Band of Brothers Episode 9 REACTION!! | “Why We Fight”
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- In this heartfelt reaction video, I dive into the intense world of World War II history with Band of Brothers Episode 9. Join me as I experience the raw emotions, shocking revelations, and powerful storytelling that unfold in this pivotal episode.
Synopsis: Easy Company, now in Germany, faces the aftermath of war. As the conflict winds down, disillusionment sets in. But everything changes when they stumble upon an abandoned Nazi concentration camp. The atrocities they witness leave them speechless and redefine their understanding of sacrifice and heroism.
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00:00 Intro
00:32 Reaction
31:35 After thoughts & Outro
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"I don't need to see this!". EVERYONE needs to see this!
Everyone should have to see this. A very visceral reminder of why we fought, and why we need to continue to fight ideologies based on evil.
Many of the camp prisoners were played by people suffering from cancer and undergoing chemo, giving them that malnourished/emaciated look.
The actual prisoners were in far, far worse condition than what's depicted in the episode.
The music in this episode is just flawless, it hits you right in the feels, on top of what you're seeing with your eyes.
And TV cannot convey the stench from that kind of mass death, decay and disease. It would be unimaginable.
Leibgott was actually roman catholic but his mother was Jewish and German if i remember correctly. Under the Nazi's he would potentially have ended up in a place like this. So you can see how hard it is for him to tell them they need to stay in the camp
"How can people do this to other people?"
When individual rights are subjugated by collective rights, then any horror is possible "for the greater good."
It's just crazy ain't it? 😢
VERY WELL STATED.
I do love the scene where O'Keefe stops and goes its too quiet etc and Randleman backs him up and goes "hes not wrong fellas" like the newest guy there notices somethings wrong before all the experienced guys. And randleman backs up his instincts. Must have felt like a lot of praise for him
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” was published in 1943.
From Wikipedia: The book was an immense success. It was also released in an Armed Services Edition, the size of a mass-market paperback, to fit in a uniform pocket. One Marine wrote to Smith (the author) “I can't explain the emotional reaction that took place in this dead heart of mine... A surge of confidence has swept through me, and I feel that maybe a fellow has a fighting chance in this world after all."
There are many accounts of survivors overeating after starving and dying from it.
Disease was also rampant. It was a horrible but necessary decision that they had to keep them contained to help them properly.
Imagine seeing all of the horrors of War that these people have witnessed...Then being speechless seeing this. "Why We Fight" is a nod to the epic Frank Capra WW2 series that was being shown during the War back home. I really believe Spielberg intentionally has the Nazi woman in the vivid red coat as a direct reference and connection to the little Jewish girl in Schindler's List. I don't think there are coincidences in his films...The actors weren't even allowed to see the set until the day of shooting, they wanted to get a genuine reaction from them. While the prisoners were some actual cancer patients who wanted to be a part of this. What shocks me is how surprised most people are reacting to this, having no idea what they were about to see...I think we get so immersed in the characters and immediacy we lose track of the big picture and tragedy. Never forget.
Tom Hanks Alert! 13:20 🚨
It was a shocking reminder of how awful it really was which is why it was so powerful.
Fair play to George Luz for taking “no” for an answer!
Didn't recognize Tom in the bedroom scene but did mail office.😁
26:07 It's called refeeding syndrome. Suddenly jumping a bunch of food on them after they've been starved for a prolonged time and their metabolic system all but shut down can lead to what could be described as total organ failure.
The actors were given an option to view the set beforehand but noone took up the offer as they wanted their reactions to be as genuine as possible like the soldiers would have been when they saw it for the first time
One of the most heartfelt reactions I have seen. And I knew exactly what you meant. While the allies fought the war for all the right reasons, Hitler and his cronies started a war that should have never been. I do like how they made a good attempt at lightening the episode with George, Bull and Perconte in the woods talking about Batogne. And how they showed Perconte racing back to the camp to tell someone. Heartbreaking.
Glad you saw it the way I was trying to explain it ❤️ It was a genuinely heartbreaking scene to be honest
Be sure to watch the accompanying HBO documentary “We Stand Alone Together” after the miniseries. Lots of context from the men, including about the events of this episode, senior officers discussing how they felt about the men looting and ordering German homes to be used to shelter their men - and much more, Including archival footage and a bit about their postwar lives and relationships with each other. It’s a perfect capstone / episode 11 to the miniseries.
The French soldiers who shot the Germans had found them hiding (i.e: had not surrendered). The frogs were pretty famously not nice to Germans at the close of the war. Not war crime level like those Canadians can be …but still.
Many of the extras in the concentration camp were cancer patients - many didn’t live to see the tv series air but wanted to participate given the subject matter importance.
And no the regular German Whermacht soldier usually didn't know about this. The camps were run by the SS. Workcamps like this one had the prisoners work on tank and plane factories, build railroads and stuff on minimal food and water intill they died. The deatchamps were blundly said factories, people came in, were tortured, experimented on or just killed straight away
Regarding Nixon's wife divorcing him it was not an uncommon thing to happen to soldiers during the war. Most of these men were recently married just before getting called up and then spending 2+ years away with letters being the only way to communicate with their loved ones. Because communication was so limited rumors started flying that the men were having affairs overseas or visiting brothels (and many were). This along with that fact that many of these women had to take on full time jobs to provide for their young families and that they might one day receive a letter that their husband was killed, possibly months ago, lead many women to either have affairs themselves or look for new partners outright.
This lead to what were known as "Dear John Letters" basically code for I'm leaving you or I'm getting a divorce. These letters were dreaded by soldiers and whenever one was received it cause the soldier to lose morale and become much less effective. It got so bad at one point the US government forbade the wives of soldiers to file for divorce until after the war ended.
Now Nixon was one of the cases where he absolutely deserved it as he actually was having an affair with a woman in England and apparently wasn't a great husband beforehand.
As horrific as this is. You need to see "The Fallen of World War 2" to understand the scale of this tragedy.
That a movie?
@@TheNerdyverse-DannyReacts no, a video here on YT, gives perspective.
@@TheNerdyverse-DannyReacts No it's more of a presentation, no fancy special effects or acting. Just reality.
The design of the camp etc and depiction in the show is exceptionally accurate many Survivors and Holocaust historians etc have said.
They got cancer patients undergoing treatment etc to play the part of the victims/concentration camp inmates. As horrible as this is to say the real life ones would have been even thinner etc think the guy that was being carried by the other one thin.
Another Tom Hanks Cameo. The French soldier executing the Germans on the side of the road is him. He was also in the crowd of the British Red Devils when they were partying with Easy after Moose Heilyger led the evacuation of Operation Pegasus.
Also the actors never saw the set until the shooting of the scene so their reactions were genuine. Plus many of the prisoner extras never saw the show make it to air, most were cancer patients getting or about to get treatment and didn’t survive long enough.
Wow I didn’t know that. That’s quite sad tbh 😥
It's not Tom Hanks, it's just a common misconception repeated far too often. The guy looks like Tom Hanks but that's not him. Hanks has a cameo in Ep5 as one of the Red Devils, and in Ep8 he provides the voice of the wounded German left on the far side of the river, those are the only 2 instances of him being in an episode.
They kept the actors away from the concentration camp set until the filming in order to get genuine reactions from the soldiers. The French soldier who executed the German prisoners was played by Tom Hanks.
Correction they offered to all the actors if they wanted to view it beforehand and every one said no because they wanted their own reactions to be first time geniune
It's not Tom Hanks, it's just a common misconception repeated far too often. The guy looks like Tom Hanks but that's not him. Hanks has a cameo in Ep5 as one of the Red Devils, and in Ep8 he provides the voice of the wounded German left on the far side of the river, those are the only 2 instances of him being in an episode.
Nixon wasnt with mates he was sent along as an observer to take part in, advise and watch this paratroop jump to cross the Rhine with another paratroop regiment. One of a few people to take part in all the allied Paradrops of the war.
Unfortunately the plane was hit over the jump all of them except him and i think one other died and he had to write all the letters home despite knowing nothing about them.
the Germans that were being executed outside of the barn were killed by French troops and I’m sure after four years of occupation they weren’t too keen on letting the Germans off the hook. Also the French soldier who kills the prisoners was played by Tom Hanks.
The soldiers being shot were French citizens who joined the German forces. That's why they were being shot; for treason.
My understanding is that the French soldiers executed members of the SS Charlemagne brigade and they were being executed as traitors.
Make sure you watch the follow up to the series where they interview the men from Easy Company. We Stand Alone Together.
Regarding the survivors reaction to being put back in the camp. Leipgot basically told them what they were told many times before it is for your good that we are putting you here.
Regarding feeding the survivors. The BBC made a great film called Relief of Belsen. It is about the struggles to create proper nourishment. British army doctors struggled fpr many days to formulate proper nutrition for the survivors with many thousands dying after liberation.
One of the E-Company Men stated, "It was 1000 times worse than depicted in BoB."
This is what happens when leaders declare that some people are less than human, animals or even cockroaches. It wears down the humanity in people, especially when the followers believe the same thing.
I recommend the movie Conspiracy from 2001. It’s a movie based on the surviving records of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting where the final solution was finalised. The movie shows how indifferent they, especially the SS, were to Jews and other groups they saw as “impure”, “weak” & “inferior races”.
You may also recognise Glory glory song as its adapted versions used by some famous football teams
The Soviets liberated Mauthausen, Majdanek and the one probably being describe by Winters, Auschwitz
I am always shocked when some reactors, and there are some, that had no clue about this. None. It's a shock to the system when you see somebody who doesn't know and you have to wonder, how just how?.
Of course I knew but it’s hard to see it on screen I think. (Obviously not as hard as in person back then) - it’s more just shocking to again be reminded how awful humanity can be at times
This scene broke me. And to think there were worse camps than this one. All those guards should have been put in prison or better yet give them all to the Jews that were treated this way. I can’t even wrap my mind around this. I have done a lot of research and watched many documentaries. The things these guards did was unthinkable and pure evil.
Its funny how that one kid with the small role has had a bigger film career than all of them.
Very true
Facts about this liberation the camp that they found was not the main one but one of the 11 sub camps of the larger dachau camp it was also liberated by some Japanese Americans as well
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Easy company didn't discover this work camp of Dachau but they did see it. In many ways this one is the most inaccurate to easy companies story because the Survivors wouldn't talk about what they saw it was too horrific so the show makers had to guess who was definitely there etc.
When you talk about what they lost, they did it to themselves. The German nation almost wholeheartedly embraced Hitler. After WW1, the German nation had a victim mentality. This is what allowed Hitler to come to power, the stabbed in the back excuse. Pershing kept pushing the attack up until the 11th hour on Nov. 11, 1918. Many families despised him for that, due to casualties. But Pershing knew that in 20-30 years if we did not make Germany feel like she had been beaten we would be right back at this again. German did not officially surrender until later; they just signed an armistice. This did not make them feel defeated. Thats why in WW2 the Allies stated it would be 'Unconditional Surrender for both Germany and Japan.
My father served in WWII and was in France to push out the Germans back to Germany. After some time in Germany he helped liberate a concentration camp he had nightmares about it 25 years later it was a death camp not a working camp like this one
😢😢 that’s really sad - it’s crazy to think this happened still I feel 😩
As a german, seeing the votes for the fascistic, neonazi, right-wing-party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) reaching ~30% in some states makes me so distraught. We are heading in the same exact direction once again, haven't learned a bit from our past.
After all the cruelty we caused during those dark years, it is now time to fight against those tendencies in our country with whatever means necessary. For we owe it to the world and to our past. Never forgive, never forget.
I agree with you
All wars aren't stupid. All wars are horrific but some are necessary. And the war against a regime that killed more than six million Jews and another six million for the "crime" of not being pure enough is not only justified it's a duty for any decent human being. Listen to the men at the start of each episode. They didn't enjoy what they had to do but knew they had to do it.
Don't take my words literally - if you really listen I am trying to say I wish we don't have to start wars at all. I am calling Hitler in this example an idiot and having a stupid reason for killing. We were right to go to war to stop it - I am annoyed at why we have stupid people like Hitler gaining enough power to do things like that.
This war was not fought over "stupid reasons". This wasn't some pissing contest between countries. This war was fought by the Allies because if they had not, tyranny, oppression and continued slaughter of anyone not fitting the mold in Hitler's new world order (let's leave Japan's aspirations out for the moment) would have won. Hardly a "stupid reason" to fight.
I don’t mean it like that - it’s a good reason we fought to stop it all. I’m saying what a stupid reason it was to do what Hitler did. Just a dumb reason that caused an awful amount of pain and suffering
The real stupidity occurred in the 20s and 30s. Hitler wrote a book while in prison called Mein Kampf. In it he spewed his theories about the Master Race, and Jews being untermenschen (subhuman). Despite that he was ELECTED CHANCELLOR in 1933. Then he did everything he said he would. Including rearming Germany, against the Treaty of Versailles. Treaties are only paper…unless enforced. France could have ended Hitler in 1935 with one division.
You cannot negotiate with those who have sworn to kill you…and all your kind.
Today Hamas is the same. Literally.
'prisoner encampment' are you fucking kidding me?
Calm down - just a slip of the tongue
@@TheNerdyverse-DannyReacts slip of the tongue lost me half way through the watch but carry on
I think it's implied that that woman's husband was in charge of the camp.
And similar shit is happening in Ukraine and Gaza now.
It’s really sad to know these things continue to happen. When will we learn from our lessons
The woman's husband was regular Wehrmacht who was killed in action (the Black Ribbon on the picture that Nixon holds up). I would like to think that the woman had an air of defiance when we first meet encounter her in that her husband had died fighting for the Germany. The next time the two encounter one another she is like "This is what my husband fought for?" and the shame that is starting to sink in.
Gaza? Name one and the individual running it.
I don't think you understand what the holocaust was. You reacted more to "jews" but the holocaust wasn't just Jews. It was anyone they deemed as unworthy; whether that be Jews (mainly) but also disabled people, foreign people, anyone they deemed as not being perfect.
I know it wasn't just "Jews" - apologies if it seemed that way. I think in the moment I got emotional and maybe said it like that.
man's inhumanity to man is never ending, it has existed for thousands of years and continues to this day. welcome to the human race.
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