Imagine surviving two World Wars and still being well adjusted enough to be on guard duty and have casual conversations. That dude is an absolute unit.
I could be wildly off base, but I believe the neck piece the German has indicates Military Police......that could explain why he seems so well adjusted
Big issue with modern soldiers is that they don't get time to talk and think about what they experienced with their other comrades. WWII had a fairly good adjustment rate given the scope of the war, it's largely believed that them staying for 3-8 weeks in Europe after the war helped them process what they did, who they met etc
There was only 31 years from the beginning of WW1 to the end of WW2 (1914-1945) so a lot of soldiers who went onto WW1 at a young age would have only been in their 40s during WW2. The Germans in particular used a lot of WW1 vets because of limitations placed on them by the Versailles Treaty. After WW1 they could only maintain a relatively small 100,000 man army and couldn't maintain a reserve force so when WW2 began they had a severe trained manpower shortage. That 100,000 men didn't go far when they suddenly started expanding the army into the millions and they couldn't train soldiers fast enough so they turned to their WW1 vets for leadership and experience. WW1 vets made up a significant part of their officers and NCOs. There is the trope of Germany sending boys and old men into combat near the end of the war. That did get more extreme as the war went on, but it didn't suddenly happen near the end; Germany was beginning that process much earlier.
@@modelcitizen72 How rather comical that a soldier who fought so hard for his country and even earned a high rank, would later be treated like a mangey dog by his country and people he risked his life and sanity for, all because he was born in the wrong religion.
@@FlourescentPotato the war ended in 18, the second began in 39, that's a 21 year diff, if a soldier was 18 in 1914 he would be 22 by 1918 and 43 by 1939, really doesn't seem that much of a stretch.
My grandfather liked the German Soldiers when the war was over. He admired their work ethic and efficiency. One particular story involved offloading a train full of deactivated ordinance and military supplies in Ansbach and nobody knew how to operate the crane. One of the German POWs stuck his hand out and said "I never used one, but I can give it a try" he said it took that kid not 20 minutes to figure out how to operate the crane and get things moving. He had other stories such as getting in a friendly wrestling match with a POW, while he was guarding them by himself, even leaving his weapon unsecured (probably not a good idea) and also them convincing him to demonstrate his marksmanship skills which led up to him shooting a spent cartridge from his M1 Garand at 70m or so (also not a good idea) and all the POWs cheering him on. To him, German Soldiers after the war were like his friends, I guess everyone was just glad it was over.
They never should have been fighting each other in the first place, the Germans were trying to restore their homeland from being ruined by the same Bolsheviks who ruined Russia.
@@JIPS1993 So you agree with Nazi anti-slavic, anti-semite, and racist ideas? You support the extermination or enslavement or germanization of Slavs? If he asked Russians or Ukrainians their opinion would have not been so good about the Germans. Thank god Patton was discharged when he stopped being useful.
Yep, that work ethic and efficiency was definitely put to good use. Ya'know, in that whole offensive war of annihilation enabling industrial-scale genocide thing.
From BoB book: One night Sgt. Robert Marsh was driving Pvt. John Janovec back from a roadblock by a side road. Janovec was leaning on the unreliable door of a German truck. They hit a log. He lost his balance, fell, and hit his head on the pavement. Marsh rushed him to the regimental aid station in Zell am See, but he died on the way of a fractured skull. Captain Speirs gathered up his few personal possessions, a watch, his wings, his wallet, and his parachute scarf, and mailed them to Janovec’s parents. “He had come a long way,” Webster wrote. “He had jumped in Holland and fought in Bastogne. He hated the army, and now, when the war is over and the golden prospect of home was in sight, he had died.”
@@raulduke3237wtf? He fucking leaned on a door and the driver hit a log. He didn’t sleep when pulling security, he didn’t get too lax. Think before you type, it was a freak accident- have more respect and less assertions about something you have no clue about.
@@raulduke3237 attributing a legitimate accident to the person harmed is absolutely wild lmao. Like come on dude. Imagine you tripped because someone fell infront of you with zero time to react and you broke your arm. The paramedics come and ask what happened so you tell them. They just look at you and say "damn dude, you got to comfortable". Ridiculous, right? Accidents out of our control happen everyday. It has nothing to do with "being too comfortable".
Feldgendarmeries were very poorly regarded among their own because they saw a deserter or a malingerer everywhere, often times when thats not the case.
I love that this TV series also continued telling the story's after the war officially ended. It's something that you don't see in war movies/series in general.
What I found interesting about this show is the people who played major roles didn't get much of a career bump. But so many who played minor and bit parts went on to do major roles.
Well largely the ones that got the major roles were already established and the ones that had the bit parts were relatively unknown. I mean Matt Daman wasen't yet super famous when he got Saving Private Ryan but he sill had Good Will Hunting and Courage Under Fire under his belt
Are you joking? Do you remember the furore when Goood Will Hunting won the Oscars? Matt Damon was a Hollywood a-list after writing and starring in that film. That's the reason he was chosen for Saving Private Ryan. @RogueDragon05
@@RogueDragon05 Damian Lewis had done some British television before Band of Brothers but wasn't exactly a household name. Of the actors in minor roles, Jamie Bamber had about the same experience. He's well known for Battlestar Galactica but not a big name otherwise. Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy were just starting out: Bob was their second or third credit and probably didn't have much to do with their later success.
@@RedAndYellacuddlyFella Damon met Spielberg through Williams while doing Hunting, Spielberg was aware of him and actually wanted him specifically after seeing him in Courage Under Fire but didn't peruse him cause he thought he was too scrawny (since he was playing a heroin addict) but seeing him looking normal he shooed him into the part of Ryan, thats Matt Damans personal version of it. That all happened while Hunting was being filmed and Ryan would be released less then a year later waaayyy to early for Hunting's critical acclaim to have played a factor. Regardless while Hunting may have been his break out role that dosen't inherently mean he's automaticly a major star, that comes in the years and roles after.
My grandfather was in a German Artillery unit in WW2. Somehow he actually never saw combat, was in Denmark for years then moved to the Western Front. The infantry guys captured some Americans, left them with him(pretty much just smoked cigs and hung out with the 'enemy'). Then they got left behind by accident when their unit was retreating and were captured by Americans. He immigrated to the US some time after the war
Bcp de nazis ont émigrés en Amérique du Nord et Sud Et en France 1 mois après la soit-disant libération des yankee nos grands parents et toute cette génération nous ont tous dit sans exception qu'ils regrettais t l'occupation allemande. En effet le yankee volait violait buvait et toute autre sortes de choses qu'il se permettait de faire....(la même chose en Australie pendant le repos des GI quand ils se battaient vs l'empire du Japon) Bcp furent passé par les armes des résistants français heureusement 6
there's a reason Hitler called occupied Denmark: Die Sahnefront ~ the whipped cream front. Denmark was posibly the most peaceful European country during the war. Your grandfather was very lucky to be stationed here.
The reason for that is that they were the military police of the German army. The Germany army soldiers hated them because towards the end, they hunted down deserters and shot them on the spot. Probably the other reason they where disarmed last.
@@EndingSimple the reason why they disbanded last was because they were tasked by the allied occupation government to help the demobilization of millions of German POWs after the war.
@@kallelaur1762 im not so sure. The modern day? Yeah definitely not much fighting, but german military personnel during WWII? Yeah i dont know, they literally resorted to child soldiers due to the lack of any military personnel near the end. Maybe not a lot of fighting but im sure he did some fighting
@@ahh_yes_mr_bax come to think of it, yes. if some German unit had to get out of a pocket, it would've been an "all hands on deck"-type of a situation.
Check Adrian Carton de Wiart That madlad went through 4 wars, Second Anglo-Boer war, WW1, Polish-Soviet war and WW2 Not only he lived until 1963 but he stopped going to wars because he got too old, not because he got enough or something like that
@@ahh_yes_mr_baxThe only times when military police fought is when they were commanding penal battalions, most of them were just doing policing in backline killing deserters so more people would fight
@user-jg8ce9ue7q ? They were called Russians. And it's a historical fact the Russians were the most ruthless in the war. If you were German and had to choose, Russia would be the last place you'd want to go
@@rikk319I was born in Russia, but no longer live there. The saying is that you have to be from Russia to find the joy of living in Russia. The nature is incredible, the government is (and has always been) insane, the corruption is third-world, the people are the product of a thousand years of various types of oppression. Most of the food is great, but only if you grew up with it and it holds fond memories. We literally made jam out of pinecones, and I still find it delicious.
They're talking about ASR points, basically the point system that determined when you could go home, almost entirely determined by time spent at war. You needed 85. Problem with that system was that combat units and non-combat units acquired points the same way so combat units were less likely to make it to 85.
ww1 was not a Prussian defeat. It was a Europe failure of cooperation which ended with league of nations with Italy & Japan being a founding member along others. Them two both dropped out and did other things along with post Prussia. So that guy really lost one war in my point of view
@@jimzoidberg7953I mean he probably did fight in the trenches in WW1 but WW2 I’m sure he did too especially when the allies were closing in into Berlin
It was never their choice to be mortal enemies, they were simply soldiers, doing what soldiers have to do. If you've ever been in a war or know someone who has, no one desires peace more than a soldier. I'm sure that both of these men were so relieved to see the end of it and get back to a normal, "boring" life.
@@giantgilamonster Ideally yeah. I've met a vet and the way he talks about war and his views on America/God, he for sure didn't want peace, he wanted to just kill the guys he thought deserved it. The dude advocates lynching to this day, no way he ever wanted peace.
I'm a combat veteran, and I never hated anyone (maybe in the moment, but never carried it with me) that I found myself on opposite sides of the sight with. You wake up, lace up your boots, and do your job to the best of your ability. Making it back to your rack at some point in the future is a matter of training, balls, luck and God. The other guys were doing the same thing.
There's something obvious that might not be obvious. The insignia around the German's neck is for the Feldgendarmerie, the military police. While it might just be a reasonable uniform choice for the character since they would be pulling this detail. The Fledgendarmerie units weren't liked, even by the regular army. They did... interesting things.
@@timmcnamara1325 Let's put it this way, this particular military police unit wasn't disliked because they were overzealous in enforcing speed limits on post.
@@Cmoth040 oh, my... the references to where he had been expose that he had probably seen, if not been involved, in some heinous activities. and I am not talking about furries or anything like that.
@@timmcnamara1325 There were so called "Polizeieinheiten" (police units) in the eastern scene, the "Feldgendarmerie" (Military police) was another thing ...
I love when we get to hear about these moments where two people on opposite sides of a brutal war are able to come together and just hang out, have a chat, be friendly and respect each other. It shows that they knew they weren’t enemies, they were just on different teams
My Grandmother recorded Band of Brothers on vhs from the History channel a couple years before she passed. I wore those tapes out. Always a damn good movie!!! And God bless my Grandmother!!!,
Really shows how despite the issues at hand. There is a respect for each other after both sides fought a literal war against one another. Men respect another man who puts it all on the line 🤷
The Feldgendarmerie's uniform looks badass, sometime about the way he says his lines comes of like "Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young." Like the guy must've been everywhere and really seen a lot.
@@300thNPC When combat units moved forward out of a region, the role would formally end as control was then transferred to occupation authorities under the control of the Nazi Party and SS.
I cried when this scene happened. My grandfather served and was overseas for 4 years. His service is a secret to our entire family and I’ve spent the last year trying to get his records and details from my country. They have stalled me. I will never forget him telling me 1 of 3 things about the war and it was exactly this . “France was the best, I liked it the most” when I was young I thought it was a joke because that’s where he may have been when the war ended. I’ll never know .
Germany has a disgusting way of ignoring the sacrifices made by those men. No matter what "Fuehrer" ruled them, but the single soldier rarely had the 1000 year Reich in mind when he tried to survive on the battlefield day by day. Every other country has proper records of their military, easily accessable for relatives and anyone interested in the war and history. Only Germany where this should be of particular inerest makes it super hard to trace back thepast of your own family during the war. And I havent even started about remembering the dead, of both wars, also ww1, which is mostly forgotten in german "Erinnerungskultur". 2024 they finally came up with a "veteran's day" which will be celebrated in June or so. Since 1918, they didnt care a flying fuck about the dead and suffering survivers. Only with the Ukraine show, suddenly, they start boosting the image of the military. Probably to make sure to have enough men to send to the meatgrinder again, once this shit conventiently runs out of hand...
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 German have lot of reason for this: So the first reason is very detailled card for ALL peoples, lot of time the sexual preference of people is write, opinion of Neighbors, diseases, the past of familypolitical opinion so maybe you have lot of surprise in this. The second reason is obvious: Warcrime, you really want what is the warcrime of your greatfather? The German Army commit more Warcrime in ww1 in Belgium and France of WW2 so...
Not trying to come off as a German fan boy, the truth is I’d be more than thrilled to have met an infantryman from the Big Red 1 or the 101st Airborne. But let’s just acknowledge how cool that German soldiers character is. Without deep diving into what sort of person that he may be outside of the conflict, that dude is a spitting imagine of Prussian military culture. And with his age, he would have been some of the last of the old guard. Would be insanely cool to sit down and have lunch with a warrior like that.
Read more soldier memoirs and you'll find most emigrated to US ( the ones that left germany ). Educate yourself instead of repeating social media nonsense.
Webster would write a book titled, "Parachute Infantry" about his experiences in the military as well a book about sharks. In 1961 he would go out alone in his sailboat and never return. It is presumed he was lost at sea.
It always amazes me who all had roles in this series. Tom Hardy, Jimmy Fallon, Donnie Wahlberg, the guy from Office Space, Michael Fassbender, Simon Pegg, Dominic Cooper, James McAvoy… and probably others
@@TheJuris1973 Yep. Played the part of Private James W Miller. He was the guy who was being bullied for having the Presidential Unit Citation even though he didn’t jump into Normandy.
This scene alone helps underpin why brother wars are always tragic things. I always respected the professional German soldier and it's sad that recognizing the humanity within "the enemy" is a taboo today. I'm glad this scene was kept in the show.
the German soldier is played by a German actor named Dirk Galuba. the same actor can be found in the German TV series "stürm der liebe". here in Italy it is a TV series that is very popular. Btw Galuba it’s a great actor.
Same as the Russians - trying to survive. All jokes aside, he is military police. So his job was to tard wrangle SS units and wannabe NSDP party member Wehrmacht units from doing naughty things all while getting shot at by the locals.
It's definitely my favorite scene in Band of brothers. The Feldgendarmerie like most of the German army had to continue to help with maintaining order and peace after the war.
@@edgarobregon3723 i mean the predecessor of the mg 42 is the mg 15 a aircraft machine gun which was water cooled then it got replaced by the mg 131 (electronically fired) mg 42 had a the ability to change its barrel mg 34 had speed holes cut out which proves to be helpful for removing heat it didn't heat that much compered to the mg 42 due to the lower fire rate
Between this and Star Trek Nemesis, this is why I didn’t believe it at first when someone told me he played Bane. A stiff wind would’ve blown him away back then.
He’s wearing the Feldgendarmerie ( field police) gorget. I’m sure he was a hard ass when active, they called them chain dogs. They hunted partisans too.
This is a series that’s so good. I’ve seen it more than once and I don’t watch something I’ve already seen. It has something to do with my already know what’s going to happen. But for some reason, I watch this about a month and a half ago. Again it was that good!
@MrTsiolkovsky Indeed. I was referring to the war in Europe and the western allies. When I was stationed in Germany, I ran into a couple of old timers who fought in WW2. Every one of them are glad the western allies won. They didn't want anything to do with the Russians.
@michaelnaretto3409 just look at what they did to east germany: the Russians only had a few decades with them, but today, 20yrs later, it still hasnt recovered. I'm convinced Russian occupation is the sole reason for why Eastern Europe is so poor.
@@Schimml0rdeastern europe living over 30 years without soviets, maybe stop blame others and think that they shouls do something themselves. Eastern europe hade many factories ane manufactures after exiting soviets and after joining europe union where are they? Left in dust
@@michaelnaretto3409oh how nice, germans didnt want to have anything with russians....after they killed over 27 millions of people ane 2/3 of them was civils
@@sergtrufanov5565 Lmao, USSR fanboy detected. Modern russia might be not a bad overlord, but by god USSR was a piece of shit. No way hosè is the USSR not a MAJOR part of why eastern europe is so poo.
@@DVXDemetrivs Slavery tends to be frowned upon by civilized people. That you don't seem to have a problem with it says more about you than about anything and anyone else.
In general, soldiers prefer the company of other soldiers. It takes a soldier to know what a soldier goes through in a war. Simply put, this German First Sergeant and the Young Tom Hardy have far more in common than the private would have with the folks back home. Given the commonality of Western European, specifically German, culture and American culture, no surprise they have more in common than one might think. To this day, in my experience in working with NATO liaison officers, the Brits and the Germans are the most fun. Much in common culturally. Back in 1945-1948 the Germans and Americans of course got along, at least most of the German enlisted soldiers preferred the Americans. Like today, American pop culture had been popular in Germany despite Goebbels' efforts. But, the German officer caste and especially the German general officers preferred the British because of their adherence to aristocratic conventions. The British were much more respectful to rank than the Americans. The French though had a bone to pick with any German, and one cannot blame them. Moreover, the British political leadership was not as naive as the Americans when it came to the inevitable rehabilitation of West Germany as a bulwark against the Soviets. The British more or less ceased trying to prosecute German senior officers of the likes of von Rundstedt, Manstein et al. by 1948. The British were pragmatic and had far more experience with the byzantine nature of European power politics. The Americans were much more zealous. Of course, from a stand-point of justice, the Americans were correct to prosecute those who committed clear-cut war crimes, but from a Realpolitik perspective, the Americans put too much faith in Soviet intentions and spent a lot of time prosecuting guys who were always going to get off in the name of reconciliation with Germany.
It's wild people really don't understand how the world is setup. Countries are just fronts between the rothschilds and their plans. The soviets were controlled since the bolsheviks. UK since the 1600s. The US since it was a publicly traded colonial corporation, France since the revolution, and most if western Europe by this time. Hitler was also one of them. The entire point of WW2 was to get the Haavara agreement going. Something I'd bet you've never even heard of. The world isn't what you think it is. The "cold war" was mostly an excuse to allow the US to overthrow 40 countries that refused to play ball. Today there is a Rothschild Central Bank in nearly every country except a few irrelevant tiny island countries, and ones with bloody Civil wars for decades like Yemen and Syria. Libya was on that list, Iraq was in that list. Afghanistan was on that list. People really need to learn outside what the demonstrated liars in government tell them
@@claremontcowboy7409 What? He simply stated that a lot of due prosecutions were quietly let go because of simple political pragmatism. Which is true. Not a mention of the clean Wehrmacht myth.
I’m convinced that the extent of the French resistance has been greatly exaggerated as the Germans seem to have enjoyed the place and felt safe enough to go about as tourists. Starting with Poland the German experience gets dangerous and progressively more hazardous the further east they went. Partisans and privations were a constant source of stress and misery. After the war the French were vindictive but the Brits & US were willing to be amicable to the Germans. The Soviets and the twice abused nations between however kept a very intense hatred going for decades in eastern Germany and to the Germans prisoners.
The French convienently forget that the century before, _All_ of their transgressions were convienently forgiven and forgotten and all of their terrotory returned after all of the heartache they had wrought across 2 generations
Well German behavior towards non-Slavic countries was way way better than towards us. I think this is what lost them the war. When you know enemy wants to kill you all and delete your race, you do not surrender. If France fought with such determination the war could have ended in 1939. But they knew they will be quite well even if they surrender.
@@idealicfooland that the French held a pretty brutal occupation of the Ruhr in the 20s Most of Germany's legitimate grievances get handwaved off as propaganda in history classes
@@bobmcbob49yeah the public school system lies about Germany all the time. Look at the Institute Of Sexology and Nazi book burnings. The only proof of Nazi book burnings is when they burned books while the Institute Of Sexology was destroyed
Considering that up to 85% of all Americans of European descent can claim at least some German ancestry, this scene didn't surprise me at all. Also, England is largely comprised of 2 nomadic Germanic tribes, the Angles and the Saxons (hence the English term, Anglo-Saxon), we are all of us not as different as we may think we are. Im a 6th generation Texan, but my ancestors came from Saxony. Even King Charles and the English Royal family's REAL name is Saxe-Coberg-Gotha. It doesn't get much more Germanic than that.
That’s another interesting thing, thousands of ethnicities in Europe can trace themselves back to Germanic tribes. Most of the people picture here are likely cousins in a sense.
@robertclark1669 exactly. The character played by Tom Hardy in this scene is named Janovek. That's Polish. There's been plenty of inter-breeding between Germans and Poles over the centuries. These guys could have been related.
The Invasions of :Britan over the centuries was thought to have wiped out the celtic and Briton DNA of the the "English" But recent DNA tests have shown that they had hardly any impact on the population. who still maintain a vast majority of Celtic/Briton DNA. So no. The Brits Not even the English are "German"
@wufongtanwufong5579 that's incorrect. Most of the Celtic DNA in Britain is found between the Irish/Scots (Picts) & Welsh. Obviously, some in England carry Celtic DNA to some extent but England has been conquered and resettled by foreign powers so many times throughout history that there is a ton of DNA in Englanders that is not 'English', per se.
Germanic peoples, throughout history, have been renowned as very large, fierce fighters. If you go all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, you have stories recorded by men like Tacitus and even Julius Caesar describing how large, tall and fierce these northern tribes were. To the average Roman soldier, who stood 5'5", these barbarians must have been terrifying.
Even crazier is if you look online ,like eBay and etc ...alot of n@zi stuff is sold straight ukraine .. jewelry ,helmets ...tank pieces...etc not saying it in a bad way but i was just surprised ...what ever got me more is a lot of this stuff became more available when the invasion of ukraine by russia for denazification ...which
@@Filmwizzclips Ikr. The Occupation Forces needed Germans who spoke English and French more than ever. Also the Germans who are cooperating with the Allies knew as well they needed them to help rebuild back their Country.
Uh yeah… it won’t. Even if you’re pro-Russia a fucking Nazi saying your country was undesirable is a good thing. Wtf that would upset no one. What a stupid poorly thought out comment
Keep in mind that the Soviet Union (Russia) occupied and starved Ukraine in 1930s, so ukrainians then saw liberators in the Reich, later they realized that neither of these two weren’t crap and some of Ukrainian ppl were fighting on two fronts.
@@VEAFY almost like they would keep Ukrainian people in horrid conditions to better control them, leave them starving, weak, uneducated, sooner or later they’ll all submit (whatever’s left of them) so all these traumatised, uneducated, unemployed suddenly see European drive in, see them kick out the reds who invaded their country 2 during the interwar period, many are clearly gonna pick a side
My favorite Tom Hardy roles are the ones where I didn't even notice it was him. Black Hawk Down, Batman Dark Knight Rises, Band of Brothers, stuff like that. Granted I never knew who he was for years and I'm actually not a huge fan of his no disrespect.
In reality Eisenhower had surrendered German soldiers herded into open farmland surrounded by barbed wire where one million men died from starvation and exposure.
@@LolGamer5 yeah bad times all over. USSR and Eastern Europe suffered the worst but Germany was bombed out with very little intact machinery towards the end of the war, and once its slave laborers were liberated and allowed to return to Eastern Europe it lost a huge portion of its workforce and Germany no longer had the means to feed itself.
@@greenbrickbox3392 Well we are, im gonna over exagerate, a "farmland superpower" and have a fuck ton of land for cattle or farms, but yeah our industry got bombed to shit. We really needed help there. (and ofc food too until we could poperly operate our farms again)
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Tom Hardy had more lines than I thought.
Didnt realise it was him
gawd he was young
He also has a quite intimate scene
damnn band of brother black hawk down. Hardy needs to get into the next good war movie made
Same for Michael Fassbender
I only remember him on training camp but he got more screen time after
Imagine surviving two World Wars and still being well adjusted enough to be on guard duty and have casual conversations. That dude is an absolute unit.
I could be wildly off base, but I believe the neck piece the German has indicates Military Police......that could explain why he seems so well adjusted
@@mitchellhorn1102you are correct. They were hated by the whermacht
Yes, he is military police, or Feldjäger as it is called in German. They were the ones to wear that neck piece, which is called Ringkragen.
@@mitchellhorn1102you are correct, but who knows what he was in WWI, he’s probably an MP because he’s older now.
Big issue with modern soldiers is that they don't get time to talk and think about what they experienced with their other comrades. WWII had a fairly good adjustment rate given the scope of the war, it's largely believed that them staying for 3-8 weeks in Europe after the war helped them process what they did, who they met etc
“My second war” took me a long time to realize how many vets from WW1 went into WW2 hoping it would finally be to one to end them all.
Otto Frank, Ann Frank's father, served in WW1, he was a decorated German officer.
There was only 31 years from the beginning of WW1 to the end of WW2 (1914-1945) so a lot of soldiers who went onto WW1 at a young age would have only been in their 40s during WW2. The Germans in particular used a lot of WW1 vets because of limitations placed on them by the Versailles Treaty. After WW1 they could only maintain a relatively small 100,000 man army and couldn't maintain a reserve force so when WW2 began they had a severe trained manpower shortage. That 100,000 men didn't go far when they suddenly started expanding the army into the millions and they couldn't train soldiers fast enough so they turned to their WW1 vets for leadership and experience. WW1 vets made up a significant part of their officers and NCOs. There is the trope of Germany sending boys and old men into combat near the end of the war. That did get more extreme as the war went on, but it didn't suddenly happen near the end; Germany was beginning that process much earlier.
@@modelcitizen72 How rather comical that a soldier who fought so hard for his country and even earned a high rank, would later be treated like a mangey dog by his country and people he risked his life and sanity for, all because he was born in the wrong religion.
very few, the gap is so big
@@FlourescentPotato the war ended in 18, the second began in 39, that's a 21 year diff, if a soldier was 18 in 1914 he would be 22 by 1918 and 43 by 1939, really doesn't seem that much of a stretch.
I just love stories where two mortal enemies casually hang out
Yes me too ,it's not their fault they had no choice but to answer the call ,a lot of Germans I knew online were cool guys
Look up the Battle of Castle Ittar
@@Glitchfactioni will
At the end of the day, they're still people
The German was an MP and as it was his second war he was probably home defense, garrison, pow guard etc
My grandfather liked the German Soldiers when the war was over. He admired their work ethic and efficiency. One particular story involved offloading a train full of deactivated ordinance and military supplies in Ansbach and nobody knew how to operate the crane. One of the German POWs stuck his hand out and said "I never used one, but I can give it a try" he said it took that kid not 20 minutes to figure out how to operate the crane and get things moving.
He had other stories such as getting in a friendly wrestling match with a POW, while he was guarding them by himself, even leaving his weapon unsecured (probably not a good idea) and also them convincing him to demonstrate his marksmanship skills which led up to him shooting a spent cartridge from his M1 Garand at 70m or so (also not a good idea) and all the POWs cheering him on. To him, German Soldiers after the war were like his friends, I guess everyone was just glad it was over.
"We fought the wrong enemy" - General Patton 1945
They never should have been fighting each other in the first place, the Germans were trying to restore their homeland from being ruined by the same Bolsheviks who ruined Russia.
@@JIPS1993 Fascist rat
@@JIPS1993 So you agree with Nazi anti-slavic, anti-semite, and racist ideas? You support the extermination or enslavement or germanization of Slavs? If he asked Russians or Ukrainians their opinion would have not been so good about the Germans. Thank god Patton was discharged when he stopped being useful.
Yep, that work ethic and efficiency was definitely put to good use. Ya'know, in that whole offensive war of annihilation enabling industrial-scale genocide thing.
The actor that played the old german still acts by the way.
He's in a tv series called Sturm Der Liebe.
That's actually pretty interesting to know. Thanks!
Lemmen viemää on finnish television. Thanks I hate it.
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I know 😄
They still make that TV show ?
@@Romif_SK (sigh) Yes, sadly they do.
Mom watches it every evening.
From BoB book: One night Sgt. Robert Marsh was driving Pvt. John Janovec back from a roadblock by a side road. Janovec was leaning on the unreliable door of a German truck. They hit a log. He lost his balance, fell, and hit his head on the pavement. Marsh rushed him to the regimental aid station in Zell am See, but he died on the way of a fractured skull.
Captain Speirs gathered up his few personal possessions, a watch, his wings, his wallet, and his parachute scarf, and mailed them to Janovec’s parents. “He had come a long way,” Webster wrote. “He had jumped in Holland and fought in Bastogne. He hated the army, and now, when the war is over and the golden prospect of home was in sight, he had died.”
Because of his appearance in tv series only after Bastogne, I thought he joined E company later on as replenishment.
I visited Zell am See in Salzburg yesterday, because I wanted to be outside of the capital for a while... never knew that story.
He got too comfortable
@@raulduke3237wtf? He fucking leaned on a door and the driver hit a log. He didn’t sleep when pulling security, he didn’t get too lax. Think before you type, it was a freak accident- have more respect and less assertions about something you have no clue about.
@@raulduke3237 attributing a legitimate accident to the person harmed is absolutely wild lmao. Like come on dude.
Imagine you tripped because someone fell infront of you with zero time to react and you broke your arm. The paramedics come and ask what happened so you tell them. They just look at you and say "damn dude, you got to comfortable". Ridiculous, right?
Accidents out of our control happen everyday. It has nothing to do with "being too comfortable".
That Feldgendarmerie had a very interesting life.
Sounded like he had a lot of stories.
Good, bad and worst stories.
Kettenhund
Feldgendarmeries were very poorly regarded among their own because they saw a deserter or a malingerer everywhere, often times when thats not the case.
That was my favorite character in the entire series nj. I was sad when I saw him die in the show. And I'm Russian, we hated Nazis
Фельджандармерия это каратели. Большинство его историй будет о расстрелах и сожжении деревень
@@KOTYAR0наверное, из-за ненависти русских к нацистам каждый раз в день рождения Гитлера я выходил из школы через черный ход))
I love that this TV series also continued telling the story's after the war officially ended. It's something that you don't see in war movies/series in general.
True, I remember thinking that I hadn't really heard just how many of the guys didn't really come back home until '46
that immediate post war era (like the next year or two) is very interesting but it doesn't get talked about/wrote about/shown very much.
It was the end of Tom Hardy's war too. A few seconds later he was killed in an accident.
Tom Hardy good guy in real life ,very respectable persons talks to anybody which is a godly trait
@@grantdeancommons5390 also, very underrated Actor.
@@grantdeancommons5390lives like 5 mins away from my gfs village, trippy shit
He was actually killed by Batman
@@jayr3381 Catwoman actually. She shot him with the rockets on the batbike
What I found interesting about this show is the people who played major roles didn't get much of a career bump. But so many who played minor and bit parts went on to do major roles.
Damian Lewis has done pretty well.
Well largely the ones that got the major roles were already established and the ones that had the bit parts were relatively unknown. I mean Matt Daman wasen't yet super famous when he got Saving Private Ryan but he sill had Good Will Hunting and Courage Under Fire under his belt
Are you joking? Do you remember the furore when Goood Will Hunting won the Oscars? Matt Damon was a Hollywood a-list after writing and starring in that film. That's the reason he was chosen for Saving Private Ryan. @RogueDragon05
@@RogueDragon05 Damian Lewis had done some British television before Band of Brothers but wasn't exactly a household name. Of the actors in minor roles, Jamie Bamber had about the same experience. He's well known for Battlestar Galactica but not a big name otherwise. Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy were just starting out: Bob was their second or third credit and probably didn't have much to do with their later success.
@@RedAndYellacuddlyFella Damon met Spielberg through Williams while doing Hunting, Spielberg was aware of him and actually wanted him specifically after seeing him in Courage Under Fire but didn't peruse him cause he thought he was too scrawny (since he was playing a heroin addict) but seeing him looking normal he shooed him into the part of Ryan, thats Matt Damans personal version of it. That all happened while Hunting was being filmed and Ryan would be released less then a year later waaayyy to early for Hunting's critical acclaim to have played a factor. Regardless while Hunting may have been his break out role that dosen't inherently mean he's automaticly a major star, that comes in the years and roles after.
Favourite German character in Band of Brothers. Especially loved it when he casually says "I'm going home now."
Yeah, he's so fucking lucky not to be in "undesirable" Eastern Europe at that time
My grandfather was in a German Artillery unit in WW2. Somehow he actually never saw combat, was in Denmark for years then moved to the Western Front. The infantry guys captured some Americans, left them with him(pretty much just smoked cigs and hung out with the 'enemy'). Then they got left behind by accident when their unit was retreating and were captured by Americans. He immigrated to the US some time after the war
lol luckiest World War II German soldier ever.
Bcp de nazis ont émigrés en Amérique du Nord et Sud
Et en France 1 mois après la soit-disant libération des yankee nos grands parents et toute cette génération nous ont tous dit sans exception qu'ils regrettais t l'occupation allemande.
En effet le yankee volait violait buvait et toute autre sortes de choses qu'il se permettait de faire....(la même chose en Australie pendant le repos des GI quand ils se battaient vs l'empire du Japon)
Bcp furent passé par les armes des résistants français heureusement 6
The American PoWs were probably like "these guys aren't that bad fellas, we owe them some smokes".
Same with my GF's Grandpa.
there's a reason Hitler called occupied Denmark:
Die Sahnefront ~ the whipped cream front.
Denmark was posibly the most peaceful European country during the war. Your grandfather was very lucky to be stationed here.
The Feldgendarmerie was the last German unit to be disarmed after the war
Yep, they were disbanded in June 1946, more than a year after the war's end
The reason for that is that they were the military police of the German army. The Germany army soldiers hated them because towards the end, they hunted down deserters and shot them on the spot. Probably the other reason they where disarmed last.
@@EndingSimple the reason why they disbanded last was because they were tasked by the allied occupation government to help the demobilization of millions of German POWs after the war.
@@EndingSimpleShould've let nature take its course. Germany shouls be glad the Russians took a quarter of it. Forced the Allies to keep them alive.
@@JoshSweetvalewhat?
“I think I was in every country” lmao yeah I think so too bro 😂
He probably meant every country the nazis invaded, though that would still be a stretch. 😅
The helmet with the goggles on top is fucking SHARP.
That look is why I wear the War Pig hat in TF2
even though the nazi were evil their uniforms were really sharp
German MP.
@@ddub88Hugo Boss baby !!! 😂
@ddub88 bad ,maybe? Evil? According to who? An evil person?
Imagine fighting in TWO world wars? Casually smoking with someone you were fighting just months prior.
military police probably didn't do much fighting.
@@kallelaur1762 im not so sure. The modern day? Yeah definitely not much fighting, but german military personnel during WWII? Yeah i dont know, they literally resorted to child soldiers due to the lack of any military personnel near the end. Maybe not a lot of fighting but im sure he did some fighting
@@ahh_yes_mr_bax come to think of it, yes. if some German unit had to get out of a pocket, it would've been an "all hands on deck"-type of a situation.
Check Adrian Carton de Wiart
That madlad went through 4 wars, Second Anglo-Boer war, WW1, Polish-Soviet war and WW2
Not only he lived until 1963 but he stopped going to wars because he got too old, not because he got enough or something like that
@@ahh_yes_mr_baxThe only times when military police fought is when they were commanding penal battalions, most of them were just doing policing in backline killing deserters so more people would fight
"Russia is not desirable.." 😂😂 you do not say. 😂
Classic German understatement 😂
@@lepiss9683 Russia's always been the ass end of the world. Even Russians admit it. The few honest ones, at least.
An he said Ukraine is okay 😂😂😂 come on propaganda call them Soviet for Pete sake
@user-jg8ce9ue7q ? They were called Russians. And it's a historical fact the Russians were the most ruthless in the war. If you were German and had to choose, Russia would be the last place you'd want to go
@@rikk319I was born in Russia, but no longer live there. The saying is that you have to be from Russia to find the joy of living in Russia. The nature is incredible, the government is (and has always been) insane, the corruption is third-world, the people are the product of a thousand years of various types of oppression. Most of the food is great, but only if you grew up with it and it holds fond memories. We literally made jam out of pinecones, and I still find it delicious.
They're talking about ASR points, basically the point system that determined when you could go home, almost entirely determined by time spent at war. You needed 85. Problem with that system was that combat units and non-combat units acquired points the same way so combat units were less likely to make it to 85.
Tom Hardy had a nice safe ride in that Jeep and then the war was over for him
The war in Europe was already over for everybody - that's the saddest part
This was cool af. Just 2 soldiers having a casual conversation I love it.
Far out, i thought that was Till Lindemann for a sec there 🤣🤣
Bro mustve burnt down every country he was deployed in💀
I'M GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT IT WAS TILL😭😭
Till Lindemann's grandpa: "Du...Du hast.."
"Du hast...Du hast Feuer Frei!" @@ptgtdcr
sure lol, this dude is a giant !
Germans are so imposing, even when they're not fighting. Love this series.
Especially when the one you're talking to is at the end of his second world war
@@MrZega000impressive he survived 2 of them
A lot of that's just leftover war propaganda. In world war theysaid that they ate babies
They're actors.
@@mikeb.7068no shit
Could you imagine surviving ww1 and 2 and being on the losing side both times. Holy crap buy a lottery ticket.
Poor man retired and moved to Korea to get away from it all...
@@warlockborn1031then that didnt work out so he fled to vietnam…
@@daddy8884
lol!
@@daddy8884 And another war started so he went to Iraq..
ww1 was not a Prussian defeat. It was a Europe failure of cooperation which ended with league of nations with Italy & Japan being a founding member along others. Them two both dropped out and did other things along with post Prussia. So that guy really lost one war in my point of view
That's a big old German dude right there, after a couple wars under his belt, bet he knew how to fight. Good thing he's nice to you.
He’s a Kettenhund „chain dog“, they didn’t do any fighting and were intensely disliked by regular soldiers and officers.
@@jimzoidberg7953 Because they'd either bust your ass or straight up kill deserters on the spot lol
@@jimzoidberg7953I mean he probably did fight in the trenches in WW1 but WW2 I’m sure he did too especially when the allies were closing in into Berlin
He knew how not to fight, but to surrender at the right time, that's the only reason he's still alive
@@alexnord5756 Sure buddy, enjoy claiming things you weirdo
When two people are just talking a few days before they were mortal enemy's
It was never their choice to be mortal enemies, they were simply soldiers, doing what soldiers have to do. If you've ever been in a war or know someone who has, no one desires peace more than a soldier. I'm sure that both of these men were so relieved to see the end of it and get back to a normal, "boring" life.
@@giantgilamonster Ideally yeah. I've met a vet and the way he talks about war and his views on America/God, he for sure didn't want peace, he wanted to just kill the guys he thought deserved it. The dude advocates lynching to this day, no way he ever wanted peace.
I'm a combat veteran, and I never hated anyone (maybe in the moment, but never carried it with me) that I found myself on opposite sides of the sight with.
You wake up, lace up your boots, and do your job to the best of your ability. Making it back to your rack at some point in the future is a matter of training, balls, luck and God. The other guys were doing the same thing.
That's legit how war works lol. After it's over everyone just hangs as humans. Except the ones filled with hate.
Professional soldiering. Soldiers aren't or shouldn't be mindless killers.
There's something obvious that might not be obvious. The insignia around the German's neck is for the Feldgendarmerie, the military police. While it might just be a reasonable uniform choice for the character since they would be pulling this detail. The Fledgendarmerie units weren't liked, even by the regular army. They did... interesting things.
is there a military in the world where its members love the military police?
@@timmcnamara1325 Let's put it this way, this particular military police unit wasn't disliked because they were overzealous in enforcing speed limits on post.
@@Cmoth040 oh, my...
the references to where he had been expose that he had probably seen, if not been involved, in some heinous activities. and I am not talking about furries or anything like that.
@@timmcnamara1325
There were so called "Polizeieinheiten" (police units) in the eastern scene, the "Feldgendarmerie" (Military police) was another thing ...
Nobody likes MPs, regardless of the nationality. But the Feldjagers were worse than the Feldgendarmerie....
Took me a moment to realize this is after the fighting and they’re working on sending everyone home
Did you think they were just taking a break from the war?
I love when we get to hear about these moments where two people on opposite sides of a brutal war are able to come together and just hang out, have a chat, be friendly and respect each other. It shows that they knew they weren’t enemies, they were just on different teams
My Grandmother recorded Band of Brothers on vhs from the History channel a couple years before she passed. I wore those tapes out. Always a damn good movie!!! And God bless my Grandmother!!!,
Really shows how despite the issues at hand. There is a respect for each other after both sides fought a literal war against one another. Men respect another man who puts it all on the line 🤷
The Feldgendarmerie's uniform looks badass, sometime about the way he says his lines comes of like "Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young."
Like the guy must've been everywhere and really seen a lot.
Especially when those old men served in a branch that regularly committed war crimes and murdered civilians for sport
I mean he did say second war, and looking at him I wouldn't be surprised if he is from WW1
He was a Felgendarmerie so he was primarily away from the frontline and in charge of persecuting civillians in occupied territories.
@@300thNPC When combat units moved forward out of a region, the role would formally end as control was then transferred to occupation authorities under the control of the Nazi Party and SS.
@@FragLord Yes. Read the paragraphs after that.
The German probably fought in the trenches of the first then the second war too? One hell of life
I cried when this scene happened. My grandfather served and was overseas for 4 years. His service is a secret to our entire family and I’ve spent the last year trying to get his records and details from my country. They have stalled me. I will never forget him telling me 1 of 3 things about the war and it was exactly this . “France was the best, I liked it the most” when I was young I thought it was a joke because that’s where he may have been when the war ended. I’ll never know .
Germany has a disgusting way of ignoring the sacrifices made by those men. No matter what "Fuehrer" ruled them, but the single soldier rarely had the 1000 year Reich in mind when he tried to survive on the battlefield day by day. Every other country has proper records of their military, easily accessable for relatives and anyone interested in the war and history. Only Germany where this should be of particular inerest makes it super hard to trace back thepast of your own family during the war. And I havent even started about remembering the dead, of both wars, also ww1, which is mostly forgotten in german "Erinnerungskultur". 2024 they finally came up with a "veteran's day" which will be celebrated in June or so. Since 1918, they didnt care a flying fuck about the dead and suffering survivers. Only with the Ukraine show, suddenly, they start boosting the image of the military. Probably to make sure to have enough men to send to the meatgrinder again, once this shit conventiently runs out of hand...
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 German have lot of reason for this: So the first reason is very detailled card for ALL peoples, lot of time the sexual preference of people is write, opinion of Neighbors, diseases, the past of familypolitical opinion so maybe you have lot of surprise in this. The second reason is obvious: Warcrime, you really want what is the warcrime of your greatfather? The German Army commit more Warcrime in ww1 in Belgium and France of WW2 so...
Not trying to come off as a German fan boy, the truth is I’d be more than thrilled to have met an infantryman from the Big Red 1 or the 101st Airborne. But let’s just acknowledge how cool that German soldiers character is. Without deep diving into what sort of person that he may be outside of the conflict, that dude is a spitting imagine of Prussian military culture. And with his age, he would have been some of the last of the old guard. Would be insanely cool to sit down and have lunch with a warrior like that.
Great to see Till Lindemann in a major acting role!!
Little did he know, Argentina would be his next destination.
Read more soldier memoirs and you'll find most emigrated to US ( the ones that left germany ).
Educate yourself instead of repeating social media nonsense.
@@fernandoi3389it's a joke.
@@damilercf thanks for that reply... i wasn't sure if you were joking or not...
Ve don't know vat ju mean. Vhere is zis Agerentino? Did I say zat right? Never heard of zis plaze....
@@fernandoi3389Bruh there are still isolated German colonies in Argentina to this day. This was a thing long before social media.
The actor who portrayed Webster did a hell of a job. Simply brilliant!
I totally forgot young ass Tom hardy was in BoB. Best WW2 show hands down. Amazing show.
So many young actors here that went on to do great things.
Webster would write a book titled, "Parachute Infantry" about his experiences in the military as well a book about sharks. In 1961 he would go out alone in his sailboat and never return. It is presumed he was lost at sea.
I remember that in the character epilogues at the end of the last episode
I read about this. They found his boat adrift and the rudder as well as Webster missing.
It always amazes me who all had roles in this series. Tom Hardy, Jimmy Fallon, Donnie Wahlberg, the guy from Office Space, Michael Fassbender, Simon Pegg, Dominic Cooper, James McAvoy… and probably others
Watched again and saw a young Andrew Scott as well….
Macavoy was in BOB?
@@TheJuris1973 Yep. Played the part of Private James W Miller.
He was the guy who was being bullied for having the Presidential Unit Citation even though he didn’t jump into Normandy.
@@Pub2k4 oh wow thanks! i didnt recognise him,. if i remember correctly he was getting crap from Muck/Penkala?
@@TheJuris1973 I’m not sure. But I do remember Bull saying “Sh*t… you didn’t fight in Normandy neither…”
Damn, this show had everyone
Looks like the dude from Rammstein.
Stahlhelm with the goggles looks so freaking cool
Show has so many good actors
This scene alone helps underpin why brother wars are always tragic things. I always respected the professional German soldier and it's sad that recognizing the humanity within "the enemy" is a taboo today.
I'm glad this scene was kept in the show.
I love that at our core we are people who just want to get our work done,eat, and be happy. It was a nice talk.
He returned home, customized a Ford Falcon GT for the desert wasteland and he would later be known as Mad Max
After breaking Batman's back of course...
I love this show, have since it came out when I was a kid. Shit never gets old, it's so good
"We have defeated the wrong enemy" - Patton
Bane's grandfather would have been so ashamed of him....
"Victory has defeated you..."
the German soldier is played by a German actor named Dirk Galuba.
the same actor can be found in the German TV series "stürm der liebe".
here in Italy it is a TV series that is very popular. Btw Galuba it’s a great actor.
Do NOT ask fritz what he was doing in Russia 🤫
Same as the Russians - trying to survive.
All jokes aside, he is military police. So his job was to tard wrangle SS units and wannabe NSDP party member Wehrmacht units from doing naughty things all while getting shot at by the locals.
Dont ask Boris what he did in Bavaria either
@arturovazquez7653 yeah you can because all he did was give fritz what he deserved
@@ozymandias35 fritz? Yeah good. Pack watch
@@powerflumi lol hilarious that you think THOSE MP's operated as MP's should
Love the gorget. Nice historical touch.
I always thought the way the camera panned on Websters face after they drive off in the jeep was unnecessarily long and hilarious lmao.
It's definitely my favorite scene in Band of brothers. The Feldgendarmerie like most of the German army had to continue to help with maintaining order and peace after the war.
"Kids these days with their "Garands" and their "MG-42s"".
back in my day we water cooled our mgs... i tell you these new generation kids are lazy
in the the old days, we operated artillery and ran over no man's land like real men, unlike these kids and "tanks"
@@edgarobregon3723 i mean the predecessor of the mg 42 is the mg 15 a aircraft machine gun which was water cooled then it got replaced by the mg 131 (electronically fired) mg 42 had a the ability to change its barrel mg 34 had speed holes cut out which proves to be helpful for removing heat it didn't heat that much compered to the mg 42 due to the lower fire rate
Between this and Star Trek Nemesis, this is why I didn’t believe it at first when someone told me he played Bane. A stiff wind would’ve blown him away back then.
Tom hardy. Never realized how great of actor he was until he got bigger roles.
"We defeated the wrong enemy" said the General.
one general out of many who hated the germans. and he only stated that because of the looming threat of the soviet union
He’s wearing the Feldgendarmerie ( field police) gorget. I’m sure he was a hard ass when active, they called them chain dogs. They hunted partisans too.
“Ah, you think France is your ally. You merely adopted France, I was born in it, molded by it….”
Imagine fighting in 2 wars your country lost 💀
Germans, even in field uniforms, outclassed the Allied ones. Their uniforms are neatly designed!
Didn't expect Herr Saalfeld from Sturm der Liebe to show up here
Looks like Till Lindeman 😂👍🏻
At the end we are all human
No more brother wars
Just rewatched this series. Very well done.
This is a series that’s so good. I’ve seen it more than once and I don’t watch something I’ve already seen. It has something to do with my already know what’s going to happen. But for some reason, I watch this about a month and a half ago. Again it was that good!
I don't think the average combat soldier hated the enemy. They just wanted it to be over and go home.
@MrTsiolkovsky Indeed. I was referring to the war in Europe and the western allies. When I was stationed in Germany, I ran into a couple of old timers who fought in WW2. Every one of them are glad the western allies won. They didn't want anything to do with the Russians.
@michaelnaretto3409 just look at what they did to east germany: the Russians only had a few decades with them, but today, 20yrs later, it still hasnt recovered.
I'm convinced Russian occupation is the sole reason for why Eastern Europe is so poor.
@@Schimml0rdeastern europe living over 30 years without soviets, maybe stop blame others and think that they shouls do something themselves. Eastern europe hade many factories ane manufactures after exiting soviets and after joining europe union where are they? Left in dust
@@michaelnaretto3409oh how nice, germans didnt want to have anything with russians....after they killed over 27 millions of people ane 2/3 of them was civils
@@sergtrufanov5565 Lmao, USSR fanboy detected. Modern russia might be not a bad overlord, but by god USSR was a piece of shit. No way hosè is the USSR not a MAJOR part of why eastern europe is so poo.
Little known fact, German POWs were held long after war, in the US, the Uk, and ten years in Russia as laborers.
Packwatch
My German teacher told us in class that his father was a nazi, ended up a prisoner in russia, came home in 54
That's a funny way to spell "slaves", though
Fair. a huge number of cities and villages in the USSR were destroyed, and for some reason the world condemns using the labor of destroyers...
@@DVXDemetrivs Slavery tends to be frowned upon by civilized people. That you don't seem to have a problem with it says more about you than about anything and anyone else.
In general, soldiers prefer the company of other soldiers. It takes a soldier to know what a soldier goes through in a war. Simply put, this German First Sergeant and the Young Tom Hardy have far more in common than the private would have with the folks back home. Given the commonality of Western European, specifically German, culture and American culture, no surprise they have more in common than one might think. To this day, in my experience in working with NATO liaison officers, the Brits and the Germans are the most fun. Much in common culturally.
Back in 1945-1948 the Germans and Americans of course got along, at least most of the German enlisted soldiers preferred the Americans. Like today, American pop culture had been popular in Germany despite Goebbels' efforts. But, the German officer caste and especially the German general officers preferred the British because of their adherence to aristocratic conventions. The British were much more respectful to rank than the Americans. The French though had a bone to pick with any German, and one cannot blame them.
Moreover, the British political leadership was not as naive as the Americans when it came to the inevitable rehabilitation of West Germany as a bulwark against the Soviets. The British more or less ceased trying to prosecute German senior officers of the likes of von Rundstedt, Manstein et al. by 1948. The British were pragmatic and had far more experience with the byzantine nature of European power politics. The Americans were much more zealous. Of course, from a stand-point of justice, the Americans were correct to prosecute those who committed clear-cut war crimes, but from a Realpolitik perspective, the Americans put too much faith in Soviet intentions and spent a lot of time prosecuting guys who were always going to get off in the name of reconciliation with Germany.
It's wild people really don't understand how the world is setup. Countries are just fronts between the rothschilds and their plans. The soviets were controlled since the bolsheviks. UK since the 1600s. The US since it was a publicly traded colonial corporation, France since the revolution, and most if western Europe by this time. Hitler was also one of them. The entire point of WW2 was to get the Haavara agreement going. Something I'd bet you've never even heard of.
The world isn't what you think it is. The "cold war" was mostly an excuse to allow the US to overthrow 40 countries that refused to play ball. Today there is a Rothschild Central Bank in nearly every country except a few irrelevant tiny island countries, and ones with bloody Civil wars for decades like Yemen and Syria. Libya was on that list, Iraq was in that list. Afghanistan was on that list.
People really need to learn outside what the demonstrated liars in government tell them
No one cares about your bullshit opinion.
Clean Wehrmacht myth is strong in your common.
@@claremontcowboy7409 What? He simply stated that a lot of due prosecutions were quietly let go because of simple political pragmatism. Which is true. Not a mention of the clean Wehrmacht myth.
Operation Paper Clip. Americans went on a shopping spree on Nazi scientists, Professor Von Braun got the American astronauts walking on lunar soil.
Beste film Reihe . Guck ich immernoch gerne
Probly the best show to ever happen period.
I’m convinced that the extent of the French resistance has been greatly exaggerated as the Germans seem to have enjoyed the place and felt safe enough to go about as tourists.
Starting with Poland the German experience gets dangerous and progressively more hazardous the further east they went. Partisans and privations were a constant source of stress and misery.
After the war the French were vindictive but the Brits & US were willing to be amicable to the Germans. The Soviets and the twice abused nations between however kept a very intense hatred going for decades in eastern Germany and to the Germans prisoners.
The French convienently forget that the century before, _All_ of their transgressions were convienently forgiven and forgotten and all of their terrotory returned after all of the heartache they had wrought across 2 generations
The French population were not subjected to nearly as much rape under German occupation as they were under allied occupation. That's been noted.
Well German behavior towards non-Slavic countries was way way better than towards us. I think this is what lost them the war. When you know enemy wants to kill you all and delete your race, you do not surrender. If France fought with such determination the war could have ended in 1939. But they knew they will be quite well even if they surrender.
@@idealicfooland that the French held a pretty brutal occupation of the Ruhr in the 20s
Most of Germany's legitimate grievances get handwaved off as propaganda in history classes
@@bobmcbob49yeah the public school system lies about Germany all the time. Look at the Institute Of Sexology and Nazi book burnings. The only proof of Nazi book burnings is when they burned books while the Institute Of Sexology was destroyed
"Russia is not desirable" hahahaha
Considering that up to 85% of all Americans of European descent can claim at least some German ancestry, this scene didn't surprise me at all. Also, England is largely comprised of 2 nomadic Germanic tribes, the Angles and the Saxons (hence the English term, Anglo-Saxon), we are all of us not as different as we may think we are. Im a 6th generation Texan, but my ancestors came from Saxony. Even King Charles and the English Royal family's REAL name is Saxe-Coberg-Gotha. It doesn't get much more Germanic than that.
Don't start with royalty...almost every nation in Europe had at some point a monarch of german decend
That’s another interesting thing, thousands of ethnicities in Europe can trace themselves back to Germanic tribes. Most of the people picture here are likely cousins in a sense.
@robertclark1669 exactly. The character played by Tom Hardy in this scene is named Janovek. That's Polish. There's been plenty of inter-breeding between Germans and Poles over the centuries. These guys could have been related.
The Invasions of :Britan over the centuries was thought to have wiped out the celtic and Briton DNA of the the "English" But recent DNA tests have shown that they had hardly any impact on the population. who still maintain a vast majority of Celtic/Briton DNA. So no. The Brits Not even the English are "German"
@wufongtanwufong5579 that's incorrect. Most of the Celtic DNA in Britain is found between the Irish/Scots (Picts) & Welsh. Obviously, some in England carry Celtic DNA to some extent but England has been conquered and resettled by foreign powers so many times throughout history that there is a ton of DNA in Englanders that is not 'English', per se.
What happened next broke my heart n still does every time i watch this amazing series.
That thing hanging around his neck is a version of a Police badge.😂😂❤
"Not desirable...:
Herr Saalfeld als Kettenhund .
"Russia is not desirable"
Some things never change
@ludwig8383 Rather because it's a shithole to live in, if you don't live in Moscow or Saint Petersburg.
This series is so good.
That’s one big ass German
Germanic peoples, throughout history, have been renowned as very large, fierce fighters. If you go all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, you have stories recorded by men like Tacitus and even Julius Caesar describing how large, tall and fierce these northern tribes were. To the average Roman soldier, who stood 5'5", these barbarians must have been terrifying.
@@giantgilamonster Lmao then a mustache model came along and force conscripted them now I barely see any "german" looking person in germany :(
The people serving a government aren’t the enemy. The government itself is.
"Ukraine...it was okay."
Surpisingly accurate since the Ukrainians saw the Germans as liberators from the Soviets. Though the feeling wasnt mutual.
Even crazier is if you look online ,like eBay and etc ...alot of n@zi stuff is sold straight ukraine .. jewelry ,helmets ...tank pieces...etc not saying it in a bad way but i was just surprised ...what ever got me more is a lot of this stuff became more available when the invasion of ukraine by russia for denazification ...which
Wait a minute
wdym?
@@randomclipsmilitary9056 okay so I sent a comment and it seems like RUclips deleted it
They thought that until the Germans started exterminating them.
Tom Hardy looking like Steve Rogers 😅 to think he then played Bane is wild
Lovely human moment, these two could be chatting in a tavern about their travels.
Band of Brothers might have been the best show I've ever watched.
Tom Hardy so young!
He didn't like Russia because they had their ass beaten there
Webster actually wrote a book about his experiences in WWII, it's a very good read I highly recommend it.
Don't mess with Venom
Hes glad to be in american custody
He is not in custody.
@@Filmwizzclips Ikr. The Occupation Forces needed Germans who spoke English and French more than ever. Also the Germans who are cooperating with the Allies knew as well they needed them to help rebuild back their Country.
“Russia was not desirable, Ukraine was ok”
Damn I’m sure that statement from 2001 won’t make weirdos online upset
Uh yeah… it won’t. Even if you’re pro-Russia a fucking Nazi saying your country was undesirable is a good thing. Wtf that would upset no one. What a stupid poorly thought out comment
@thecl0ck30
Keep in mind that the Soviet Union (Russia) occupied and starved Ukraine in 1930s, so ukrainians then saw liberators in the Reich, later they realized that neither of these two weren’t crap and some of Ukrainian ppl were fighting on two fronts.
@@VEAFY almost like they would keep Ukrainian people in horrid conditions to better control them, leave them starving, weak, uneducated, sooner or later they’ll all submit (whatever’s left of them) so all these traumatised, uneducated, unemployed suddenly see European drive in, see them kick out the reds who invaded their country 2 during the interwar period, many are clearly gonna pick a side
My favorite Tom Hardy roles are the ones where I didn't even notice it was him. Black Hawk Down, Batman Dark Knight Rises, Band of Brothers, stuff like that. Granted I never knew who he was for years and I'm actually not a huge fan of his no disrespect.
It's very well known German Actor Dirk Galuba wich played the German MP (Feldgendarmerie) Soldier. Good Cast 👍.
I have seen Band Of Brothers a good few times, yet this is my first time noticing Tom!
In reality Eisenhower had surrendered German soldiers herded into open farmland surrounded by barbed wire where one million men died from starvation and exposure.
It was thousands that died among 8 million captured German military, not millions. It was poorly run camps for several months, not Nazi deathcamps
@@greenbrickbox3392 Well OP never compared them , but yeah I see how he could mean it. Never knew that, rip my forefathers. That must have sucked
@@LolGamer5 yeah bad times all over. USSR and Eastern Europe suffered the worst but Germany was bombed out with very little intact machinery towards the end of the war, and once its slave laborers were liberated and allowed to return to Eastern Europe it lost a huge portion of its workforce and Germany no longer had the means to feed itself.
@@greenbrickbox3392 Well we are, im gonna over exagerate, a "farmland superpower" and have a fuck ton of land for cattle or farms, but yeah our industry got bombed to shit. We really needed help there.
(and ofc food too until we could poperly operate our farms again)