BAND OF BROTHERS Episode 9: Why We Fight - FIRST TIME REACTION
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For more realism, most of the actors in the concentration camp were actually cancer patients on chemo. The producers were worried about the toll it would take on them but every single one of them stayed because the story was too important.
I always wondered how they did that! It makes perfect sense with how frail they look.
And yet even then they weren't as gaunt and emaciated as the real prisoners
@@heffatheanimal2200 Yeah but you can't really simulate that emaciation safely.
@@shugaroony yeah, exactly
Holy shit. Mad respect
The actors were given the option of seeing the replicated camp just before filming but all refused as they wanted their reactions etc to be genuine
Nix worked for army intelligence. His job was give his bosses information from the front lines. Troop movements, numbers, interrogate captured German's, and such.
He was the battalion S-2. He was not "Army Intelligence"
@@eq1373 S-2 is the intelligence officer.
@@noregerts5247 The intelligence section, but yeah.
@@rollomaughfling380 S-2 is the intelligence section, but the S-2 is the intelligence officer.
@@eq1373 He was an infantry officer by training but the intelligence officer by assignment.
The people in the town can't all claim to be innocent of knowing what was happening in the camps. Someone in town warned the soldiers to leave.
What, you mean like the woman who Nixon broke the photo?
_Someone in town warned the soldiers to leave._
No one from the town warned the soldiers to leave. What is shown in Band of Brothers is almost entirely fictitious. The 101st actually arrived the day after Kaufering IV was liberated by the 12th Armored Division and there were only a handful of prisoners found alive, along with about 500 bodies.
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 National WW2 Museum:
_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._
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._
Many Germans knew. They just didnt care enough to risk their lives speaking out about it
Yep, even into the 1950s vets would say how bad some of the towns smelled because the camp was upwind of the town. My dad’s school teacher told him about it he said there was no way those people didn’t know what was going on in those camps or didn’t know about them, he said someone had to have gotten curious and went to investigate the stench at some point.
"Why is he carrying all that silver?" Because he's stealing it haha
To the Victors, go the Spoils.
In the book, he sends all.that silver and loot home and his wife takes it and runs off with another guy. Poor ol Spiers.
The entire episode Perconte calls the replacement O' Brian. The only time he calls him O' Keefe is in the camps. I absolutely love that.
In the last episode, Perconte is playing baseball. He is put out at home, and later Winters says “A fast man would have had it, Perco.” We later learn that after the war Perconte works a mail route. I always thought that was a clever little joke.
Once he calls him O'Flanagan. :D
@@Nloveru that one made me laugh
@Old White Dude It was an excellent movie. I didn't know but realize " Perconte " was Dustin's son.
It is called "refeeding syndrome" you can't just feed staved people (or animals) it requires a special controlled diet and time.
Yea as hard as it would be to lock the poor victims back up in the camps they had to... it was the only way to monitor their health and give them the nutrients they could handle. Otherwise they would have fanned out among the cities/countryside and many more would have died. I cant imagine having to keep them locked up though.. it had to take such a toll on the doctors and everyone involved
When the war started they knew they were going to be liberating emaciated prisoners.
Conscientious objectors who would not fight volunteered for an experiment where they would be starved and then brought back to health. That helped save millions of lives
@@jamesricker3997 Very true but they thought they were going to be liberating POW's not innocent civilians (including women and children) who were subjected to slave labor.
When General Patton was taken to one of these camps, and he saw what had happened. He just broke down and cried like a baby. And he was as tough as they come.
As a general Patton would have been somewhere in the middle of the ranks of German and Russian generals. But, for instance, Zhokov, by far the greatest general of the war, didn't have a Hollywood movie made about him. Tough guy Patton also sent 300 US soldiers to save his son-in-law who'd been captured in Tunisia and was imprisoned in a POW camp in Germany. Most of the Americans on that dubious mission were killed to liberate one person.
when patton figured out what really was going on he made the statement "we butchered the wrong pig" meaning we fought on the wrong side. He died soon afterwords in a freak auto accident.
no he not
Shame that even after that patton was still a Nazi.
@@jackrambit9637 No, stop being an ignoramus... Patton recognized that Communism/Marxism was the far greater and graver threat to Western Civilization. Time has proven him very wise to this fact, as the West (in it's current state in the world) is heading towards a cataclysmic implosion fueled by cultural Marxism.
One of my uncles helped liberate Gunskirchen. Over 40 years later he said he could close his eyes and he could still remember the smell and the picture of it in his mind...
My Uncle Tommy was a part of the 4th Armored when it liberated Ohrdruf. He went to his grave with a burning hatred of everything German. His one life-long prejudice.
And yet many people commenting on this video will swear to you up and down that most germans didn't know this was happening.
@@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames I know what you mean. I used to work with a gentleman who had been a POW after his B29 was shot down over Japan. He couldn't stand anything Japanese...
@@noregerts5247 as Webster said in this episode (to the baker in town), “are you going to tell me that you never smelled the fucking stench?”
@@noregerts5247 Over a million Jews were shot in the early part of the war, let alone the Poles and Russians civilians that were killed. The entire German army was involved, they wrote home, they took pictures. Germans at home knew, that's why they were so terrified when the Russians invaded, they knew there would be payback.
When the train opened, winters body language was epic. Really amazing acting.
Probably because they weren't told what they were going to be seeing in this whole scene. That's not entirely acting.
@@JnEricsonx I'd say they had an idea.
@@LimerickWarrior1 There's idea, then there's actually seeing it, such as it is.
@@JnEricsonx Exactly correct.
@@LimerickWarrior1 No. The actors who entered the camp (set) were not told what to expect. There was also real rotting meat on-site so the grimaces weren't faked or scripted.
Every generation needs to see this series and the Pacific. Thank you for sharing this on youtube so that others may share and see it.
"They did a really good job of portraying this" You should see the actual photos from the war, it was, by far, worse.
I grew up in the 70's, watching every documentary that came out about WWII, with my father. So I had seen the real footage and images before I'd turned... maybe 8 or 9. So seeing this portrayal, while very moving, never hit me as hard as it does first time reactors. That's not to downplay the events or say that it isn't worthy of my emotion. But like you said, the real footage was by far worse.
I've hesitated to make this comment in the past because I didn't want anyone thinking that I was taking away from this episodes impact. It's just that for me, that impact came at a very young age and while watching the real footage and having my parents explain to me that a truly evil man caused all of that to happen.
@@31Mike Knowing what will happen, knowing how terrible it was, makes it "less shocking". First time reactors often get that shock, and you didn't. It makes total sense.
Holocaust is something we never should be allowed to forget, and we always need to remember it and make sure it never happens again.
It's not just knowing what will happen. In my view, there's more than just that. Whether I'm watching this, or Private Ryan, I know it's pretend. The scenes you see in these movies might be shocking but I know they (those scenes) weren't real. The events they are portraying happened but the scenes aren't real. Seeing the actual photos from the war? That was real. All TOO real. :/
Memory Of The Camps. It's on youtube.
_They did a really good job of portraying this" You should see the actual photos from the war, it was, by far, worse._
They did an excellent job creating a replica of Kaufering IV but the liberation scenes are completely fictitious.
Winters face when they open the train car has always gotten me.
He's very stoic. But you can see his feelings right then.
One that gets me is when winters is asking what kind of camp it was and Nixon and Doc are standing there. Doc........gets me every time. He is outright bawling
Probably cause that's in part Damian's reaction mixed with being in character. Not hard to have a OMFG face when upon seeing something like this, you WOULD have a OMFG face.
@@JnEricsonx always one like you aint there smh you commenting on all the comments you sad guy lol
What gets me is the sound the prisoner makes when he tells the Americans that there is a woman’s camp down the road.
Whoever that actor was, he was incredible. It’s the most anguished sound I ever heard. Makes you wonder who he’s thinking of that was sent to the women’s camp.
The liberation scenes shown in Band of Brothers are almost entirely fictitious. The producers of Band of Brothers decided that it would be much more dramatic and entertaining to have Easy Company actually liberate Kaufering IV complete with a large number of emaciated prisoners with whom they could interact. But in reality, Kaufering IV was liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with Easy Company arriving the following day and there were only a handful of prisoners found alive, along with about 500 bodies. Colonel Edward Seiller of the 12th Armored Division took control of the camp on April 27 and he is the one who ordered civilians from the town of Landsberg am Lech to bury the dead (he also ordered it filmed:th-cam.com/video/NS02Cq3Lifc/w-d-xo.html ).
The wife divorce letters were fairly common and they were called "dear John letters"
From Jodie.
If you notice when Nix entered that lady's house the picture that he throws to the floor was of what appeared to be a prominent Officer. Maybe to make us believe that maybe he was in charge of the camp. When she enters the room she give him a look of righteous condemnation. But at the end it was a look of shame and humiliation.
ya that German in the pic was an Officer. that’s why it was such a nice house. I believe it was meant to be the officer in charge of the camp. that’s why the woman in red had such a defeated look on her face. she realized her husband had a lot to do with that camp.
Actually, it is a picture of Field Marshall Rommel, the Desert Fox, who was part of the Resistance group that failed to assassinate Hitler.
The documentary series World at War, is highly recommended. It will get you up to speed quick on WWII. Each episode is one topic. Includes an episode on The Final Solution. Powerful and educational.
Two other episodes France 1940 and Stalingrad are exceptional.
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The concentration camp victims were depicted by cancer patients going through treatment
Episodes 7 and 9 are my favorites and the most impacting of all episodes for me, especially as a US Army Veteran myself. Thanks for watching and reacting to this series.
7:30 where they're shooting the prisoners; as I understood it, the shooters were French Soldiers attached to a French Armored Division. They caught what they considered to be French "Collaborators" in German Uniform and 'executions on the spot'.
Hey guys im Russian and i just wanted to tell you that we don't want war with u. We are brothers in Christ, we should not fight and hate each other. Together we would be unstoppable!
Russians are great. Many of us love the Russian people and country. But our country has been subverted by communists and they are spreading lies about your leader and military. Much hangs in the balance. Russia wants to be Christian, decent, and Russia first. Our last president wanted the same for us. God speed and good luck.
The second camp Winters is referring to that the Russians liberated was Auschwitz.
The guy executing the 3 Germans at 7:20 is Tom Hanks.
Good catch. They must've filmed that episode first however, as he looks his normal weight here and he was shooting Castaway at the time. I remember seeing him in a making of this with his Castaway beard and looking thinner. I think they delayed filming of that while he lost all that weight for the film, and he spent the time being producer on this. His son Colin is in one of the episodes too.
When they talk that the russians found a camp worse.. That camp was AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU. This was a brutal episode that was very well done
Yup, Auschwitz and Treblinka were the two worst camps, both on the USSR's side in Poland.
And you could see why 300,000 Germans surrendered in this episode. They weren't wanting to meet the Russians.
such a powerful episode. I dont think anyone that has watched the whole series will forget that one. In the opening, near the end of the war in particular. There was a lot of unofficial 'collecting' going on. There were certain restrictions but things were very different then and many just turned a blind eye to all the things they were sending home. Many even brought their guns back. As a vet from more current times. We were required to sign our weapons out and back in just for standing watch. No one kept a weapon.
3:13 It's Tom with a hardy, actually.
The camp the Russians liberated that Winters refers to is probably Auschwitz where over a million people were killed. It really bothers me that we don't emphasize this subject in history as much as we used to. When I was in high school we produced a one act play about Auschwitz. This is something we should never forget. It took place less than a hundred years ago and for some reason it's becoming a footnote in history.
Holocaust historians have commended the show makers depiction of this particular sub/ work camp as accurate
The locals knew. They knew. They saw their neighbors get taken away. They saw the smokestacks. My grandparents were survivors. When my grandfather was liberated he went back to his house and his neighbors had moved in.
Must’ve been dependent on whether you lived in close to proximity to a camp or not. This particular camp is near Landsberg am Lech.
That happend a lot. Unfortunately
Oh they certainly knew they were being rounded up but I'll bet most figured they were just being imprisoned or deported. The Nazi propaganda machine was incredible. Most Germans were taught to hate the Jews over the years so when they were being persecuted most Germans didn't care. Deportation and imprisonment is one thing, but Genocide? I think most Germans would have been disturbed had that been publicized.
Many were happy to see them go
@@Kensei007 that maybe true but the people who lived close to those camps knew for sure. They could smell death very clearly.
One aspect of Episode 9 that is overlooked is the sequence of it's placement within the series. Not only does it make sense from a timeline perspective, but the fact that, by the time it is shown, the audience has become intimately involved with each of the soldiers. The result is an obvious amount of sympathy for the prisoners but the same amount of sympathy toward what each of the members of Easy Company experiences during the episode.
Watching Episode 9 as a standalone without the background of what every one of those men had been through is impactful but, having full knowledge of the hell they went through prior to the camp's liberation makes it wholly heartbreaking.
There were several instances where the citizens of the local towns close to the camps were forced to show up at the camp to see what was there. They tried to deny that they knew what was happening but the military knew they were complicit by turning a blind eye. The Allied forces had no idea what was happening until they started taking back the territory where the camps were located.
The Allied leadership actually knew (or at least suspected) earlier than that, but didn't release it because it was so over-the-top they were afraid no one would believe it wasn't just propaganda. They themselves probably didn't believe it could be as bad as it was.
It was an Open Secret, a lot of people know but no one talked about it
The scene between Nix and the German lady at her house and in the camp was an exchange of "shame" Nix in the house then the lady in the camp.
That was Erwin Rommel's wife. It looked like it was an actual picture of him tho. Probably a reprint
@@beachside1 good catch!
@@beachside1 It wasn't Rommel or his wife. Looks a little like him, but it was a picture the German general in the next episode, played by Wolf Kahler. I don't think he's meant to play a 'specific' person, as he's just credited as 'German General' and his wife is credited as 'German Officer's Wife'.
Rommel had actually already taken his own life at this point in the war, after he'd been implicated in a plot to overthrow Hitler, and his family didn't live anywhere near here.
The 70-80 million lives lost was a fairly accurate number for the European campaigns. Most of that was lost on the Eastern front with Russia, though. There's a good video that sort of breaks down the numbers that you can react to called "The Fallen of World War II." It shows a really good side by side perspective of all the lives lost, both civilian and military, on all fronts of the war. The numbers are staggering.
11 million people were lost this way, as the text said 6m Jews and 5m of other groups.
There really is no way to prepare yourself for that. And yes, it was really important for them to include that in the show. Over 11 million in total!
The Nazis were stopped just as they were getting started. They had plans for ten more camps like Auschwitz
Generalplan Öust called for the depopulation of Eastern Europe
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Actually Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg kept the actors who are portraying actual men of 101th away from this set (Camp) until the day of filming. Reason is to get actors' realistic reactions of those survivors in the camp. Those survivors in the camp are cancer patients from nearby hospital. Patients volunteered to the survivors for this episode.
War is over in Europe while war is still going in the Pacific........
@@MrTech226 germans didn't surrender quite yet.
I’d strongly recommend when you finish, you go back and watch all 10 eps without reacting to the camera. Turn it up, take it all in, the soundtrack and everything. With all you’ve learnt, you’ll enjoy it so much more.
Agreed. the music/soundtrack in this mini-series is Phenomenal!
My grandfather was 7th Armoured Division and saw some of this as they liberated Belsen. He never told me any specific details of what he saw but before he died he made sure to have a talk with me that, as a young boy, I didn't really grasp the meaning of. I had heard about "The War" and that he had been in it and, having found his Lee Enfield under the bed in his house, I obviously must have asked something that took the lock off the 'war stories'.
From that day I inherited my low-key, background, dislike of "The French", because my grandfather told me how at Dunkirk they were waving the German fighters down to where the British were trying to hide in the sand waiting for the ships. As a side-note, in the film Dunkirk there is a scene where a rifle squad was firing back at the planes and that is something my grandfather told me about, saying that it was better to fight back than just give up, even if you think you have no hope.
He also, a little contrary to the Franco-phobia, told me that as I go through life, if I should ever come to hate anyone, I should make sure that it was for what they had done to me specifically and not for what they were born as. He said the Germans had not behaved like that and it was very bad because they had hurt a lot of people. It took me many years to make sense of that but eventually I did.
Thanks, granddad, for the two good lessons ... and don't be disappointed that I don't hate all French people because, after all, none of them have ever intentionally done anything to me ... tho' if they had succeeded in getting you killed at Dunkirk then I suppose I would never have lived.
My grandfather was also 7th armoured brigade (a rat) He also was At Bergen-Belsen, He wouldn’t tell me anything about the war until I joined the Royal Air Force at that point sat and talked for about eight hours through the night about everything that he had been through, starting with training
Then being with Monty in Africa, Right through to the liberation of Belsen concentration camp. When he was telling me about clearing out some of the camp he said they came across the ovens, there were still people alive inside the ovens.
The officer and surgeon in charge told my grandfather and two other men that the people were beyond saving, They were told to throw grenades into the ovens to end the suffering.
When he had finished telling me I was distraught and he was emotionally drained, I asked why he told me and he said you need to know these things before you leave for your basic training. He used the words:
“ Now you know why we fought”
He never even told my grandmother any of this, my father who was also in the Army did know but swore to my grandfather that he wouldn’t tell us until we were ready.
@@bigglesdaf I wish I could offer more than just a Thumbs up and sympathy, mate - and I thank God I was too young for my granddad to tell me any details like the ones you heard!
Seeing Liebgott crying in the truck at the end always gets to me. He's crying not only because of having to tell them they have to go back into the camp but also he's seeing his people being massacred. I completely missed this till I rewatched the show but he mentions he's Jewish on the boat to England and I don't remember if its ever really brought up again till his reactions in this episode.
Captain Nixon was more of an intelligence officer so most of what he did was sort of behind the scenes. He was on the front lines but he was more of an information guy not an infantry commander.
Unlike soviet or polish soldiers americans and british were liberating France, Belgium, Netherlands etc. In these countries the occupation regime was not nearly as brutal as in USSR or Poland, so there were no camps there. That’s why when Soviet and polish soldiers liberated concentration camps they weren’t shocked the way americans were
The camps were largely located in the East. The Germans went after the Poles, the Slavs, The Gypsies and the Jews plus many others and those populations were mainly in the East. I doubt if it was any less horrific for the Soviet troops but it was probably more expected given the brutality of the Eastern front.
Spiers had married a woman in England and was sending all of the loot back to her. The woman he married was a widow whose husband died in the Battle of France during the beginning of the war. After the war, it was found that her first husband wasn't killed but was a POW and she went back to him and got the marriage with Spiers annulled and lost all the loot that he sent back to her. Also, the "Germans" that were executed were really French members of the SS's Charlemagne Division, a unit exclusively recruited from France to fight for the Nazis during the war.
I highly recommend you look up the story, "A Higher Call" where a German Luftwaffe fighter ace became close friends with an American bomber pilot after the war. The bomber had been so badly shot up that the German could not shoot it down, but escorted the bomber to safety. They found each other after the war.
"To me, it was just like they were in a parachute. I saw them and I couldn't shoot them down." - Franz Stigler
@@MWSin1 Was he the pilot whose superior told all his men that if he heard any of them shot a man parachuting out of his plane he'd personally kill them? It always makes me feel better knowing people, even on the 'evil' side can rise above the evil of their superiors and maintain honor.
@@Fordo007 The same.
Sadly, such behavior was far rarer than usually believed, as a concerted effort among German officers (with the implicit approval of American and British leaders who wanted a rearmed West Germany as an ally against Russia) to whitewash the Wehrmacht's role in the Holocaust and war crimes.
Also check out Sabaton's No Bullets Fly video for that as well.
I worked with a former german fighter pilot and a former bomber pilot who's plane was shot up and had to ditch in Switzerland... same office.. they never really talked about it much..but one day they were arguing over work stuff and the german guy said he hoped it was he who had shot him down...hahahhaahaha..oh man..
For much of the war, the Allied Forces did not know what the nazis had done to their "unwanted". This was kept under very tight wraps, not even regular German citizens knew about it. It was only when the Allies invaded Germany that they learned because they kept finding camps like these all over. Winter's mentions that the Russians found one three times as big with ovens; that place is Auschwitz, the worst of all of them.
When people in this town learned that Speilberg was filming for Band of Brothers, the people who played the prisoners were actually terminally ill and cancer patients. They stated that they wanted to portray the prisoners accurately so an atrocity like this would never be repeated.
The crew built the camp set in secret, so the faces of shock and horror you see on the Easy Company actors is genuine.
I'm reading a book at the moment called Ordinary Men. Its based on the German reserve police battalions that took part in the holocaust. Its taking me 4 months to get even half way through as its so disturbing. Its a horrific read but its important we learn the lessons and see the true harsh reality of what happened.
Great book that shows how normal humans can slowly decay into being capable of horrible things.
@@WBookout10 it's all within us most recent memory of this was with isis vast majority of those men were normal people before but converted into monsters including children. One former member said he was happy to be part of isis after being a construction worked he had power,respect and money from Isis he stated beheadings and stonings were "beautiful"
Doesn't take long for people in dire straights etc to be converted into monsters capable of such, committing the most horrific acts of evil possible.
They said it was 300,000 Germans who surrendered, not 3,000.
Thank you for watching that . It is important that you did and remember. The violin was important in this episode because they and other instruments were played in some camps to give new people coming in on trains a sense of safety / normalacy before they were taken to the ovens. Camps varied some , some were work ,some were work / extermination . Some had medical experiment on adults and children ( twin esp) ( one was to see how fast they could remove a uterous w/o anesthesia etc) . Many had the black crematorium smoke blowing out day and night and were in close proximity to near by cities. It was 6 million Jews and about 5 million more people they didnt like ..poles, russians, gays etc. That's isnt even including the murder of all mentally or physically damaged germans at the beginning of the war by their own medical personnel
I did a little research & found out which camp E Co came to that was already in the process of liberation. I saw the camp area from satellite aerial view and zoomed in, unfortunately I wasn't able to get a good view. The street view wasn't available close enough to the camp either.
There wasn't any photos posted by any public visitors of this camp because this camp appears to have less to see there 75 yrs later, than I have seen from other camps elsewhere that I have researched.
I did locate at least 1 other camp from the network of Dachau camps within a few miles from this Landsberg camp location that did have photos that had been posted by visitors that gave a view of the camp and what still remains of the camp.
I will let you know, it is still heart wrenching to see images of any of these camps.
To touch briefly on the history of both Allied and German knowledge of the camps: the higher ups on the Allied side SUSPECTED that something very bad was going on for most of the war, but didn't grasp the full extent of it until they began liberating the camps. The average soldier on the ground certainly didn't know until very, very late in the war. The propaganda was mostly about German aggression, militarism and totalitarianism rather than being predominantly about their treatment of Jewish people. Once the Allies had evidence of the atrocities of the camps it very quickly became required reading/watching for virtually everyone involved in the war effort.
I think that the context is important: Nazi antipathy to Jewish folks was very well known at that point, and while their particular brand of antisemitism was especially vociferous, distrust of Jewish people was endemic in a lot of countries in Europe for CENTURIES with bloody pogroms happening with regularity in a lot of regions as far back as the Middle Ages and earlier. Antisemitism wasn't really "out of vogue" as a mainstream belief until AFTER the Holocaust became public knowledge and the full extent and horror of the Nazis' industrialized murder machine became evident.
As far as whether the average German person or soldier knew about the camps: Absolutely, yes. We have written records in the form of civilian diaries and correspondence as well as military and government documents that discuss public participation and reactions to the killing of Jews, Roma, etc. It was, at the very least, an open secret that most everyone knew about but was afraid to discuss.
The Wehrmacht (German military) in particular was an active participant in the Holocaust, with normal soldiers often executing masses of Jewish people, Poles, etc.
The public has only really come to recognize the full extent of the culpability of the German people and regular military in the last 20-25 years, mostly as a result of the end of the Cold War (for all sorts of messy geopolitical reasons that I won't get into) and the decades long efforts of many scholars (a lot of them German) to bring light to the issue.
The myth of the clean Wehrmacht/German people still has a lot of adherents, especially in certain racist circles and on the internet (which is why I wrote this out - it ALWAYS comes up in the comments when people react to this episode) but has been largely debunked.
The thing about Nixon is the switching of moral standing. The woman looks down on Nix because he broke in to her house and broke her dead husbands photo. The moral highground switches around when Nix oversees her helping with the bodies put there by a regime that many people in Germany allowed to happen.
Also did you see the Tom Hanks cameo as the French officer shooting the three french traitors who had joined the German army?
The French soldier that executes the three German POW's is Tom Hanks
German people living in cities knew that there were camps there since all the prisoners were paraded through the cities before being imprisoned,and many of them were spit on,and they knew in what conditions people were living in there,they just couldn't do anything or didn't care.
I am commenting after you mentioned the number of fallen in World War II. Might I suggest you make a reaction video to the "Fallen of World War II"?
An excellent video that highlights how staggering the scale of WWII was. I agree. Everyone should watch it
After watching Band of Brothers this video helps put things into perspective.
I've seen this particular episode at least five times, and it brings me to tears every single time. I've also watched a half dozen reaction videos, and it brought every single reactor to tears.
This is personal to me. I have a Jewish friend who lost all four of her grandparents in the Holocaust. Her parents were children at the time and were sent to the UK and US for safety.
Remember the title of this episode, "Why we fight".
The camp liberated by the 101st was specifically a sick camp connected with Dachau. The people there were too sick to be of any use as slave labor, mostly due to typhus, and had been sent there to die. Due to the fear of infection, the German personnel would not enter the prisoner areas, leaving medical treatment in the hands of whatever prisoners happened to have medical training, who were themselves sick and had no supplies or equipment.
It's no wonder that it blows your mind, and it's because most of the freaking school systems in the world don't teach it. And that really burns my ass!
Everyone needs to know! Everyone
This is taught far more than the Soviet and Communist system which killed by orders of magnitude more.
This episode of Band of Brothers or Schindler's List should be require view in upper school levels.
@@peaknonsense2041 - Yup... Stalin definitely killed more "undesirables" than Hitler. And by many estimates Chairman Mao killed up to 60 million "undesirables", and many more were sent to labor camps that were quite similar to what the Germans had.
Socialism at work... it never ends well for anyone.
@@Mr.Ekshin It's not like capitalisms hands aren't covered in blood as well.
In North America violence and disease killed 90% of the indigenous population - nearly 55 million people.
It is estimated that 1.8 billion Indians died avoidably from egregious deprivation under the British (1757-1947).
That's not even going into the deaths in Africa and South America.
@@peaknonsense2041 True (more than them)
The allied forces did not know what the Nazis or the Germans were doing until the concentration camps were liberated. The allies marched the German people through these camps to show what the Nazis had done.
The woman looks at Nixon like he is a horrible human being for entering her home as a thief, but later you see him looking at her as a horrible human being for the concentration camp. I think the camera shot of her face is to show the realization of how she (or at least her husband) was worse than a thief.
the framed photo of her husband - he very well could have been in charge of that camp
13:55 The only Commenter to recognize O'Keefe's feelings of shock and disgust after being in Country for just two weeks, and Percante's stunned reaction as well.
I commend you.
I'd have to go back and re-watch, but I don't think he'd even been in country for 2 weeks. He 'shipped out' two weeks ago. Wasn't that what Perco asked him? "When'd you ship out, two weeks ago?"
It is not a poor reflection on Nixon that he hadn’t fired his weapon. As an intelligence officer, he would not always be in the battles. Winters said he was the most dependable officer he had in battle IRL.
I grew up with knowing these people, my Grandparents friends, they were really some of the most faithful and optimistic people I've ever known. One thing I must say, you are absolutely gorgoues
A episode of contrasts. It opens with beautiful music from a German string quartet, playing a composition from Beethoven a German composer, in streets devastated by a war started by the Germans. Culture within the backdrop of war. It then reveals the horrors of the Holocaust in a visceral fashion, that the German nation which gave us the music of Beethoven also could perpetrate the horror of the Holocaust. It then returns to the end of the music by the string quartet, as they close their violin cases we learn that Hitler, the driving force behind Nazism, the War and the Holocaust is dead.
More like how everyone keeps saying it's Mozart (who is Austrian like Hitler) when its actually Beethoven who was German like the people playing.
I think it is an extremely brave of young people like yourself to watch these shows and learn about history .. thanks for sharing
The horrors,I am so sorry for their beyond extreme pain and suffering. The internees of course-and the liberators emotional,mental sufferings,can't imagine ...
The figure is not 6 million lives lost in concentration camps, the figure is closer to an estimated 11-12 million lives lost.
"Please don't be an ambush"
Little did she no that it was far worse than any of them could ever imagine
The local Germans chose not to "know", but of course they knew.
Not necessarily. You can't believe how easily and efficiently a secret facility be guarded, so that no one gets within smelling distance. And people would have to be suicidal to go noising around military facility during Nazi rule.
Note! this isn't a show for entertainment, this is pretty much a Docu-drama, over a year of combat condensed into a mini series to share there story...
IRL when allied soldiers found the camps the trauma of seeing it was so impactful that troops were pulling guns on each other. Many camp guards were shot or even manually beaten to death, and when there wasn’t something to take out their outrage on, just minor disputes between soldiers could turn violent or even deadly. It’s impossible to imagine the horror of seeing those camps with no knowledge that such cruelty was even possible.
7:17 That's Tom Hanks himself doing the executions......lol.....Man
He's scary when he wants to be.
HOLY SHIT I’ve watched this so many times and never noticed him there!
Holy Sh*t! I own this series, watch it every year or more since its creation. Never noticed this. Good eye!
Nixon didn't fire his weapon because he was a battalion intelligence officer (S-2). A staff officer, not a troop commander.
You see him give briefings and deliver information through the course of the series and sometimes go to the front (usually with his best friend Winters) to get information about what the battalion is facing. He is more of an observer, so he is constantly going back and forth from the headquarters area.
As to the camps, there were reports during the war about atrocities against the Jews that would circulate even in major newspapers in the U.S. and there was a general knowledge of "concentration camps" where "enemies of the German Reich" were imprisoned, but the scale of the Holocaust and the massive organization wasn't clear to most people until the end of the war. Some of the higher ups in the Allied command ranks had more information, but they were afraid that publicizing what they knew of what was happening would create a public outcry that would force them to make decisions based on stopping the killing without regard for military strategy and the necessity of invading and freeing Europe at the earliest opportunity.
Part of the problem was that "atrocity stories" were told during the First World War and the majority of those stories turned out to be exaggeration and propaganda (with the exception of the Armenian Genocide which took place a continent away from the Western Front). So people weren't inclined to believe the real stories. Also the military tended to discount the idea of a massive campaign to kill whole ethnic minorities, because they knew it would significantly hinder the German war effort. They couldn't believe the Germans would "waste" that kind of resources while fighting for their national life.
They underestimated the level of hatred inspired by years of anti-Semitic indoctrination and Hitler's willingness to promote and empower sociopaths and fanatics to carry out his "Final Solution", regardless of it's effect on the war effort.
11:15 Man carrying old man, he is speaking Serbian he is saying "People help, please help him, he is still alive, you still can save him"
To paraphrase general Eisenhower, document everything, get paperwork, pictures, etc. Because one day people will deny this ever happen.
They're entering German houses because they're sleeping in them for a night as they travel through Germany, instead of sleeping outside again.
Oh and those executed Germans? It was French troops, not Americans.
And I loved your honest and heartfelt reactions to those terrible scenes.
Thanks for sharing!
And those executed Germans. Not much older then 15.
French SS, the collaborators they shot.
This damn episode hits like a train in the guts. every time.
The ordinary soldiers didn’t know but Roosevelt and Churchill knew and the top generals knew.
I have watched every ones of these that you have done. I have seen your military understanding grow . I don't know what kind of work other than reactions you do
I am very impressed and wonder have you ever thought of the military as a career ? I really think you would be very good at it. At any rate you are a joy to watch
Liv, great movie to review is “Open Range” - it has a love story, action, great character development, beautiful scenery - great acting - it and “Dances with Wolves” are amazing westerns.
Nixon was an Intelligence Officer. His position was "in the rear with the gear" at the Battalion or Regimental level.
There’s a video called, “The fallen of WWII” it breaks down how many people died across the nations and the total
Amazing how evil some people can be. You just can’t wrap you brain around it
They self justify. Slavers did it, abortionists do it, ethnic cleansers, etc. Humanity always tries to justify their evil.
My dad told me that his teacher in school who fought in the Korean War was deployed to Germany in the 1950s and said there was no way the people didn’t know what was happening in those camps, he said the smell of the camps still lingered in the middle of the town he visited and the camp itself smelled terrible even after almost a decade. He developed a hatred of the Germans because of that even though he never even fought in the war against them.
At the Nuremberg trials after the war, a lot of nazis tried to play the “just following orders” card. It didn’t work.
Well it kinda did since we only hung 9 of them.
8:06 The woods they were patrolling was probably the same set in Hertfordshire they filmed the Bastogne episode, so it's kind of a meta joke.
All the extras in the concentration camps were played by cancer patients
Hi, I binged all 9 episodes tonight, well done! Great commentary. :-)
The prisoner carrying the emaciated man asked the Americans to help that man because he said he was still alive
I am an ex 2nd Battalion 75th Infantry Regiment Ranger, our 1st mission is to value life
The guy speaking polish, was asking for help, since the person he was carrying a person who was barely alive
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I did warn you for tissues a few episodes ago, but did not gave up why. The episode was a very tough one to see. The show did an amazing job in it's production of the episode. Use of the extra's who were in chemo, the main cast not having seen the set until the shoot.
I've really enjoyed your reaction to this series. You do fantastic work!
oh they knew there's no way they couldn't.
heres a bit of a grim "fun fact". so after WW2 the Military did a survey on soldiers in combat and they discovered 15%-20% actually fired their weapon in combat and even smaller of a percentage of them fired their weapon with the intention of killing the enemy. and the military took that survey so they could update their training and try to get more soldiers to start firing their weapons. so yeah Nixon saying he never fired his weapon might actually be accurate.
The scene where they were taking food to give to the camp survivors. I remember in school there was a survivor that talked about when he was liberated soldiers would ask them what they'd like to eat and they'll get it for them and he just asked for juice while everyone else was asking for meat and big meals because they haven't had a big meal for a long time. And everyone around him who asked for meat and big meals ended up dying because their bodys couldn't handle it
Nixon was an intelligence officer which was why he hadn't fired his weapon.
That woman was the camp commander's wife.
Not all Germans knew, some knew and others knew and didn't believe. They knew that Jews, Gypsies and other people that the Nazis called undesirables were taken away. I watched a documentary series called The World at War and a woman was interviewed who told her friend that the Jews were being held in camps and were being killed, and her friend didn't believe her. Later that day the interviewed woman told her husband, who told her not to say anything ever again because she could be arrested and sent off to a camp or killed.
Many of the extras playing concentration camp inmates were actually cancer patients undergoing treatment, hence their emaciated look.
Love the green top! Goes great with your eyes! And of course love your reactions!!! You seem like a genuinely awesome person!!! Hey from North Texas!!!
Just a little information from Germany. The concentration camps were a well hidden secret despite being scaled to an industrial level. There were camps where 10,000 people were killed - daily. At first were women and kids because they didn‘t qualified for the heavy work to terminate them. The level of knowledge to the public is highly disputed. E.g. there was a camp near Weimar (THE classical city in Germany) just a few miles away. The smell has to be sensed there just because of the short distance. And it was normal to bring the citizens to these camps for burrying all the corpses. The magnitude of the genocide couldn‘t be described by words. But all people who have seen one of these camps never forgot what they have seen. It is beyond my understanding what could lead to that behaviour.
As a paralell to what they say to the untested replacements, the germans would say something akin to "Enjoy the war, the peace will be hell", an iteresting tone in comparreson in my mind.
It's called a dear John letter. That's when the wife or girlfriend left them.
If anybody is interested in seeing an “inside” view of the concentration camps and a glimpse of the “systematical processes” developed to make those horrible places work efficiently check “Son of Saul”, a great movie from 2015.