Band Of Brothers - Response to offer of surrender: Nuts!
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- • General McAuliffe's response to the German offer of surrender -- "Nuts!"
Col. Sink reads out the Generals response to Easy company.
I do not own the rights to any of this please don't sue me!
The best part is, this is real. This happened.
Assailant that word was said by my great-great uncle
yeah it was in killing patton by bill oriely
Battle of Bastogne
Those Americans survived too
All of it happened
American: NUTS
German officer: *Triggered*
Lol in hindsight you might even say tilted
"Keep moving colonel. A man that eloquent has to be saved." General George S Patton
love that part in the movie........also when he has the priest prey for good weather
@@robcostanza5500 Because, according the the great General Patton, that chaplain was on good terms with the Man Upstairs, so if he wrote a good prayer for weather, it would be heard and granted.
McAuliffe was apparently the only general that didn't swear too.
@@robcostanza5500 Which actually happened.
NUTS: Not Understanding Terms of Surrender.
Best Anagram ever.
No, that's was the equivalent of saying "F*ck you"
ragdollfan Are You Nuts? 😀
Not at all. I do remember the old expression, "Nuts to you!" though which was quite common. Hence the soldiers' laughter at hear the remark. :)
I hate NUTZIS.
This reminds me of another historical response. In ancient greece, Macedon sent a messenger to sparta saying when they waged war on them if they won they would destroy sparta , women and children alike. The spartans sent a one word reply. "if"
And who could forget the famous Molon Labe of Leonidas at Thermopylae.
Stephen Betcher I got another one "these are spartas walls" spartan king when asked why his city didn't have walls
Stephen Betcher I was told that an Athenian soldier asked a Spartan why his sword was so short. The Spartans reply,
“It’s still long enough to reach your heart.”
I believe the modern equivalent would be "Aight, bet."
I prefer the British response at Arnhem “we haven’t the facilities to take you all prisoner. Sorry”
The colonel in this scene is retired Army captain Dale Dye. He's a genuine hero and it's nice to see his casting here as a note of authenticity. Thanks for your service, Captain Dye--on and off the battlefield.
Marine, but yes
he was the technical director for the series as well if im not mistaken.
hookalakah I met Gunner Dye on Okinawa in 83. Good speaker, funny jokes.
@ hookalakah Dale Dye is a Retired Marine Corps Captain. He is a Mustang Officer in the Marine Corps because he spent several years as an enlisted Marine promoted to Gunnery Sergeant BEFORE he was directly commissioned as an Officer in the Marine Corps.
A member of the 1st Marine Division too, 1st Bn 5th marines
0:35 Dick Winters gives the medic a quick glance and probably realises he is really struggling. IIRC Winters later recommends the medic have 24 hours leave to get a hot meal and some rest (then only to have Bastogne bombed...)
When winters went to check on doc in his foxhole ,while he was sleeping .
I loved that scene because, Winters ,with all that was going on ,still had the presence of mind to note what was going on with the medic .
Winters was a true leader!
Best part of this entire scene is the look on the actor portraying Medic "Doc" Eugene Rowe whose facial expressions clearly express the exasperation, desperation and heartbreak of trying to care for these men in the worst of circumstances, without the equipment and only the barest of medical necessities to treat the soldier's wounds. Eugene Rowe definitely was one of the heroes and a part of The Greatest Generation.
Sink: "If they come by here, y'all remember to smile for for the camera. Gotta keep the morale up for them folks back home."
Winters: "Why?"
Sink: "Damned if I know."
0:50 i love how it immediately raised the morale lmao
Probably the main reason the response was written that way
They want to surrender?
No Sir they want us to surrender.
NUTS!!!!!!!!
That's oversimplified.
And that’s what they sent for their reply.
General McAuliffe was known for never use curse words beside "Nuts!" the general staffs probably use "Nuts!" as response since there's a first time for everything
Oversimplified XD
NUTS!
NUTS !!!
"Staff moral increased"
"Staff moral increased"
"Staff moral increased"
BlackForestVideos The response from the German Commanders was initial confusion, until a translator told them what 'nuts' meant. He told them it basically meant "Go to hell."
Germans weren't too happy after that.
I thought up to this point the Germans were happy in the 30s and 40s
Luttwitz, the German corps commander who sent in the envoy, got chewed out properly by his boss, who would have been General Manteuffel. Told him he was an idiot for making threats he couldn't carry out. The German heavy artillery was backed up on crappy roads all the way to the German border. All Luttwitz could do was keep trying to punch through with what he had.
Midland Redux so both sides were having a hell of time keeping on top of things?
The Americans did a far better job. Eisenhower and every intelligence officer on the Allied side got snookered by the German planners. However, having gained strategic surprise, the Germans fell short on everything else. The supreme tactical skill of the Panzer divisions was still there, but they got bogged down by a week road network and stout ad hoc American defenses. The German infantry were badly led and under-trained. They failed to clear out the corridors of advance for the Panzers and that allowed American reinforcements to reach most of the vital crossroads before the Germans got there.
Eisenhower, for all that he is lambasted for getting surprised in the Ardennes, reacted coolly and efficiently to the massive attack and mostly got his reinforcements where they were needed. He was no Manstein or Rommel, but he kept his generals under control and his orders on the second and third day, although no one could know it for sure at the time, doomed the German offensive to failure.
Then McAulliffe was like "GOT EM"
If there are any Sabaton fans right here... I salute you my friends.
NUTS! The General's word echoed clear.
NUTS! The Nazis shall heeaaaaarr!
Burak Okuroğlu 🤘🤘
They wrote a song with those lyrics?! What album?
Saddam Hussein
Heroes is the album I think and screaming eagles is the song
Saddam Hussein It is called Screaming Eagles
Well its great to see some sabaton fans here!
Dale Dye delivering the "Nuts!" message is just how this should have been done. There's no better person to reenact this scene.
A+ and I'm glad all these guys did this series with Dye to make us remember.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe
Apparently General McAuliffe, unlike most Army officers, never used foul language so "Nuts" was what he said when his staff read the message to him. When they drafted a reply they decided that was good enough.
nice essay LUL
lol i am related to him i think hes my great uncle or some shit
@@sourpatch3316 Prove it
@@sourpatch3316 let me see your birth certificate, boy
so basically if he were to use foul language, he would have sent something like "SUK MY BALLZ"? hehe
Obviously, people don't understand how to deal with stress anymore. You make jokes about your imminent demise, you joke about yourself, your buddies, the weather, the food, the uniforms, the divine intervention that brought you to this godawful place. By God, they Repeated the phrase, because it was just as off-the-wall and unpredictable as that entire battle had become by that point. NUTS!
47th Milsim Regiment
I mean, we got a whole generation now what does nothin but joke about how there's naught but shit and hell all around the world. Just imagine how fuckin grim our humour'll get when shit finally does hit the fan, eh? Nothin makes any fuckin sense, so why bother gettin pissed about it. Laugh till you die, and giggle all the way down to hell, I say.
"HELLO EASY COMPANY!"
If you paid him to, Dale Dye couldnt not sound like a Marine, even if he tried.
When I was a youngster the movie "Battleground" was my favorite war movie. I always thought the reply to the Germans was something other than "Nuts!". In 1963 as a young soldier I was assigned to the 11th Air Assault Division (test). General Kinnard was the division commander. After the air assault testing the division would be renamed the First Cavalry Division and ordered to Vietnam with Maj. General H.W.O. Kinnard as division commander. Gen. Kinnard was the technical advisor for the movie "Battleground".
Many years after returning from Vietnam I attended a First Cavalry Div. reunion. At the banquet I asked Gen. Kinnard if Nuts was really the reply. He told me the story on how Nuts became the reply to the Germans. I really can say I heard it from the horses mouth.
Ron Sleeis How did it exactly evolve into "nuts"?
Cool. You had quite a privilege. Kinnard saw a lot. He fought at Pearl Harbor too
@@emmettm00 When General McCauliffe first received the German ultimatum he muttered "Nuts". When he realized he had to send a formal reply back he was reminded of his first utterance by one of his staff and sent that as his reply.
@@emmettm00 "Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe was serving as acting division commander and was handed the German demand. Kinnard, then a lieutenant colonel serving as the division's operations officer, recounted later that McAuliffe had laughed and said "Us surrender? Aw, nuts." After considering the German demand, McAuliffe said he didn't know what to say in response, to which Kinnard replied, "That first remark of yours would be hard to beat.""
If I’m not mistaken, General McAuliffe didn’t like to swear so he often said “Nuts!” instead of curses.
I love the writer's or directors attention to detail all through this series. note all while Colonel Sink is speaking to the guys in this scene, Winters is keeping an eye on Doc Roe, :36 one example, because he can sense Roe is losing it. always a leader. in the next episode, "the Breaking point" he sends Roe to the rear to try to clear his head.
When it was read out to the commanding officer he said,"They want to surrender?" "No sir they want us to surrender". "Nuts!" And that's what came out as they're official reply.
I see you are a man of culture as well
Man, Doc was not having that shit. Especially gotta save your comrades with little or no medical supplies. God bless these soldiers and medics.
I notice the medic Eugene off by himself in this scene. There's obviously a part of him that wants to surrender, but some other, stronger, inner part of him has to say "Nuts" to that. Possibly my favorite episode of BOB.
dale dye is a heck of an actor!
Reminds of a story about Sparta. They had a huge rivalry with Athens. At one point, the Athenians sent them a message that basically said, "If we win the war, we won't spare your children. We'll destroy your civilization." Sparta replied with one word: "If."
Except I think it's Philip of Macedonia who delivered that ultimatum
In short Sparta is a troll
@@kaiiheenjik1668 pretty much
No, that was to Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, who just finished uniting all of Greece and was deciding what to do with Sparta. Philip could've easily destroyed them if he wanted but decided to let them live.
Good example of the meaning of laconic, because Sparta was in Lakonia on the Pelleponnesos
What else could you say but, "NUTS"?
BG McAuliffe said it, half asleep, "Us surrender, aw nuts!"
What about this
Go to hell nazi
@CommonSoldier101 yes XD
How about “Ha! GOT ‘EM”
German Officer: Surrender now and it will prevent your total annihilation.
US Army: Something came in the mail today...
THE GENERAL'S WORDS ECHO CLEAR
🥜
THE NAZIS SHALL HEAR
Real story.
Nuts meant the german commander must be crazy.
The german commander can't figure out the metaphor that the words nuts meant crazy, and assume that the americans were asking for nuts, which the germans tried to obtain.
By the time they got a can of nuts... It was a freaking laughing hell hole.
When I see soldiers shivering in the cold, I always wish I could take in some blankets, and hot Hungarian goulash with crusty bread. My mum was Hungarian, Dad was British, I was raised there. I got a unique perspective of the war from opposing sides! But, make no mistake, mum and the Hungarian people hated Hitler! RIP to all those poor souls who suffered so terribly during WW2.
If any of you ever make it to Bastogne (and its absolutely worth it), you can see the room the exchange took place in
And they have nuts on display inside of it, lol
In the movie Patton, played by George C. Scott, when told of the reply, said "A man that eloquent has to be saved." Patton pulled the 101st's fat out of the fire. Good job all around.
101st didn't need to be rescued.
@@JohnnyShagbot heh
@@JohnnyShagbot hell, if anything Patton might've saved the Germans from the 101st!
The real rescue was the weather clearing so the 101st could be resupplied. Because to be honest the 101st was on point in running the Germans back across the Rhine. This is what Patton's army would have done as well.
German Commander: "They want peanuts?"
A couple of comments here about Doc Rowe and Winters keeping an eye on him, but no-one commenting on why it's this specific scene in particular: the Bastards of Bastogne have all seen carnage and their bravery for holding the line should obviously be commended... but this small scene is about Rowe knowing, more than anyone in the company, about the horrors that warfare can do to a human body. Rowe has seen it all, been there first hand while people scream for their mothers as their guts hang out- and Winters, being as smart as he is, knows this and knows that the colonel's speech has a very different affect on him than the rest of the men.
So on the one hand you have this cool scene of stubborn bravery we can get all gung-ho about in this comments section, but this subtly is countered by a message about the futility and savagery of war. Rowe knows more about that than anyone else in the scene. And that's why he's sat apart, that's why he's not cheering and that's why Winters is keeping an eye on him during the speech.
His name is Roe.
Philip II of Macedon to Sparta: "If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again." Sparta: "If". Same energy
Spartans had a way with their words
Crack of the lightning splitting the ground,
Thunder is sounding ,
Artilley pounding,
Wrath of the nazis cast on Bastogne,
Facing their forces alone
Alone!
The general's word echoed clear
Tomáš Nezívej NUTS!!! THE NAZIS SHALL HEAR!!!
-Dear German Commander
NUTS
From American commander~
GOT ‘EM
the flies will find me sitting, never on my knees
General McAuliffe's great grandchildren (Sticks and Twigs) wrestled with me at St. Petersburg Catholic.
NUTS: no unconditional terms of surrender.
MARINE: Muscles Are Required- Intelligence Is Not Essential
@@thursdaythought7201 ARMY: Aint Ready for Marines Yet
To the those who watch The Walking Dead, NUTS! Signed, Band of Brothers fans.
gcHK47 You Said it Brother
I watch both! So hell yeah
FYI: Abe's actor is in Band of Brothers
Did the German seriously believe an allied division would surrender in 1945?
It was a bluff - a last ditch effort to try to take the town from US troops after they were told by high command to just bypass it and move west since Hitler's ridiculously stupid plan was way behind the already impossible schedule.
I'm irritated that I attempt to approach military history from the combat level (company to squad and team tactics) because they fascinate me almost as much as weapons design, only to be stifled by the intellectual "establishment" around the subject(s): endless chattering about massive divisions and the rear-area-dwelling politicians (flag officers) who are most focused on by historians/scholars.
Most epic trolling of an enemy in the History of the US Army...
The German Commander: “Was ist ‘nuts’?!”
Dale Dye's best lines about Turkey and hooch and rancid ass beans were excluded.
Sink looks...fresh. Warmed up, clean and pristine
Being well behind the front lines as an officer will usually make you look like that.
Very true, he did not say "nuts". What he did say still can not be put in high school text books. According to a member of his staff, Herman Rooks, he suggested to the German officers what he could go do with himself. Totally confused the Germans
With his own nuts?
mit diesen Nüssen :-)
AUSGEZEIGNET!!!
When they were getting attacked with mortar rounds, who was it that ran over to a foxhole and told the guys "get things organized over here, I'm going to call for help"? It was someone supposedly in charge but he had no fucking clue what he was doing lol.
Goettschwan he was not wounded, since he was sent home to become some general'd aide.
Well shit, you cant expect everyone to sit around and fact-check every show they watch.
Actually he was shot ans his body was going into shock. I guess not many soldiers realized that.
"And then the General went into his warm bunker and sat on a cushioned chair while sipping on some nice stolen whiskey"
Who are you quoting? Or do you just not know what a citation is.
gillecroised You sound like an apologist for officers. If we were face to face, I would insult you.
wilson blauheuer Do you expect Generals to be wielding a rifle and commanding a platoon? Or actually relaying orders, reinforcements, logistics etc. Roles must be fulfilled or the war would be lost, get a grip.
Nobody sips whiskey asshole. You shoot it or drink it. You don’t sip it like it’s a fucking fine wine.
What type of food are almonds?
*NUTS!*
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers(Henry V)
I think, that response from the high command and also in that difficult situation was because
they intuit that the historical destiny was on their side !
DEEZ NUTZ!
"CRACK OF THE LIGHTNING SPLITTING THE GROUND!!!"
THUNDER IS SOUNDING ARTILLERY POUNDING
This is my response to basically anything that it would fit in
German General "We want your unconditional surrender"
American General "I took that personally"
Deez nuts
Eric Alling ha got em
nuts reminds me a sabaton song screaming eagles
Well this show is about the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" division; so that's probably why.
Fun fact : Thes snow in this scene are not real, but shredded paper
U.S Government: Don't raid Area 51 or else you will face total annihilation
Kyles, Naruto Runners, and Rock Throwers: 0:50
Real men.
In this new generation it would be “DEEZ NUTS!!!!!!”
This is no longer considered historically accurate. Initially the only copy McAuliffe's message was damaged, and part of his response was actually obscured. Thanks to modern restoration and imaging techniques, however, historians now know McAuliffe's full reply:
"To the German Commander: Deez Nuts!"
Any doubts?
;-)
That's US' spirit
Came here after watching Girls Und Panzer. I was damn surprised that this actually happened in WW2😲 History is stranger and more amazing than fiction.
Patton, according to his multiple biographies, when he heard about this he laughed and quipped 'A man whom is so eloquent deserves to be saved.'
Nuts!
At this point in the war, why would the Germans demand the Americans surrender? 🤦
Damn I really like Dale Dye...
Germans-"Zey vant peanuts?"
America
German reply: the balls!
In reality the german commander was in a despreate situation. He had no reserves, his tropes were poorly trained and had fought for over a week. In the meantime Patton and his tanks were on it's way to Bastongne and he had no tropes to fight them.
it was a DEMAND for surrender. Not an offer.
Sounds like your pro-hitler
His response was actually, "Aw...nuts".
Recently. I feel like this.
I really want to know the German Commanders response to this.
They had no clue what the fuck he meant...so the officer (kinnard) who delivered it to them trsnslated it as 'go to hell' or 'go take a flying shit'
Pretty much asked if it was a yay or nay and someone was like, "nah man. It's a no."
@@omohosp nah bro, they just wanted some peanuts
God Bless Them. Theyll be better than ill ever can. But ill try
The answer was nuts because the Wehrmacht was in a more desperate situation than the US tropes in Bastogne. The German commander didn't have enough forces to take the city in a direct assault and Patton's units were on its way to Bastonge . This is the reason why he demanded their surrender.
I think I learned something like this in cod finest hour's user manual
McAuliffe
My profile is misspelled it is supposed to say Mcauliffe
There goes no but november
NUTS! Indeed.
It was during 1944 near Christmas when Adolf Hitler began to realize the Western Allies were unstoppable. The German Youngbloods and Hitler Youth urinated their pants when the hardened American 101st Airborne unit were charging against the brutal 1st SS Waffen division and death around the corner. ☠️
Nuts that weigh half a ton
Look how comfortable the General is, compared to the soldiers actually on the frontline. Soldiers shivering, trembling, underfed, low on supplies and wearing inadequate clothing in a dangerous place.
General is cozy, warm, safe...
Reminded of the old men and young men in war analogy...
“War is young men dying and old men talking”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
he wasn't a general until Vietnam
@@Shaboomquisa Look how comfortable the Colonel is* :)
@@J0kerzach2008 I had to be that guy he was my great great grandfather
@@Shaboomquisa Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: At the first gate, ask yourself “Is is true?” At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?” At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?”
You were courteous, respectful, polite, informative. Keep being that guy, keep being you, my friend
well would you be happier if he was freezing while he did the paperwork
Current day equivalent: LOL WTF?!
More like: "KEK" these days.
The encircled troops at Bastogne were brave Kekistani warriors, who struck fear into the hearts of the German normies with the cry 'Cura-ree!"
STFU+GTFO would be the current vernacular
NUTS!!!
If it was in 2022, they would reply “deez nuts”
Yeah NUTS 🥜
I thought Oversimplified made this up
They should've said "Ess Scheiss!"
Probably the most American response to the request.
German response: was ist das für nüsse?
The N U T S ! reply is the reason why the battle is called Battle of the Bulge.
yeah he said that knowing he was only fighting about 20% of the german army.
"Nuts!" was a great response to a demand for surrender because it has at least three separate meanings and addresses both German and American soldiers in different ways. 1) You're nuts/crazy if you think we'll surrender. 2) WE are nuts/crazy and you can't handle us. 3) WE have big balls/nuts! 1 is for the Germans. 2 is for the US troops. 3 establishes dominance for both armies to see. Rarely can a single word mean so much.
NUTS!!!!!!
Nuts? Peanuts? I do not understand what that signifies. But I think it is a negative answer. Because the soldiers smiled and cheered.
nuts!