HBO Band of Brothers: German General's speech
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2010
- This is the speech that is given by a German General to his men after surrendering to the Americans. This is directly cut from the episode, nothing added nothing taken.
We feel its a great speech that can relate to all military branches foreign and domestic and should be shared. 
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The German General's jaw line is freaking legendary. The man is more jaw than anything.
easily chinned
Same actor in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Max Headroom
he has nothing on the Manic Cop actor though (the Conan from Tango and Cash).
Yes
Not all Germans were monsters, and not all Americans were saints. Great series. Honest and unvarnished.
James White - it would be laughable if it wouldn't be so sad that you need to actually spell that out for your Americans and other nationalities high off their own patriotic Kool Aid. It is sickening that such a thing needs to be typed out in this age. I'm afraid humanity will never truly progress.
Abraham Rivera - how does the nazis murdering the "Reich's enemies" conflict with the idea of regular drafted German men fighting against Soviet and Anglo-American invasion? Especially at the point of the war this scene is depicting? Are you saying all Germans really _were_ monsters? If you are, then you truly _have_ learned something from WWII: you have learned how to think like a nazi.
How did americans when they carpet bombed half of german citites, and napalm and nuke bombed whole citys in japan?
Abraam Rivera, these men had a choice, they were given the choice to fight for their country and for their people or to be lined up and shot as cowards. Most were no different to the Allied soldiers, some believed in what was happening, some did not. The same can be said for Allied soldiers, up until a certain point many of the Allied countries allowed the atrocities to go on. In war there is no clear cut side that is right or wrong, in war everyone is a saint and everyone is a sinner, it all just depends from which side you are looking from.
Abraham Rivera Only high ranking SS members knew about the genocide, the regular soldiers(wehrmacht) knew nothing about it and was only showed to them after the war
Edit: i get it, wehrmacht are not innocent. this is 2 years ago. you can now stop hurling insults at me.
TheLastApplePie I find that hard to believe but of course they would say they had no idea it was going on
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."
Robert E. Lee
Laughs in Military Industrial Comlpex.
Grant was better
Applies to men on the ground, not the ones with warmed seats. And thus war happens again.
He had also grown too fond of another terrible thing. Slavery.
@alanruiz7822 You right
I like how the German general still keeps his head high and struts proudly even in defeat. While he's giving the speech, you can see the respect his men had for him.
And from Winters and his men, as the scene develops. A realisation of a shared experience.
Even though he swore to serve Hitler.
@@Philotusbecause they were forced to? Hitler didn't even make them say the oath, it was one general who changed the oath to gain favor with Hitler
@@Philotus I don't think they had much choice if they wanted to survive. They didn't have the luxury of independent means and choosing to walk away. The entire Wermacht had to swear allegience. That didn't mean that they believed in the Nazi ideologies or methods. In fact there are several well-documented examples of the Wermacht standing up to the SS's atrocities and - in one famous case - fighting the SS alongside the US army.
Credit where credit's due, the kraut bastards fought a hell of a war. It took the combined weight of the US, the USSR, and the British Commonwealth to defeat them.
Overall, they were probably the best trained, best led Soldiers of the war. I say this as a retired Military professional.
They fought with courage, and a commitment and dedication you'd have a hard time equalling in the history of warfare. The tragedy of it all is they gave all that serving monsters.
You notice how when Liebgott is translating at first there is some mockery in his voice yet as he continues he starts to realize the meaning of the speech and his tone goes from mockery to complete seriousness and understanding.
Didn't catch this the first time I watched it. Glad I saw this comment. Really adds another layer to the show.
Yeah. Lieb realizes that he has experienced the same thing but only from another side
Ähh,yeah,thats why we love the scene....
Great comment, wouldnt have caught this otherwise. I only heard the salute part. But this humanizes the whoile thing
I didn’t catch any mockery in his voice at all
That moment when you realize your bitter enemy is nothing but a man, with the same fears, hopes, and struggles that you yourself have gone through.
+timkiller 888, Well said. Even tho people are fighting against you, they are just like you. Following orders, to serve their country. trying to survive for their life.
That moment when u realize your bitter enemy is the ussr...
timkiller 888 lol
No shit. What else would they be? Aliens?
Bullshit, we'd probably discriminate by on different colored eyes, or noses, lips, or just where we live. Nothing would really change. We'd just skip from focusing to one type of discrimination to the next,
“ Long and happy lives in peace”
I wish that for all of us today …
US Veteran
The MAGA Movement is not about to let that happen.
@@kosmokritikos9299 bruh.
God bless you bro i was 3 years in AFG for Germany i wish u and all of us freedom and peace!
@@kosmokritikos9299You got that backwards, leftists are the ones trying to bring down America and the West.
@@kosmokritikos9299 How do you figure that?
My father fought in WW2 on the German side. He always told us: I have seven sons and the only thing I wish for them is that they never have to fight in a war.
The jawline on that dude
Same guy who played Herman Dietrich in Indiana Jones. His jawline is literally how I recognized him, seeing has he's substantially older in this show.
he always gets the nazi roles thats funny
Chad tier jawline
Jawline longer than the state of Florida! 😆
Must be David Coulthard´s uncle
Had this speech been given by one of the allied commanders it would have been the cheesiest moment of the series, but by having it being given by the German commander it adds another layer to the story; that as the American troopers listen to it they understand that they had the exact same experience as their enemies, and that makes it in my opinion the greatest moment of the whole series.
That's why people rewatch these moments again again.
We tend to dehumanize our enemies , and not discuss the fact that they are people too, and they also fought a war.
I think this is a real speech given by a real general, as noted in an autobiography from one of these guys, if I remember correctly.
I think it's also the reason why there is such a difference in perception of the European and Pacific theaters of war. To many, the fight for Europe was liberation, connection and understanding of a culture the majority of those who fought it came from. There was an inherent connection that no matter the atrocities there could be a recognition of the enemy as human. In the Pacific war, it was an attack of retribution against an enemy the majority could not relate to, feared and hated. There was no understanding or common ground between Japanese and Americans.
@@MrHikerToYou There is no difference there. Maybe americans didn't demonize the Germans, we (Greeks) most certainly did, as did Poles, Central Europeans, later on the French, etc. I am 28 years old and most people at my age have grandfathers who fought, and I am confident that almost all of them hated the Germans till they died. This is true for most East europeans I've talked to as well, and I doubt the French of the age saw them as "fellow europeans", considering how they treated them after the war. Absolutely no common ground here.
Peace for all people in the World!
Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
@JohnsonNorthman Indeed…prayers for peace across the world! Greetings to you and yours from the Texas Hill Country which has a heavy Germanic heritage among our many small towns & hamlets, such as Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, Gruene, Boerne, Kerrville (my town), among others. 🤠
@@SnookynibblesDanke! Liebe Grüße aus Norddeutschland,aus der Nähe der Stadt KIEL,in der übrigens der Schauspieler der hier den General (Wolf Kahler) spielt geboren ist! 😁👍 🇺🇸 🤝 🇩🇪
Greetings and hugs from southern california.
@@roadwarrior144 Bless you and best regards! 🇺🇸 🤝 🇩🇪
Deutschland!!! 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Best speech ever. Easy to address to a vitorious army, but what to say to a defeated one??? This brilliant speech rescue the lost dignity of these soldiers.
A Defeated Army - that yet still Marches is not
It's the sort of speech that gives one hope, that past enemies can become future friends. They had a hell of a job ahead of them, trying to make long, happy lives in peace, but those who ended up in the western part of the country went on to build a fine country of which they could be proud.
And not only that but you can see the American soldiers listening to the American interpreter and realize that what the German General is saying mirrors how they all feel. Respect for a vanquished but noble and brave enemy!
That German Generals jawline was carved out by angels.
Probably why he's been playing Nazis since Indiana Jones...
A true Aryan
@@johnslugger Arnold's from Austria dude.
@@johnslugger fair point, can't really argue that. 😉
@@bertlammens4392 i wonder who that was... 🤣
It's incredible how Liebgott starts translating with a tone of mockery and disdain but quickly shifts to a more serious and understanding tone when he starts seeing so much of him in them. War is hell and while many deserve the pain it brings, most are just ordinary men fighting for the brother next to him, trying to get it done as soon as possible so they can come back home.
They lived in Germany most of the men to be forced to fight my family come from Germany anyone of us could have been one of them at that time
I never noticed that before, there is a definite change in his attitude by the time the speech approaches the end. Good eye, my friend.
The german version sadly got a weird dub of that scene... libegotts traranslation got replaced by comments instead of a translation due to everyone speaking german in a german dub obivously. The comments however are more like "they simply cannot refrain from their speeches of a heroic nature" and after the "i am proud to have served with you"-line liebgott says "
The way he looks, he's never been lying in the dirt". It also makes no sense that liebgott speaks everytime a german soldier/person speaks... they literally could have just cut the parts or replaced the comments with something usefull. The concentration camp scene is worse... his comments make no sense sometimes and the whole conversation is just weird.
@@joeybomba9808 I don't know where i have heard that but a american soldier said that there were german soldiers and there were nazis and you could tell the difference. He couldn't describe what the difference was, he could just say that there was a difference.
What you're doing is whitewashing of the Germans! Most were just ordinary men? Are you suggesting that only a small minority were criminals? Wrong! No, those were tens of millions who murdered tens of millions. Since at least 1935 the vast majority of Germans had been followers and supporters of the German Nazi government, thus they were Nazis. Because that is the definition of Nazi. Follower and supporterof the Nazi government. What applied for the vast majority of Germans also applied to the vast majority of German soldiers. The vast majority were Nazis! So they believed in Nazi dieology! So this Nazi soldier believed that the Nazi soldiers have the right to commit various genocides and to destroy cities. And all the other crimes committed by the Nazi nation including the enslavement of 20 million. These ordinary people were the Nazi perpetrators! Ordinary civilians were the watchdogs for the slave laborers in the factories and farms, tormenting and killing them. Ordinary soldiers also murdered civilians. 60% of civilians in Poland were murdered by ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers. So stop washing this Nazi murderer gang white.
This is very emotional. Before my dad was killed in Afghanistan, I'll always remember his letter talking about the enemy, and how that man thought he was fighting for his cause, and reflecting on if he had a family and children, and they were both on the other side trying to survive by killing each-other first.
Dang I am sorry you’ve had to endure such a huge loss from someone who was a major part of your life. Your father may he 🇺🇸 RIP 🇺🇸 makes a really strong truthful point. If it wasn’t for our governments, would we even have enemies? Now a days in present time it’s our governments telling us who are enemies are and most of the time it’s all based on lies.
Respect to your Dad.
Sorrow for your loss.
Damn! Sorry! my sincere condolences! 2 times in the monkey land... 06 and 09, german light infantry
Möge er in Frieden ruhen
Iam sorry for your loss. God bless!
Being Austrian and having listened to my grandfather's story who went to fight in WW2 and spent 5 years as a prisoner of war in Russia, this gives me goosebumps. In the end, we are all humans.
Amen
he prob knew the poster above G Father
That had to be Hell
But there are some more humans than others. Some are closer to good humans and some closer to being monsters.
Except the Nazis. Those Gestapo SS fuqs forfeited their humanity the moment they saw themselves as above the rest of mankind.
Band of Brothers, ends with the German Band of Brothers. Brilliant.
Every one there is. Well, except for the FNGs
I don't like it. Sure not every german soldier was a war criminal, but the fact is that a significant amount of german soldiers participated in horrific massacres, rapes, and war crimes aside from the holocaust. Comparing them to US troops is laughable. Not saying that every american soldier was a saint, but american and british war crimes were few and far between, while german war crimes were the norm, not the exception. These troops were fighting for a hateful ideology, and whether they were aware of the specifics of the holocaust, they were all well aware of the ideology they were fighting for.
@@strongman325 that was the stupidest thing i read this month
@@xilefka9467 Really? How so? The Germans murdered and abused Polish and Russian civilians that have not wronged them in anyway, as @john davis said, war crimes were a norm for the German army and they were proud of their treatment for those they deemed as "lesser people".
Americans and Brits were not saints, (The Russians were probably at the same level as the Germans by the time they turned the tables) none are at times of war but they did not fight this war in order to kill any specific group, only to end the war.
Yes USA did nuke Japan but one need to understand the amount of hatred and lack of sympathy the Americans already felt towards the Japanese by that time, that same hatred was generated by the Japanese brutal and insane way of war and treatment of US POW, not to mention the insanity that drove this nation not to surrender even after all their allies in the Axis already had.
Germany won the fashion war. Change my mind.
Only Aryans (100% germanic D-N-A and Nordic face structure) were allowed to wear those uniforms back in the Third Reich era
@@overlord5068 I don’t think that’s true because they would barely have a few thousand men.
@@bigmoniesponge In total there were 1 000 000 (General S S + Germanic Divisions of the WAFFEN S S) so nope. You're wrong.
Hugo Boss
The baggy pants are actually modeled after British riding pants.
All things being equal the actor playing Captain Sobel ( David Swchwimmer) should’ve won an Oscar because the hatred for him is palpable and present in almost every scene this young man has done an excellent job at his job! Imagine being told You have been cast this great miniseries but you have to be the most evil mean person and then being able to do it, he did it expertly!
It was a show he couldn't have won an Oscar. He could have gotten a golden globe though.
I like how the general talks with conviction and sincerity to his soldiers. Great actor!
It was a brilliant move to make the “villain” of the show the one to tell the main theme of this story, friendship, brotherhood, sacrifice...
True
The Band of Brothers speech.
Do you know this is the actual story of the members of easy company it wasn’t a move its what actually happened.
@@evelinaazogue Any source for that? Be curious to read it.
@@kevinswift8654 the series is based of the book "band of brothers"
I love how his speech doesn't just apply to his own soldiers, but to all soldiers from all sides.
And to ALL soldiers through out history.
Shit for brains! It doesn’t apply to all sides. It’s an American movie! How dare you bunch together this German scum that massacred millions of innocents, or simply stood by and watched it happen with heroes like my grandfather who fought for your freedom??? The Wehrmacht could have put a stop to the holocaust within a few days, had there been but one ounce of decency amongst all of these men!
Yea problem is germany started this war by gassing people and exterminating whole countries. I don't care about "what they feel" lol
War sucks only because of the stupid egoistic politicians, or people in charge that care nothing but themselves and their own interests.
Brainwashing the shit out of everyone else under them.
@Klemheist not really whenever Spielberg is involved with something there will ALWAYS be an anti Nazi message in it....because he is a jew
Band of Brothers is an absolute masterpiece
"Men its been a long war, its been a tough war. You fought bravely, proudly for your country. You are a special group. You found in one another a bond that exists only in combat. Among brothers, you've shared foxholes, held each other in dire moments. You've seen death and suffered together. I am proud to have served with each and every one of you. You deserve long and happy lives in peace.
A great speech by a good leader. Nazi or not, they're still men and alot of them didn't even want to be there or believed in Hitlers cause.
'...and thank god we aren't surrendering to the Russians!'
Andrew Joseph That was not much worse:
watch?v=hbp61fOVFaE
Anthony Ricci The basic video material from this video is from a documentary of the German state owned TV channel ZDF. The German ZDF is the German equivalent to the British BBC. There is also a upload of the original ZDF broadcast here on YT.
BTW, be shure that the history division of the ZDF only broadcasts ony 100% certified material, otherways the "HISTORY" series sold wordlwide would get a reputation damage.
Omg you hit that on the head lol
Rick2010100 1.9 million prisoners, around 5000 died because of fights starvation
Johnogormandjur1 The red cross said that 350.000 German POW died in western POW-camps.They calculated just the official in-out lists.
Fun Fact: The same german actor is the voice actor for the Wehrmacht announcer in Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer.
And was in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the original Ferrero Rocher 'Ambassadors party' advert.
he was also in many many videogames from the mid 90s to the early 2000s. very unique voice. biggest role was propably in the german metal gear solid 1 version where he did the voices of revolver ocelot, donald anderson and this guy towards the end who is working for the state.
He plays roles in Crysis 2 and Battlefield V as well
@@199512Lars the character Karl Ernst Rasch from Crysis 3 is actually directly modeled after him (face and all) - which completely blew my mind when i first noticed. and they even bothered to hire him as voice actor for the german version too.
pretty cool that hes voice acting again in a video game - propably in english eh?
@@dmer-zy3rb If i am correct he spoke the commander in the last tiger campaign completly in german not english
Bitterly beautiful moment in the series. When you realise, most of the guys you were fighting were just doing the same thing you were.
To one day, an eternal peace, when no sons or daughters have to die in war. 🕊️
I visited the German cemetery in Normandy just prior to the American cemetery. It is a humbling experience. They were mostly young men in both cemeteries.
My daughter wrote the most beautiful comments from her visit to the American cemetery. I cry every time I read it:
“9,387 of our countrymen are buried at the American cemetery in normandy. when you walk up to the sea of white, you can't see any names - all of the crosses are facing the other way.
all of them are facing home.
this time the freedom they paid for wasn't just ours but the world's. they fought alongside their brothers not just of country but of humanity. all the same, there's something peculiarly sacrificial about being laid to rest on foreign soil. a strange kind of permanent longing. these boys truly never went home. all in service to a peaceful world. thank you. i am honored to have stepped foot as the free woman on the hallowed shores where you paid for that freedom. thank you. @ Omaha Beach”
Amazing. Thank you so much.
I've also been to the American cemetery in Normandy, it really is one of the most sobering sights you can possibly see. Nowhere else have I ever seen a place with so many people be so utterly silent, a huge sea of white headstones and an atmosphere that seems to absorb all noise except the wind and birds. It's an experience that really hammers home some perspective on the sacrifices made during WW2, normally the media only shows us the glory and glamour.
Sounds like you raised a daughter with a good head on her shoulders.
@@DarkFenix2k5 America knows how to do that sort of thing very well indeed. And the scale of American sacrifice, for the sake of freedom in Europe (even if it was delayed in the eastern part), really does merit gratitude.
That actually brought tears to my eyes, and I didn't cry at my own fathers' funeral. I say that not to brag or sound falsely macho, but to convey to you the power of what your daughter wrote. Specifically, the first three sentences. Those are powerful words. Please tell your daughter that she made this veteran (USAF) - who it has been said has a heart of stone - actually choke up.
Well done!
That General is very highly decorated. Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds is extremely rare. Only 27 were ever decorated with such
The general was based on Major General Theodor Tolsdorff.
What the scene got right: the real General Tolsdorff did received the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. And he did surrendered to Lt. Lipton.
What this scene didn't get right (or rather, modified to serve the story), General Tolsdorff was only 36 at that time, having had a progressed from captain back in 1941 during Barbarrossa. Also, this happened on VE Day in Bavaria, Germany, while this scene was shown at the end of Episode 10 when they were in Austria (months after VE Day).
And they didn't mention Pvt Heffron opened one of his suitcases of, well... go read it yourself.
@@yatsumleung8618 he surrended in Austria on the 8th of May, his army (LXXXII Army Corps) was stationed in Bavaria when he got promoted to Generalleutnant
Age has also got the best of him, since he was in his mid 30's when he surrendered to the Allies.
@@yatsumleung8618 Man i was expecting a suitcase full of golden teeth, ears or fingers but dude xD The General couldn't leave his stash behind
@Billy The Kid I know, I was just poking fun at the fact that they portraied a 30 some year old guy like if he was 60
Both sides are shown as human beings. That's the mark of a good war movie.
Bullshit, this changes the game: ruclips.net/video/sHcJtU9dr6I/видео.html
Valhalla or Bust - they don't need your forgiveness. I'm sure if the majority of them were alive they'd say to you "You're welcome" - only reason you're free to spout your bullshit is because of them. That's coming from someone who doesn't agree with how Israel behaves, but is also devoid of a tinfoil hat.
People talk about this shit as if it would have been an entirely different scenario had the Nazis won. No, it'd be the same scenario with different parameters. People who make these comments (i.e. you, and Poopoo Peepee) always seem to assume they'd be immune from the consequences. No doubt if the Nazis had won, Europe would have less "diversity", and other things - thing is, and you're too dumb to see this: it'd also be a world where people were LITERALLY (not figuratively as we have now) treated as disposable. The Nazis want to do some experiments to accelerate research? Might be you they choose. They want to build something? Might be you they kill through forced labour to do it. Some war needs to be won, but it takes throwing bodies into the grinder until they win? Might be you.
Honestly, wake up, you have the thinking of a 12 year old that read 1984 yesterday. A good book, and one that has a lot of lessons to tell, just making a point.
Oh and just to be clear, if this shit (extreme right wing Nazi ideology) ever rears it's ugly head again in any form that can be taken as a serious threat, the good people of this world will be there to beat your ass down, just like they did before. Remember ISIS, the closest thing we've had to Nazis in modern times? Yeah, my memory of them is fading too. At least the Nazis didn't become a violent insurgency, they just stuck to talking shit on the internet.
Series not movie, but yes I agree
thank you, I could not agree more.
Absolutely.
My favorite quotes about war are.... 'the first casualty in war is the truth' and 'one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist'
Fighting for freedom is one thing terrorism is another. If you aim at or do not care for civilians in your path of destruction, you are a terrorist. Period. A soldier can be a terrorist too. Honourable soldiers not only cares for people who are not armed they also respect their enemy. Like the veterans of both sides depicted in this scene.
@@Sappre the « resistance » in France consisted of mostly bombing surprise attacks on trains and tossing grenades to high profile Germans during parades.
This would be called terrorism yet in story books it’s mentioned as resistance
@@Sappre This. While US soldiers showed respect to Wehrmacht soldiers in this scene, I doubt they would see SS members the same way, especially after the liberation of concentration camps.
The German general in this band of brothers episode was Colonel Dietrich from Raiders of the lost Ark
I love Band of Brothers for many reasons. But as a German, I'm especially thankful that in this series, the German soldiers are not presented as a bunch of bloodthirsty, evil animals and idiots that are mowed down by the dozen by the Allied heroes. BoB is just amazingly good TV.
@ Mature comment.
@ There always has to be some troll to ruin everything.
@ Oh, one of those guys with a lack of gray matter!
@ you need to be over 13 to be on youtube, so please go play with your mommy till you grow up
Curious what your thoughts are about "Generation War"? I think it had a different name in the German (original) version, something like "our mothers and fathers" or similar.
Men, it's been a long war. It's been a tough war. You've fought bravely, proudly for your country. You're a special group. You've found in one another a bond that exists only in combat, among brothers. You've shared foxholes, held each other in dire moments. You've seen death and suffered together. I'm proud to have served with each and every one of you. You all deserve long and happy lives in peace.
and just forget about the 60 million dead you are responsible for
@@arminvoneckerberg8978 hop off that ass sniffing high horse and look up dresden.
War makes monsters of us all. If you feel the need to strip all the humanity out of a moment meant to illustrate how we all suffer and bleed as humans, than you share more in common with mengele than the colonel who historically gave this speech, child.
@@Leisurelee53 Do not judge a person if you do not know him. Otherwise you are no better than .......
@@helafinwe I expected the question. Yes, unfortunately, I know it firsthand through the terrible history of a part of my family with their terrible crimes against humanity.
@Rickie j I don't know what planet you are from. Here on earth this is bullshit, or clearer fat lie.
My father served in WW2, D-DAY +6, saw action in caen and operation market garden, had respect for the German troops, well trained and well equipped.
I always remember what Shifty Powers said about the Germans, "That man and I might have been good friends. We might have had a lot in common. We might've like to fish, ya know. He might've liked to hunt. You never know, ya know? Course they were doing what they're supposed to do, and I was trying to do what I was supposed to do. But uh, under different circumstances we might have been good friends."
The part that's left unspoken is; but instead, them and us, we killed each other.
I'm glad those circumstances are now
Yep 👍 It’s not the politicians who start these wars who do the killing it’s the grunts who probably would have gotten along fine with the “enemy “ in different circumstances
Come to that, wasn't there a brief time during the first World War when a cease fire was declared right around Christmas, and the German soldiers on one side of the battle lines came out to greet the British soldiers on the _other_ side of the battle lines, hung out together, chatted with each other and even got some games of football/soccer going between them? Then the cease fire ended and they went right back to shooting each other.
Men who normally _wouldn't_ try to kill each other - and might even befriend each other - are forced to do so because somebody in their respective ivory towers commanded them to go out and kill the other guys. War is saddening like that.
@@BloodyBay yeah, afaik that incident is also why high command put extra harsh penalties on fraternization with the enemy into place. Cannot have that in a total war.
When the final boss's speech is so good that you don't even want to fight him.
@@prot07ype87 hey don't talk shit that's how copper wire was invented!
The final boss lost, shithead
@@NormAppleton For the time being.
Very good and talented speaker with physics of giant. He can lift you off the floor and throw you around.
@@NormAppleton It took the whole world to do it...twat.
My grandpa talked about how, at the end of the day, the Germans were just regular people, people he could’ve been friends with if things had been different. He fell for a German girl, and wanted to bring her home. Lucky for me he came home and met my grandma instead.
Just regular people setting out to exterminate the Jews. It took a whole lot of people for that to happen. It wasn't just Himmler and so on. It was train workers, people who categorized looted belongings. The people that stood up and lost their lives are the ones I have respect for. Or the priest who volunteered to die to take the place of a man with a family. The man survived til the age of 95. Or Witold Pilecki who got captured on purpose to go to Auschwitz and report on conditions. He escaped and got the info to the Allies.
My father was over there in Holland and Belgium. Said that the Germans were "just scared kids, like we were." I really respected that he could view an enemy that way. Meanwhile, a neighbor was in the Pacific, and to his dying day, absolutely hated anything Japanese. He must have seen some very bad things, and it's sad that it affected him the rest of his life.
My best friends grandpa (a black man) brought home a German bride from the war and it was a huge deal amongst everyone. They both died in 2019 but were extremely happy until then. War can also bring out the best in humanity.
@@brandocalrissian3294 It can also bring about worst in Humanity. Just search Eastern front(Soviets) and Pacific Front(Japanese). Scary stuff.
@@kurtbilinski1723 Japanese were way worse than Germans. Unlike Germans who were filled with extreme hate and racial superiority by Hitler and his Nazi Party to commit war crimes. Japanese soldiers were basically enjoying m*rdering and r*ping civilians and that too before WW2 even began in Europe. They enjoyed torturing others like it was some kind of game. Just search Nanking massacre or their treatment of POWs or their war crimes in Korea and SouthEast Asia.
The German General looks as if He's been Mewing since Birth. His Jawline makes Him an *Absolute Unit.*
Germans know how to make some gorgeous uniforms.
edit: omg thanks for the 5.4k likes!..........oh wait, comment likes don't actually mean anything. Nevermind.
Homeslice that's because Hugo Boss made them.
Hugo boss
Hugo boss designed the uniforms and produced by other party
Yeah, if you think looking like a mass murdering loser is gorgeous.
Emanresuadeen U can say the same for the allies
in case y'all are wondering, that General's rank is equivalent to a 3 star General
This film, it’s 2 star.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Tolsdorff
@@NAVI_KIaus_coc It is a bit confusing. He is a 2-star-General for the time, because the german Wehrmacht didn't have the Brigadier General. So while today in the german army the Generalleutnant is equal to the Lieutenant General (3 Stars), he only has two.
@@NAVI_KIaus_coc Lieutenant General but he got the iron cross. This means very very much!
@@damon8810 He has the Knight's Cross, Oak Leaves, and Swords. He is HIGHLY decorated.
For those that don't know, the title of the series _Band of Brothers_ comes from a very famous speech in Shakespeare's _Henry V._ The British king is speaking to his troops before a very crucial battle (and a very real one, the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, in which the King actually led his men and fought beside them).
In it he says the words, *_"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..."_* meaning men who have fought in combat together. The German commander here is essentially explaining that bond, and how it transcends borders and nationalities..
I watched Band of Brothers few months ago. I started it again. It's the best show ever.
god i love the german uniforms, weapons,equipment and vehicles under this time
***** Tiger, focke wulf and like you said Stg 44
jabo109 If you're going to war, march in with Hugo Boss designed threads. Serious guys, look it up. How do you think they hit the big time ?
victor johnson Yeah Hugo Boss is a pretty good clothing designer, really radiates authority
+DowellForPASenate Stg44 was the first assault rifle i think
+jabo109 Obviously not the best....
I love how this speech was made by a German General. Nice irony, that the enemy is the one giving a summary of essentially what us viewers watched the Americans went through and summarized the whole plot of what "Band of Brothers" is about. At least in my mind it's a very artistic decision.
This why this is my favorite scene in Band of Brothers.
JustaKoreanGuy The point is that all of this men answered the call to fight for their country and their not so different.
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Sorry in advance if my english is horrible. German here. :D
Yes this is why i love the original version of it. The German dubbing on our TV is horrible. Its not only everyone speaking German. Another thing is the translation in this specific scene where the WHOLE translation is just shit talk. i mean, why the fuck do they have to do this? Ruin a fine Scene with this bullshit.
It creates a very humanistic view of a war. That a war isn't only fought by generals pushing bricks on a map, but human beings, brave men and women who are on the ground. That despite which side a soldier is on, we are all the same, and we share the same companionship, challenges and hell of war and combat.
My stepdad served in WW2. He had no animosity what so ever towards the common German soldier, the Gestapo and the SS was a different matter.
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Watched this series with my dad when I was young and when they do the interviews before each episode one stood out to me. They talk about how they started to view the German soldiers less like monsters and how if it wasn’t for the circumstances of war there’s a chance that the allies and the Germans could have been friends with lots in common. This speech and their reactions to it hammer that home.
Love how completely professional the German general is here.
Acknowledges the US major first, since he's the highest in rank there, and immediately deals with the Lt -- with no rancor or being offended -- when indicated. Addressed him as one officer to another, and graciously accepted being allowed to address his men.
You know that it is only a fictional film and it was invented to show Germans like that because they are to this day part of NATO... and for most German soldiers the capitulation was not the end it was just beggining of suffering as the Soviets did not forget about them and used them as slaves for years and i have serious doubt that any German general was as optimistic in that time as this actor is here.
Biały the film is based on true events you dipshit, this scene is particular is very real and did happen as it was noted in an autobiography
These men were not impisoned by the Soviets because they surrendered to the Americans, im the Western zone. This speech was given by a real general. These events are autobiographical. It has nothing to do with NATO.
Biały yeah was clear that some pole comes around only to speak the German general down
It shows that the general was a good leader like Winters, setting up the idea that all the soldiers are brothers no matter which side.
general has a knightscross with oakleaves and swords....damn!.
He's a general what do expect? lol.
Bullshit. Only a few thousand were given while millions served.
This man is supposed to represent this Guy :en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Tolsdorff#World_War_II
Yeah that's him
Oakleaves, swords and diamonds, if you look closely.
I can't unsee Ross.
I wish we could of heard the whole speech here. Gave me goosebumps! I felt like the German General was talking to his troops and the American troops as well. Strength and honor!
When I was first starting my second tour in Germany as a young Sergeant from the 101st we had to go through the "Kontact" training that welcomed young troops to Germany, gave us some basic language and culture skills and at the end, took us to a town to let us put them into practice. Once the guided part of the tour was over we were cut loose to sight-see or pub hop on our own for a couple of hours. The younger guys split for the nearest "Discotheque" and I went in search of a quiet, local pub.
The place I chose was nearly empty and went dead silent when I walked in wearing my Class A's and jump boots. I ordered a beer (Hefe mitt zitronen, Weihenstephaner, personal favorite) and stood at the bar as the conversations fired up again. When I was approaching the bottom of my first glass, an older German who had been sitting alone stood and began walking towards me. The bar went dead silent again and the worried look on the bartender raised a red flag so I turned as the man got closer.
He came to attention with a sharp heel click and gave my uniform a quick, professional once over. Having stood and given a few inspections, I saw what was going down and popped to myself. When he saw the Screaming Eagle, his eyes lit up and there was a quick lift at each corner of his mouth. "Fallschirmjaeger?" he asked. "Jawohl"
He motioned to a barstool, occupied one himself. He fired off some rapid German to the bartender and turned to me rolling up one of his sleeves to reveal a tattoo with the emblem of the 5th Fallschirmjaeger. We chatted a bit and when it came time for me to pay up and go hook up with the rest of the folks from the tour, the bartender refused my money. "It's paid" was all he said.
Thank you for sharing your story, Dale.
Wow, amazing story. Do you have any more stories like this from Germany?
That's pretty cool.. Thanks for sharing.
I was stationed in Germany in the late 1980s to 1991. Best station I ever had, some fine people who I still love. My landlord was a Leutnant on the Russian Front but had the good fortune to be home on furlough the day that American troops were taking Kaiserslautern. He told me once that he had jumped over a stone wall fence to avoid an American patrol and nearly got run over by an American jeep coming around the corner. He spent the rest of the war as a "Kriegsgefangen." He told me that was the best thing that ever happened to him during the war. My wife and I went there in 2019 and hope to go there again in a few years. Ich liebe Deutschland. Pleased to meet you Dale.
True brotherhood. Bad-ass.
German's uniform is such elegant
*****
Nope just produced by them.
***** coco chanel designed the SS uniforms not sure about the Wehrmacht tho.
pretty sure Wehrmacht uniforms are based on older Prussian military uniforms.
LateTwenties Gamer
The Wehrmacht uniforms are based on the uniforms of the German army of WW1. The uniforms from WW1 were newly created in 1907.
cool, thanks for the info.
I recently re-watched this series with my fiancé (first time seeing it for her) and when this scene came up, it got me a little emotional. At the end of the speech, I glanced over at her and she looked at me and I could see some tears in her eyes and all I said to her was "Not all Germans." Now, this has become one of my favorite scenes in the series because there's so much portrayed from the German General, Winters, Sobel and Liebgott. This scene could never be written in Hollywood today.
It was very nice for the General to pause so that we could hear the translation
"You deserve long and happy lives in peace."
They should have picked butter from the get go but listening to a mad man gets you what you get
they won Europe in the end, by controlling the EU via Brussels, which is Berlin’s rubber-stamp parliament
@@dotdashdotdash What a stupid comment, they fought communism.
@jojan jojan troll
@@jeremy2948 why is a troll ?
My grandfather fought for the Wehrmacht in the Battle of Stalingrad. He was captured and held as a POW in Russia for years then had to walk back home to Germany at the end of the war. Eventually he burned his uniform became a doctor and moved to the US. He always told me how terrible the war was and how many of his comrades were against the cause. I always wondered if he carried shame for fighting on the German side and how he dealt with it. He would often have night terrors but seeing this video I see some sort of a silver lining in his service. I hope and believe, that while the war was terrible and his side's cause was as well, he found some sort of comradery and brotherhood amongst the men he served with. He passed away in 2016 making him one of the last survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad, the largest battle to have ever taken place. I am so proud to call him my grandfather.
God bless your grandfather. I had a Great Grandfather who fought in World War II and he saw one of the concentration camps in France and was horrified of what the Nazis did. I never met him, but if I did, he would have the exact same experience your father had seen.
I have an uncle that commanded a Wellington Bomber for the Royal New Zealand Airforce. His airplane was downed over Croatia, his crew survived, picked up by Axis forces and were repatriated to NZ after the war.
What became of my uncle was never known and there was a suspicion that he may have been captured by advancing Soviet troops and sent to who knows where. For twenty years my Grandmother held out hope that this was the case and her son would one day return.
He never did.
Danke, dass dus mit uns teilst.
That sounds like a plot from a movie; are you sure you didn’t get this from a film
ich hatt einen Kameraden
To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know. - P. McCree Thornton
I like how Capt Sobel tried to act like he didn't see him. Lol
That humanization runs deep man. Major respects to the people behind this show for putting this in. Not many movies/shows care to humanize the "enemy" like this.
*"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers"* - Francois Fenelon
After all, we’re all part of the same race. The human race.
@@chiefrabbischlomosteinberg4953
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.”
― Carl Sagan
@@Bughit69 Except we are the exception to the rule and deserve our own ethnostate, just for us, of course.
Terribly wrong. This is true when the "enemies" belong to the same culture but, in civilization wars, like the Crusades or the Siege of Lepanto/Costantinople, there is true hate and desire to wipe out the enemy from the face of the earth between the opposite forces.
A point to the contrary, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
It was very nice of the general to wait after every line for translation!
All we can ask for is a little courtesy for the viewer.
I’ll never tire of rewatching this scene!
I really appreciate the respect the German general gives at the beginning by nodding to Winters and Lipton. Humble defeat
@Catherine I wonder why he got to keep his sidearm in the movie tho, IRL that was a major and winters took the pistol and had it (he even showed it to the fil crew and it was a P38 and not a luger either. welp dunno why the scene would have benn even better with the pistol surrendered. This pistol the real winters said did never fire a shot.
@Catherine ruclips.net/video/uxv3s7xTYHU/видео.html Hanks did an awesome job on BoB tho, id just relly liked the real story in the series. Much more moving then the fictional one.
He is an officer of the Reich's Heer, the German Army. Just because he is surrendering to the enemy is no cause to not be polite, professional and courteous to the officers of said enemy.
That humble defeat was a tradidional way in Europe until 1918..
Its just a serires lok
All these anti German commentators should be embarrassed with themselves. As a Brit, I'm proud that we have people like the Germans in the world. To suggest that all Germans are Nazis is like suggesting that all Muslims are extremist... its completely ridicules. German culture is beautiful, as is its people and without the pioneering spirit that Germany has shown over the ages, things like rockets, jet aircraft, x-ray along with vast amounts of medical advancements would not have been found. Its a shame that the ignorant and weak minded have larger voices than the sensible because we would commonly see Germany as a force for good rather than refer back to its moment of madness in the past.
Thank your for this comment
Also Finland wouldn't be sovereign country without German help.
Wonderful comment.
***** The EU isn't exactly a good thing, far from it, but I take your point.
What happened under the Third Reich was gross, I daresay a horror of all horrors. But there is much to commend to the Germanic People.
I don't know the name of the actor who played Liebgott, but he was amazing. They all were. I didn't have any close family members serve in this war, or in Vietnam or Korea. I feel like I learned so much watching this series. I did have a lot of relatives on one side of the family who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. They were on the wrong side, but for the most part they just fought because that was what their neighbors and family members were doing. It was what was expected. I think this episode is titled "Why We Fight.' They fought for their brothers, cousins, friends, and whoever happened to end beside them on the lines of combat. Their cause was wrong but that didn't necessarily make them bad. They were just doing what they thought they had to do.
It's shocking to know that the actors who played Liebgott and Winters were British! Their American accents are better than Dr. House!
His words touched the hearts and minds of both the Germans and Americans!
“We salute the rank, not the man.”
in the background, Nixon is dabbing. Lieb is doing a sick flip on his skateboard. The entirety of Easy company is hollering. Winters is putting on his shades. Sobel is on the ground, dead. In the distance, airhorns.
You ruined the whole effect of this scene with your stupid shit
Oscar Neis XD chill the fuck out
No.
i actually dont know if youre trolling or not
I’m not trolling, just think it was quite unnecessary to add in such an immature comment in a very impactful scene.
Germans had the best uniforms of WW II. Fact!
The uniform of the most dishonorable military in history. Fact!
Emanresuadeen Bullshit! What about red army or US army?
KK: If you are not a neo-Nazi that is great. But you were certainly sounding like one.
Emanresuadeen How do I sound like a neo nazi, please tell me!
KK: Actually, you sound quite reasonable now, and if I misjudged you, please accept my apology. But most often, a Nazi sympathizer will at once deny that the Nazis, (the nation that was under their total control) did anything wrong and then immediately also try to say that other countries were at least as bad if not much worse! And they won't budge on either point, despite the contraction. I saw that it your comment, and immediately took out my flamethrower, maybe too soon!
As for the Wehrmacht, it is simply a myth that they did not participate in the the holocaust, fully, and on every level. I would get into this some more, but I am sort of time right now. Maybe later?
Thanks for posting! ❤
I love this series. First watched it in my Army barracks the day it came out on DVD. Probably watched it 30 times since then.
This scene always gets me... imagine being that General. He's seen his country's military defeated twice now, SURRENDERED twice in just a few decades. How he could keep his bearing like this would be a sight to see.
I don’t remember this episode of Friends.
The one with the genocide
The one with the nazis
The one where Winters is plowing rachel day & night
The one with Ross' Past life
LOL
The actor portraying the General is Wolf Kahler, born 3 April 1940 (age 75) in Kiel, Germany, A Classic Looking German only due to stereo typing. he was also in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Barry Lyndon, The Dirty Dozen: Next Miss, The Sea Wolves, The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly M. And right when he was starting out in acting, in 1976 he portrayed an SS Captain, one of two henchmen, coming for COL Riedel at the end of the movie. He is usually not credited for this role. We love you Wolf! Hope you are doing well.
He also read das boot on audio tape,an incredibly soothing voice. Unfortunately I only have it on cassette and cannot find a digital version.
He's in Raiders! I knew I recognised him from somewhere
He was fantastic as Colonel Herman Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)!
He was in War and Remembrance, as an SS officer
He also played a KGB agent in Firefox. So he wasn't just typecast as Nazis 😂
My great uncle was a Captain in the Panzer Lehr. Had nothing but great things to say about the American soldiers. He was wounded in Normandy, and returned to service in March when he was captured by the Americans near the Ludendorf bridge. He was in captivity for about a year, and then moved to NY. When he passed he still had one of his original uniforms which I have now, and he also had a 1911 pistol he had taken off a GI.
I keep coming back to this scene !
I was a German extra in this scene with some colleagues from work whilst he gave this speach. It was a fun day out.
did you get paid
Have you had a long and happy life in peace? You deserve it.
@@alexworldfan Yes I did get paid as an extra. Wasn't much, about £80. The experience of being on a real film set was great. Wolf Kahler (playing a Wehrmacht General) let me take my photo with him. He also starred in Raiders of the Lost Ark. David Schwimmer (Captain Herbert Sobel) was having a few retakes in a jeep behind me.
@@MarkCW How do you become an extra in a movie/show? Do you sign up for it?
@One of eight billion Yes they had a canteen and they laid on some good food for us.
“The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Faramir
Turin Turambar
Tolkien fought in the trenches in WWI.
Movie Nerd and the Lord Of The Rings was born
That is a Faramir quote, not a J. R. R. Tolkien quote. Do you also quote Saruman's lines of evil and attribute them to Tolkien? Tolkien wrote it, but it is the words of the character Faramir, not Tolkien himself. Of course Tolkien can and should be *credited* for writing them, but not *quoted.*
"I've thought about this often. That man [any German soldier] and I might've been good friends. We might've had a lot in common. He might've liked to fish, he might've liked to hunt. You never know. Of course, they were doing what they were supposed to do, and I was trying to do what I was supposed to do. But, under different circumstances, we might've been good friends." - Shifty
One of my favorite moments of the entire series.....great speech!!!!
This scene I've viewed many times, it still brings a tear to my eye. The average soldier dosen't care about politics, they just want to survive and go home to their families. God bless all those who have served in combat. ☮️🕯
When all the dust has settled the only real unanswered question is "why?".
Jewish people
That General uniform though. Goddamn that is nice.
+Black Onyx >>> It should have been obvious to everyone that the general was in a class above everyone else in the scene. His speech was so profound that the original members of the US company insisted that it be included in the series.
He looks like a scumbag criminal. Probably because that what they were.
@@Emanresuadeen low quality bait
We need a German version of Band of Brothers - ASAP.
GTOAviator GTFO you nazi swine.
Check out "generation war" very good series
GTOAviator Generation War is really good. Its not as long, but its fantastic. I think it surpasses Band of Brothers a little bit
Yeah they could've done more episodes with generation war.. I would say it's better than band of brothers
GTOAviator Generation War is definitely worth a watch. I just wish that series had a bigger budget so they could have done more scenes on the Eastern front.
I watched interviews from couple years ago with both German and British tank crews at the British tank museum. The German guys were just as proud of their medals and awards for their bravery and service, the same kind of awards we gave our folks. Except they were strongly discouraged or flat out forbidden to wear their medals in public.
Almost all had kept their medals nonetheless. It seemed sad. These were awards, not for being a Nazi, but for being a good soldier who did his duty the best way he could.
Now consider the WW2 German soldier's duty was to subdue Europe. They pledged direct allegiance to Adolph Hitler.
@@PatrickTyrrell-jd5zyand the British swore direct oaths to their monarch, and the soviets swore direct oaths to the state, what's your point kiddo?
German soldiers were doing what they at the time believed was right, hell a lot of the soldiers who invaded Poland believed it was justified due to a false flag attack that the SS and Hitler perpetrated in a border post
my own great grandfather was heavily opposed to Hitler and the Nazi Party, so much so that he gave up his ability to run his family store just because he didn't want anything to do with The Party
yet he believed Poland was attacking, as at the time there was a shitload of tension between Poland and Germany for almost 2 decades
@@PatrickTyrrell-jd5zylike any soldier their duty was to follow orders. Don’t mix up a noncommissioned soldier from the Wehrmacht with a strategist from the nazi party.
@@PatrickTyrrell-jd5zy if you were a young man fit for service and lived in a one-party totalitarian dictatorship in state of war, you paid allegiance or you were sent to a concentration camp.
True german soldiers wpuld have risen against the fascist nazi regime, not follow the orders of hitler. They sworn to follow hitler. They marched and the german population cheered for hitler, wasn't until they were lossing that they refused to call themselves nazis and never adress and ignore that part of their history.
This general had the oak leaf with swords on his collar. That's the mark of a man who truly earned it. Hitler didn't give out awards like that lightly. It was a truly special club.
>Turn on English Subtitles
>Die of laughter
OMG.. That's hilarious.
'Yeah top phone starts for our fatherland'
HAHAHAHAHAHHAH oh my god
The other 15 on longest she's lucky on lame and fleeting
"Hardened shared fossils" yea DD Krieg-Creek DD
I made a horrible mistake of hearing the General's speech with captions on.
LOL. Yeah, the translation for the closed captions was truly horrible. While no expert, I do know enough German, living in Germany for over a decade (Heidelerg, Mannheim, Germersheim, Idar-Oberstein, etc), to realize that.
I laughed when the general said diamond phone
"Folks, her limit is hardened"
It is sound based translation (Will associate sounds to form closest ENGLISH word) not translator lol
"yeah, top phone starts for our fatherland contempt fun"
One of the best scenes from Band of Brothers
Einfach nur ein Vorbild!!! Und eine geile Rede an seine Jungs. Das ist für mich ein Vorbild!!! Und jetzt Mal ohne Worte! Wir brauchen mehr davon. Danke an alle Großväter. Wir werden euch nie vergessen. !!!
If anyone is wondering the general is based on a real life General who surrendered his men in Austria to the Americans. He was Generalleutnant Theodor Tolsdorff. Very highly decorated, one of only a few to receive the "Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten", there were 27 men in total. He was nicknamed "Tolsdorff the Mad" by his men. He was quite young for a genral too, about 35 years old by the war's end.
Old Skool Wax thanks for the information Sir.
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the ritterkreuz ? sorry for my lack of german
Ritter = Knight, Kreuz = Cross. Knight's Cross with Oakleaves, Swords & Diamonds.
@@OldSkoolWax Wasn't Hans-Ulrich Rudel the one and only recipient of this specific version of the Ritterkreuz?
My Grandfather was an officer in WW2 with the Desert Rats. He was way from the UK from 1941 to 1946. He said he always respected the German soldiers. They were fine soldiers and they had good equipment.
The North Africa campaign is generally regarded as the theatre where traditional respect for the enemy was best observed - partly because of Rommel, partly because of the absence of SS troops. A 1 hour ceasefire was observed outside of battles to allow the soldiers a game of football or whatever they wanted to do.
At the western front there indeed the rules of war were kept most times.
While the eastern front went full warhammer 40k
My Grandfather was a sailor in the Kriegsmarine and his ship sank. He was saved by a british ship and was brought back to Germany later.
He has only spoke once about the war but said the same thing as you just wrote…they respected each other as men, only divided by Uniform and language, doing what they were told to do
my uncle was also in the desert with montgomery he said at night when it was bitch black they would listen to the german soldiers singing lily marlene from linda in scotland
"There are only 2 people who can really know a combat soldier, his fellow soldier, and his enemy."
People fail to realize the German general speech scene point is to show winters was listening to it and realizing he thought the same exact thing about his troops and it finally hits him in this scene. The speech in that sense is meant to be taken in by the band of brothers and the Germans, showing that war brings out ugly, but some of the strongest bonds imaginable.
This is so obvious that nobody feal the urge of describing it ...
I think many people realized this
"You will be my enemy tomorrow."
"You are still my enemy tonight...but even enemies can show respect"
There are no pacts between lions and men!
Troy
Troy
some british generals didnt showed respect with a handshake... pathetic
King Priam.
Probably the most powerful scene of many in this series. As a veteran I can completely relate to the General’s speech. The General did not even mention the war was lost, but spoke of his pride in how they served their country and each other. And that is exactly what being a soldier is about.
Being a soldier is about killing people.
🎉🎉❤ yess! For all: Krieg = keine Sieger! Da ist nur Leid und Elend! And then, all the kids in Germany have no Parents, so meny children of the ugly Ideologie from the Germany People! War is ending? Welcome to the next War in the neverending Story of dumbness 😮😅
I love the way Liebgott starts off sarcastically translating and then realises that what the general is saying resembles their experience of the war that he respects what the general is saying..
This was a great series, if you haven’t watched it, do, you won’t be disappointed.
I must have watched Band Of Brothers a dozen times, and Raiders of the Lost Ark even more often, but I just now figured out that the General surrendering is played by the same guy as the Nazi Colonel who got his face melted off when they opened the Ark...
Oh my...
+Mr. Pilgrim He got better.
+Leonardo's Truth I really thought this was a good speech. Band of Brothers isn't really epic, and its not meant to be epic in a cinematic or dramatic way. Its meant to be grounded. Band of Brothers is only ever really epic in battle scale, and thats because its meant to be accurate to the war. In fact, you can see the Easy Company people reacting like they relate to the sentiments that are being felt in the speech as it happens.
+Mr. Pilgrim I didn't know that.
Stanton Kellam No kidding, it's Wolf Kahler. Damn, he even was in the second Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr.
+Mr. Pilgrim "Perhaps the girl can help us. ... She mayknow much if... properly motivated."
My Dad was at Bastogne. He succumbed to frost bite and a Belgium family took him in and cared for him until he could walk. He was a machine-gunner. 25 years old.
Sorry for your loss . How old are you now
¿Cuántos años tienes tú ahora???😮
I have watched this scene 15 million times.. who are the other 4 million?
One of most honest moving scenes in the whole series