First Time Watching Band of Brothers - Episode 9 "Why We Fight " - Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2023
- Easy Company stumbles across a concentration camp.. What a complete shock it must be to think that the worst is over, only to find that World War II has more dark secrets to reveal.
Thank you to everyone for the recent boost of support we've received. I'll be staying away from the comment section for now as I don't want to fall on any spoilers, but I'm looking forward to binge-reading them all at the end of the series! Xx
Created by: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg
Stars: Ron Livingston, Ross McCall, James Madio, Tom Hardy
Original Series: Band of Brothers (2001)
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General Eisenhower gave orders that as many Allied troops as possible tour the camps. When someone asked why, he said that someday there would be people trying to deny that it had happened, and he wanted there to be too many witnesses to let that happen.
In the 1990s I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County. A fair number of Holocaust survivors had settled in the area and were still alive, though all quite elderly. Every year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, my battalion commander organized a lunch at the officers' club, mandatory attendance by all his officers. He invited all the local Holocaust survivors, and would ask one of them to give a talk. Then we shared the meal with all the survivors who came, sitting at round tables that seated eight, with one or two of the survivors at each table with us, and while we ate we talked with them.
I was always impressed with their cheerful attitude. One elderly Jewish man I knew summed it up as, "They tried to kill us. We're still here! Let's eat!" But so many of them had lost their entire families.
As for the local civilians claiming they hadn't known the camps were there, when the intel folks searched the administrative offices at the camps, they found filing cabinets full of letters from those local civilians requesting articles of clothing, shoes, etc., that had been worn by the people who were murdered, often specifying the size, style, and colors they wanted. Didn't know, my ass.
_As for the local civilians claiming they hadn't known the camps were there_
*Except for the civilians burying the dead at Kaufering IV, everything else shown in Band of Brothers is completely fictional. In reality, Easy Company stopped by two days after Kaufering IV had been liberated by the 12th Armored Division.*
Thank you for risking your safety for my freedom. Peace
"slap him with a fucking baguette" . This is the best reaction to the bakery scene with Webster.
I find it weird that they seem to have forgotten in this episode that Webster was a member of Easy who spoke German.
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@@gregsteele806 - I think it was done on purpose. Webster does not want to extend a courtesy to the baker, so he yells in English. He knows exactly what the guy is saying.
Dwight D. Eisenhower after inspecting a subcamp of Buchenwald: “We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now, at least, he will know what he is fighting against.”
We have a lot to thank Eisenhower for. When they began to find these camps, Ike ordered in the signal corps (the Army’s photographers and film makers) and told them to “record it all. Get it all on film because some day some son of a bitch is going to try to deny it ever happened.” I remember hearing that as a kid and thinking he must be a horrible pessimist….turns out he was right.
I've always been touched by the shot of Bull squatting with his back to the camp. He was the toughest man in a company of very tough men, and he couldn't deal with what he was seeing.
Me too
Spears looked as if he was fighting to keep from crying, too. It broke through even his shell. @76JStucki
"Oh well, wasn't me." is a coping mechanism. He can't break down and cry because he has to keep his head. Learning to deal with things in a way that only affects you is something you have to learn in the military and in certain jobs. When you are in private, later, then you can break down and have a cry.
This is the only episode of BOB that my father didn't watch with me. He served in the 10th Armor Division which in real life found the camp. Easy came later and I never asked him any questions because I understood why he wouldn't watch it. This show should be shown in every classroom in the world.
Absolute nonsense. The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is Kaufering IV which was actually found and liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945.
@@iammanofnature235 history is written by the victors. Or in this case written by the division that first arrived at the camps. The 12th might have been the first, but the 10th Armored, amongst many others, was there to help liberate Kaufering IV and more of the Dachau subcamps.
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_The 12th might have been the first, but the 10th Armored, amongst many others, was there to help liberate Kaufering IV and more of the Dachau subcamps_
There was a total of 11 camps that comprised the Kaufering camp complex plus additional camps that were part of the Mühldorf camp complex. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says that the 10th Armored Division overran one of those camps and says nothing about the 10th Armored having anything to do with Kaufering IV. The National WW2 Museum says _"On April 27, 1945, the 12th Armored Division reached Kaufering IV. The 101st Airborne Division arrived the next day, with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion and 36th Infantry Division arriving on April 30. The liberators found this Bavarian camp in one of the worst conditions of the Dachau subcamps."_ Again no mention of the 10th Armored Division.
The 10th Armored Museum in Abilene Texas has a section devoted to the liberation of a concentration camp, very sobering. Salute to your Father.
maybe show in classroom the slauther of 10 million native americans to?
My mom was 7 when the American soldiers came into her town outside Wurzburg. She remembered the townspeople cheering because they were so relieved it wasn't the Russian army.
The concentration camp inmates were played by cancer patients. Not all of them lived long enough to see the first episode of BoB released. And they were in even *better* shape than the actual camp inmates.
_And they were in even better shape than the actual camp inmates._
There were only about 7 prisoners found alive along with about 500 bodies when the camp depicted in Band of Brothers, Kaufering IV, was liberated by the 12th Armored Division.
This is a hard episode to get through without tearing up. The cast were kept in the dark so that their reactions would be genuine when first seeing the camp set. The prisoners were actually people who were cancer patients and they felt it was neccessary for the the scene to be as close to real as possible. Sadly a lot of them never got to see the aired show. Thank you for the reaction.
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When Nix said, "Oh well, it wasn't me," about the soldiers who blew up, he was being sarcastic.
As a kid of 13 in 1976 we moved to the Pico Robertson area of West Los Angeles a very Jewish area...me and my younger brother went to the donut shop that was run by 2 older Jewish ladies both with number tattoos on their arms...when we asked what were the number tattoos for I'll never forget their answer..."it's something too horrible for little boys to understand" that phrase 40 plus years still haunts me.
I have a Jewish friend who lost all four of her grandparents in the Holocaust. She's alive only because both of her parents, who were children at the time, were sent to America for safety before the war.
Your dog knows after this episode you need his comfort.
Why We Fight was the name of a series of films commissioned by US Government & made by Frank Capra to educate the soldiers on the background of the war. All the Easy Co. soldiers would have seen them.
They are all available to watch free on RUclips.
Hanks and Spielberg kept the actors (vets) away from "camp scene" until day of filming for their reactions. "Camp survivors" were cancer patients from nearby hospital. This episode always keeps very emotional of sadness of survivors and very angry with Nazis. Reason for soldiers stop giving food and water is that each survivor's health had to monitor correctly or eating to themselves to death.
I once bought a painting from a concentration camp survivor. He spoke perfect English and was open about his experiences but didn't remember much as he was just a kid at the time.
He lost his family and one of his thumbs in the camps.
When the discovery scene was shot, the actors were actually seeing the prisoners for the first time. The shock we see is actual shock.
There were a lot of cases after U.S. Troops caught up to some of the guards from these camps, where they executed them on the spot. You can imagine the emotional turmoil and rage they were experiencing after seeing these camps.
The Germans had begun evacuating the prisoners from the Kaufering complex camps two days before the camps were liberated, killing those who could not walk. When the camp depicted in Band of Brothers, Kaufering IV, was liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945, only about 7 prisoners were found alive (they had hidden in the latrine) along with about 500 bodies.
@@iammanofnature235they weren’t talking about this camp specifically jackass. They were talking about a couple camps that were liberated that the guards and generals of these camps were just straight up executed which is true.
I’ve noticed in all these reactions videos you are so smug and condescending.
When Nix said, "Oh well, it wasn't me." that wasn't callousness. For a man that was crying. Women are different in this regard.
I think a lot of people miss Nix is beyond worn out at that point. Your statement is true. I have known quite a few Nix who hide their pain in their drinking and internally.
Agreed, the remark wasn't "I survived, it's all that matters to me", but "I've seen so much death and random killing, that I have become completely mentally exhausted and desensitized to it, but I didn't get blown up this time, so I can't complain, right?". I mean that's pretty much the first half of this episode, Perconte snapping at O'Keefe, Nixon's alcoholism, Webster yelling at the marching German PoWs, everyone's losing their focus and have started questioning why they are still fighting the war. Once the second part comes around, the discovery of the concentration camp reminds them the reason.
Libgot crying
My father was in the Third Mechanized Division of the Third Army. Known as Brave Rifles. He discovered and liberated Ebensee. He was 22 years old. I have the photos he took. All I can say is, God Bless America. All of us. One and all.
i just wish our schools showed this. we must never forget
What is shown is Band of Brothers is a fictional representation of the liberation of Kaufering IV. In reality, Easy Company did not liberate the camp nor were there a large number of prisoners.
"I saw the Holocaust. I saw what it did to the Jewish people." - Major Richard Winters. He never understood how anyone could deny the Holocaust. The US military made it a point to photograph everything and preserve all records at these camps which would prove valuable as evidence in the war crimes tribunals that would come later.
There are people who deny the Holocaust ever happened, and then there are people who quibble over the number. The truth is, because of the scale, we'll never know the true extent of the horrors and even if a few people recorded as dead managed to escape, the difference between 6 million people and 5,999,995 people, should mean mean absolutely f**k all to anyone with half a decent conscience.
My mother was German. She used to tell us of the time when the Americans came into their village and into their courtyard. They held their hands up while the American soldiers pointed guns at them. My mum said she was terrified they'd all be shot. Then her youngest brother (just three-years-old) clicked his heels and gave a Nazi salute to the soldiers and shouted 'Heil Hitler!'. My mum said she burst into tears convinced they'd all be shot but the yanks just called her brother over then laughed and gave him chocolate.
wow!! what a story!
And that's when America was really great. When we displayed kindness instead of greed.
Why shoot the kid? Lol hes harmless
@@MJ-we9vuna, man - we can still be like that. We’ve still got it - we just need to show it like this generation did. We got hope for change, baby! This country has course corrected all throughout our history and we can do it again. I believe in the normal, every day people.
That's a really rough episode to go through, you took that one on the chin pretty well! And you're one of the few reactors I've seen, if not the only one, who immediately realized the problem with feeding the prisoners, before it's even brought up by Sink and the surgeon.
The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is Kaufering IV and in reality, there were only about 7 prisoners found alive when the camp was liberated by the 12th Armored Division.
Thanks! I remember loving learning parts of history, but important dates and names never stuck; it would always be the "not so important" things that teachers would quickly mention that stayed with me. It puts a smile on my face to know that my random knowledge is appreciated. Thanks Frenchie Xx
I remember my father telling me that during the blitz on London when the siren sounded they would run to the shelters. When the all clear sounded many came out too find their homes destroyed. All they could do was search amongst the rubble for anything they could salvage.
In my fathers case it was when he was home on leave as he was in the merchant navy and spent most of the war at sea.
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D Eisenhower. This series should be mandatory curriculum in every school in the world
_This series should be mandatory curriculum in every school in the world_
Band of Brothers is not suitable for inclusion as part of a history curriculum because it is highly fictionalized, including the camp liberation scenes.
@@iammanofnature7227 lmao but classes will watch saving private Ryan cause it’s such a true story
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_lmao but classes will watch saving private Ryan cause it’s such a true story_
The beach landing which is considered the most realistic ever filmed is often used to demonstrate the confusion and terror of the landing. Beyond that, Saving Private Ryan should never be used to teach history.
@iammanofnature7227 it can still be shown & then you can do units to compare/contrast reality versus the books (accounts from the ACTUAL soldiers) versus the movies. We did that plenty in high school with all kinds of movies including "Dr. Strangelove". So yes it absolutely SHOULD be covered. Schools barely bother with WW2 now let alone the camps nor the lessons about the rise of fascism.
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_it can still be shown & then you can do units to compare/contrast reality versus the books (accounts from the ACTUAL soldiers) versus the movies._
The books also contain erroneous claims.
You made me laugh when you said - "slap him with a fucking baguette" and you also did the action of slapping someone too. 😂
I lived in England from 1970 to 1974. One summer, my parents took us across the channel on a British Railway ferry to see the rest of Europe. (The English and French governments were still arguing about how to build the chunnel.) While in Germany, we visited Dachau concentration camp. I was 13 years old, yet I still remember that horrible place. I can still picture it in my mind some 51 years later, and it's still hard to fathom the evil that humans are capable of! This episode gets to me every time I watch it. I've really enjoyed watching your reactions to this great series, too. Well done, young lady. 👍👍
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Mozart was Austrian, like Hitler, Beethoven was German…
Germany wasn’t a single country until about 50 years after Beethoven died (in Austria), but yes, Beethoven was from what later became Germany.
I went to the Holocaust museum here in Houston. It wasn't a nice experience. I was heart broken for many days after going. It's so sad
“If anyone ever tells you the Holocaust didn't happen, or that it wasn't as bad as they say, no, it was worse than they say. What we saw, what these Germans did, it was worse than you can possibly imagine” Private Edward “Babe” Heffron
Out of all the reactions I’ve seen to this series, I have to say Amy you are the most clever and observant. I swear nothing gets by you, you notice everything.
The song they sang is a black humor cautionary tale of not being prepared:
"Blood upon the Risers (Gory Gory What a Helluva Way to Die)"
He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright
He checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight
He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar
You ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
"Is everybody happy?" cried the sergeant looking up
Our hero feebly answered, "Yes," and then they stood him up
He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked
And he ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock
He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop
The silk from his reserve spilled out and wrapped around his legs
And he ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones
The canopy became his shroud, he hurtled to the ground
And he ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
The days he lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind
He thought about the girl back home, the one he'd left behind
He thought about the medico's and wondered what they'd find
And he ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
The ambulance was on the spot, the Jeeps were running wild
The medics jumped and screamed with glee
Rolled up their sleeves and smiled
For it had been a week or more since last a chute had failed
And he ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
He hit the ground, the sound was splat, his blood went spurting high
His comrades, they were heard to say, "A helluva way to die."
He lay there rolling round in the welter of his gore
And he ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the chute
Intestines were a-dangling from his paratrooper suit
He was a mess, they picked him up and poured him from his boots
And he ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more
Edward R. Murrow, CBS radio broadcast, December 13, 1942:
"Let me tell you what's happened in the Warsaw ghetto . . . Ten thousand people were rounded up and shipped off. . . The infirm, the old and the crippled were killed in their homes . . . The others were put in freight cars; the floors were covered with quicklime and chlorine. Those who survived the journey were dumped out at one of three camps, where they were killed. At a place called Treblinka a huge bulldozer is used to bury the bodies . . . The Jews are being systematically exterminated throughout all Poland. . . All this information and much more is contained in a report issued by the Polish government. . . "
Oh, the world knew.
One think about in this episode, is the only shots fired in this episode is by the French Soldier outside the Barn, though never credited it is strongly believed that Tom Hanks played the French Soldier.
I dont think it is. Hanks is in the show though - he's one of the British Red Beret wearing soldiers in the Barn after Moose rescues them. The guy firing the shots does not appear to have the right jawline to be Hanks but it's such a quick shot that I cant be certain either way to be honest. As for the scene I believe the Germans are SS and the French were not particularly in a forgiving mood towards them after the atrocities committed in France.
my father helped liberate one of these camps during his push thru france to force the germans back to germany
the camp had 15000 dying people he said the smell you never forget and he didnt he would wake up 20 years later screaming from what he had seen. my father was my hero and to see this big man almost the size of hulk hogan crying it hits home
Imagine seeing all the horrors of War, then being speechless seeing this. "Why We Fight" is a nod to the legendary series made by Frank Capra, it was made while the War was still happening and the outcome was unknown....The German Woman wearing the stark red coat is interesting to me, maybe as a connection to the little Jewish girl who dies in Schindler's List. I don't think there are coincidences in Spielberg's work. Many of the camp prisoners were actually terminal cancer patients and the cast weren't even allowed to see it until filming began to get an honest reaction... Tom Hanks even makes a cameo as a French soldier executing a German soldier. Never Forget.
Tom Hanks Alert! 🚨12:15 👀
Amy, you are literally the first person of countless I have seen react to this series that recognized the concentration camp. I don't know how, but people are just surprised about the Holocaust.
In the 1960s, my father worked with an army vet who took part in liberating one of the camps. There had been "medical experiments" done to some of the prisoners. The vet told dad you just did not want to believe that people would do those types of things to other people.
I believe that by this point in the war Congress had outlawed the divorce of deployed military personnel. The petitioner had to wait until th man/woman returned home.
It was called the Soldiers and Sailers Relief Act..
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An I say again.
The Greatest Generation of our age. Lived through the Great Depression. Grew up during WW1. Fought in the biggest war to mankind in WW2. Stopped nazi Germany from Geniside. And Changed the World.
This is my first time seeing you. I like the way you react. You don't feel obligated to force a reaction; which is good. Doing nothing at all is still a reaction.
The comment at 22:08 is so true. Those eyes tell you he had seen the White Elephant and wanted nothing more to do with it.
Great reaction on a very tough episode to watch. I chuckled a little bit when you said,"Slap him in the head with a f*cking baguette."
I enjoyed your heartfelt review and comments very much. Please keep making more content, well done!
The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is Kaufering IV which was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945. For dramatic purposes, Easy Company is shown liberating the camp.
*From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:*
As US armed forces approached the Kaufering complex in late April 1945, the SS began evacuating the camps, sending the prisoners on death marches in the direction of Dachau. Those inmates who could not keep up were often shot or beaten to death by the guards. At Kaufering IV, the SS set fire to the barracks killing hundreds of prisoners who were too ill or weak to move.
When the 12th Armored Division and 101st Airborne Division arrived at Kaufering IV on April 27 and 28, respectively, the soldiers discovered some 500 dead inmates. In the days that followed, the US Army units ordered the local townspeople to bury the dead.
*From the U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum:*
At its height, the camp held more than 3,600 prisoners, but in the days before the 101st arrived, the SS had evacuated many of the prisoners on a death march south in the direction of Dachau. Hundreds of inmates were too ill or weak to make the trek, so the SS guards set fire to the barracks at Kaufering IV to prevent their liberation by U.S. troops.
When the US Army’s 12th Armored Division and 101st Airborne Division arrived at Kaufering IV on April 27th and 28th, in that order, the Soldiers discovered some 500 dead prisoners. In the days that followed, the U.S. Army units ordered the local population to bury the dead.
Yes yes, you can stop going all "ekshully" on every ep 9 reaction - we all know they used some artistic license in who freed what camp; that detail isn't really worth debating for this series, what is important is the message it conveys.
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I disagree.
I am a combat vet ( Vietnam ) this has been very hard for me to watch but I have stuck with you the whole time. I hope the next time we see an old man maybe we could say a kind word to them. None of us knows what they may have been through when they were young . I'm getting ols also and I hope someone is kind to me then also. God bless you.
Never forget,never repeat, always be vigilant to what seems easy. Thanks for sharing.peace
Even after the concentration camps were all liberated and the former prisoners received food and medical attention, nearly 50,000 still died due to their poor condition and rampant diseases among them.
I really enjoyed your content, you have a unique perspective on this topic. Please keep making more, I’ll be on the lookout for more! Thank you, well done!
If you look closely the "French man" exexcuting the German prisnoer, is played by Tom Hanks.
I think thats an Urban Myth - the jawline looks wrong. Hanks is in Crossroads though and can be seen wearing a Red Beret as one of the English Soldiers who had been rescued by Moose. The Frenchman could be Hanks but the jawline doesn't look right. You could be right but it doesn't look like him to me and I've never seen any confirmation that it is him. The Crossroads one is confirmed and stills clearly show him.
Slightly earlier in the series there is an epic cameo that almost everybody misses though - when the dark haired girl is sitting on one of the guys laps kissing him in Eindhoven before she gets dragged away and her head shaved - the man with the cap sitting in the foreground of the shot is the real Babe Hefron.
This episode is so shocking and should be required in every school to show what humans are capable of. To this day, we Germans are ashamed of everything our ancestors did out of blind hatred and patriotism. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can justify or make amends for these crimes.
I am grateful that the people of other nations have given us the chance to show that we are not all monsters. Otherwise I wouldn't be alive... THANK YOU!
The man shooting at the 12.23 mark is Tom Hanks.
Thanks for pointing that out, I never would have noticed.
Are you sure? He's in an earlier episode as a Red Beret that Moose rescued but the guy taking the shots appears to have a different jawline to Hanks. The cameo for Hanks is in Crossroads and you can see him quite clearly if only briefly amongst the red beret wearing English. The French soldier could be Hanks but the person appears to have a different shaped jaw to Hanks so I dont hink it is.
Oh theres a cameo almost everyone misses if you want to go see it but it's truly great once you see it. When they enter Eindhoven and the dark haired girl who gets her head shaved later is sitting on one of the guys laps kissing him (I want to say Talbot) the Dutch man sitting in the foreground with a cap on is Babe Hefron.
It's worth noting the reason why winters wasn't too sympathetic over Nix's divorce is that Nixon himself was cheating on his wife so... 😂
Buck Compton still disliked Nixon years later in interviews. I think he was a hard man to like but Winters did.
My grandparents weren't taken to a camp -- just to a gigantic hole in the ground full of dead bodies in the middle of a forest. And one bullet each to the back of the neck.
Never forget. It could happen today anyware in the world...
I am impressed. Most of the people watching this as a reaction channel don't guess that it's a camp. There isn't a lot for me to say to this one, but as a Vet I always understand why it's called "Why We Fight" even though we (allies) didn't know about the camps. Because these kind of things are the things that we fight to prevent. Never Again.
_Most of the people watching this as a reaction channel don't guess that it's a camp_
*The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is Kaufering IV which was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945. For dramatic purposes, Easy Company is shown liberating the camp.*
_I always understand why it's called "Why We Fight" even though we (allies) didn't know about the camps._
*This is absolute nonsense. Why do people continue to claim that the camps were unknown? Dachau became operational in 1933, six years before the war in Europe began on September 1, 1939, and its opening was reported in U.S. newspapers. Many other camps were also operational before the war including Sachsenhausen (1936), Buchenwald (1937), Mauthausen (1938), Flossenbürg (1938), and many more and were also reported in U.S. newspapers. Perhaps it's because many people get their history from fictionalized movies?*
Allied intelligence knew about the concentration camps, but didn't know they were used for mass murder.
I've seen a few reactions to this ep., and you're the only one that knew what they found before they showed it! IDK if they even teach WW2 history in schools anymore
To get authentic reactions, the actors had never seen the camp until they filmed the scene
Thank you for taking us on this journey with you! It's a powerful journey....and a very educational one too.
You are so welcome!
Thank you. An excellent reaction as always. Have a lovely week after a difficult episode. For anyone who denies there is actual "EVIL" in the world...they should be required to watch this and visit one of the camps.
_they should be required to watch this and visit one of the camps_
What is shown in Band of Brothers is fictional...Easy Company did not liberate any camps. In addition to going to the camps, I would suggest the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and for research the Arolsen Archives located in Germany.
Bit of movie trivia: In the scene where German prisoners are being executed by French soldiers (12:23), Tom Hanks is the officer with the pistol.
People say that but I have neer seen confirmation of this and stills indicate that the man does not appear to have Hank's jawline. He definitely ahs a cameo in Crossroads as one of the rescued Red Berets though and stills confirm this.
If you want an epic cameo that most everyone misses. Go to the scene where they enter Eindhoven and the dark haried girl sits on one of their laps kissing him prior to be dragged (it might be Talbert I for get who). In the foreground there is a Dutch man wearing a cap - it's the real Babe Hefron.
"They found the camp afire and a stack of some four hundred bodies burning ... American soldiers then went into Landsberg and rounded up all the male civilians they could find and marched them out to the camp. The former commandant was forced to lie amidst a pile of corpses. The male population of Landsberg was then ordered to walk by, and ordered to spit on the commandant as they passed. The commandant was then turned over to a group of liberated camp survivors"
The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is not Dachau, it is Kaufering IV which was a labor subcamp of Dachau. Contrary to what is shown in Band of Brothers, Kaufering IV was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945.
@@iammanofnature235 Kaufering was a system of eleven subcamps of Dachau concentration camp located around the town of Landsberg and Kaufering. The following divisions are recognized for playing a part in the liberation of the camps in that area: 4th Infantry Division, 36th Infantry Division, 42nd Infantry Division, 45th Infantry Division, 63rd Infantry Division, 99th Infantry Division, 103rd Infantry Division, 10th Armored Division, 12th Armored Division, 14th Armored Division, 20th Armored Division, and the 101st Airborne Division.
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You seem to have left out the 12th Armored Division.
*From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:*
*_During its penetration of southern Germany, the 12th overran one of the many subcamps of Dachau in the Landsberg area on April 27, 1945._*
*_Recognition as a Liberating Unit_*
*_The 12th Armored Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988._*
*_As US armed forces approached the Kaufering complex in late April 1945, the SS began evacuating the camps, sending the prisoners on death marches in the direction of Dachau. Those inmates who could not keep up were often shot or beaten to death by the guards. At Kaufering IV, the SS set fire to the barracks killing hundreds of prisoners who were too ill or weak to move._*
*_When the 12th Armored Division and 101st Airborne Division arrived at Kaufering IV on April 27 and 28, respectively, the soldiers discovered some 500 dead inmates. In the days that followed, the US Army units ordered the local townspeople to bury the dead._*
In contrast the 101st Airborne Division became a liberating unit in 1998 when the criteria was changed to include those units who arrived within 48 hours of a camp liberation.
@@iammanofnature235 I actually put the 12th and 10th Armored in bold but apparently RUclips didn't like that so removed it.... Fixed now
Talking about 'Evil'
I advice you to watch the Way Back with Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan...
The Killing Fields with Sam Waterston, John Malkovich, Haing S.Ngor...
Warriors (Peacekeepers) with Damian Lewis (Richard Winters in Band of Brothers), Matthew Macfayden, Ioan Gruffud.
Hotel Rwanda with Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte...
The more you watch the more you learn. One old film called the World at War was filmed back in the 1970's. If you have not seen it be sure you do. The concentration camps were different from the extermination camps. Those were geared for quick killings of the Jews by gas. Concentration camps used the Jews for labor till they died which was not long. All the major camps were located on or near the rail lines. The reason the German civilians were sent to the camps were to insure that later on they could not say they did not exist. However, I remember reading where a regular German soldier finally came home after the war. At dinner with his whole family he brought up one relative was stationed at one of the death camps. His grandmother told him if he ever mentioned it again he would be thrown out of the family. I think that was typical for German families at the time.
The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is Kaufering IV which was one of eleven labor subcamps of Dachau located in the Landsberg area of Germany known as the Kaufering complex. The camp was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945. For dramatic purposes, Easy Company is shown liberating the camp.
Thank you for your humanity in reacting to this.
21:51 Don't forget to pay attention that despite this being General Knowledge, at this point, there has been a surge of people boldly marching around the US in Third-Reich uniforms, bearing Nazi symbols, even on flags and banners.
Many of us forgot.
Thank you for the reaction. Very emotional episode.
Someone has recoloured footage from the Bergen-Belsen concentrate campand the captured camp personal forced to work the burial details, and it is fucking haunting.
The Tittle of the episode hit so hard.
Why we fight.
what a sweet puppy, he knew you were sad
It was only in this reaction that I noticed the black ribbon on the photo of the German Woman's (presumed) husband. People in other reactions commented on him being dead, and I hadn't noticed the mourning ribbon until now! Get something new out of all these different reactions to this series! Thanks!
Throwing the picture on the floor and breaking it in her house is incredibly disrespectful, but then seeing his widow at the camp and her realizing what her husband was a part of, makes her husband undeserving of any respect.
It's possible that like many Camp staff the husband had committed suicide in the days and weeks prior to the events shown. Some of them simply did not want to face the consequences of their actions and instead took the quickest way out.
I hate to tell you this but America knew about the existence of the camps previously because of error reconnaissance photos which were taken over Germany. Once Upon a Time at a volksfest, I happen to have a beer with an old German who was drafted into the army at the age of 15 in 1945. It was a very sobering experience about what was life like for the Germans during World War II.😢
People often forget that Liebgott (translating at the camp) is Jewish and hear that the prisoners were too.
_People often forget that Liebgott (translating at the camp) is Jewish_
Liebgott was Catholic not Jewish, and he did not translate at the camp. What is shown in Band of Brothers is fictional...Easy Company did not liberate a concentration\labor camp.
_and hear that the prisoners were too._
There were only about 7 prisoners found alive along with about 500 bodies when the 12th Armored Division liberated the camp depicted in Band of Brothers, Kaufering IV.
@@iammanofnature235 There's debate about Liebgott - many of the men he served with indicate he was Jewish but we know his children were raised Catholic and he had attended Catholic school. He was pretty tight lipped about his life before getting married to his family. The assumption seems to be that he and his family probably was Jewish and converted to Catholicism at some point. That or he just couldn't be bothered to refute the assumption he was Jewish. Given the anti-Semitism prevalent at the time it seems unlikely he would let people think he was Jewish if he wasn't though.
That said there are a lot of recollections that seem to be at odds with reality - Dike for instance won a Bronze Star at Bastogne for dragging 3 injured men to safety - most accounts seem to indicate he was both brave and competent but at Bastogne and then Foy his behaviour seemed to be deteriorating much like Buck Comptons was. He was reportedly hit in the shoulder heading into Foy but the show makes out he just loses it.
It's the nature of memory I guess where if you get 10 different peoples version of events you will get 10 different versions. In Liebgott's case I dont know if we can ever be certain if they were Jewish people pretending to be Catholic, had converted sometime or just had a vaguely Jewish features and name. It may simply be the case that whilst he and his family were no longer Jewish they still retained some identification with the religion and the people that practiced it. We will probably never truly know. No matter what it appears he was a fine and brave man and thats all that truly matters.
when easy saw those french soldiers shoot those german soldiers at the warehouse the one who was shooting was Tom hanks
Actually that seems to be an urban myth. Hanks cameos in Crossroads as a Red Beret - if you look for a still of that you can see him clearly. If you look at that picture so you can see his facial features at the time of filming and look at the man in the French uniform you will see that the jawline and facial features are quite a bit different to the man we know to be Hanks in Crossroads - so the guy doing the shooting is the same sort of height and build but is unlikely to be Hanks. The guy here seems to have a very different nose, eyes and chin than Hanks. From a distance there is a resemblance but when you pause a highish quality video of the scene with the French officer it definitely does not appear to be Hanks.
If you want an epic cameo that almost everyone misses - go to when they enter Eindhoven and the dark haired girl who ends up getting her head shaved sits on one of the guys laps kissing him (it might be Talbert) sitting in the foreground of the shot there is a Durch man in a cap - it's the real Babe Heffron.
This episode brings a tear to my eye everytime I see it 😪
Refeeding syndrome would have been a huge concern, yes--horrifically enough, the chemical imbalance caused by giving a person dying of starvation any kind of decent food can kill them.
It's never mentioned in the series but, in real life, NIxon had a mistress back in London. If the TV audience had known this, they wouldn't have quite as much sympathy for Nixon.
Soup of the Day is dark as hell. No wonder they depict these guys eating raw flour. I'm never gonna try that again, but i guess when you're kicked that far down you'd eat as much as you can get.
Great reaction
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The prisoners were played by alot of cancer patients and people with terminal illnesses and agreed to help portray such a important historical event
Also the cast knew the basic layout of the scene but were not shown the set until the first tske which is shown here. They had animal waste and other things ect to make it smell horrid and make it as realistic to the cast as it looked to the audience
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I was trying to figure out where I heard this story but it was a guy at a gun store I'm trying to find a scope for one of my rifles,he lost a childhood friend because this friends girlfriend said I guess where Hitler failed was he didn't finish the job 😡🤦🏻♂️
you have a good heart.
Thank you.
Don't forget the concentration camps the British invented in the Boer war, in which 48,000 people died. We invented them.
So, what are you suggesting, that because the British committed atrocities during the Boer War, then what the Nazis did wasn't so bad. Is that what you think? Someone else will probably chime in and say that Stalin had even more people massacred. When faced with the enormity of the Holocaust, too many resort to: well, what about the Gulags and what about what Mao did, and so on. In this episode, we are shown Americans (many of whom cynically dismissed the reports of German atrocities against the Jews), but , finally, they saw and THEN they realized what they had been fighting against. And they saw that they had helped to bring down the vilest, the most morally corrupt regime in recorded history. They saw that , after all, they had been fighting for a great cause and that all their suffering was worth it.
please watch Peaky blinders
I've seen the Peaky Blinders, it's one of my favorite series Xx
good men are the easiest thing looked over.
That they are.
@@amylorraine3776 you live only once.
@@amylorraine3776 my younger sister has a 3 year old with no father. he is an innocent child. i will be there for him.
@@amylorraine3776 my younger sister has a 3 year old who was abandoned by his father. he is an innocent child. i lost my father when i was 4 ,
i am a father to my youngest sisters son.
If you want to get an idea of how the Jews, and other ethnicities were treated, you should react to Schlinder’s List.
It is a must see for everyone, especially since some countries, especially in Europe, are moving to the far right!
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
_"Schindler's List,"_ like Band of Brothers, is a fictionalized version of actual events. _"Schindler's List"_ is based on a novel written by Thomas Keneally called _"Schindler's Ark"_ which is fictional representation of Oskar Schindler's attempts to save some Jewish workers. It won the 1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.
@@iammanofnature235 - I know someone whose father is a Schindler Jew. So keep your mouth shut!!!!
What kind of image quality is this?? Did u shot it with a webcam from the 2000’s?
Did you see the woman who looks like you?
Yes, i was curious :)
Work camps were known, not death camps.
The locals knew. They knew. The guards would have gone to town during their time off. They would have gotten drunk and talked. They would have told their girlfriends and wives. There would have been contracts to deliver food and supplies to the camp and those people would have seen. People knew, but not officially so they had plausible deniability so when the allies showed up they claimed ignorance.
@@ronweber1402 A brutal work camp. The death camps were further East.
@@williambranch4283 The locals still would have known. It doesn't matter if the camp is in the east the locals around those camps would have known.
@@ronweber1402 Poles?
@@williambranch4283 Sure, why not? Plenty of Poles turned in their Jewish neighbours. Plenty collaborated or went along with the Germans, same as the French, especially the Vichy government that was installed after the German takeover of France. The locals would have known even if they were too terrified to say anything as they would have been next if they did.
Look upon Socialism and remember the Nazis for who they are
If you really think about it, governments throughout the world have to use "Kids" because they have not lived long enough to learn any better; older men have. If older/wiser men were told to go and fight for some governments political agenda, there would never be any wars.
Uh, no. War is a young man's purview because they have faster reflexes and can go without sleep longer than old men can.
Many miss it. The lady in the red coat is the woman whose house Captain Nixon went to looking for whiskey. Her husband was a high ranking officer living in the town near the camp. 5 will get you 10 he was the commandant who ordered the last minute shootings and burned huts with people in them.
Unlikely. The black ribon on the photo means that he was already dead.
Yeah, no, he was already dead (mourning ribbon on frame), not to mention his uniform is Wehrmacht, not SS.
Given his rank, it's possible he knew of the camp, but he had nothing to do with operating the camp.
Absolute nonsense. Except for the civilians burying the dead at Kaufering IV, everything else shown in Band of Brothers is completely fictional. In reality, Easy Company arrived two days after the camp had been liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945, and stayed only a couple of hours before moving on.
I hate this one for you.
it sux
I would like to recommend two episodes. First, do a reaction to full service gas. Next, do a first time watching how lame your channel is. Reaction videos are the trailer park of social media content....
Not buying your reaction.
I was stationed in West Germany with the US ARMY in 1971 and I visited DACHAU the very first camp the Nazis built and I will tel you you could still FELL the Evil even in 1971
I don't doubt you for a second. Enough evil has probably happened there to last a few lifetimes.
What kills me is my grandfather who fought in Europe told me about these camps. American students nowadays are lied to by school administrators and teachers that the holocaust never happened. Then why is it some of grandfather's worst nightmares were from when they discovered these death camps. What a low down shame lie after lie will be told in an attempt to cover up history and tragedy and horrors that really took place