The three men shot at 11:42 were more than likely members of the Waffen SS. Members of the SS were shot when found a lot of the time. This going back to a SS unit murdering a group of around 30 US soldiers who had surrendered. After that event SS were shot when found. You could spot SS by uniform or by a tattoo of their blood type near their left armpit.
I am a combat veteran . My father was 82nd airborne in WW II and helped liberate two camps . My mom said he was never the samer after that. Thank you for this and God bless you.
When I was a young my Grandfather a US Army WW2 Vet, told me about when they liberated a camp. He did say they had the towns people give proper burials to the deceased in the camp. So that is true. and this was before times of the internet and Y.T. so I never understood the real magnitude back then. Great reaction as always Aria.
when i was in high school, we had to watch the black and white archival footage of the Nazis using bulldozers to push piles of Jewish corpses into mass graves. It was the most horrendous thing I've ever seen, and the reason I will never not support Israel.
@@TheRedStateBlue Even if you are a rich guy who will never have to worry about money it still wounds the pride to be demoted and as much as Nixon tried to ignore it, he cared.
@@ronweber1402 Debatable, we'd have to know him better to know for sure. He didn't want to stay in the army, I'd say he did care, but not all that much
@@Ecthelion3918you can’t say Nixon didn’t care for the army, he just didn’t kill anyone personally. He cared for everyone in the company, he just had his own problems like any other soldier.
@@drewpaupanekis4710 Maybe I should've chosen my words better, thought the context of the conversation was enough. Of course he cared about the men there is no question about that, but not about being demoted or the military as a potential career
“If anyone ever tells you the Holocaust didn't happen, or that it wasn't as bad as they say, no, it was worse than they say. What we saw, what these Germans did, it was worse than you can possibly imagine.” Babe Heffron
Thank you for your empathy and honest reaction. By rough count this is about the 50th to 60th time I have seen this part. I break down every time. Nobody with any kind of human values can see this representation of what really happened and not be moved deeply.
Occasionally when riding home in the car from church while growing up, I would see a guy shuffling along kind of stooped over. My dad told me that the man was a veteran who liberated one of the camps and never really recovered from it.
Eisenhower ordered that as many of the Allied troops as possible would tour the camps. He predicted then that a time would come when some people denied that the Holocaust happened, and he wanted there to be as many eyewitnesses as possible. In my last unit before I retired from the Marine Corps, I was a captain commanding a company. My battalion commander, a lieutenant colonel, had a policy of holding an officers' breakfast once a month at the messhall, and there would always be a professional educational presentation and discussion. Once a year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, instead of the usual, he would organize a luncheon at the officers' club. He invited all the Holocaust survivors in the area - this was in the 1990s in San Diego County, and there were quite a few of the survivors in the towns around the base (Camp Pendleton.) He would ask one of the survivors to speak, about whatever they wanted, and then we would have lunch with all the Holocaust survivors who attended. The club dining room had big round tables that seated eight, and we would be seated alternating between a survivor and a Marine around the table, and we'd just talk with them as we ate lunch. Their arms still had the tattoos. In general, those Holocaust survivors were very upbeat and cheerful. I remember one old guy who loved to say, "They tried to kill us. We're still here. Let's eat!" The phenomenon of Holocaust denial baffles me too.
@@TheRedStateBlue Well, fair enough. English is my 3rd language, so I can see why someone could miss spell certain words, especially if english isnt their first language, lol. Sorry 'bout that, ill try get smarter so i can get to your level, so I can bully others too.
Divorce was, unfortunately, not uncommon in wartime. In Nixon's case I often wonder if his wife got word of his dalliances in Europe (in an earlier episode, he talked about going to meet a certain woman while on leave). Two wrongs don't make a right, but war tears families apart in so many different ways. Just sad.
When President Eisenhower,then Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower toured one camp and had the town in the square including the Bürgermeister and told them they made him feel ashamed his last name was Eisenhower. His grandparents immigrated to Kansas in the 1800s for a better life.
This episode is hard to watch and it's supposed to be. The first time I watched it was with my father, who was a survivor of Janowska. We had no idea what the episode was going to be about. There were five dedicated extermination camps : Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek. There was also the extermination subcamp of Auschwitz, Auschwitz II Birkenau. If some of the work camps also had extermination facilities to deal with prisoners who were too sick to work..
When I first heard about the Holocaust, I was like, "How could people just let that happen?" But then I look at what's going on in the US right now, and it's like the universe is saying, "This is how." So yeah, be careful what you ask for, I guess.
Nixon was demoted because he let the drinking take control and made him erratic. Sorry, but the fans were right telling you that this is a tough one. Very illustrative of what happens when good people let the bad people run things and sucker them into helping. Every place all over the world suffers from the same problem at some time in their history, Germany just modernized it. Good reaction.
Some Jews survived at Treblinka. They were chosen to help process the prisoners coming in. "The Last Jew of Treblinka" by Chil Rajchman is an important book to read about it. He was a survivor.
Aria Tom Hanks and Spielberg hired cancer patients from nearby hospital as "camp survivors" with some didn't make when series premiered in 2001. Plus, both of them had actors (Vets) away from Camp location until the day of filming those scenes there. Because they wanted actors' honest reactions. But there is a sad part of this story. There are some in the world don't believe that Holocaust actually today.
In addition to using cancer patients for effect, the reactions were real. The director wanted to make the reactions of the cast in the episode as "real" as possible so they kept the cast away from the camp set. Except for a couple of the main characters, the majority of the cast didn't see the set until they started shooting. They obviously had a script with some key lines, but the majority of the concentration camp reactions were real, and the majority of the dialog was ad libbed.
This is the hardest episode for me to watch. Even after the many times I've watched it, I still tear up. A word has not been invented that adequately describes the evil that went on in the camps. This was a very powerful reaction, young lady. And I agree with you. It is infuriating to hear people deny that this happened or that it was exaggerated. Keep the tissues handy for the next episode. Just know that there are different reasons for shedding tears. Again, it was a great reaction.
When you study history, when you *know* history, there is this growing darkness that always displays that despite the amazing Architectural feats humanity has accomplished, the rise and falls of so many civilizations, the innovations and progress we have all done as a species, there are these noticeable dark splotches of red that color the textbook of human history. Of our atrocities, our crimes, our greatest evils. The good in humanity exists yes but the *evil* is damn near bottomless.
At this point in the war, Nixon was pretty much half-potted on whiskey 24/7. His own personal way to deal with PTSD. This is one reason Colonel Sink demoted him.
I remember in a documentary i watched years ago, one of the survivors said that, "at first i hated them [the Americans]. I thought they were just as bad as the Nazi's because they got their propaganda and stuffed us back into the camp and locked us back up." As horrible as it would have been to keep living in those camps as you were rehabilited, at least they were treated better than the jews that were liberated by the red army. Any fighting age male that could still hold a gun was immediately conscripted in the army. Anyone who was left was forced to fend for themselves.
Germany also elected the Nazis! Maybe not every single person. But the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party received 37% of the votes in 1933 after campaigning on Nationalism, Expansion, Racial Purity and disregarding the Versailles treaty. So yes it was the Germans. And you can't tell me the people of that village and the villages around all the other camps didn't know what was going on.
I enjoyed your heartfelt review, even though the subject matter was a very difficult one. I hope you continue making content, best wishes for your continued success!
The symbolism in this episode was outstanding. The opening and closing scenes of the civilian band playing Beethoven shows the finest aspects of German culture. The music playing amidst the ruins of war shows that this part of Germany's cultural achievements will persevere in the worst of circumstances. Even being scarred by the war and the Holocaust, the Germans playing Beethoven are clinging to the few cultural achievements of their past for it to survive.
It's so hard to wrap one's mind around all the brutality. One of my professors in law school, General Telford Taylor, had been a part of the US prosecutorial team at the Nuremberg trials and was ultimately the chief US prosecutor. Seeing him lecturing (at that point an older man) I could see the years melt away as he recounted what he saw and the testimony he heard 40 years before. To me he was an avenging angel (I lost 25% of my relatives in the Holocaust) and his words burned into me.
The Red Army found many more camps because they were coming through Poland where there was a larger Jewish population than in Germany and the rest of Western Europe. Though there are deniers about the camps, Allied Supreme Commander DD Eisenhower made sure plenty of film and photos were taken because he anticipated that in the future there would be people saying it never happened. Great insight concerning the future by Ike, right?
Hello Aria C, there are a few concentration camp movies: " Escape From Sobibor " (a hopeful movie), " Playing for Time ", " Uprising (Featuring Hank Azaria. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989, most notably Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Snake Jailbird, Professor Frink, and formerly Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Lou, Carl Carlson, and Bumblebee Man, among others.), " Holocaust TV Mini Series (1978)". There are a few Prisoner of War camp movies: " Stalag 17 (fiction)" , " The Great Escape ", " Slaughter House 5 " (fiction), " Von Ryan's Express " (fiction). I enjoyed them all. As is often shouted in unison upon the streets of Kyoto, Japan: " Hey! " TH-cam video: 2017.3.26京都橘高校吹奏楽部京都さくらパレード交款コンサートパーカッション
P.S. Hello Aria C, a movie about German Soldiers that did not accept or condoned the treatment of the Jewish people, the Kosack people, the Russian people, the Jehovah's Witness people during WW II is " The Eagle Has Landed ".
The 300, 000 surrender is a massive misquote. It was 30k. One of several massive goofs in a great series. But an order of magnitude is kinda a big mistake.
I have visited Auschwitz and walked through the archway where the trains came into the camp and followed the railway line, past where the Jews would have disembarked and on to where the execution chambers are now in ruins. There are very few buildings remaining in the camp today, but you get a very eerie feeling about walking in the footsteps of all those that have passed through there before you all those years ago. It's a very sombre atmosphere and most visitors talk in very hushed tones, if they even say anything.
Same. I've seen the "Arbeit macht Frei" gate. I've seen the tracks. And that whole place just feels off, it feels wrong, too much evil, suffering and despair still lingering somehow.
Imagine seeing all the horrors of War, then being speechless seeing this. "Why We Fight" is a nod to the legendary series by Frank Capra, it was made while the War was still unfolding and the outcome was unknown...The German Woman wearing the stark red coat is interesting to me, maybe as a connection to the little Jewish girl in Schindler's List. Showing both sides of the Holocaust. I don't think there are coincidences in Spielberg's work. Many of the camp prisoners were actually terminal cancer patients and the cast weren't even allowed to see it until filming began to get an honest reaction...Tom Hanks cameos as a French soldier executing a German one. Never Forget. This one cuts deep. Currahee ♠
He had to get involved, it's Tom Hanks after all and he loves his film and history. Peter Jackson had himself killed in the Lord of the Rings as Director, it's passion? Lol@@ariachanson01
Why We Fight was the name of a series of films made during the war by famed director Frank Capra. People warn you about this episode. You get half way through and the worst thing that happens is that a dog barks at Nixon.
Yes , Treblinka was an extermination camp , place of no hope. Fantastic reaction, and i like the fact that you have some background knowledge on things. Cheers!
Watching this today.. when Auschwitz was liberated.. thx. It's important to remember history, and learn from it to avoid making the same mistakes again.
31:04 "Why has he been demoted?" If you hadn't noticed, Winters brings up the Vat 69, Nix dismisses the very idea, and Winters says Col. Sink is worried. That and upon arrival, Nix is really getting through them. No judging-Nix had just nearly died in a plane's destruction that took the lives of the rest of his crew. I'd have had a couple, myself. But he's doing a lot, hence the worry.
Nixon was demoted because his alcoholism was starting to effect his performance to the command reduced some of the work load by dropping him in rank. The reason Nixon never fired his weapon in combat was because his job was to gather information from the front lines run back to the command post. Tell the high ranking brass the information. Then be given orders return to the front with new orders. So if he was shooting. His job wasn't being done. This doesn't means he didn't shoot enemy soldiers. He did plenty of times but it was a defensive course of action. Not an offensive action.
A great film about feeding the survivors is Relief of Belsen. It portrays the British medical corp trying to figure out how to feed the survivors of Bergan Belsen.
Aria, if you like foreign language films, life is Beautiful and Downfall are good WWII films. Downfall is in German. Life is Beautiful is in Italian. Downfall is about the last days of Hilter and the fall of Berlin, mostly told from the perspective of his secretary and the bunker radioman. The other is fictional and is about an Italian Jew and what he does to protect his son and wife as best he can.
Love your reaction & soft spokeness Aria!! I believe Nix was demoted due to drinking. This is such a rough episode. I can't believe people are capable of doing this to each other. There is no way they didn't know.
The fact that Liebgot cried after having to tell the prisoners to go back into the camp always gets me. He was one of Winters Killers, the type of soldier you need to win a war. Had seen and done so much, but this almost broke him. So sad
When Liebgot returned to the states after the war, he disappeared for three years. He finally made it back to California, got married and had eight children (he jokes about having a big house for all his children while riding in the truck.) He never told any of his children he served in the war. He died before the series came out and his children found out about his service while watching the series.
Just watched your opening remarks and after my initial "Uh oh ..." {because I know all too well what is coming in this episode} ... there was also agreement from me with regard to the German's. We English have more in common with them than we want to admit, in no small portion because we were, in part, founded by Germanic tribes that came West. It used to be joked about, even in the 60's, that we went to war with the German's, who we like, to save the French, who hate us :chuckles:. EDIT: That brief shot of Liebgott after he had had to tell them they were being locked back up is for me the one image of the whole series I never forget. Poor guy who just had the misfortune to speak the language. All of us like to think we would be virtuous people who would stand up to the evil things our government was doing but, most likely, we wouldn't. We would keep our heads down, not speak up and try to just get on with our lives as best we could under the circumstances. But one of the lessons my grandfather taught me, who was 8th Army and saw Belsen, was to never hate someone just for what they were born as, only for what ills they have done to you directly. He kept his Lee Enfield under his bed until the day he died and I, as a curious boy exploring the house, found it one day and that lead to a serious conversation that contained that sliver of wisdom. I was very young so I had no real idea what he was talking about but when I was more grown up and learning history I started to reckon that what he was talking about was ... this ... and maybe also to never submit to authority that wants you to damn your soul for their gain.
My boss, parents were sirvivors! His father was beaten for escaping! Sent to different camp! A bike shop owner, told my boss that his father saved his life 😳😬
I cannot get my head around how this was possible. No, I'm not a denier. It happened. When I hear about ONE MAN, a serial killer who murders a bunch of college kids, maybe 5, maybe 20, I think "Well, that guy is obviously messed up in the head. Normal people don't do that so that one guy must be insane." But then I think that over 10,000 Germans WORKED in these camps as guards and other necessary jobs that the prisoners couldn't do. That makes every one of those 10,000 people serial killers and mass murderers. 10,000. Trying to think about what is going on the mind of just one serial killer is hard, but i write it off as "It's just that one insane guy. Nobody else is doing that except a few other insane people." But I can't say that when 10,000 people are all doing it together. How do you say 10,000 people, all doing the exact same thing, together, are all insane? How did Germany find 10,000 insane serial killers to work in this prisons? They didn't. They just assigned random people there and suddenly those random people what, evolve into mass murdering psychopaths, nearly overnight for many of them. How? Why? It just seems impossible that 10,000 people would all do this. And yet they did. And I can never get my head around that.
To my shame, two of my colleagues are such terrible persons who say that the number of 6 million is an Allied fairy tale. They see the Germans as victims. It's terrible to listen to them. And I don't despise any other people as much as these two.Coming to them with facts and arguments is pointless. If I didn't have such a good job, I would look for another job because of them.
people in the towns knew... soldiers went to town on leave drinking at the pub... deliveries were made to the camp.. people knew - the non soldiers do not get a free pass on this
This was a hard episode. Humans don't need gods or devils, they have it all within them. You don't want to know about the experiments done on Roma/Sinti children.
If you want to know the true depths of how the Nazis were, I suggest you read the book Ordinary Men. It's about a group of men who were reserve policemen, much too old to be used as combat troops, who eventually were used as part of a Nazi death squad unit. I personally believe the biggest crime the Nazis committed was the systemic way they made every German either a perpetrator, accomplice, or victim of their crimes. The worst cases were all three.
The sadist part of this episode is the realization that a murderous ideology can poison an entire culture to be complicit in such a heinous crime. Imperial Japan was every bit as brutal as Nazi Germany. What both had in common was the belief that all other races were inferior and therefore they should rule the world. Today that same ideology is still with us except this time it's in the name of a religion. Islamists believe that Islam is destined to rule the world. They consider all other beliefs to be an abomination, especially the Jews. All one has to do is look at all the acts of terror against innocent people. Just look at the events of Oct. 7th. Nothing has changed since the camps of the 1940s. The war to eradicate such evil goes on.😢
I could not agree more with you. Islam is gradually infiltrating every country in the world and their intention is to control the world as an Islamic state. They are only interested in their own ideology and will not let others live in peace until their work is done. I think WWlll is coming and it will be Islam versus the rest of the civilised world.
I often wonder what Hitler would have done if Germany and Japan had won the war,What would he do with the Japanese,would he consider them an inferior race too?
Yeah, so much "better" watching men fight and die from an aerial pov. Why did they even bother telling the story of E Company (and by extension - all the men who fought the battle on the ground in WWII) - their fighting and dying wasn't half as "cool". Is that really what you're focused on? Pretty shallow remark, considering. This wasn't some video game.
It’s hard to watch and see these atrocities. You can’t turn away. It’s extremely important to not turn away. There are still holocaust deniers. Unfortunately it’s the worst parts of humanity that can’t be ignored, and need witnessed the most.
After some episodes always there are people saying Blithe actually survived and Dike wasn't that bad, but I've never seen people saying that Hitler didn't made his rage quit on early april but on the 30th.
Many people, myself included, miss this. That German lady in the red coat was married to a high ranking officer - like a camp commandant. When told the guards used up all their ammo then started fires before leaving, Winters says someone must've tipped them off. It was her.
Ehhh no. As was pointed out he was dead, its also clear from the uniform he's wearing in his picture that he's an army general. The camps were run by the SS not the army. He would not have had anything to do with them. There is no reason to believe she had anything to do with tipping off anybody of anything
Sorry for the spam. We have here in Germany these brass cobblestones in front of houses where someone lived who died in the Holocaust. If you walk down the street you see them. They are called Stolpersteine de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolpersteine
A heartfelt reaction (i cried too, haha)....what is Aria's accent (eg. her V in 'video' sometimes has a lot of W sound to it...almost like Wideo)? It's a beautiful accent, wherever it's from (i'm guessing somewhere in east Europe).
@@gregall2178 I am not surprised that she is Indian. 1, because of her look, and 2, because of the "W" in how she says the word video. I hear that a lot in England from people with Indian accents. :-)
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The three men shot at 11:42 were more than likely members of the Waffen SS.
Members of the SS were shot when found a lot of the time. This going back to a SS unit murdering a group of around 30 US soldiers who had surrendered. After that event SS were shot when found. You could spot SS by uniform or by a tattoo of their blood type near their left armpit.
Maybe it is interesting for you to also watch the documentary with all the interviews called 'we stand alone together'.
I am a combat veteran . My father was 82nd airborne in WW II and helped liberate two camps . My mom said he was never the samer after that. Thank you for this and God bless you.
I hope your father and you know how much your service is Apreaciated
When I was a young my Grandfather a US Army WW2 Vet, told me about when they liberated a camp. He did say they had the towns people give proper burials to the deceased in the camp. So that is true. and this was before times of the internet and Y.T. so I never understood the real magnitude back then. Great reaction as always Aria.
when i was in high school, we had to watch the black and white archival footage of the Nazis using bulldozers to push piles of Jewish corpses into mass graves.
It was the most horrendous thing I've ever seen, and the reason I will never not support Israel.
Nixon wasn’t demoted in rank- he was still a captain, he was moved down from regiment level to battalion level. Probably due to his drinking.
only a problem for a career officer. for a rich guy like Nixon, not even a small deal.
@@TheRedStateBlue Even if you are a rich guy who will never have to worry about money it still wounds the pride to be demoted and as much as Nixon tried to ignore it, he cared.
@@ronweber1402 Debatable, we'd have to know him better to know for sure. He didn't want to stay in the army, I'd say he did care, but not all that much
@@Ecthelion3918you can’t say Nixon didn’t care for the army, he just didn’t kill anyone personally. He cared for everyone in the company, he just had his own problems like any other soldier.
@@drewpaupanekis4710 Maybe I should've chosen my words better, thought the context of the conversation was enough.
Of course he cared about the men there is no question about that, but not about being demoted or the military as a potential career
“If anyone ever tells you the Holocaust didn't happen, or that it wasn't as bad as they say, no, it was worse than they say. What we saw, what these Germans did, it was worse than you can possibly imagine.” Babe Heffron
Thank you for your empathy and honest reaction. By rough count this is about the 50th to 60th time I have seen this part. I break down every time. Nobody with any kind of human values can see this representation of what really happened and not be moved deeply.
Occasionally when riding home in the car from church while growing up, I would see a guy shuffling along kind of stooped over. My dad told me that the man was a veteran who liberated one of the camps and never really recovered from it.
Eisenhower ordered that as many of the Allied troops as possible would tour the camps. He predicted then that a time would come when some people denied that the Holocaust happened, and he wanted there to be as many eyewitnesses as possible.
In my last unit before I retired from the Marine Corps, I was a captain commanding a company. My battalion commander, a lieutenant colonel, had a policy of holding an officers' breakfast once a month at the messhall, and there would always be a professional educational presentation and discussion. Once a year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, instead of the usual, he would organize a luncheon at the officers' club. He invited all the Holocaust survivors in the area - this was in the 1990s in San Diego County, and there were quite a few of the survivors in the towns around the base (Camp Pendleton.) He would ask one of the survivors to speak, about whatever they wanted, and then we would have lunch with all the Holocaust survivors who attended. The club dining room had big round tables that seated eight, and we would be seated alternating between a survivor and a Marine around the table, and we'd just talk with them as we ate lunch. Their arms still had the tattoos.
In general, those Holocaust survivors were very upbeat and cheerful. I remember one old guy who loved to say, "They tried to kill us. We're still here. Let's eat!"
The phenomenon of Holocaust denial baffles me too.
Congrats on making it through the roughest episode. That is why we fought, I think Nix got his answer.
The thing about this episodenis that they hired cancer patience for the role to make them look authentic.
And the actual camp prisoners were in even worse physical shape, that says it all..
"Patients".
@@TheRedStateBlue who cares
@@TheAlkochef smart people care. you're obviously not one of us.
@@TheRedStateBlue Well, fair enough. English is my 3rd language, so I can see why someone could miss spell certain words, especially if english isnt their first language, lol. Sorry 'bout that, ill try get smarter so i can get to your level, so I can bully others too.
Divorce was, unfortunately, not uncommon in wartime. In Nixon's case I often wonder if his wife got word of his dalliances in Europe (in an earlier episode, he talked about going to meet a certain woman while on leave). Two wrongs don't make a right, but war tears families apart in so many different ways. Just sad.
When President Eisenhower,then Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower toured one camp and had the town in the square including the Bürgermeister and told them they made him feel ashamed his last name was Eisenhower. His grandparents immigrated to Kansas in the 1800s for a better life.
This episode is hard to watch and it's supposed to be. The first time I watched it was with my father, who was a survivor of Janowska. We had no idea what the episode was going to be about.
There were five dedicated extermination camps : Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek. There was also the extermination subcamp of Auschwitz, Auschwitz II Birkenau. If some of the work camps also had extermination facilities to deal with prisoners who were too sick to work..
Is a good book. A tree grows in Brooklyn.
When I first heard about the Holocaust, I was like, "How could people just let that happen?" But then I look at what's going on in the US right now, and it's like the universe is saying, "This is how." So yeah, be careful what you ask for, I guess.
You have 12 thousand people waiting for you. You are a star.
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Nixon was demoted because he let the drinking take control and made him erratic. Sorry, but the fans were right telling you that this is a tough one. Very illustrative of what happens when good people let the bad people run things and sucker them into helping. Every place all over the world suffers from the same problem at some time in their history, Germany just modernized it. Good reaction.
Some Jews survived at Treblinka. They were chosen to help process the prisoners coming in. "The Last Jew of Treblinka" by Chil Rajchman is an important book to read about it. He was a survivor.
Thank you for your kind words and God bless you
Aria
Tom Hanks and Spielberg hired cancer patients from nearby hospital as "camp survivors" with some didn't make when series premiered in 2001. Plus, both of them had actors (Vets) away from Camp location until the day of filming those scenes there. Because they wanted actors' honest reactions.
But there is a sad part of this story. There are some in the world don't believe that Holocaust actually today.
In addition to using cancer patients for effect, the reactions were real. The director wanted to make the reactions of the cast in the episode as "real" as possible so they kept the cast away from the camp set. Except for a couple of the main characters, the majority of the cast didn't see the set until they started shooting. They obviously had a script with some key lines, but the majority of the concentration camp reactions were real, and the majority of the dialog was ad libbed.
This is the hardest episode for me to watch. Even after the many times I've watched it, I still tear up. A word has not been invented that adequately describes the evil that went on in the camps. This was a very powerful reaction, young lady. And I agree with you. It is infuriating to hear people deny that this happened or that it was exaggerated. Keep the tissues handy for the next episode. Just know that there are different reasons for shedding tears. Again, it was a great reaction.
When you study history, when you *know* history, there is this growing darkness that always displays that despite the amazing Architectural feats humanity has accomplished, the rise and falls of so many civilizations, the innovations and progress we have all done as a species, there are these noticeable dark splotches of red that color the textbook of human history. Of our atrocities, our crimes, our greatest evils. The good in humanity exists yes but the *evil* is damn near bottomless.
Indeed so....but there are always those who persevere against that darkness...just need to remember that
At this point in the war, Nixon was pretty much half-potted on whiskey 24/7. His own personal way to deal with PTSD. This is one reason Colonel Sink demoted him.
I remember in a documentary i watched years ago, one of the survivors said that, "at first i hated them [the Americans]. I thought they were just as bad as the Nazi's because they got their propaganda and stuffed us back into the camp and locked us back up."
As horrible as it would have been to keep living in those camps as you were rehabilited, at least they were treated better than the jews that were liberated by the red army. Any fighting age male that could still hold a gun was immediately conscripted in the army. Anyone who was left was forced to fend for themselves.
Germany also elected the Nazis! Maybe not every single person. But the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party received 37% of the votes in 1933 after campaigning on Nationalism, Expansion, Racial Purity and disregarding the Versailles treaty. So yes it was the Germans. And you can't tell me the people of that village and the villages around all the other camps didn't know what was going on.
Of course if you tried to make a fuss they'd put you in a camp as well . . .
ND yet there were Germans who did take a stand
You cannot make excuses for what the German people allowed to happen. That is too easy.
I enjoyed your heartfelt review, even though the subject matter was a very difficult one. I hope you continue making content, best wishes for your continued success!
Up to 1,5million Roma and Sinti were also murdered and experimented upon and to this day they live in squalor here in Europe as second class citizens.
The symbolism in this episode was outstanding. The opening and closing scenes of the civilian band playing Beethoven shows the finest aspects of German culture.
The music playing amidst the ruins of war shows that this part of Germany's cultural achievements will persevere in the worst of circumstances. Even being scarred by the war and the Holocaust, the Germans playing Beethoven are clinging to the few cultural achievements of their past for it to survive.
It's so hard to wrap one's mind around all the brutality. One of my professors in law school, General Telford Taylor, had been a part of the US prosecutorial team at the Nuremberg trials and was ultimately the chief US prosecutor. Seeing him lecturing (at that point an older man) I could see the years melt away as he recounted what he saw and the testimony he heard 40 years before. To me he was an avenging angel (I lost 25% of my relatives in the Holocaust) and his words burned into me.
What? No, robert jackson was the chief US prosecutor and chief prosecutor during that trial
I am really enjoying your Band of Brothers videos. Your emotion is very moving, you're a real one. Thank you
The Red Army found many more camps because they were coming through Poland where there was a larger Jewish population than in Germany and the rest of Western Europe.
Though there are deniers about the camps, Allied Supreme Commander DD Eisenhower made sure plenty of film and photos were taken because he anticipated that in the future there would be people saying it never happened. Great insight concerning the future by Ike, right?
Hello Aria C, there are a few concentration camp movies: " Escape From Sobibor " (a hopeful movie), " Playing for Time ", " Uprising (Featuring Hank Azaria. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989, most notably Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Snake Jailbird, Professor Frink, and formerly Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Lou, Carl Carlson, and Bumblebee Man, among others.), " Holocaust TV Mini Series (1978)".
There are a few Prisoner of War camp movies: " Stalag 17 (fiction)" , " The Great Escape ", " Slaughter House 5 " (fiction), " Von Ryan's Express " (fiction). I enjoyed them all. As is often shouted in unison upon the streets of Kyoto, Japan: " Hey! "
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P.S. Hello Aria C, a movie about German Soldiers that did not accept or condoned the treatment of the Jewish people, the Kosack people, the Russian people, the Jehovah's Witness people during WW II is " The Eagle Has Landed ".
The 300, 000 surrender is a massive misquote. It was 30k. One of several massive goofs in a great series. But an order of magnitude is kinda a big mistake.
It's torture having to wait three days now that you've told us it's coming.
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But I need that Vat89. That some good stuff. And officer that I can identify with.
I have visited Auschwitz and walked through the archway where the trains came into the camp and followed the railway line, past where the Jews would have disembarked and on to where the execution chambers are now in ruins. There are very few buildings remaining in the camp today, but you get a very eerie feeling about walking in the footsteps of all those that have passed through there before you all those years ago. It's a very sombre atmosphere and most visitors talk in very hushed tones, if they even say anything.
Same. I've seen the "Arbeit macht Frei" gate. I've seen the tracks. And that whole place just feels off, it feels wrong, too much evil, suffering and despair still lingering somehow.
I’ve visited 5-6 camps when I was stationed in Germany. It is definitely an experience everyone should have.
And that, folks, is why we fight!
now we fight over oil
13:40 This whole series is a rough go, but this episode is particularly heart-breaking.
You mention the intro often. It is great. Just hearing that intro gets me teary-eyed.
Imagine seeing all the horrors of War, then being speechless seeing this. "Why We Fight" is a nod to the legendary series by Frank Capra, it was made while the War was still unfolding and the outcome was unknown...The German Woman wearing the stark red coat is interesting to me, maybe as a connection to the little Jewish girl in Schindler's List. Showing both sides of the Holocaust. I don't think there are coincidences in Spielberg's work. Many of the camp prisoners were actually terminal cancer patients and the cast weren't even allowed to see it until filming began to get an honest reaction...Tom Hanks cameos as a French soldier executing a German one. Never Forget. This one cuts deep. Currahee ♠
That was Tom Hanks???😳
He had to get involved, it's Tom Hanks after all and he loves his film and history. Peter Jackson had himself killed in the Lord of the Rings as Director, it's passion? Lol@@ariachanson01
Thanks for the spoilers. She asked you not to do that.
@@user-tr9de6gm8kshe's already seen the episode that the guy was talking about
I've already finished the series, it's all good:))
Why We Fight was the name of a series of films made during the war by famed director Frank Capra.
People warn you about this episode. You get half way through and the worst thing that happens is that a dog barks at Nixon.
Yes , Treblinka was an extermination camp , place of no hope.
Fantastic reaction, and i like the fact that you have some background knowledge on things. Cheers!
Watching this today.. when Auschwitz was liberated.. thx. It's important to remember history, and learn from it to avoid making the same mistakes again.
11:42 I've watched this series at least two dozen times and just noticed that's Tom Hanks shooting the Germans.
Talking about episode 7: "I'm really hoping we're not gonna see something THAT strong again"
- famous last words.
You should watch the movie the cell. Very underrated and cool visuals.
I got the photo i took of my father by the cross of his fathers grave in France.
31:04 "Why has he been demoted?" If you hadn't noticed, Winters brings up the Vat 69, Nix dismisses the very idea, and Winters says Col. Sink is worried. That and upon arrival, Nix is really getting through them. No judging-Nix had just nearly died in a plane's destruction that took the lives of the rest of his crew. I'd have had a couple, myself. But he's doing a lot, hence the worry.
Nixon was demoted because his alcoholism was starting to effect his performance to the command reduced some of the work load by dropping him in rank.
The reason Nixon never fired his weapon in combat was because his job was to gather information from the front lines run back to the command post. Tell the high ranking brass the information. Then be given orders return to the front with new orders. So if he was shooting. His job wasn't being done. This doesn't means he didn't shoot enemy soldiers. He did plenty of times but it was a defensive course of action. Not an offensive action.
Plenty more tears in 10. Just mostly different.
Love watching your reactions lady.
Be safe.
Nixon got demoted because of being drunk
A great film about feeding the survivors is Relief of Belsen. It portrays the British medical corp trying to figure out how to feed the survivors of Bergan Belsen.
Aria, if you like foreign language films, life is Beautiful and Downfall are good WWII films. Downfall is in German. Life is Beautiful is in Italian. Downfall is about the last days of Hilter and the fall of Berlin, mostly told from the perspective of his secretary and the bunker radioman. The other is fictional and is about an Italian Jew and what he does to protect his son and wife as best he can.
Love your reaction & soft spokeness Aria!! I believe Nix was demoted due to drinking. This is such a rough episode. I can't believe people are capable of doing this to each other. There is no way they didn't know.
Cool, Loudermilk.
Please watch ''American Graffiti''
. . . and now the happy ending, "Points" :)
I read the book "Treblinka", a hard read for sure, one of the survivors said the worst part of it all was the scientific and industrial aspect to it.
The fact that Liebgot cried after having to tell the prisoners to go back into the camp always gets me. He was one of Winters Killers, the type of soldier you need to win a war. Had seen and done so much, but this almost broke him. So sad
When Liebgot returned to the states after the war, he disappeared for three years. He finally made it back to California, got married and had eight children (he jokes about having a big house for all his children while riding in the truck.) He never told any of his children he served in the war. He died before the series came out and his children found out about his service while watching the series.
Just watched your opening remarks and after my initial "Uh oh ..." {because I know all too well what is coming in this episode} ... there was also agreement from me with regard to the German's. We English have more in common with them than we want to admit, in no small portion because we were, in part, founded by Germanic tribes that came West. It used to be joked about, even in the 60's, that we went to war with the German's, who we like, to save the French, who hate us :chuckles:.
EDIT: That brief shot of Liebgott after he had had to tell them they were being locked back up is for me the one image of the whole series I never forget. Poor guy who just had the misfortune to speak the language.
All of us like to think we would be virtuous people who would stand up to the evil things our government was doing but, most likely, we wouldn't. We would keep our heads down, not speak up and try to just get on with our lives as best we could under the circumstances.
But one of the lessons my grandfather taught me, who was 8th Army and saw Belsen, was to never hate someone just for what they were born as, only for what ills they have done to you directly. He kept his Lee Enfield under his bed until the day he died and I, as a curious boy exploring the house, found it one day and that lead to a serious conversation that contained that sliver of wisdom. I was very young so I had no real idea what he was talking about but when I was more grown up and learning history I started to reckon that what he was talking about was ... this ... and maybe also to never submit to authority that wants you to damn your soul for their gain.
Thank you, Aria.
My boss, parents were sirvivors! His father was beaten for escaping! Sent to different camp! A bike shop owner, told my boss that his father saved his life 😳😬
Thanks for your work here and on the other movies. You need a break.
I cannot get my head around how this was possible.
No, I'm not a denier.
It happened.
When I hear about ONE MAN, a serial killer who murders a bunch of college kids, maybe 5, maybe 20, I think "Well, that guy is obviously messed up in the head. Normal people don't do that so that one guy must be insane."
But then I think that over 10,000 Germans WORKED in these camps as guards and other necessary jobs that the prisoners couldn't do.
That makes every one of those 10,000 people serial killers and mass murderers.
10,000.
Trying to think about what is going on the mind of just one serial killer is hard, but i write it off as "It's just that one insane guy. Nobody else is doing that except a few other insane people."
But I can't say that when 10,000 people are all doing it together.
How do you say 10,000 people, all doing the exact same thing, together, are all insane?
How did Germany find 10,000 insane serial killers to work in this prisons?
They didn't.
They just assigned random people there and suddenly those random people what, evolve into mass murdering psychopaths, nearly overnight for many of them.
How?
Why?
It just seems impossible that 10,000 people would all do this.
And yet they did.
And I can never get my head around that.
I hope you try and watch the series Pacific... the Marines over there had to deal with a lot also on their episode 9...
To my shame, two of my colleagues are such terrible persons who say that the number of 6 million is an Allied fairy tale. They see the Germans as victims. It's terrible to listen to them. And I don't despise any other people as much as these two.Coming to them with facts and arguments is pointless. If I didn't have such a good job, I would look for another job because of them.
people in the towns knew... soldiers went to town on leave drinking at the pub... deliveries were made to the camp.. people knew - the non soldiers do not get a free pass on this
Did you ever watch Life is Beautiful? See if you can get an Italian version with English subtitles.
Anyone who says this can't happen again isn't paying attention.
“Never Again…”
This was a hard episode. Humans don't need gods or devils, they have it all within them. You don't want to know about the experiments done on Roma/Sinti children.
Oof. Good luck ❤
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Hi Aria
If you want to know the true depths of how the Nazis were, I suggest you read the book Ordinary Men. It's about a group of men who were reserve policemen, much too old to be used as combat troops, who eventually were used as part of a Nazi death squad unit. I personally believe the biggest crime the Nazis committed was the systemic way they made every German either a perpetrator, accomplice, or victim of their crimes. The worst cases were all three.
The early exterminations, before the camps, were often carried out by locals under German supervision!
There's a big difference between a regular german soldier and the Waffen SS
My uncle would not talk about it these camps were so incredibly horrible it never left his mind my father told me
The Ghettos were the precursors to the camps.
The sadist part of this episode is the realization that a murderous ideology can poison an entire culture to be complicit in such a heinous crime. Imperial Japan was every bit as brutal as Nazi Germany. What both had in common was the belief that all other races were inferior and therefore they should rule the world. Today that same ideology is still with us except this time it's in the name of a religion. Islamists believe that Islam is destined to rule the world. They consider all other beliefs to be an abomination, especially the Jews. All one has to do is look at all the acts of terror against innocent people. Just look at the events of Oct. 7th. Nothing has changed since the camps of the 1940s. The war to eradicate such evil goes on.😢
I could not agree more with you. Islam is gradually infiltrating every country in the world and their intention is to control the world as an Islamic state. They are only interested in their own ideology and will not let others live in peace until their work is done. I think WWlll is coming and it will be Islam versus the rest of the civilised world.
I often wonder what Hitler would have done if Germany and Japan had won the war,What would he do with the Japanese,would he consider them an inferior race too?
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Why they do that
Hi Aria, could you react to the new series Masters Of The Air? Aerial warfare on screen is so much better than land warfare.
Yeah, so much "better" watching men fight and die from an aerial pov. Why did they even bother telling the story of E Company (and by extension - all the men who fought the battle on the ground in WWII) - their fighting and dying wasn't half as "cool". Is that really what you're focused on? Pretty shallow remark, considering. This wasn't some video game.
Bullshit!
It’s hard to watch and see these atrocities. You can’t turn away. It’s extremely important to not turn away. There are still holocaust deniers. Unfortunately it’s the worst parts of humanity that can’t be ignored, and need witnessed the most.
Timely, as today is Holocaust Remembrance Day
I was going to say the same thing.
After some episodes always there are people saying Blithe actually survived and Dike wasn't that bad, but I've never seen people saying that Hitler didn't made his rage quit on early april but on the 30th.
Look upon Socialism and remember the Nazis for who they
Whether they were bad or not they were fighting for the Nazis to win.
Everyone fighting for Germany was ‘evil’. Weakness is an evilness of its own.
There are parts of this episode where I stop seeing the acting.
Today 01-27-2023 is the 79th anniversary of the Russian liberation of Auschwitz!
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Many people, myself included, miss this. That German lady in the red coat was married to a high ranking officer - like a camp commandant. When told the guards used up all their ammo then started fires before leaving, Winters says someone must've tipped them off. It was her.
The frame had a black ribbon on it. Her husband was dead. As to her being the one maybe.
The officer in the photo was a Werhmact officer, not SS.
Ehhh no. As was pointed out he was dead, its also clear from the uniform he's wearing in his picture that he's an army general. The camps were run by the SS not the army. He would not have had anything to do with them. There is no reason to believe she had anything to do with tipping off anybody of anything
Screw "reading" about it. Everyone should have to watch the Nuremberg Trials. Everyone.
Jews and gypsies and Poles and gays and Communists and anyone who spoke up in their defense . . .
Sorry for the spam. We have here in Germany these brass cobblestones in front of houses where someone lived who died in the Holocaust. If you walk down the street you see them. They are called Stolpersteine de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolpersteine
A heartfelt reaction (i cried too, haha)....what is Aria's accent (eg. her V in 'video' sometimes has a lot of W sound to it...almost like Wideo)? It's a beautiful accent, wherever it's from (i'm guessing somewhere in east Europe).
Her "about" page says India ;-)
@@gregall2178 I am not surprised that she is Indian. 1, because of her look, and 2, because of the "W" in how she says the word video. I hear that a lot in England from people with Indian accents. :-)