My grandfather was at Dachau, when this unit liberated it. Hes 92 and still cuts his own grass and sits outside and watches the kids play basketball at the church next door to his house. When he passes I plan on getting his tattoo to keep the knowledge alive of what they did. A-17492
There were war crimes that the U.S. soldiers did but i got to say, i understand their motivation and i would have been lenient with them. They made S.S. guys stand at Hitler salute, poured water on them, made them hold the salute all night. In the morning they shot them. They stood around and watched the prisoners beat S.S. guys to death, even handing them shovels and tools to do it with. (I have little problem with this other than i wished the S.S. guys were tried and hung.) One young U.S. soldier shot a group of a dozen or so surrendered nazis The nazis deserved it but we punished our soldiers that went too far because we arent the S.S.
@@jackburton3701 I agree 100% your comment reminded me a lot of that scene in Saving Private Ryan, where the US soldiers on D-Day shot and killed what they thought were 2 Germans but were actually 2 people from some European country that Germany had conquered and made the fighting age males either be drafted into the German military or be killed, as u would expect almost everyone given that choice, chose to be a soilder for Germany vs instant death! The sad part is that those soldiers were often given little to no training, very old and outdated equipment, sometimes given no equipment, they were put on the front lines in some of the most dangerous positions in the entire war, and overall were essentially just used as literal human bullet shields & cannon fotter! But that scene in Private Ryan they were actually 2 of those types of Soilders. They were speaking a diff language other than German and the just of what they were saying was, "plz don't shoot, were not Nazis!! Were unarmed and didn't even fire any rounds during the battle!" But the Americans thought they were Germans and just shot them on the spot! During the War trials, It's rlly crazy when u think about how their was hardly any german people that were actually tried in those international courts, like a little more or little less than a hundred or so, that's alot of people but when u think about how many actual German Soilders, Politicians and just average every day German Civilians their were that contributed to the war effort and the holocaust its like .00001% were actually tried, which is basically 0.. and that's only from the German side! The Japanese committed just as many war crimes and were just as brutal if not more so, than what the Germans did, plus that's not even taking into consideration all of the other people from all the other Axis powers, plus don't even get me started on Russia.... lol!! When u rlly think about it all, it's almost like nobody was rlly punished in the courts in the grand scheme of things, so in a sense it doesn't justify all the Deaths but when u take all that into account, that hardly nobody was punished after the war, it starts to make sense as to why so many people, soilders, & politicians, were killed/murdered/executed during the war. Don't get me wrong it's not an excuse but it's not as black and white as most people would initially suspect it to be... But yea, the reason I want to get his Tattoo once he passes, is so that I can continue to keep that historical physical evidence alive on my body, as a reminder to the world of all of Germany's atrocities that they committed towards so many people and even more so a reminder as to what they personally did to my grandfather and also to the rest of his family that unfortunately didn't survive the war.
@@HelloThere-bj9rw thanks! It's not my idea, I think I saw and heard the idea withee in a book, or movie or something a few years back, and thought it was an awesome idea, so I approched my grandfather about it and told him the idea, and why I was thinking about doing it and asked for his thoughts and opinions on me doing it, and asked for his blessing and permission and he agreed and loved the idea so much that he actually insisted that he's going to give me the money to pay for the tattoo in his will, and it actually made him cry tears of happiness that I would do that to my own body, and to carry on a physical reminder of the memories of what had happened to not just him, but also to alot of his immediate family that unfortunately weren't as lucky/blessed that didn't survive the war. But yea, I'm gonna get it after he passes away, but hopefully that won't be for a very long time from now :)
Always chokes me up, every time every yearly rewatch. They cast cancer patients going through chemo, and IIRC kept them separate from the set until filming so the Easy Company actors were seeing them for the first time.
@@greggross8856 Holy crap that's insane. Brilliant decision on the part of the producers and directors, that would've fucked me up as an actor to see people like that and realize they weren't acting.
@@rymdalkis they were uncomfortable for sure, but they decided to stay and help because they want the series to portray exactly the pain and horror that was the concentration camp
The actors were given the chance to see the set where they'd built the camp for filming but everyone chose to wait until filming the scenes so that they're reactions would be as genuine as possible. The bit that always gets me is where the veteran salutes and the Easy Company guy; Perconte I think, salutes back. Sometimes I start crying after I get to that, kerk
“We Stand Alone Together” is a must after you are done with the series! It’s all of full interviews and interaction of the actual men that you have been seeing parts of at the beginning of each episode. Truly amazing to watch. Great reactions and thank you for your service!!!
Liebgott was so traumatized by the discovery of the Holocaust that he never contacted any of Easy Company again after getting home, and never attended any reunions.
I think it probably goes even deeper than just the Camp. Towards the end of the war he was assigned to an intelligence unit that was responsible for hunting down SS officers, he was involved in the interrogation and execution of a number of prisoners. Winters regretted assigning him to the unit because he realized Joe was becoming violent and extremely aggressive when it came to Ferman prisoners. I think if things had continued, Joe would have become psychotic.
His mother's family were Jewish. Half Jews were also killed in many cases. If course, he identified with the prisoners. Could you imagine what he felt like ordering them back into the camp?
@@PB-tr5ze I never knew that about Leibgott. I only knew that he basically went home after the war, drove a cab like he said he would, and cut himself off from everyone and never attended reunions and barely spoke to anyone. The filmmakers and even Stephen Ambrose who wrote the book that this series is based on had to rely on guys in Easy Company for information on what Joe was like during his time in the Army. Apparently even his family didnt know what he did.
@@allzuckedup that's simply not true. www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/mischlinge.html actually, tens of thousands of half and quarter juice volunteered to fight in the German military in order to protect themselves and a Jewish parent.
Nixon’s family owned a nitration manufacturing company, and he attended both Yale and MIT before enlisting. Once on active duty with the 101st, he was assigned to regimental intelligence (S2). Because of his drinking problem and politics, he was transferred to 2nd battalion ops (S3) sometime towards the end of the war. Still didn’t keep him from ending the war as a captain, which reflects how competent he was as a planner. Nixon was one of the few American paratroopers who made three combat jumps during WW2, but he never fired his carbine in combat, despite spending a lot of time in the front lines (he got his helmet shot off during Market Garden, for example, and was deployed as one of the tactical reserve troops during the assault on Foy) - and this was something he was rather frustrated about.
Drunkeness was apparently not uncommon with the US officer class. You can now and then find accounts and comments about it and you have to wonder how the Army did as well as it did with so many officers tanked to the gills.
@@Thane36425 You have to understand something about alcoholism and how functional you can remain for decades. Most of these guys were super young and could take the self-punishment at the time.
@@Thane36425 Look at every army throughout history up until maybe the 1970s or so and a very large proportion of the army, officers included, was on something. Usually drink - the British favoured rum, the French wine - but drugs were a major problem for the US army in Vietnam. For much of history, commanders would issue booze either to try to take the edge off the men's nerves or offer it as a reward after battle or hard work to try to get the men to give their all. Even today, the command "Splice the Mainbrace" in the Royal Navy doesn't really mean "fix the rope holding main yard in place," though that's where it came from, it means "issue an extra drink ration to the men for their hard work/in celebration of some important event."
Alcohol has always been a vent for soldiers in battle. Even Alexander the Great was a drunk. He also kept his army supplied with wine and opium. Both were mixed to a 'dream wine' that helped to forget the horrors of battle and keep fighting.
Also several scenes- like the scene where they rolled the door open on the cattle car and someone’s arm fell out- were re-enacted from primary source film taken at the discovery of the camps.
Some making of video I can’t remember- it’s probably on the HBO Band of Brothers page. Also, I’m somewhat of a Sam Fuller fan, and his infantry division in WW2 liberated Falkenau. He was already part of the Stars and Stripes press crew, and he carried one of those really oldschool janky little film camera around with him, and after the war he and other film makers put together a documentary short that showed a combination of color and black and while silent film clips of places they had liberated. The cattle car scene and the one inmate saluting was part of that collection. ( Basically I’ve seen that footage before watching Fuller biographies.)Also the villagers trying to collect the bodies.
This one is a tough episode. My grandparents were in the camps. They went through hell & were forever grateful for being liberated. They taught us that if I ever come across an American soldier to treat them with the utmost respect. They refused to tell any of us what they went through until the very end of their lives, it was heart wrenching to hear. I will forever be grateful to the allied forces for fighting.
I'm glad they survived. I myself had a Tailoring Mentor who was a survivor of Dora-Mittelbau. He passed in April 2020. His wife was also a survivor but thankfully she never spent time in the camps. She did however witness her own horrors having to remain hidden from Nazi's for so long. She lost her parents but was able to survive. Both of them began to tell their stories and they are also recorded on both the National and Virginia based Holocaust museums. A part of Mr. Zimm's video interview is on the NHMM Dora-Mittelbau page.
Being starved and then eating alot so suddenly can make you sick. These people need to slowly progress to eating more day by day. And since they didn't have a place for them to sleep, they had to spend another night in the camp until they could find them a place. I know it sucks.
“There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.” ― Edmund Burke
This was the episode I was waiting for you to react to ~ I so appreciate your watching and reacting to this series because we must never forget! And though I know it was hard, it's so important. My two uncles, the strongest, sweetest, kindest men ever, fought in the European theater in WW2 and were there when they liberated a camp. I grew up hearing the whispered stories about this, but it's one thing they never talked about from the war. It was just too heartbreaking for them to speak of. I was 5 when my father took us all back to Germany and we toured a concentration camp. I was in third grade when they showed us films of the holocaust. My generation was raised on tales of WW2, and it's easy to assume that younger generations have been just as familiarized with it. We must continue to share these sad stories, not to make us sad, but to ensure that we never make the same mistakes again.
The people in these villages nearby concentration camps, etc. There is 0% chance that they had no idea, but a lot of them didn't know the extent, because even for citizens under Nazi Germany it was hard to fathom the true evil that as occurring unless you are seeing it firsthand.
@@theroachden6195 Loved what he quoted about it. “Write it down, every camp, every survivor, every victim, everything, brand it into the History Books, because later, some dumbass is gonna say ‘it never happened.”
Issue is most people didn't want to know. They had suspicions but nobody wants to speak out. Rather fall in line and just shut up about it then be brave and speak out
I wrote a fairly politically charged post about the education system and blindness to history but I decided not to post it because it would detract from the emotional honesty of your reaction. All I will say is that my grandfather was 7th Armoured and he saw this sort of thing first hand and, before he passed, he made sure that I knew that if I disliked someone that I did so because of what they did to me *directly* not because of what race or religion they were.
Some of my relations also saw the camps first hand. They never talked about it, at least not when the kids were around. However, when I was 15 or so, I had a friend along and he started talking favorably about the Germans, and maybe a comment about the Nazis. The cousin he was talking to did not like that one bit and he set my friend straight on a few points. No violence, just a most stern talking to.
My grandfather also saw the camps. He was in the US 119th AAA, and saw some of the same things Easy did. He would always talk about stuff from the war. The funny stories. The sad ones. Even the ones he wasn't proud of. But he never talked about what he saw at the camps.
14:44 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" full sentence was cut
It was the ultimate low-point for Easy, but it also made some of them consider that all the hardship and loss they endured to that point as being in Europe worth it. This is what they fought for, to put a stop to something that was unimaginably evil.
Unfortunately, many people have come to believe that everything they see in Band of Brothers is factually and historically accurate...it isn't. There are several instances where historical accuracy has been sacrificed for dramatic effects and the liberation of this camp is one of them. The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is _Kaufering IV_ which was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with 101st arriving the following day. Virtually all the prisoners had either been killed or forced marched out of the camp by the Germans in the direction Dachau. Only a handful of prisoners who had managed to hide were found alive when the camp was liberated, along with about 500 bodies. Colonel Edward Seiller of the 12th Armored Division took control of the camp on April 27 and he was the one who ordered civilians from the town of Landsberg bury the dead (he also ordered that it be filmed). 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: _In April 1945, during the 101st Airborne Division’s drive south into Germany’s Rhineland, the “Screaming Eagles,” as the unit was known, uncovered Kaufering IV, one of 11 concentration camps in the Kaufering complex in the Landsberg region._ _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._
Sadly is a global issue. I read that 80% of young people in Europe think the Holocaust is "exaggerated". I fallow a Twitter account name "Faces of Auschwitz", her creator is from Brasil and one she has to explain to an audience what was The Holocaust before she can talk about her proyect. That breaks my heart, because the easiest way to repeat the past mistake is when new generations forget about them
That is why you need to educate the people visit the places where it happens (every pupil in Germany is at least once visiting a concentration camp with their school or at least they are supposed to) Otherwise history repeats itself like in China where they essentially are just a few ideological steps away from making death camps out of the internment camps they have for Uighurs now.
American education is only bad since it was taken over by the federal government. But I was born in 2001 and never met anyone who hasn’t heard of the Holocaust
@@andrewmellen8092 Education quality varies widely throughout the US. While many places have kept up, others declined. There are some schools that have the same textbooks since the 1950s. 90s and 00 students in my area learned about the holocaust no doubt. But the same cannot be said for other places.
@@simonnot8487 yes but the overall education has fallen since the introduction of the Department of Education. That’s where this stereotype of “bad education” comes from
Yeah... when I was in school and we were taught about the Holocaust...hearing about the people who died cause nice liberator soildiers gave them more of their food than they could handle was pretty hard to comprehend but it happened.
The cancer patients volunteering to play the victims made these some of the most realistic portrayals of the camps that TV is likely to see. What we will never experience is the smell; death; disease and the burning bodies would have made this experience one of the most horrendous these men would have ever experienced. Further east some of the camps were even more overcrowded because prisoners; some of them POWs were being marched west ahead of the Russians; only living because no-one gave orders to have them killed. Not that everyone needed orders, kerk
This is quite simply the greatest episode of the series, it doesn't have the action or the dialogue of some of the others, but the set up, the boredom, then the sheer horror of finding the camp is masterfully done. It never fails to break me and even watching your reaction I'm sitting with tears in my eyes. I have never served but I have studied the causes and effects of the two world wars and this should be required viewing for everyone. If Germans two miles down the road can claim ignorance of this kind of horror, we always need to be on guard to what our and other governments are doing.
You really need to watch Schindler's List. It's so powerful. It was so intense that the director had to get Robin Williams come tell jokes in between takes just to keep the actors sane.
They mention an operation by the 17th Airborne. One of Easy's sister regiments was shifted over to the 17th to give that new unit some veterans. They jumped in Operation Varsity in support of Montgomery and some American units crossing the Rhine River. It was a fairly hasty operation and was quite large. The paratroopers and glidermen dropped in a few miles back from the Rhine in order to interfere with the German's ability to move and reinforce the defenses at the river. Problem was, the Germans knew they were coming and in part because a fallschrimjager (German paratroops) division was there, they guessed the landing zones and packed the area with anti-aircraft guns and artillery. These shot down many planes and gliders and the machine guns and artillery killed a lot of men. However, many of the German forces were poorly trained Volksstrum (sp), last ditch conscripts of young boys and old men. Had they been better quality troops it could have been much worse. Thing is, the operation might not have been necessary at all. German records and accounts show that if Montgomery had pushed across the Rhine when he reacher it, the Germans could not have stopped him and he could have moved through the area much more easily. Instead he stoppes and waited for weeks to out together the big operation. As it was Patton had already crossed the Rhine further south, but those operations were slowed once again to support Monty. After Market Garden you'd think they would have replaced him.
@@nebose114 my grandfathers fought in the German Army, one at the eastern front against the Russians and one at the operation Market Garden against the US and britains
@@callinglarry there are three times more Arabs in the disputed territories today than in 1967. Palestinians put down their arms and stopped fighting, they would be living in peace and prosperity. Israeli Arabs have full rights and get affirmative action. They are members of the parliament, the Supreme court, and the general staff of the IDF. The general in charge of the West Bank is an Israeli Arab. Your comparison is not just wrong, but obscene
@@callinglarry someone who doesn't know the fact that there's a difference between Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians living in the disputed territories isn't in a position to lecture anyone. I'm sure you also don't know that Israel left Gaza with factories and greenhouses. These were torn down by Hamas and used to Rock It israel. Soon thereafter, there were elections in Gaza and the people of Gaza chose Hamas to be their governments. They voted to turn themselves over to a literal sister organization of al-Qaeda. those walls that you be moan exist to protect not only israelis, but also these Arabs. Because Hamas had been invading Israel repeatedly killing civilians and kidnapping soldiers and civilians. The walls exist to stop this and thereby prevent Israel from needing to retaliate. If la had seceded and were killing people in surrounding counties, California would build a wall. If you'll notice, egypt, which had previously controlled Gaza prior to 1967, built a wall on its border. The reason is that the Muslim brotherhood and Hamas started to operate in the Sinai attacking Egyptian soldiers and trying to destabilize the government. No one denies the people of Gaza food, electricity, medicine, or anything else that is necessary for survival. the problems they have internally is caused by the terrorist organization, a literal sister of al-qaeda, which they chose to be their government. To put this in perspective, Hamas built their headquarters in the basement of a hospital. They have no respect for human life. In fact, they maximize the suffering of Arabs under their control as a PR measure knowing that ignorant people would fall for their propaganda and therefore reward what they are doing to the Arabs under their control. Israel provides Gaza food, water, medicine, and electricity. Their internal problems are caused by Hamas . to put this in perspective,, took over the basement of the hospital to use as their headquarters. They have no qualms about the deaths of palestinians. In fact they maximize these as well as the suffering thereof as a PR tool. You think you're humanitarian, but people like you ensure that Arab suffering will increase by rewarding Hamas for it. I don't normally read Breitbart and I don't need to. Unlike you I know basic facts.
@@luchko3936 Israel isn't a fascist State and I just proved that the underlying claim is wrong. Perhaps you should talk to a therapist about trolling and then go through a program for basic reading comprehension skills
I am amazed that you didn't know it was a concentration camp when you saw it. We learnt this in fourth or fifth grade. It's world history, important history.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it or not... but this episode won an Emmy award for Outstanding Make-up for a Mini-Series or movie. Now this isn't a joke or anyway a comment meant to disrespect the memories of the real victims. The actors that were asked to play the Jewish prisoners were cancer patients undergoing treatment, hence their emaciated appearances. Makeup and little special effects were used. David Frankel, the director of this episode deserves a lot of recognition for making this episode so gut-wrenching and real to us... As he lost members of his own family in the Holocaust.
Devon, I think your reaction of being speechless at the end of the episode is really the appropriate one. It shows that you’re a respectful man. It’s beyond words
I saw this series when it first was released and this episode had an effect on me. I even spent a lot of time reading about WW2 and what happened in the German camps. Seeing your reaction brought me back to that first viewing. Thank you very much for sharing this one.
This feels like the perfect time to make a third WWII miniseries about the 761st Tank Battalion. I feel like people need to be reminded that black soldiers fought and died as well, but they didn’t get a hero’s welcome when they came home.
i would love to see a series on the 761st as well as the 442nd. Black soldiers and Japanese American soldiers. Hell the 442nd is also the most decorated military unit in American history.
@Libs are Nazis lol has already happened. Look at China. Look at the Bosnian war. Look at the conflict in Africa. Rwandan genocide. This world will never learn.
The movie "Schindler's List" covers more of the atrocities inflicted on the Jews by Nazi Germany, Devin. I saw it in the theatre when it came out and it's still one of the most powerful, intense film-going experiences of my life. It's also the only movie I've seen in the theatre that had an actual 20-minute intermission halfway through, not because it's particularly long, but to give the audience a breather and a chance to recover momentarily from what they were witnessing. Also, here's "Red Sector A" by Rush, based on the first-hand account of the singer Geddy Lee's mother, a Holocaust and concentration camp survivor (his father was, as well, but he passed away when Geddy was 12). th-cam.com/video/RoXFVb1VVJA/w-d-xo.html
I live in the Netherlands and here we had to watch Schindles's List at school when I was 11. Part of the education. Still amazed at how many people don't know about concentration camps and what happened in Europe during that time. But then again I probably don't know as much of American history.
@@djoekeklokhus We were taught about WW2 in Canada, the circumstances which led up to it, Hitler's past, the concentration camps. Schindler's List came out while I was in high school, so it really brought those evils to life.
@@lordsodapop4101 I can only watch it every few years. My girlfriend gave me her DVD of Schindler's List and told me she knew she'd never be able to watch it again.
If you have not seen it already, I think you’d enjoy the movie “Glory” with Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington. It depicts one of the first African-American regiments during the Civil War. One of my personal favorite films.
If you want it even worse. Leibgott, their German speaker was Jewish by descent on his Mothers side, thereby making him Jewish. Although he was raised Catholic.
You can visit a camp. The one we hit was Sachsenhausen in the town of Oranienburg, just north of Berlin. Heinrich Himmler ran the whole camp system from there, and Sachsenhausen was his model. The SS guards were trained there. This beautiful little residential street takes you there. But at the end of that street...the machinegun posts, the electrified fence. The lab to experiment on folks. It's all there. Birds don't sing here. Insects make no sound. It's a miracle that grass grows.
Devin I've been waiting for your reaction to this one. My Uncle Tommy was part of a unit that liberated one of the concentration camps. He never told us about it -- I only found out after he died -- but I did know that he hated Germans with a passion that is comparable to the worst hatreds of the Klan. He couldn't stand them. I never understood why. After he died, my Aunt Lucy (Tommy's wife) explained it was because of what he experienced during the war.
Charles Durning, a well known actor, was with the 101st when they liberated a concentration camp outside of Landsberg am Lech (possibly the one represented in this episode). On a memorial day television special, I recall years ago, He read a passage from his personal diary that he wrote that day. He couldn’t make it through the reading without breaking into tears.
I agree with all the other posters recommending "Schlinder's List" - it's one of the most moving films I've ever seen. Two other recommendations: "The Fallen of World War II" by Neil Halloran and the best film I've ever seen from the German soldier's perspective, "Das Boot."
All the heavy stuff is being covered in other comments, so I'll go with a light one. Tom Hanks makes a cameo in this episode as the French officer who executes the two Germans as Easy company drives by in the trucks. I only learned this recently after watching it many times since it first aired. It's obvious when you look for him.
Winters mentions that the Soviets discovered a camp far bigger and worse. With the execution chambers and ovens... it is referencing the infamous camp Auschwitz. The soldiers of Easy discovered tattooed prisoners with numbers. At some point, those prisoners had been at Auschwitz at some point since it was the only camp to actually brand numbers on the prisoners.
I do not know if anyone in the comment sections mentioned this but they did that's great but if not, here is some info. Many of the extras who were the prisoners, were for real cancer patients that were receiving treatment. When asked to do this part many said yes so people will remember what happened in the camp and all camps. Those cancer patients I give my heart out to them for taking part in this powerful and emotional scene, and piece of WWII history. Also, when getting ready for the scene of the camp, many people from behind the scenes asked the actors if they want to see one of the memorials of camps to get them ready for it, but many of them refused because they decided do have the "Raw shocking," experience just like the real E-Company soldiers when they found the camp.
"That's not Mozart. It's Beethoven." That resonates with me: I don't know where you were, but I did two tours in the nougaty center of Afghanistan and I thank CHRIST I never saw something this bad. These things can bring out the best in us. But they can also be weaponized. It's the gentle souls that hurt the most. Thanks for sharing this with us.
You're quickly turning into one of my favorite reaction channels. Definitely my favorite thats still under 10k subscribers. Keep it up. You'll continue to grow. No doubt.
The irony is Speirs was sending the stuff to a lady in England, who thought she was a widow. However, her husband was alive in a POW camp; when Speirs went back to her, the husband was there.
That is not correct information. You can read more information about Ronald Speirs first wife at this web site: www.ronaldspeirs.com/personal-life/ Some excerpts from the website follow: [ Inaccurate information surrounding his marriage as published in the book Band of Brothers, upset and angered Speirs because “my English wife was not a widow as the book stated.” Speirs continued, “The other reference to her in the book was disparaging.” Speirs also states, “I loved her and still do.” ] [ The girl Speirs married was a spinster and her marriage to Speirs was her first. After the war ended, she decided she could not bear to leave her close knit family to go to live in America. It is known that Speirs was terribly upset by this turn of events. It is also known that Speirs said she was the love of his life, and that he clearly always loved her. ]
@@jimamos7984 Not your fault. Too bad Ambrose did not do a little more research before publishing his book. At least most of his inaccuracies are relatively minor ones relative to the main story themes.
So hey man, love the videos and it's been a joy watching the channel grow. Once you finish this you absolutely have to move on to "The Pacific", basically the same show but telling the stories of the war against the Japanese. After that you should check out "Generation Kill", basically the same show but telling the story of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 invasion of iraq. Much love man, keep up the content
Hey Devin...thanks for doing this episode! I'm glad people see this, especially with a vet like yourself. Btw, I loved that you had your lady friend there to watch Lethal Weapon with you!
The sending them back into the camp and taking away the food actually did save a lot of lives. Hundreds did eat themselves to death, and if they started roaming around many would not have gained the aid they needed. Also, as awful as the camps were, they still were more shelter than the forrest would provide. It's a heartbreaking order, but it was needed.
The heart those dudes in EASY COMPANY in particular had is SO RARE, The Bastone episodes hard to imagine going through that. but yea this episode shows what were really fighting for. Great reaction
You should Review Schindlers List its a classic movie in this genre. I realize why I love watching @Devin G, I remember when Next Friday and All about the Benjamins came out, I used to go to a movie theater out in Downey and Compton. People ask why you go out there for certain movies....Because there is no better experience then watching Friday movies or Ice Cube movies then when you know the theater is mostly black people, they get so into it they make me hyped! Its like a southern baptist church I go to catholic church im half asleep i go to baptist church people singing and happy af lol Keep it up man!
Tom Hardy plays Janovec. He portends the discovery of the camp in the troop transport while reading the article. When asked what it's about, he says "It's about why we're fighting the war. It seems the Germans are bad, very bad." His fellow soldiers mock him until they find the camp. The 101st Airborne encountered one of a hundred sub camps of Dachau, the first concentration camp established by the nazis in 1933.
There was one of these camps that the town nearby was forced to visit and bury the day. Shortly after, like the next day, the camp Commandant and his wife were found hung on a tree limb in their yard. Supposedly some people that lived in that town lynched them.
Yeah, ‘over-eating yourself to death’ is an actual thing. Their bodies were so malnourished that over-eating (to their bodies) would cause organ rupture which can lead to many internal causes of death. Besides, what they were giving to the survivors didn’t have the nutritional value of what they needed to recover. Bread and Cheese won’t be enough to help their bodies recover. I read from somewhere that a British soldier who’s unit also liberated a camp had to feed the survivors with a certain gruel that had high levels of sodium and other specific nutrients. He said the stuff tasted really bitter, but it did do the trick in allowing the victims’ digestive systems to start recovering. Soon, the survivors would finally get to have some actual food. It’s just a whole process of recovering from such a horrible thing. Also they had to keep them in the camps so they could quarantine them and medically supervise them. Imagine all the parasites and diseases those poor souls had been riddled with. Letting these people walk freely is like potentially asking for a epidemic of disease. You should react to Schindler’s List. It’s honestly one of the best depictions of the Holocaust and if you ever find yourself in DC, visit the National Holocaust Museum. It truly is a meaningful experience and it allows you to better understand the level of systematic cruelty and murder that these people had to endure. I always light a candle there in my three visits to the museum as a way of saying that I will never forget these people who were taken from us. We can never forget what happened and must forever remain vigilant to never let such an unimaginable evil return to us.
It’s 1995 we were for 7 days in Munich, i am 15 years old. We visited a few places there, Bavaria Filmstudios, the Technological Museum, Marienplatz and the Olympic Stadion. And 2 days before going home we went to Dachau. I am 41 now and still have nightmares about this place! To see the Barack’s were they held all this people, the crematorium and the Main building. No movie or tv series can prepare you. I had the feeling of being watched, had the feeling that somebody standing behind me, and asking “ Why? Why us?” I don’t believe that they didn’t know anything. They knew and did nothing!
I found this information on another person's comment None of the actors playing American soldiers had seen the concentration camp set, or the extras playing the victims, before they were to film there, and the reactions of most of the cast are genuine. Ross McCall, playing Joe Liebgott, said there were talks of bringing the actors to a camp to prepare them for the scene - but they ultimately decided not to, for the sake of getting honest reactions. The specific camp that was liberated in this episode was the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. The liberation occurred on April 4, 1945. The US Army brought in tents and emergency shelters immediately, as well as a volunteer force of medical personnel. The Army began relocating the prisoners as quickly as they could, beginning the day after the camp's liberation. In total it took about a week to get all the prisoners to better accommodations in order to give them medical care and food.
“I was not expecting this” Those words hurt. I know not intentionally by you, but the fact that people are still STUNNED and SURPRISED by the atrocities of the Holocaust...it’s heartbreaking Great reaction Though
This is a Concentration Labor Camp. What you see in this episode is a very small bit of what the Nazis did. Giant deadly gas chambers, giant fire chambers...no longer taught in schools though.
@@KunraVong First of all, you don't know shit. Second of all schools all around the country not only spend a lot of time learning about the Holocaust, but many schools make trips to the museum.
@@stevem7192 and if the school doesn't have the money or the community support for such a tour, almost universally history teachers will run one of the virtual tours the holocaust museum offers.
A lot of ordinary German citizens did know about the camps, but it wasn't "real" to them because they hadn't seen one up close. When they did, reactions varied. Some tried to say it was fake. Some went home and committed suicide. In one city, someone wrote on a wall in big letters "I am ashamed to be German." Back in the States, they showed films from inside the camps to German POWs. They were shook.
During a military school, I went over a week with only one meal. When we got done with the course, and we went to the chow hall, I was eating everything in sight. I made myself sick as hell. Eating yourself to death is very possible.
years ago I went to Germany and the Checkrepublic with my parents and one place we visited was one of the camps (don't remember what it was called) and all I can say is that everything felt wrong. its something that I will take with me for the rest of my life and its something that really hast to be taught in school.
OOOOOH MAN great reaction I just watched this episode before watching your reaction. DUDE, this is the heaviest episode for sure. So glad you like this series, especially as a Vet. Good to know how historically accurate it is. Let's all remember that this is why the Geneva Conventions were put in place. If only those same international laws protected citizens today. Everyone should see this and understand what it is. @Devin G, good luck with The Pacific, because you gotta brace yourself for war crimes. Keep doing your thing, dude.
Spiers was sending all that stuff to a woman in who was pregnant by him. Before the end of the war her husband turned up alive and she stayed with him, but Spiers kept in touch and the boy eventually became an officer in the British Army I believe. He was a hard ass, but he never thought a moment of abandoning someone who was carrying his child, kerk
There is a documentary film with the original footage of the scene with our troops bringing in the people from the nearby town to bury all those bodies. The show scene in nothing compared to the original. There are no words..
There is a PBS Nova special, "Memory of the Camps" which is an incomplete film made by Orson Welles, it is about 90 minutes of actual footage taken during the liberation of several concentration camps. It is utterly, completely, devastatingly horrendous...and should be watched by everybody.
I think the idea was that the German ladies husband was the commander of the camp and if not the camp, he and she definitely knew about what was happening there. Fun fact: I think it’s private Janovec (the guy rolling around with the German girl) is Tom Hardy. This was his first big roll.
There's a book called Ordinary Men about a reserve police battalion in Poland that helped carry out the Final Solution. Easily the most horrifying thing I've ever come across.
My great-grandfather was one of the soldiers who liberated Auschwitz. I never knew it until the night he passed away when he told me the story. Since then, I have seen the things he brought back with him, and the photos he had taken of the camp. I had heard of the Holocaust. I had seen things written in books, and mentioned on television. But the pictures he had taken... I still want to vomit from the mere memory of what those images summon in my mind. Never forget. Never again.
Since its original broadcast, I think I've seen this episode forty, maybe fifty times. I tear up every single time. No exceptions. Every single fucking time.
I cannot get through this episode without melting. The delay in translation always makes for great drama and here it is almost excruciating. The moment where the man cries out and breaks down only for Liebgott to explain that he is mentioning the Women’s camp down the tracks..... always shatters whatever composure I am managing to hold onto.
The concentration camp shown was actually an outlying work camp of Dachau concentration camp if I remember correctly According to Holocaust historians the creators of the show got it nigh on spot on. They also used cancer patients to play the concentration camp victims
Yeah bro, this was a tough episode to watch for sure. I couldn't imagine going through all that combat then find out about and seeing those camps. That's a whole other level of trauma, horrible.
5:40 Funny you should say Captain Speirs would have something to come back to when he shipped his loot. According to the book, he sent it all back to a girlfriend in England, whose husband was supposedly killed earlier in the war. The husband, though, was alive after all, and eventually found his way back to his wife, and they kept all the loot Speirs had sent to her :) Edit: I have to add that Speirs denied this claim, though.
The whole reason why it was a big deal that "Harvard" Hadn't graduated yet @11:00 was because that implied that he technically didn't have to be there. He volunteered to go. ( his character ) anyways. I don't remember whether that was fact or embellishment but let's watch on and discover! p.s. Ive watched this series 4 times now and am loving re experiencing it all with all these people. This series has been epic @Devin G - Stephen
This happened a long time ago but there are still to this day german SS being prosecuted for war crimes in their 90s-100s. This is a history that must never be forgotten or ignored because it can happen again. To many died from this war and we all need to make sure that their sacrifice was not for nothing. Strong episode!
Great relation dude, I get a kick outta your content mate. I'd love to see you react to the WW2 film - The Pianist, hard-hitting film from 2002, follows a Jewish person and his family from 1939 - 1944, really powerful/sad and inspiring film. Keep up the good work my friend!
I recommend visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC once Covid is hopefully over. It is the best (yet saddest) museum on the National Mall and will help you learn about what happened.
Watch some documentaries about Auzwich. Also, Patton, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Anne Frank, Band of Brothers, The Pacific There are allot of movies and documentaries out there to help ppl understand. Also movies involving the resistance and ppl who tried to smuggle Jewish children to safe places. The things you will find will blow your mind. The Geneva Convention and UN were created after WW2 so this would never happen again. Also the plan to rebuild Europe is called The Marshall Plan.
This episode always makes a huge impression on me. Every time I remember a visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp. (Probably what Winters means when he says the Russians liberated the camp ten times larger)
My grandfather was at Dachau, when this unit liberated it. Hes 92 and still cuts his own grass and sits outside and watches the kids play basketball at the church next door to his house. When he passes I plan on getting his tattoo to keep the knowledge alive of what they did. A-17492
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There were war crimes that the U.S. soldiers did but i got to say, i understand their motivation and i would have been lenient with them.
They made S.S. guys stand at Hitler salute, poured water on them, made them hold the salute all night. In the morning they shot them.
They stood around and watched the prisoners beat S.S. guys to death, even handing them shovels and tools to do it with. (I have little problem with this other than i wished the S.S. guys were tried and hung.)
One young U.S. soldier shot a group of a dozen or so surrendered nazis
The nazis deserved it but we punished our soldiers that went too far because we arent the S.S.
The tattoo idea is amazing
@@jackburton3701 I agree 100% your comment reminded me a lot of that scene in Saving Private Ryan, where the US soldiers on D-Day shot and killed what they thought were 2 Germans but were actually 2 people from some European country that Germany had conquered and made the fighting age males either be drafted into the German military or be killed, as u would expect almost everyone given that choice, chose to be a soilder for Germany vs instant death! The sad part is that those soldiers were often given little to no training, very old and outdated equipment, sometimes given no equipment, they were put on the front lines in some of the most dangerous positions in the entire war, and overall were essentially just used as literal human bullet shields & cannon fotter!
But that scene in Private Ryan they were actually 2 of those types of Soilders. They were speaking a diff language other than German and the just of what they were saying was, "plz don't shoot, were not Nazis!! Were unarmed and didn't even fire any rounds during the battle!" But the Americans thought they were Germans and just shot them on the spot!
During the War trials,
It's rlly crazy when u think about how their was hardly any german people that were actually tried in those international courts, like a little more or little less than a hundred or so, that's alot of people but when u think about how many actual German Soilders, Politicians and just average every day German Civilians their were that contributed to the war effort and the holocaust its like .00001% were actually tried, which is basically 0.. and that's only from the German side! The Japanese committed just as many war crimes and were just as brutal if not more so, than what the Germans did, plus that's not even taking into consideration all of the other people from all the other Axis powers, plus don't even get me started on Russia.... lol!!
When u rlly think about it all, it's almost like nobody was rlly punished in the courts in the grand scheme of things, so in a sense it doesn't justify all the Deaths but when u take all that into account, that hardly nobody was punished after the war, it starts to make sense as to why so many people, soilders, & politicians, were killed/murdered/executed during the war. Don't get me wrong it's not an excuse but it's not as black and white as most people would initially suspect it to be...
But yea, the reason I want to get his Tattoo once he passes, is so that I can continue to keep that historical physical evidence alive on my body, as a reminder to the world of all of Germany's atrocities that they committed towards so many people and even more so a reminder as to what they personally did to my grandfather and also to the rest of his family that unfortunately didn't survive the war.
@@HelloThere-bj9rw thanks! It's not my idea, I think I saw and heard the idea withee in a book, or movie or something a few years back, and thought it was an awesome idea, so I approched my grandfather about it and told him the idea, and why I was thinking about doing it and asked for his thoughts and opinions on me doing it, and asked for his blessing and permission and he agreed and loved the idea so much that he actually insisted that he's going to give me the money to pay for the tattoo in his will, and it actually made him cry tears of happiness that I would do that to my own body, and to carry on a physical reminder of the memories of what had happened to not just him, but also to alot of his immediate family that unfortunately weren't as lucky/blessed that didn't survive the war. But yea, I'm gonna get it after he passes away, but hopefully that won't be for a very long time from now :)
Always chokes me up, every time every yearly rewatch.
They cast cancer patients going through chemo, and IIRC kept them separate from the set until filming so the Easy Company actors were seeing them for the first time.
Right on both counts.
@@greggross8856 Holy crap that's insane. Brilliant decision on the part of the producers and directors, that would've fucked me up as an actor to see people like that and realize they weren't acting.
Oh man, that's brilliant. I bet the cancer patients were happy to get a distraction from that painful treatment by playing in a huge series like this
@@rymdalkis they were uncomfortable for sure, but they decided to stay and help because they want the series to portray exactly the pain and horror that was the concentration camp
The actors were given the chance to see the set where they'd built the camp for filming but everyone chose to wait until filming the scenes so that they're reactions would be as genuine as possible. The bit that always gets me is where the veteran salutes and the Easy Company guy; Perconte I think, salutes back. Sometimes I start crying after I get to that, kerk
“We Stand Alone Together” is a must after you are done with the series! It’s all of full interviews and interaction of the actual men that you have been seeing parts of at the beginning of each episode. Truly amazing to watch. Great reactions and thank you for your service!!!
“He has seen war” is really good too, has guys from the pacific and band of brothers, some family members too, it’s on TH-cam
@@ryanbuckley5529 I haven’t seen that. I’ll definitely check it out.
This. Please make sure to react to this doc.
Liebgott was so traumatized by the discovery of the Holocaust that he never contacted any of Easy Company again after getting home, and never attended any reunions.
I think it probably goes even deeper than just the Camp. Towards the end of the war he was assigned to an intelligence unit that was responsible for hunting down SS officers, he was involved in the interrogation and execution of a number of prisoners.
Winters regretted assigning him to the unit because he realized Joe was becoming violent and extremely aggressive when it came to Ferman prisoners.
I think if things had continued, Joe would have become psychotic.
His mother's family were Jewish. Half Jews were also killed in many cases. If course, he identified with the prisoners. Could you imagine what he felt like ordering them back into the camp?
@@ronmaximilian6953 Half Jews were killed in all cases, it was called "the Nuremberg law" the rule was 1/4th, meaning one grand-parent.
@@PB-tr5ze I never knew that about Leibgott. I only knew that he basically went home after the war, drove a cab like he said he would, and cut himself off from everyone and never attended reunions and barely spoke to anyone. The filmmakers and even Stephen Ambrose who wrote the book that this series is based on had to rely on guys in Easy Company for information on what Joe was like during his time in the Army. Apparently even his family didnt know what he did.
@@allzuckedup that's simply not true.
www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/mischlinge.html
actually, tens of thousands of half and quarter juice volunteered to fight in the German military in order to protect themselves and a Jewish parent.
Schindler's List is a must watch, category of must watch once in your life.
Come and See is another one.
True. It tells the story for the working jew. But not the real horror of the deadcamps
The Pianist as well.
The Pianist too
Schindler's List is a must watch... but absolutely not a reaction video watch.
The jump Nixon describes is Operation Varsity which my father participated in as a Glider Trooper March 24, 1945.
My great grandfather also took part in Operation Varsity. HQ Co. 194th GIR.
Nixon’s family owned a nitration manufacturing company, and he attended both Yale and MIT before enlisting. Once on active duty with the 101st, he was assigned to regimental intelligence (S2). Because of his drinking problem and politics, he was transferred to 2nd battalion ops (S3) sometime towards the end of the war. Still didn’t keep him from ending the war as a captain, which reflects how competent he was as a planner.
Nixon was one of the few American paratroopers who made three combat jumps during WW2, but he never fired his carbine in combat, despite spending a lot of time in the front lines (he got his helmet shot off during Market Garden, for example, and was deployed as one of the tactical reserve troops during the assault on Foy) - and this was something he was rather frustrated about.
Nix reacting to getting shot in Market Garden is one of the best and truest moments in the series, as well as one of the funniest.
Drunkeness was apparently not uncommon with the US officer class. You can now and then find accounts and comments about it and you have to wonder how the Army did as well as it did with so many officers tanked to the gills.
@@Thane36425 You have to understand something about alcoholism and how functional you can remain for decades. Most of these guys were super young and could take the self-punishment at the time.
@@Thane36425 Look at every army throughout history up until maybe the 1970s or so and a very large proportion of the army, officers included, was on something. Usually drink - the British favoured rum, the French wine - but drugs were a major problem for the US army in Vietnam. For much of history, commanders would issue booze either to try to take the edge off the men's nerves or offer it as a reward after battle or hard work to try to get the men to give their all.
Even today, the command "Splice the Mainbrace" in the Royal Navy doesn't really mean "fix the rope holding main yard in place," though that's where it came from, it means "issue an extra drink ration to the men for their hard work/in celebration of some important event."
Alcohol has always been a vent for soldiers in battle. Even Alexander the Great was a drunk. He also kept his army supplied with wine and opium. Both were mixed to a 'dream wine' that helped to forget the horrors of battle and keep fighting.
They actually built the entire camp for the show and did not let any of the actors see it beforehand so a lot of the reactions are genuine emotions
Many of the extras in this were also cancer patients who volunteered to be part of this, too.
Also several scenes- like the scene where they rolled the door open on the cattle car and someone’s arm fell out- were re-enacted from primary source film taken at the discovery of the camps.
@@kellyalves756 I didn't know about that thank you so much. Where did you find this out if you still remember?
Some making of video I can’t remember- it’s probably on the HBO Band of Brothers page.
Also, I’m somewhat of a Sam Fuller fan, and his infantry division in WW2 liberated Falkenau. He was already part of the Stars and Stripes press crew, and he carried one of those really oldschool janky little film camera around with him, and after the war he and other film makers put together a documentary short that showed a combination of color and black and while silent film clips of places they had liberated. The cattle car scene and the one inmate saluting was part of that collection. ( Basically I’ve seen that footage before watching Fuller biographies.)Also the villagers trying to collect the bodies.
Oh, shit, I found Fuller’s footage.
Content warning. This is way, way worse than the stuff in the show.
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This one is a tough episode. My grandparents were in the camps. They went through hell & were forever grateful for being liberated. They taught us that if I ever come across an American soldier to treat them with the utmost respect. They refused to tell any of us what they went through until the very end of their lives, it was heart wrenching to hear. I will forever be grateful to the allied forces for fighting.
Wow... great respect for your grandparents. Peace to their souls
I'm glad they survived. I myself had a Tailoring Mentor who was a survivor of Dora-Mittelbau. He passed in April 2020. His wife was also a survivor but thankfully she never spent time in the camps. She did however witness her own horrors having to remain hidden from Nazi's for so long. She lost her parents but was able to survive. Both of them began to tell their stories and they are also recorded on both the National and Virginia based Holocaust museums. A part of Mr. Zimm's video interview is on the NHMM Dora-Mittelbau page.
Joe is a jew himself. Imagine what he must go through telling these people they have to stay locked up and denied food n shit. Horrific
That must've haunted him for a long time.
Being starved and then eating alot so suddenly can make you sick. These people need to slowly progress to eating more day by day. And since they didn't have a place for them to sleep, they had to spend another night in the camp until they could find them a place. I know it sucks.
@@fasiapulekaufusi6632 it would have more than made them sick, there was a real possibility of it actually killing them sadly.
I think he was actually only half jewish but everyone in the company thought he was fully jewish
"You tell them what you always tell them. Their sons died as heroes."
So much pain and suffering in that line
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke
“There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.”
― Edmund Burke
This was the episode I was waiting for you to react to ~ I so appreciate your watching and reacting to this series because we must never forget! And though I know it was hard, it's so important. My two uncles, the strongest, sweetest, kindest men ever, fought in the European theater in WW2 and were there when they liberated a camp. I grew up hearing the whispered stories about this, but it's one thing they never talked about from the war. It was just too heartbreaking for them to speak of. I was 5 when my father took us all back to Germany and we toured a concentration camp. I was in third grade when they showed us films of the holocaust. My generation was raised on tales of WW2, and it's easy to assume that younger generations have been just as familiarized with it. We must continue to share these sad stories, not to make us sad, but to ensure that we never make the same mistakes again.
The guy that was carrying the old man in his arms spoke Serbo-Croatian he said "please help him he's still alive". Chokes me up every time
The people in these villages nearby concentration camps, etc. There is 0% chance that they had no idea, but a lot of them didn't know the extent, because even for citizens under Nazi Germany it was hard to fathom the true evil that as occurring unless you are seeing it firsthand.
And General Eisenhower marched their asses into those camps to show them who they were really siding with.
@@theroachden6195 Loved what he quoted about it. “Write it down, every camp, every survivor, every victim, everything, brand it into the History Books, because later, some dumbass is gonna say ‘it never happened.”
Issue is most people didn't want to know. They had suspicions but nobody wants to speak out. Rather fall in line and just shut up about it then be brave and speak out
@@dastemplar9681 all you have to do is read the comments to see thats true. Lots of deniers.
@@theroachden6195 Even Gen. Patton in his diary said that he got nausea from the smell, and i believe him...
I wrote a fairly politically charged post about the education system and blindness to history but I decided not to post it because it would detract from the emotional honesty of your reaction. All I will say is that my grandfather was 7th Armoured and he saw this sort of thing first hand and, before he passed, he made sure that I knew that if I disliked someone that I did so because of what they did to me *directly* not because of what race or religion they were.
Product of US education...
Some of my relations also saw the camps first hand. They never talked about it, at least not when the kids were around. However, when I was 15 or so, I had a friend along and he started talking favorably about the Germans, and maybe a comment about the Nazis. The cousin he was talking to did not like that one bit and he set my friend straight on a few points. No violence, just a most stern talking to.
My grandfather also saw the camps. He was in the US 119th AAA, and saw some of the same things Easy did. He would always talk about stuff from the war. The funny stories. The sad ones. Even the ones he wasn't proud of. But he never talked about what he saw at the camps.
@Nope Nope You are pure evil.
@Nope Nope whatever
14:44 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" full sentence was cut
Yep, this is the rough one. Hardened guys who had experienced D-Day, Market Garden, and Bastogne realized they hadn't seen real cruelty until now.
It was the ultimate low-point for Easy, but it also made some of them consider that all the hardship and loss they endured to that point as being in Europe worth it. This is what they fought for, to put a stop to something that was unimaginably evil.
@DasTemplar very good point!
Unfortunately, many people have come to believe that everything they see in Band of Brothers is factually and historically accurate...it isn't. There are several instances where historical accuracy has been sacrificed for dramatic effects and the liberation of this camp is one of them. The camp depicted in Band of Brothers is _Kaufering IV_ which was actually liberated by the 12th Armored Division on April 27, 1945 with 101st arriving the following day. Virtually all the prisoners had either been killed or forced marched out of the camp by the Germans in the direction Dachau. Only a handful of prisoners who had managed to hide were found alive when the camp was liberated, along with about 500 bodies. Colonel Edward Seiller of the 12th Armored Division took control of the camp on April 27 and he was the one who ordered civilians from the town of Landsberg bury the dead (he also ordered that it be filmed).
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:
_In April 1945, during the 101st Airborne Division’s drive south into Germany’s Rhineland, the “Screaming Eagles,” as the unit was known, uncovered Kaufering IV, one of 11 concentration camps in the Kaufering complex in the Landsberg region._
_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._
I cry every time I watch this episode. And I have yet to see a reactor who doesn't tear up watching it.
Your surprise at this saddens me. It’s an indictment of the American education system post 1980s.
Sadly is a global issue. I read that 80% of young people in Europe think the Holocaust is "exaggerated". I fallow a Twitter account name "Faces of Auschwitz", her creator is from Brasil and one she has to explain to an audience what was The Holocaust before she can talk about her proyect. That breaks my heart, because the easiest way to repeat the past mistake is when new generations forget about them
That is why you need to educate the people visit the places where it happens (every pupil in Germany is at least once visiting a concentration camp with their school or at least they are supposed to)
Otherwise history repeats itself like in China where they essentially are just a few ideological steps away from making death camps out of the internment camps they have for Uighurs now.
American education is only bad since it was taken over by the federal government. But I was born in 2001 and never met anyone who hasn’t heard of the Holocaust
@@andrewmellen8092 Education quality varies widely throughout the US. While many places have kept up, others declined. There are some schools that have the same textbooks since the 1950s. 90s and 00 students in my area learned about the holocaust no doubt. But the same cannot be said for other places.
@@simonnot8487 yes but the overall education has fallen since the introduction of the Department of Education. That’s where this stereotype of “bad education” comes from
One of the best scenes in tv history. The complexity of emotions in this war is unfathomable.
Yeah... when I was in school and we were taught about the Holocaust...hearing about the people who died cause nice liberator soildiers gave them more of their food than they could handle was pretty hard to comprehend but it happened.
An average person wouldn't know any better. Especially in that era when most people weren't very educated.
Many of the concentration camp survivors were so ill that nearly 50,000 of them died even after they were liberated by the Allies.
The cancer patients volunteering to play the victims made these some of the most realistic portrayals of the camps that TV is likely to see. What we will never experience is the smell; death; disease and the burning bodies would have made this experience one of the most horrendous these men would have ever experienced. Further east some of the camps were even more overcrowded because prisoners; some of them POWs were being marched west ahead of the Russians; only living because no-one gave orders to have them killed. Not that everyone needed orders, kerk
This is quite simply the greatest episode of the series, it doesn't have the action or the dialogue of some of the others, but the set up, the boredom, then the sheer horror of finding the camp is masterfully done. It never fails to break me and even watching your reaction I'm sitting with tears in my eyes. I have never served but I have studied the causes and effects of the two world wars and this should be required viewing for everyone. If Germans two miles down the road can claim ignorance of this kind of horror, we always need to be on guard to what our and other governments are doing.
You really need to watch Schindler's List. It's so powerful. It was so intense that the director had to get Robin Williams come tell jokes in between takes just to keep the actors sane.
He should check out the grey zone , or son of saul too. basically schindlers list turned up to 11. about the extermination centers
Robin Williams was not brought in because he was actually filming "Good morning Vietnam" at the time but he did tell jokes over the phone :)
@@chriswright1001 Oh that's right. I read about that years ago and it just got stuck in my mind that Robin Williams came on set.
They mention an operation by the 17th Airborne. One of Easy's sister regiments was shifted over to the 17th to give that new unit some veterans.
They jumped in Operation Varsity in support of Montgomery and some American units crossing the Rhine River. It was a fairly hasty operation and was quite large. The paratroopers and glidermen dropped in a few miles back from the Rhine in order to interfere with the German's ability to move and reinforce the defenses at the river.
Problem was, the Germans knew they were coming and in part because a fallschrimjager (German paratroops) division was there, they guessed the landing zones and packed the area with anti-aircraft guns and artillery. These shot down many planes and gliders and the machine guns and artillery killed a lot of men. However, many of the German forces were poorly trained Volksstrum (sp), last ditch conscripts of young boys and old men. Had they been better quality troops it could have been much worse.
Thing is, the operation might not have been necessary at all. German records and accounts show that if Montgomery had pushed across the Rhine when he reacher it, the Germans could not have stopped him and he could have moved through the area much more easily. Instead he stoppes and waited for weeks to out together the big operation. As it was Patton had already crossed the Rhine further south, but those operations were slowed once again to support Monty. After Market Garden you'd think they would have replaced him.
Nurse here: If they starved to death and eat to fast, it could provoque a fast imbalance in their blood and system that could be fatal.
Schindler's List is a movie everyone must watch at least once in their lifetime imo. You should do a reaction if you've never watched it.
Propaganda
@@garryaldridge7325 gtfo
@@nebose114 the truth hits hard right?
@@garryaldridge7325 maybe read a book or two on the subject and not have a infowars article as your main source of information.
@@nebose114 my grandfathers fought in the German Army, one at the eastern front against the Russians and one at the operation Market Garden against the US and britains
Awesome review Bro...The look on your face at the end was genuine. Keep'er going !!
And this is why deniers and apologists piss me off so much.
@@callinglarry there are three times more Arabs in the disputed territories today than in 1967. Palestinians put down their arms and stopped fighting, they would be living in peace and prosperity.
Israeli Arabs have full rights and get affirmative action. They are members of the parliament, the Supreme court, and the general staff of the IDF. The general in charge of the West Bank is an Israeli Arab.
Your comparison is not just wrong, but obscene
@@callinglarry someone who doesn't know the fact that there's a difference between Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians living in the disputed territories isn't in a position to lecture anyone. I'm sure you also don't know that Israel left Gaza with factories and greenhouses. These were torn down by Hamas and used to Rock It israel. Soon thereafter, there were elections in Gaza and the people of Gaza chose Hamas to be their governments. They voted to turn themselves over to a literal sister organization of al-Qaeda. those walls that you be moan exist to protect not only israelis, but also these Arabs. Because Hamas had been invading Israel repeatedly killing civilians and kidnapping soldiers and civilians. The walls exist to stop this and thereby prevent Israel from needing to retaliate. If la had seceded and were killing people in surrounding counties, California would build a wall. If you'll notice, egypt, which had previously controlled Gaza prior to 1967, built a wall on its border. The reason is that the Muslim brotherhood and Hamas started to operate in the Sinai attacking Egyptian soldiers and trying to destabilize the government.
No one denies the people of Gaza food, electricity, medicine, or anything else that is necessary for survival. the problems they have internally is caused by the terrorist organization, a literal sister of al-qaeda, which they chose to be their government.
To put this in perspective, Hamas built their headquarters in the basement of a hospital. They have no respect for human life. In fact, they maximize the suffering of Arabs under their control as a PR measure knowing that ignorant people would fall for their propaganda and therefore reward what they are doing to the Arabs under their control.
Israel provides Gaza food, water, medicine, and electricity. Their internal problems are caused by Hamas . to put this in perspective,, took over the basement of the hospital to use as their headquarters. They have no qualms about the deaths of palestinians. In fact they maximize these as well as the suffering thereof as a PR tool.
You think you're humanitarian, but people like you ensure that Arab suffering will increase by rewarding Hamas for it.
I don't normally read Breitbart and I don't need to. Unlike you I know basic facts.
@@ronmaximilian6953 isn't it ironic how victims became fascist these days, right
@@luchko3936 Israel isn't a fascist State and I just proved that the underlying claim is wrong. Perhaps you should talk to a therapist about trolling and then go through a program for basic reading comprehension skills
@@ronmaximilian6953 yeah,hating certain group of people is not fascist,nice propaganda man
I am amazed that you didn't know it was a concentration camp when you saw it.
We learnt this in fourth or fifth grade. It's world history, important history.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it or not... but this episode won an Emmy award for Outstanding Make-up for a Mini-Series or movie. Now this isn't a joke or anyway a comment meant to disrespect the memories of the real victims.
The actors that were asked to play the Jewish prisoners were cancer patients undergoing treatment, hence their emaciated appearances. Makeup and little special effects were used.
David Frankel, the director of this episode deserves a lot of recognition for making this episode so gut-wrenching and real to us... As he lost members of his own family in the Holocaust.
Devon, I think your reaction of being speechless at the end of the episode is really the appropriate one. It shows that you’re a respectful man. It’s beyond words
I saw this series when it first was released and this episode had an effect on me. I even spent a lot of time reading about WW2 and what happened in the German camps. Seeing your reaction brought me back to that first viewing. Thank you very much for sharing this one.
This feels like the perfect time to make a third WWII miniseries about the 761st Tank Battalion. I feel like people need to be reminded that black soldiers fought and died as well, but they didn’t get a hero’s welcome when they came home.
i would love to see a series on the 761st as well as the 442nd. Black soldiers and Japanese American soldiers. Hell the 442nd is also the most decorated military unit in American history.
Wait...you’ve never heard of the Holocaust before? You better start educating yourself, Devin, so that shit like this will never happen again.
@Libs are Nazis i hope your right but lately im beginning to doubt.
Theres no way someone hasnt heard of the holocaust?. For real?
Look up "uyghur camps", thats china right now.
@Libs are Nazis lol has already happened. Look at China. Look at the Bosnian war. Look at the conflict in Africa. Rwandan genocide. This world will never learn.
@@jadenking4268 have you seen how much they are taking out of history books? they're not teaching about the wars anymore
The movie "Schindler's List" covers more of the atrocities inflicted on the Jews by Nazi Germany, Devin. I saw it in the theatre when it came out and it's still one of the most powerful, intense film-going experiences of my life. It's also the only movie I've seen in the theatre that had an actual 20-minute intermission halfway through, not because it's particularly long, but to give the audience a breather and a chance to recover momentarily from what they were witnessing.
Also, here's "Red Sector A" by Rush, based on the first-hand account of the singer Geddy Lee's mother, a Holocaust and concentration camp survivor (his father was, as well, but he passed away when Geddy was 12).
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Good movie to watch but it’s heart wrenching
I live in the Netherlands and here we had to watch Schindles's List at school when I was 11. Part of the education. Still amazed at how many people don't know about concentration camps and what happened in Europe during that time. But then again I probably don't know as much of American history.
@@djoekeklokhus We were taught about WW2 in Canada, the circumstances which led up to it, Hitler's past, the concentration camps. Schindler's List came out while I was in high school, so it really brought those evils to life.
@@lordsodapop4101 I can only watch it every few years. My girlfriend gave me her DVD of Schindler's List and told me she knew she'd never be able to watch it again.
If you have not seen it already, I think you’d enjoy the movie “Glory” with Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington. It depicts one of the first African-American regiments during the Civil War. One of my personal favorite films.
If you want it even worse. Leibgott, their German speaker was Jewish by descent on his Mothers side, thereby making him Jewish. Although he was raised Catholic.
You can visit a camp. The one we hit was Sachsenhausen in the town of Oranienburg, just north of Berlin. Heinrich Himmler ran the whole camp system from there, and Sachsenhausen was his model. The SS guards were trained there. This beautiful little residential street takes you there. But at the end of that street...the machinegun posts, the electrified fence. The lab to experiment on folks. It's all there. Birds don't sing here. Insects make no sound. It's a miracle that grass grows.
Devin I've been waiting for your reaction to this one.
My Uncle Tommy was part of a unit that liberated one of the concentration camps. He never told us about it -- I only found out after he died -- but I did know that he hated Germans with a passion that is comparable to the worst hatreds of the Klan. He couldn't stand them. I never understood why. After he died, my Aunt Lucy (Tommy's wife) explained it was because of what he experienced during the war.
Thank you for reviewing this episode and your service!
I really appreciate your honest and emotional reaction to the Holocaust scenes.
It's one of those TV moments that stay with one forever.
Little skinny dude that got caught in bed with the girl played Bane in Batman and Venom in Venom....
Tom Hardy
Also Mad Max in "Fury Road."
Holy shit that's Tom Hardy?!
Yup. Magneto and Professor Xavier are in this as well....
And Forest Bondurant in Lawless
This is the best one so far. Very, very good job on this video man. I am really happy that I am a sub of yours.
Charles Durning, a well known actor, was with the 101st when they liberated a concentration camp outside of Landsberg am Lech (possibly the one represented in this episode). On a memorial day television special, I recall years ago, He read a passage from his personal diary that he wrote that day. He couldn’t make it through the reading without breaking into tears.
I agree with all the other posters recommending "Schlinder's List" - it's one of the most moving films I've ever seen. Two other recommendations: "The Fallen of World War II" by Neil Halloran and the best film I've ever seen from the German soldier's perspective, "Das Boot."
Fun Fact: The French officer shooting the prisoner @ 11:47 is Tom Hanks
All the heavy stuff is being covered in other comments, so I'll go with a light one. Tom Hanks makes a cameo in this episode as the French officer who executes the two Germans as Easy company drives by in the trucks. I only learned this recently after watching it many times since it first aired. It's obvious when you look for him.
Winters mentions that the Soviets discovered a camp far bigger and worse. With the execution chambers and ovens... it is referencing the infamous camp Auschwitz. The soldiers of Easy discovered tattooed prisoners with numbers. At some point, those prisoners had been at Auschwitz at some point since it was the only camp to actually brand numbers on the prisoners.
Thank you for your service!
I do not know if anyone in the comment sections mentioned this but they did that's great but if not, here is some info. Many of the extras who were the prisoners, were for real cancer patients that were receiving treatment. When asked to do this part many said yes so people will remember what happened in the camp and all camps. Those cancer patients I give my heart out to them for taking part in this powerful and emotional scene, and piece of WWII history. Also, when getting ready for the scene of the camp, many people from behind the scenes asked the actors if they want to see one of the memorials of camps to get them ready for it, but many of them refused because they decided do have the "Raw shocking," experience just like the real E-Company soldiers when they found the camp.
"That's not Mozart. It's Beethoven."
That resonates with me: I don't know where you were, but I did two tours in the nougaty center of Afghanistan and I thank CHRIST I never saw something this bad.
These things can bring out the best in us. But they can also be weaponized.
It's the gentle souls that hurt the most.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
You're quickly turning into one of my favorite reaction channels. Definitely my favorite thats still under 10k subscribers. Keep it up. You'll continue to grow. No doubt.
The irony is Speirs was sending the stuff to a lady in England, who thought she was a widow. However, her husband was alive in a POW camp; when Speirs went back to her, the husband was there.
That is not correct information. You can read more information about Ronald Speirs first wife at this web site: www.ronaldspeirs.com/personal-life/
Some excerpts from the website follow:
[ Inaccurate information surrounding his marriage as published in the book Band of Brothers, upset and angered Speirs because “my English wife was not a widow as the book stated.” Speirs continued, “The other reference to her in the book was disparaging.” Speirs also states, “I loved her and still do.” ]
[ The girl Speirs married was a spinster and her marriage to Speirs was her first. After the war ended, she decided she could not bear to leave her close knit family to go to live in America. It is known that Speirs was terribly upset by this turn of events. It is also known that Speirs said she was the love of his life, and that he clearly always loved her. ]
@@JB-bv1rg I stand corrected. Given the other inaccuracies that were in the book, I should have realized and done some research.
@@jimamos7984 Not your fault. Too bad Ambrose did not do a little more research before publishing his book. At least most of his inaccuracies are relatively minor ones relative to the main story themes.
This one always gets me.
It gets nearly everyone... I've seen it dozens of times and still the same reaction.
So hey man, love the videos and it's been a joy watching the channel grow.
Once you finish this you absolutely have to move on to "The Pacific", basically the same show but telling the stories of the war against the Japanese.
After that you should check out "Generation Kill", basically the same show but telling the story of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 invasion of iraq.
Much love man, keep up the content
Hey Devin...thanks for doing this episode! I'm glad people see this, especially with a vet like yourself. Btw, I loved that you had your lady friend there to watch Lethal Weapon with you!
Watching your reaction re-broke my heart for all those that suffered those atrocities at the hands of the evil and complacent people
"the Germens are bad" is a right joke, but why we fight isn't
The sending them back into the camp and taking away the food actually did save a lot of lives. Hundreds did eat themselves to death, and if they started roaming around many would not have gained the aid they needed.
Also, as awful as the camps were, they still were more shelter than the forrest would provide. It's a heartbreaking order, but it was needed.
The heart those dudes in EASY COMPANY in particular had is SO RARE, The Bastone episodes hard to imagine going through that. but yea this episode shows what were really fighting for. Great reaction
This is the episode that always makes me emotional, no matter how many times I see the series
I love your energy, Devin! Such a pleasure to watch your videos.
You should Review Schindlers List its a classic movie in this genre. I realize why I love watching @Devin G, I remember when Next Friday and All about the Benjamins came out, I used to go to a movie theater out in Downey and Compton. People ask why you go out there for certain movies....Because there is no better experience then watching Friday movies or Ice Cube movies then when you know the theater is mostly black people, they get so into it they make me hyped! Its like a southern baptist church I go to catholic church im half asleep i go to baptist church people singing and happy af lol Keep it up man!
Tom Hardy plays Janovec. He portends the discovery of the camp in the troop transport while reading the article. When asked what it's about, he says "It's about why we're fighting the war. It seems the Germans are bad, very bad." His fellow soldiers mock him until they find the camp. The 101st Airborne encountered one of a hundred sub camps of Dachau, the first concentration camp established by the nazis in 1933.
There was one of these camps that the town nearby was forced to visit and bury the day. Shortly after, like the next day, the camp Commandant and his wife were found hung on a tree limb in their yard. Supposedly some people that lived in that town lynched them.
Yeah, ‘over-eating yourself to death’ is an actual thing. Their bodies were so malnourished that over-eating (to their bodies) would cause organ rupture which can lead to many internal causes of death. Besides, what they were giving to the survivors didn’t have the nutritional value of what they needed to recover. Bread and Cheese won’t be enough to help their bodies recover. I read from somewhere that a British soldier who’s unit also liberated a camp had to feed the survivors with a certain gruel that had high levels of sodium and other specific nutrients. He said the stuff tasted really bitter, but it did do the trick in allowing the victims’ digestive systems to start recovering. Soon, the survivors would finally get to have some actual food.
It’s just a whole process of recovering from such a horrible thing. Also they had to keep them in the camps so they could quarantine them and medically supervise them. Imagine all the parasites and diseases those poor souls had been riddled with. Letting these people walk freely is like potentially asking for a epidemic of disease.
You should react to Schindler’s List. It’s honestly one of the best depictions of the Holocaust and if you ever find yourself in DC, visit the National Holocaust Museum. It truly is a meaningful experience and it allows you to better understand the level of systematic cruelty and murder that these people had to endure. I always light a candle there in my three visits to the museum as a way of saying that I will never forget these people who were taken from us. We can never forget what happened and must forever remain vigilant to never let such an unimaginable evil return to us.
It’s 1995 we were for 7 days in Munich, i am 15 years old. We visited a few places there, Bavaria Filmstudios, the Technological Museum, Marienplatz and the Olympic Stadion. And 2 days before going home we went to Dachau. I am 41 now and still have nightmares about this place! To see the Barack’s were they held all this people, the crematorium and the Main building. No movie or tv series can prepare you. I had the feeling of being watched, had the feeling that somebody standing behind me, and asking “ Why? Why us?” I don’t believe that they didn’t know anything. They knew and did nothing!
I was waiting for your reaction on this one. This will break anyone. "Why we fight." Appreciate these videos.
I found this information on another person's comment
None of the actors playing American soldiers had seen the concentration camp set, or the extras playing the victims, before they were to film there, and the reactions of most of the cast are genuine. Ross McCall, playing Joe Liebgott, said there were talks of bringing the actors to a camp to prepare them for the scene - but they ultimately decided not to, for the sake of getting honest reactions.
The specific camp that was liberated in this episode was the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. The liberation occurred on April 4, 1945. The US Army brought in tents and emergency shelters immediately, as well as a volunteer force of medical personnel. The Army began relocating the prisoners as quickly as they could, beginning the day after the camp's liberation. In total it took about a week to get all the prisoners to better accommodations in order to give them medical care and food.
Devon, every time I watch you brother, I get the feeling you're gonna be one of those 500k subscriber youtubers in like a year or two.
I have a feeling that could be because it's 20+ years old. Possibly.
“I was not expecting this”
Those words hurt. I know not intentionally by you, but the fact that people are still STUNNED and SURPRISED by the atrocities of the Holocaust...it’s heartbreaking
Great reaction Though
This is a Concentration Labor Camp. What you see in this episode is a very small bit of what the Nazis did. Giant deadly gas chambers, giant fire chambers...no longer taught in schools though.
@Jordan Powell I assumed but USA schools are useless because they want to teach Gender Studies instead of History.
@@KunraVong First of all, you don't know shit. Second of all schools all around the country not only spend a lot of time learning about the Holocaust, but many schools make trips to the museum.
@@stevem7192 and if the school doesn't have the money or the community support for such a tour, almost universally history teachers will run one of the virtual tours the holocaust museum offers.
@Jordan Powell I’m originally from Michigan and we were taught about concentration camps and gas chambers in High School.
A lot of ordinary German citizens did know about the camps, but it wasn't "real" to them because they hadn't seen one up close. When they did, reactions varied. Some tried to say it was fake. Some went home and committed suicide. In one city, someone wrote on a wall in big letters "I am ashamed to be German." Back in the States, they showed films from inside the camps to German POWs. They were shook.
During a military school, I went over a week with only one meal. When we got done with the course, and we went to the chow hall, I was eating everything in sight. I made myself sick as hell. Eating yourself to death is very possible.
11:51 The French officer who is executing German POWs with a Mauser C96 pistol is Tom Hanks.
years ago I went to Germany and the Checkrepublic with my parents and one place we visited was one of the camps (don't remember what it was called) and all I can say is that everything felt wrong. its something that I will take with me for the rest of my life and its something that really hast to be taught in school.
OOOOOH MAN great reaction I just watched this episode before watching your reaction. DUDE, this is the heaviest episode for sure. So glad you like this series, especially as a Vet. Good to know how historically accurate it is. Let's all remember that this is why the Geneva Conventions were put in place. If only those same international laws protected citizens today. Everyone should see this and understand what it is. @Devin G, good luck with The Pacific, because you gotta brace yourself for war crimes. Keep doing your thing, dude.
Spiers was sending all that stuff to a woman in who was pregnant by him. Before the end of the war her husband turned up alive and she stayed with him, but Spiers kept in touch and the boy eventually became an officer in the British Army I believe. He was a hard ass, but he never thought a moment of abandoning someone who was carrying his child, kerk
There is a documentary film with the original footage of the scene with our troops bringing in the people from the nearby town to bury all those bodies. The show scene in nothing compared to the original. There are no words..
There is a PBS Nova special, "Memory of the Camps" which is an incomplete film made by Orson Welles, it is about 90 minutes of actual footage taken during the liberation of several concentration camps. It is utterly, completely, devastatingly horrendous...and should be watched by everybody.
I think the idea was that the German ladies husband was the commander of the camp and if not the camp, he and she definitely knew about what was happening there.
Fun fact: I think it’s private Janovec (the guy rolling around with the German girl) is Tom Hardy. This was his first big roll.
Hell, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy were in this too. So that's 3 Marvel people right there.
On 9 September 1961, while studying sharks, , California. He was never found and presumed dead.
There's a book called Ordinary Men about a reserve police battalion in Poland that helped carry out the Final Solution. Easily the most horrifying thing I've ever come across.
My great-grandfather was one of the soldiers who liberated Auschwitz.
I never knew it until the night he passed away when he told me the story. Since then, I have seen the things he brought back with him, and the photos he had taken of the camp. I had heard of the Holocaust. I had seen things written in books, and mentioned on television. But the pictures he had taken... I still want to vomit from the mere memory of what those images summon in my mind.
Never forget.
Never again.
All of the survivors in the episode were cancer patients who volunteered. The cast were kept away from the set to get real shock value.
This one's rough for everyone.
Since its original broadcast, I think I've seen this episode forty, maybe fifty times. I tear up every single time. No exceptions. Every single fucking time.
I cannot get through this episode without melting. The delay in translation always makes for great drama and here it is almost excruciating. The moment where the man cries out and breaks down only for Liebgott to explain that he is mentioning the Women’s camp down the tracks..... always shatters whatever composure I am managing to hold onto.
Same man, it is so wonderfully acted and heartbreaking
The concentration camp shown was actually an outlying work camp of Dachau concentration camp if I remember correctly
According to Holocaust historians the creators of the show got it nigh on spot on. They also used cancer patients to play the concentration camp victims
Yeah bro, this was a tough episode to watch for sure. I couldn't imagine going through all that combat then find out about and seeing those camps. That's a whole other level of trauma, horrible.
My class visited the Holocaust museum in DC when I was in middle school. My classmates and I didn't speak a word for hours after leaving.
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Funny you should say Captain Speirs would have something to come back to when he shipped his loot. According to the book, he sent it all back to a girlfriend in England, whose husband was supposedly killed earlier in the war. The husband, though, was alive after all, and eventually found his way back to his wife, and they kept all the loot Speirs had sent to her :)
Edit: I have to add that Speirs denied this claim, though.
The whole reason why it was a big deal that "Harvard" Hadn't graduated yet @11:00 was because that implied that he technically didn't have to be there. He volunteered to go. ( his character ) anyways. I don't remember whether that was fact or embellishment but let's watch on and discover! p.s. Ive watched this series 4 times now and am loving re experiencing it all with all these people. This series has been epic @Devin G
- Stephen
This happened a long time ago but there are still to this day german SS being prosecuted for war crimes in their 90s-100s. This is a history that must never be forgotten or ignored because it can happen again. To many died from this war and we all need to make sure that their sacrifice was not for nothing. Strong episode!
7:52 The Saving Private Ryan reference. Loved that.
This episode is one of the hardest in the series to watch. I cry every time.
Great relation dude, I get a kick outta your content mate. I'd love to see you react to the WW2 film -
The Pianist, hard-hitting film from 2002, follows a Jewish person and his family from 1939 - 1944, really powerful/sad and inspiring film. Keep up the good work my friend!
I recommend visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC once Covid is hopefully over. It is the best (yet saddest) museum on the National Mall and will help you learn about what happened.
Watch some documentaries about Auzwich. Also, Patton, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Anne Frank, Band of Brothers, The Pacific There are allot of movies and documentaries out there to help ppl understand. Also movies involving the resistance and ppl who tried to smuggle Jewish children to safe places. The things you will find will blow your mind. The Geneva Convention and UN were created after WW2 so this would never happen again. Also the plan to rebuild Europe is called The Marshall Plan.
This episode always makes a huge impression on me. Every time I remember a visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp. (Probably what Winters means when he says the Russians liberated the camp ten times larger)
The Auschwitz-Belsen concentration camp complex had dozens of sub-camps located nearby.