nazi's. Nazi's would put big sign on the entrance of the concentration camps saying " Arbeit macht frei " and in USA it's translated as "Work will set you free" but honestly better translation would be "Labor liberates". That sign and line (This is for your own good) was and still is insult to humanity.
I'm just starting it, but I'm already sending hugs your way. This is a tough one to handle! They did such an incredible job recreating a terrible experience
Looking back further to the past, one of the major contributing factor for the emergence of fascism in Germany can be traced back to the end of World War I with the Treaty of Versailles. The term of that peace treaty humiliates the Germans as a nation so deeply that they fell quite eagerly for Hitler's idea of ultra nationalism. The end World War II also brought the rise of Zionism that's have been the major source of strive and volatility in the middle east region for decades afterwards. I am not making excuses for these atrocities, but it helps to take a step back and see the larger picture of how these chain of events follow one another. I wish that the current events happening across the globe in 2020 does not spark further conflicts and suffering for humanity in the future.
The build up to why so many Germans followed that jerk is more nuanced than that. After WWI (which wasn’t Germany’s fault, they just fought the hardest in it) Germany was blamed for the entire war and saddled with the entire cost of the war by the newly formed (then) version of the United Nations. Germany suffered just as much as France and the other countries in that war but with being saddled with the cost of the war their entire economy didn’t rebuild like other countries but devolved into hyper inflation and an extreme depression. The German people didn’t understand why this was happening to them and looked for both a reason and a leader to get them out of it. Hitler came in and took advantage of this. It doesn’t justify following him, it just shows how people were able to give themselves to such an animal.
22:00 Yeah, it sounds familiar. Kind of like people blaming Trump (or the Republicans or the Democrats or the illegal immigrants or the Jews) for all of their problems... so stupid.
Incorrect, my grandmother was German and lived through the war. They were told people were being moved out of Germany so that only Germans lived in Germany. Majority of the camp were in the east she lived in the west of Germany and knew nothing about them.
The Germans knew about concentration camps, not death camps, and they were told around 1943 that the last concentration camps would begin to close as Jews were being resettled in the middle east and captured Russian territory. The reality was that the death camps had been constructed in well-secluded places and the concentration camps were being gradually emptied into them.
concentration camps weren't a secret… the first ones were around even before 1933 when the nazi Party took power, with the simple Purpose of being a Prison/labour camp for REAL criminals... what most People didn't know was that some of those camps were literally transformed into deathcamps with the Intention of Right out killing the inmates or let them work to death and the Horror took ist peek when Mauthausen's commander built the first gaschambers to be more "efficient"... over 10 Million innocent People lost their lives in the camps alone… what a disgrace for Germany and it's allies i know that Stalin and Mao were respponsible for far more innocent deaths, or that the US caused more collateral Damage by bombing their enemies in the 20th century, but numbers aren't evrything… when i hear About the systematic killing of Innocents in KZ's or the murder of 10 000 polish officers by the red army, or the japanese unit 731 i honestly am in danger of becoming the very Monster i've sworn to destroy…. Show me proof that this or that one was involved in the murder of Innocents or POW's and i end him Right then and there… german… soviet…. american…. japanese… if i KNOW that you are guilty, you better stay out of my reach, or my knife is the last Thing you'll ever see… fucking disgusting to kill/rape/knowingly putting in Harms way civillians or surrendering enemies and yes, i know that mine isn't the Right or honorable way either, but i don't care...
Fun fact #3 17:47 if you are in a starved state and eat a large amount of food abruptly you can actually die. Regulating their food intake actually was the right call. It is the same way a person gains muscles. You increase the amount of exercise you do overtime. If you use your muscles too much at one time you risk tearing them and causing permanent damage.
Not a very fun fact...
Indeed, while it was probably an incredibly difficult thing for these guys to do; putting those people back in the camp was the right call and the best way to make sure they survive.
It gets worse: hundred of concentration camp victims actually died AFTER their 'liberation' because there weren't the resources available to support them fast enough, and because doctors and medics simply didn't have the experience to know how to deal with them propoerly and made several mistakes in doing so.
Unfortunately from what I remember hearing, the Russians got to some of the camps in Poland first and because they didn’t have any experience with this level of starvation they fed the prisoners too much too fast and some did die
They were trying to prevent refeeding syndrome.
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322120
Want to hear something really cool? All the actors in the concentration camp were cancer patients. They felt this was an important story to tell, so they readily accepted the chance to be in the show.
That was so mind blowing to me. Cause I was telling myself there was no way they could have made these people look like this. They were really like that.
I never heard that, that's amazing. I am always astonished at how skinny, and sick they truly look. That makes perfect sense
What an incredible but of info
Thanks for that amazing fact
They did a good job. I wondered how they could get people to look like that without harming the actors. I understand now. God bless them.
Wow... I didn't know that. Thanks for the info
Fun fact: Spielberg (the director of the series) didn't let the main cast see the concentration camp set until it was time to shoot. He did this to get genuine reaction from the main cast for the scene.
Spielberg was a producer here, not the director.
@@johnshepard5121 band of brothers was based on a true story. Unlike schindlers list.
@@frankmiller4550 Yikes...
@@pedrorevolledo7679 edit: thank you, @Jacqueline LaFace for the correction.
In 1982, the book Schindler’s Ark won the Man Booker Prize for FICTION.
Fucking holocaust deniers and nazi supporters.
I grew up in Germany as an Army Brat. The Dept. of Defense Dependent School System (DODD) made sure we learned history as well as touring the battlegrounds. I served in Germany when I was older and saw even more things that happened during the war. I thought I saw everything on history shows as well as growing up over there. I was wrong! In the late 1990's I did artwork for the Wings of Liberty Memorial at Fort Campbell, KY. for the 101st Airborne Association. They gave me access to their photographs for reference material. Some photos I saw still upset me to this day, and when I hear theses scumbags that say the Holocaust never happened run their ignorant mouths it take everything I have not to kick their teeth out.
I was stationed in Germany for almost a year in the army and part of our training areas had old bunkers that I heard was part of the Siegfried line
I agree, as I was a USAF brat (1959-1975 ) who was likewise shown photos and some film from both the American and Russian soldiers who first encountered these camps. Also taught about the testimonies from the Nuremburg trials; though not a lot about the Wannsee Conference in 1942 where the details to the Final Solution; concerning the Jewish Question was hammered out; because we were still too young at that time. HBO would later do a film on that in 2001 called Conspiracy; as actors like Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci played those men who drank fine wine and ate the finest food while plotting out the slaughter with a cold mechanical efficiency.
Don't hold back friend.
Fukem.
I toured Dachau when I was 18. It was a horrifyingly transformative experience. I fully support your boot’s work as an amateur dentist.
It's amazing that General Dwight D. Eisenhower fore saw the possibilities for denials in the future and put into place policies to combat that.
This episode is such a masterpiece, most powerful piece of television I've ever seen.
For me it was " Escape From Sobibor ".
putting them back in had to be done. there were many examples of freed people eating themselves to death. Its hard to watch but it was nescassairy
Yeah, imagine how difficult it would be to tell all those people to get back in the camp...
Not only that but they also basically had to quarantine them. Imagine the diseases and parasites these poor souls have contracted. You couldn’t just let them scatter into nearby towns carrying all that into the public. The important thing is that at least they were safe and in good hands.
@@dastemplar9681 truth, I watched a documentary that said almost 4000 prisoners died from typhus because they weren't properly quarantined and treated after being liberated from I believe Bergen-Belsen. So horrible.
@@jacquelinelaface136 Yes the camp is correct but it was a lot of different camps too.
I'm Jewish and I've learned about the Holocaust basically my entire life. The fact that people think it wasn't real angers me so much; especially when my great grandmother lost her whole family (grandparents, parents, siblings, and possibly aunts, uncles, and cousins too) in the war.
And they feel entitled to get Palestinian land. 🗿
@Graze Palestine didn’t exist. There were people there, but there was no governing body. Reinvention of history. And I’d say the Jews deserved a safe place to live after all of that. There was no better place to create a Jewish state, or a more logical one for that matter.
@@graze1177 what… Palestine has nothing to do with all of this. not all Jews support israel and that government, you should know that. the two things have nothing to do with each other.
I think Holocaust Deniers are the scum of the earth
Even this day and age people like this still exist - just look at all the reports coming out from Ukraine about Russian war crimes. Civilian buildings bombed, torture chambers, mass graves, but no, according to some idiots sitting in the comfort of their own home it's all staged and the war isn't real.
My father told me this opening was his favorite scene in the series. Beethoven is German; Mozart, like Hitler, is Austrian. This particular piece was written later in Beethoven's life, after he had gone deaf. What the Germans are saying by playing it is that they are reclaiming their culture, their heritage, and their nation from Hitler and are rejecting him forever.
"That's not Mozart. That's Beethoven" Never thought that a line like that could almost make me tear up..
His delivery is like- so weary and empty.
Nixon was Yale educated, one of the smartest guys in the regiment.
"Boys, *this* is why we fight."
-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 27, 1945, after the 4th Armored Division discovered the Ordruff Arbeitslager outside Weimar, Germany. The quote that the episode is named from
"It's called wounded, Peanut. Injured is when you fall outta a tree or somethin."
THIS is what pisses me off - and I'm sure angers every person who lost relatives in the holocaust - when people throw around the label "nazi" to describe anyone they dislike or oppose politically. It's a tremendous disrespect to those victims of such unthinkable atrocities to equate THIS level of evil with whoever they want for their own selfish reasons.
My family lost contact with our relatives in Hungary after the nazis occupied it.
To this day we don't know what happened to them. All we know is, we never heard from (or about them) again... So, please people, take care who you call nazi.
Sadly, there were neo-Nazis today. But, the term is over used, cheapening jt. Most of my family was killed in the Holocaust. Untill, they died, my grandparents hoped to find or hear from more relatives.
Amen brother
@@ronmaximilian6953 Gave thumbs-up out of solidarity. I feel you and your family's anguish. We are the only ones left to see that their story isn't forgotten.
I don't want to be a grammar Nazi but, why did you capitalize THIS? I'm gonna watch that Seinfeld episode about the soup, I forgot what it is called. Get over yourself you fucking tard. The holocaust was real. Nazis are and continue to be bad and MTG is a nut job.
That scene gets me EVERY TIME...no matter how many times I watch it! 😢😢😢😢
This is why it's important to study history and learn from it. In all its glory and horror, the good and the bad, your own and that of others. To see more, put things into perspective, not forget, become complacent and worse, repeat it.
Irony, that when Winters asks Christensson if any of his guys speak German, that's MIchael Fassbender, who speaks German just fine.
He has a strange accent though.
@@rotkev That’s just how people naturally talk when they’re born in a village that rests in the shadow of Piz Palü 😉
Most of what is seen concerning the liberation of this camp almost certainly never really happened. The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is Kaufering IV which 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, not the large number of survivors shown in Band of Brothers. 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 the town of Landsberg to bury the dead.
Yes it is true that Michael Fassbender does in fact speak German fluently, BUT he is an actor, he was chosen to play the part of a REAL person Christensson BECAUSE he looked like the real man Christensson from photos of him taken from 1940-1945, and Christensson DID NOT speak any German, to keep the story true, the liberties that i think that you are suggesting, can not be taken that you find "IRONIC" so i do not see any of the "IRONY" that you are elluding to. it is known that in Easy Company of the 2nd battalion, of the 506th Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, only Webster and Liebgott were fleunt in German and were often used as translators, but only Liebgott spoke Hebrew (Jewish) as well. so please explain to me what you see as "IRONY" because i do not see it
If you eat too much after a prolonged starvation, you will get refeeding edema (water retention). Your body will swell with fluid and it can gather around your heart, it is often deadly. They truly learned about this after WWII, when trying to refeed a large population of people who had been living on very little food for years. It actually affects how anorexia patients are treated to this day. WWII is a horror the world has never known before or since, it still affects so much of our daily lives. We need to educate our youth on this incredibly important event forever, never forget.
All of the actors were adults. For all the horror shown, we were thankfully spared the fullest and most brutal truth of the matter.
A few years ago, visited a town about a half hours drive north of Berlin called Oranienburg, which is where Heinrich Himmler ran the entire Nazi concentration camp system. In that town was a camp called Sachsenhausen. Everything that happened in all the other camps happened there first. It was where the SS trained the guards for all those other camps. It looks today much as it did then. Walking around the grounds you won’t see a bird flying, you won’t hear a bird singing. It’s as if life itself died there.
Also they were told that it was animal slaughter houses nearby, and the SS saw the camps but actually did compare my people (by race) to animals for the slaughter
I’m not sure if you caught it, but the translator, Liebgott, that Winters used to talk to the prisoner, Liebgott WAS Jewish. Can you imagine the sense of betrayal against his own people he felt having to tell the inmates they had to be locked up?
The Pacific
Generation Kill
KILO TWO BRAVO
3 great true life productions to watch.
I love your reviews. You are awesome
whats nr 3???
pafific i know and unsere mutere is probaly the best ww2 series since its not the usual hero perspectif.
japman17 it’s about British soldiers in Afghanistan. It got a perfect score in movie rating. It is very good, very intense, it is on NETFLIX currently
The Pacific is definitely up next for historical shows. I'll at the other two to my list! Thanks for the recommendations!
I love generation kill, very curious now about KILO TWO BRAVO, thanks for the recommendation
@@japman17 if you want somethng that is not the usual hero perspective you could try under 'sandet/land of mine' aswell, it does not have action fight scenes, but it does have suspense, basically German kids just after WW2 sent to disarm mines in Denmark: ruclips.net/video/4Kao3t0NBMU/видео.html
what is with the shit english names for european movies and series?
unsere muter, unsere vater ( our mother, our father) = generation war
under sandet ( under the sand) = Land of mine
La casa del papel ( the paper house) = Money Heist!
It made sense to keep them in the camps temporarily. You wouldn’t know how diseased and riddled with fleas and lice they would be, also they were severely starving, so they couldn’t eat too much than they want to otherwise they destroy their digestive organs. They needed to be quarantined in order to be fed properly and medically taken cared of. Made sense, but I don’t blame a single one of them not wanting to go back into the hell they were just liberated from.
Also when you see the next episode, don’t edit out the end. It’s an absolutely heartwarming conclusion to such an amazing series.
Its called wounded. Injured is when you fall out of a tree.
The 761st Tank Battalion liberated a work camp and gave some food to the inmates but when medical personnel arrived were told to stop because the starvation they endured they had to be fed slowly almost like feeding infants. One of my father's comrades in the unit was upset because one of the prisoners died from the food he gave him. He was doing a good deed but didn't know. It wasn't his fault.
Mom and dad had numbers on their arms... I am not following that family tradition. I was in the IDF. In the Armoured Corps, our motto was 'Never Again' Thank you very much for your reactions and views. I love your humour and intelligence. You are what we call a 'Mench'.. a real human being who understands what 'humanity' means.
I’ve never shouted “TOM HARDY” so hard in my entire life
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My uncles served in WW2 and liberated a concentration camp. Whenever I see this series, all I do is think about how young they were, how much this war affected them and what they saw, all the sacrifices they made and how important it is that we never, ever, EVER forget. Thank you for watching this series ~ I hope others who haven't watched it yet or don't know much about WW2 may be inspired to do so because you have. I know it was a hard episode to watch, but thank you, thank you, for bearing it and sharing it.
The half naked guy in the beginning of the episode having sex is Tom Hardy. Many Hollywood actors were in the series before they were stars. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, & Simon Pegg.
Thank you for your comments regarding the “idiots” that try to deny the holocaust.
Who should be the one to tell her about Russia from 1919-1958
It hit me the other day that Ron Livingston was, probably, the "biggest" name of all the actors in this series at the time it premiered (coming off of the success of Office Space). Damian Lewis was making a name for himself in the UK but was relatively unknown in the U.S. Several of them were able to springboard off of BoB and turn their success in the series into bigger roles. For most of them, BoB was their first major role and each of them did an amazing job. Hard to believe it's been 20 years.
Hell, you got Magneto AND Professor X both in this. To say nothing of Venom/Bane. Hell, right after this Tom Hardy played Picard's younger clone in the next STar Trek movie!
For me the " biggest name " would be Dale Dye. He's been in quite a few films or two.
My father served with the 25th Infantry Div. from the Japanese occupation until 1955 after having fought in Korea for the entire duration. He was later stationed in Germany until the end of his tenure in 1958. During those three years he got to visit some of the camp locations, and he said that there were a few places where the stench of human decay still clung to the area. That was ten years after WW2 had ended.
Some Germans didn't know about the camps, I don't remember the named of the town but in the German state of Bavaria, I think, the mayor and his wife saw the camp after it was liberated by US forces, the mayor closed his eyes and his wife began vomiting, the two of them killed themselves the following evening.
some of them knew and some of them didnt know. There were millions of people in Germany its not realistic to make generalizations about all of them like that.
@@joshuaortiz2031 Also, how many just wanted to keep their head down?!
Not to make excuses but you have to be quite brave to oppose a totalitarian gouverment especially your own.....
What happened to Nixon, with his wife leaving him like this. Same happened to me while I was deployed in 96. It fucking sucks. Thousands of miles away and you cant do a dam thing about, and still have to keep your head in the game. My great Uncle was in the actual Bat. that actually liberated that Concentration Camp. He saw it first hand. After all the horrors he experienced. This is what caused him nightmares till his dying day. I did some research on this. The actual civilians on the town honestly did not know that camp was ever even there.Much less what was going on. With the exceptions of the SR German officers that lived there. They would the locals stories and blockaded the road towards the camp so the locals couldn't get close enough to see it. On the pretense of safety. Telling them its because of Allied troops in the area.
I feel like everyone should have to watch Band of Brothers at least once. It does wonders for putting things into perspective.
Also Schindler's List
you have to remember that most of the population knew it was happening but they were afraid to say anything because going against the flow would put them in the same place or executed on the spot.
That’s the truth ...
You said something that caught my attention, I do know that i am one of the last in my family that is 100% German by blood, but I am an American by birth, and although I know that on my paternal side, first arrived from Germany to the U.S. in 1882, and on my Maternal side first arrived from Germany to the U.S. in 1894, both of my grandfathers fought in WWII, fortunately they both survived the war, but it never occurred to me how many of my blood family that were still in Germany fought against the U.S. I truly do not have a clue as to how much of my family tree did not survive the war, i do know that i lost a couple of great uncles, both on my mothers side, kind of interesting that i had never thought along those lines before.
My Stepfather and half-sister are Jewish. It scares me to think what life would have been like if we were born a little earlier.
That guy kissed and hugged the soldier and was crying like he's been waiting for freedom for four miserable years. Many of his family members dead already.
14:42 or so - your "for the record" comment - just got a like and a subscribe for that, I agree wholeheartedly...
it'll happen again today in a heartbeat, if we let it. They're trying to erase Black history in the US as we speak...
I was in the Army a long time I saw things I will never forget in Central and Latin America. Mans inhumanity to man never seems to change
The one of the most heart breaking things about the concentration camp scene, is that the polish prisoner who walked towards easy, with a seemingly dead body in his arms, when translated from Polish was actually saying, please help them they are still alive , please help them.
Most Germans had some idea of what happened but almost nobody knew to what extent the atrocities were. Being committed
Well... did they think that all the Jews were going to fairy land? Go watch some survivors talk about coming back to their homes and towns and people being like: you are back? I thought they killed you all. Not letting them returning home and collect their things, many were denounced by their neighbors and good people that tried to help the Jews were denounced as well. So they did know. They helped. And this happened all over Germany occupied countries. So let’s just agree to disagree.
@@camilarodrigues1007 there was a mix of both stories. Those in smaller towns probably had more suspicions
Liam O'Brien again go watch survivors tell their stories about being denounced in big cities, small cities, it didn’t matter, about how they were treated after coming back from the camps. Informe yourself please. You can find the USC Shoah Foundation Chanel here in RUclips and watch a couple of them, your opinion about how much people knew will change, you will know how people just took things from the Jews, not the SS per say, but their neighbors, employees etc. I thought like you that people didn’t really know, but after watching like 30 testimonies I completely understand that I was wrong and the “normal “ people not only knew but helped.
@@camilarodrigues1007 Plenty of germans had no clue the Jews were being exterminated and tortured in such a way. He about you do research? You cant use examples of some citizens knowing and just say every German civilian knew and helped. That is ridiculous.
@@camilarodrigues1007 imagine spreading misinformation
Thank you for reacting. I’m jewish and my family was saved from those horror and moved to Israel as fast as they could. This hits home. I cry everytime I see this episode. I can’t believe people did this to people... just because we’re Jews... =/
All these people somehow managed to overlook the fact that Jews served in the German army in WW1.
Keep in mind that Germany had lost the first WW and had to pay absurd amounts of war reparations to the other countries. Plus the crash of the market made people desperate for change and someone who could drag them out of the darkness. Finding a scapegoat and making people believe is easy then. Plus propaganda is still very effective to this day.
Germany was also wrongly accused as being the instigator of the war in the treaty of Versailles - which made Germans extremely angry and bitter to the rest of the Alliances
I was lucky enough to have taken a Holocaust Literature class in high school and my teacher showed this bit of the show to us. We read books, watched movies, and did projects on people and things that happened during the war. (Elie Wiesel's book Night is a must-read I've read it twice, it is about his experience as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.) My favorite thing is that my group's final project (me and just three other students) had an Art Show and Speaker event, all of the art was past projects and new art works themed around the Holocaust. And our speaker was Sonja DuBois, a Dutch Child Holocaust Survivor, and she sold and signed her books there. It was a fantastic learning experience and awesome to meet her. I always encourage others to learn about it as much as possible.
@ManicMeeks I knew this was going to be toughest episode in the series for you. When you asked how could people let this happen, it reminded me of the quote from Voltaire " Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Love your channel, your spirit and your energy.
It was no more of an atrocity than any other war. The jewish survivors looked no different then the Yankees in Andersonville.
Frank Miller bullshit my man. The reason why this is so significant is that this was the first time industrial killing took place this way, and the only time in history it went to this scale (before you name Stalin - he didn’t kill industrially, he was just a very bad leader with bad work camps)
FYI: It doesn't get mentioned in the series but at the time that Nixon's wife was divorcing him, he has a Mistress that he was carrying on a relationship with back in England. This makes him a bit less sympathetic.
@17:15. That is EXACTLY what I feel about Brexit. EVERYONE in the UK blamed foreigners for their woes. And now the country is in the deep shit that it deserves for voting to leave.
The actor playing the regimental surgeon (Corey Johnson as Major Louis Kent) was also in Saving Private Ryan as the radioman on the beach who was hit in the face.
Tom Hanks is one of the French soldiers executing Germans in the same episode. It's a blink and you'll miss it, but he's the one with the pistol.
I mean keeping the people in the camp and treating them better way better and medical treatment and food was better then keeping them in your army camp in the sniper zone and get killed any moment or just let them go for just to get them killed again so ya the airborne 101st and airborne 82nd division was the first on the frontlines and the first ones to get to the frontlines even tho the biggest invasion was done by the infantry most famously known as the big red 1 airborne dropped behind enemy lines
Yup I feel for Nix. My ex wife cheated on me during my last deployment to Afcrapistan. But it was ultimately for the best!
Thank you for being a totally awesome person!! Please stay your awesome, amazing, wonderful person!
That one soldier, I swear the actor is a very young Tom Hardy, when the prisoner hugs and kisses him and he tries to tell him it's okay but you can see on his face that he's about to lose it himself? But he keeps it together. Because he's the liberator, the savior. Can't show weakness at a time like that. Great...GREAT filmmaking.
When I first saw this scene, I never realized I could be angry and sad all at once
@ 6:29 that's Tom Hardy right?, it's been a while since I've seen this.
Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Those numbers are child's play compared to what Stalin did.
They actually made the Germans dress nice. They told them to dress up to go to the camp. They wanted the juxtaposed of them being dressed nice to hammer in that while they were sitting in their nice houses this was happening miles away.
Last months of the war, dearest. Bull’s episode was “Replacements.” Easy ‘celebrated’ Christmas in Bastogne. So, that’s December of ‘44. The rest of the series will be ‘45 until war’s end in April, I believe.
it needed to be done, imagine being so hungry that you eat till you get poinsoned, you body simply cant sintetize the amount of food and the organs actually shrink so they cant take in the same amount of anything, being liberated was just the half of their recovery, still , at least they were alive and most likely survived
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God bless you for your tears, dear lady. I'm English and one of my grandfathers was in the 7th Armoured Division - I learned at his knee of the reality of things like the concentration camps and how the people of nations can do terrible things, or at least allow terrible things even if they are not evidently evil in and of themselves.
That is why Eisenhower insisted that the liberation of these camps be recorded so that there could be no doubt as to what had taken place. He knew that sometime in the future, people would deny the existence of these camps.
You're so fucking right when you say it's important to not be complacent because it doesn't currently affect you. Fascism needs to be fought by everyone at every opportunity.
Collin Hanks was in the movie forest gump ... he was one of the kids who wouldn’t let young Forrest sit on the bus...
“Taken.” Was his only line.
As promised, my concentration camp story. I’ve spent 22 years overseas so far. A total of 12 years, both before and after the wall fell, in Germany. My last tour I was stationed in Grafenwoehr. Not too far from there is KZ Flossenburg. It was a bright sunny day in late spring when I finally visited the Concentration/Work Camp. The moment I stepped through the gate I got a chill down my back that only left when I was able to get back to my car in the parking lot. Thanks to my Family Heritage, Irish, Scots, Prussian, English and Cherokee, I’m sensitive. Not the “Prince/Michael Jackson” kind of Sensitive, but the “I’ve had to deal with ghosts for most of my life” kind of Sensitive. It was still a bright sunny day but the light took on a flat lifeless darker aspect that stayed with me the whole time I was there. I could just about make out dozens of faces in every dark corner staring back at me. I could feel people all around me also. The pile of ashes from the crematorium is still there. That area had a weird smell to it. This was a work camp so only about 30,000 were murdered there and in it’s sub-camps. It was something I had to do and I’m glad I did it but it is an indelible memory.
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I'm with you, I was in I think my sophomore year of high school when I read Night by Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust smacked me in the face. My dad was a Holocaust denier and a f**king racist prick, and reading that book altered my life, because I already knew but couldn't put into words why what he said and preached was wrong. And then I got obsessed with the Holocaust and with Apartheid and all these other things that humans do to each other, and became a history buff of these things, and you know, felt the fury and felt the shame of being white in the US, and trying to figure out why the f**k we aren't doing what Germany did and facing our history and teaching it and accepting our culpability to this day and doing reparations here, and just all of that. And it's because we don't honor history, and we still have leaders who play us against each other so they can stay in power, same gotdamn thing and nobody will admit it. I had the privilege in college of going to an event where Mr. Weisel spoke about the events happening in Kosovo and how we are repeating history's mistakes yet again, and it hit so hard, because Apartheid had basically just ended and why the f**k are we doing this again? Anywhere?Before he got there, while we were waiting outside, there were people actually protesting that he was coming, because of course they denied the Holocaust happened... We were all so furious seeing these people come there spouting their asinine sh1t after what that man had been through, any of the people who had been through that, that they have to face that kind of bulls**t on top of everything.... We were locking elbows against them and this gentleman, he was in his '70s or 80s or whatever at the time, on crutches, came out front and was thundering his witness to these deniers, because he was a vet and had liberated a camp like this with his unit... and these ba$tards are always talking about how they hold these men from that generation in such high esteem, but then they turn around and call them liars for witnessing what they did, it doesn't make any gotdamn sense. We managed to essentially block them out before Mr. Weisel came in so he didn't have to hear that s**t (not that he's obviously not heard it, but...)
Yeah, it's just amazing how incredibly idiotic humanity can be.
Should be required watching for every high school aged student around the world
Captain Nixon took part in Operation Varsity. It was the largest air assault in the war. He was assigned as an observer to the 17th Airborne Division. Varsity was another operation to get over the Rhine which it succeeded in. Market Garden's goal was also to get a bridge head over the Rhine, however it failed. Nixon is one of a handful of men in the 101st that have 3 combat jumps.
The series changes some facts for story telling. The 101st did not find this camp, however it did help with liberation.
They had to keep the prisoners in the camp because it was the only way they could manage all of them and get them the aid they needed.
They could not feed them real food because it would have killed them because of their level of starvation.
My father was a Glider Trooper of the 194th GIR of the 17th. He participated in Operation Varsity.
It is utterly horrifying to realize what people are capable of when they believe that people are beneath them.
17:43 The hard choice but for their own well being.
The concentration camp they liberated was Kaufering Lager IV. of the Dauchau system in Landsberg Germany. Of you look up photos, it is exactly replicated on Band of Brothers.
I’ve always wondered how much the German people knew. No internet, no free press, the German people have a characteristic of loyalty and trusting of government. There could be a camp 10 miles from town and no one would know it was there. Part of me also wonders, how could they possibly not know?
The next one will have you crying happy tears and sad tears alike.
The saddest episode of the whole show, the director of the episode said he felt like they were in a real concentration camp
Let's all laugh
At Humanity
'Cause we never learn from anything
Tee Hee Hee
My grandfather and his company toured the camp shown in this episode after things had wound down. They were told that people wouldn't believe them when they got home, and that ended up being true.
It happens in every war.
I know this is a very serious episode but it really cracked me up when you said “You lost, be mad. Do. You. Have. Vat. Sixty. Nine.”
I think that through my whole life, having both of my grandfathers who fought in WWII, one landed on Utah beach, the other on Omaha beach, I heard stories from them both my whole childhood, and the 1 most critical lesson that i learned, is that no matter what country you are from, you should NEVER allow your government to remove firearms from the hands of the populace, this is a mistake that you can only make 1 time, and after you do, you will NEVER get them back, and all your freedoms will disappear shortly after you allow such a thing, and you will never get them back, WWII is the PERFECT example of why we should never allow that to happen here, in 1935, Adolph Hitler convinced the people of Germany that they would be safer after they turned in all their firearms, once collected, the POPULACE could no longer oppose him internally and then he drug the entire world into a brutal world wide war that cost the lives of more than 80,000,000 people, more than 11,000,000 were rounded up and murdered in the camps, these people were NON-COMBATANTS, this is the real cost of "GUN CONTROL" unfortunaately Germany is not the only example of this in the 20th century alone, U.S.S.R. in 1918, Germany in 1935-1936, China in 1937, North Korea 1950's, as well as Cuba, in the 1950's, Vietnam, Loas, Cambodia and Iran in the 1970's all of which was immediately followed by a "PURGE" and MILLIONS were murdered by the very government that they surrendured their last means to fight an oppressive tyrant. The DEMOKKKRATS in our country are quite willing to allow and facilitate the killing of MILLIONS BEFORE they take our guns away, they have already put policies in place that kills more than 1,000,000 babies every single year in our county, (MOSTLY BLACK BABIES), what do you think they will do IF they are sucessful in disarming our people?
I came across your channel by accident - subscribed. Love the authenticity. Keep up the good work!
I’ve been loving watching your reactions to this series. Would also love to see you react to the pacific.
"I recognize the juiciness of the lips." : D
Today, milians of North Koreans have starved to death and been exicuted by the brutal Communtst Kim regime. But We in America are badicially shrugging our sholders if even that. They are suffering under the most evil regime of our current time, and the world does nothing. When will we learn?
11:43 mark had me rolling.
You never know who did and didn’t know about the camps back then. Those who knew kept it quiet and those who didn’t were none the wiser. Can’t go blaming them all when not all knew. Generalizations breed divisiveness.
My father was 82nd airborne then and help liberate two camps . He was never the same after that
That veteran who saluted would have served in the same army as Hitler; that moment always gets me in the gut, kerk
A lot of combat veterans by 1945 looked with jaundiced eyes at West Point class of 1944 graduates just getting into the fray months later. June 6, 1944 Lieutenant Jones to be in combat with the war almost over he had to earn their respect quickly.
Love your reaction! Agreed with all you said.
Also in real life, Joe Liebgott was actually Roman Catholic , but I guess his fellow soldiers probably thought he was Jewish, since he had a notoriously huge Hatred of the Germans, but it may have actually been the fact that he was of German heritage, and could speak fluent German.
Ok I guess most people here in the comments didn't understand this. The problem wasn't putting those prisoners back in the camp. It was what they were saying to them when they were making them go back inside the camp. "This is for your own good". Most people will think - Well it was for their own good - but in reality that same line was used by nazi's. Nazi's would put big sign on the entrance of the concentration camps saying " Arbeit macht frei " and in USA it's translated as "Work will set you free" but honestly better translation would be "Labor liberates". That sign and line (This is for your own good) was and still is insult to humanity.
I'm just starting it, but I'm already sending hugs your way. This is a tough one to handle! They did such an incredible job recreating a terrible experience
You certainly have a pair to be proud of.
Looking back further to the past, one of the major contributing factor for the emergence of fascism in Germany can be traced back to the end of World War I with the Treaty of Versailles. The term of that peace treaty humiliates the Germans as a nation so deeply that they fell quite eagerly for Hitler's idea of ultra nationalism. The end World War II also brought the rise of Zionism that's have been the major source of strive and volatility in the middle east region for decades afterwards. I am not making excuses for these atrocities, but it helps to take a step back and see the larger picture of how these chain of events follow one another. I wish that the current events happening across the globe in 2020 does not spark further conflicts and suffering for humanity in the future.
The build up to why so many Germans followed that jerk is more nuanced than that. After WWI (which wasn’t Germany’s fault, they just fought the hardest in it) Germany was blamed for the entire war and saddled with the entire cost of the war by the newly formed (then) version of the United Nations. Germany suffered just as much as France and the other countries in that war but with being saddled with the cost of the war their entire economy didn’t rebuild like other countries but devolved into hyper inflation and an extreme depression. The German people didn’t understand why this was happening to them and looked for both a reason and a leader to get them out of it. Hitler came in and took advantage of this. It doesn’t justify following him, it just shows how people were able to give themselves to such an animal.
14:20 Thats why we fight. Make sure that shit never happens again.
22:00 Yeah, it sounds familiar. Kind of like people blaming Trump (or the Republicans or the Democrats or the illegal immigrants or the Jews) for all of their problems... so stupid.
Fun fact#2: in fact, everyone in Germany had at least some sort of idea that the camps existed. Most simply chose to ignore their existence.
Incorrect, my grandmother was German and lived through the war. They were told people were being moved out of Germany so that only Germans lived in Germany. Majority of the camp were in the east she lived in the west of Germany and knew nothing about them.
The Germans knew about concentration camps, not death camps, and they were told around 1943 that the last concentration camps would begin to close as Jews were being resettled in the middle east and captured Russian territory. The reality was that the death camps had been constructed in well-secluded places and the concentration camps were being gradually emptied into them.
concentration camps weren't a secret… the first ones were around even before 1933 when the nazi Party took power, with the simple Purpose of being a Prison/labour camp for REAL criminals...
what most People didn't know was that some of those camps were literally transformed into deathcamps with the Intention of Right out killing the inmates or let them work to death and the Horror took ist peek when Mauthausen's commander built the first gaschambers to be more "efficient"...
over 10 Million innocent People lost their lives in the camps alone…
what a disgrace for Germany and it's allies
i know that Stalin and Mao were respponsible for far more innocent deaths, or that the US caused more collateral Damage by bombing their enemies in the 20th century, but numbers aren't evrything…
when i hear About the systematic killing of Innocents in KZ's or the murder of 10 000 polish officers by the red army, or the japanese unit 731 i honestly am in danger of becoming the very Monster i've sworn to destroy…. Show me proof that this or that one was involved in the murder of Innocents or POW's and i end him Right then and there…
german… soviet…. american…. japanese… if i KNOW that you are guilty, you better stay out of my reach, or my knife is the last Thing you'll ever see…
fucking disgusting to kill/rape/knowingly putting in Harms way civillians or surrendering enemies
and yes, i know that mine isn't the Right or honorable way either, but i don't care...
sorry, wanted just to say 1 or two Things About the KZ's and lost myself in my rage and emotions...
You would struggle to watch the Pacific