Band of Brothers Episode 9 REACTION!! (full watch-a-long)
Added 2021-06-28 07:42:52 +0000 UTCJust a reminder, this is a watch-a-long so you do need to bring your own copy of the episode to see it, there is no PIP. There are a few visual cues and a timer to help you sync up
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I’m finally watching this along with you guys and made it to this episode. There are no words that would do justice to describe how awful the holocaust was. It’s very important to experience this as a reminder why people need to be kind to everyone and to never let this happen again. You’d think the world would have changed but unfortunately genocide is happening right now as a type this. I’ve been angry about it but I’m on another level of anger and sadness right now. When will we learn. 💔
ProphecyGirl_
2024-03-05 23:15:04 +0000 UTCYou might have misunderstood a scene. They weren't rounding up or punishing german families by kicking them out of their homes, they were commandeering their homes as headquarters while they were in town. The families could go home the next day.
JXTN
2021-07-08 07:56:26 +0000 UTCThe camp shown in this episode was Kaufering IV. It was a part of group of sub-camps which fed into Dachau which is outside of Munich. Dachau was the first concentration camp the Nazis built and was the model for all other camps that were built after.
Nicholas Rothert
2021-06-29 16:40:43 +0000 UTCDon't feel bad about what you thought about Webster. Even now, after knowing his real motivation, I still question what he was doing. Like you said, "read the room." LOL! Imagine what it would be like to see those camps up-close-&-personal. I can't. I just can't. Yep. Our side weren't angels, either. The camps, tho, put everything into perspective. It was a huge mistake watching this with you guys right before leaving for work. I should have known better.
angie808
2021-06-29 15:02:34 +0000 UTCAs I mentioned to you guys once, I watch this Series once a year. I do it to honor those that served and those lost. As we see division expand in our country hopefully we can see something like this and remind ourselves of the bonds that unite us and why we fight so hard to keep our nation free from tyranny.
J G
2021-06-29 02:13:12 +0000 UTCLike other commenters have mentioned, the Holocaust wasn't the design or objective of just ONE man. His entire leadership apparatus was on board & designed the camps to be murder factories - efficient at one thing only: killing Jews, Romani, LGBTQ, Socialists, & other "undesirables". National sentiment against the Jews had been building in Germany (and Western Europe) for decades; Hitler & his party simply took advantage of it to gain power. Any problems Germany had he blamed on these folks. What I like about this episode is that it doesn't let the German people off the hook. They all knew what was happening in the camps but turned their heads out of prejudice & fear. Many Germans turned in their own neighbors! When we visited Dachau Concentration Camp a few years ago we were astonished to see the nearest town was less than a mile away. Our tour guide said that ash from the ovens at Dachau fell on the town 24/7. The stench of death carried for miles. Most of the German people definitely knew. My husband's grandfather and his brothers fled Hungary & Austria before the Jews were rounded up. They tried to convince their parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. to flee as well but they didn't. Every family member who stayed behind in Europe died in the Holocaust. Over 30 people & 3 living generations of my mother-in-law's family were absolutely erased inside 2 years. When we were stationed in Germany a few years ago my husband made it our mission to visit every camp we could: Dachau, Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, and other sites. They are museums now and very emotional places to visit. What this show depicted is the tip of the iceberg in terms of Nazi cruelty & inhumanity.
Robin Lee Melendez
2021-06-28 23:26:20 +0000 UTCSpot on. Contemporary Germans liked to claim they didn’t know what was going on. But Hitler declared his intentions in Mein Kampf, which became a best seller. He was elected on the platform of being a dictator and eliminating “untermenschen” (Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, LGBT, sick and disabled people). Antisemitic papers were sold in the millions and people were rounded up publicly. Over 100,000 gay men were slaughtered. Along with thousands of disabled people. I’m autistic, and what they did to autistic children beggars belief. Literally starved them to death and left them outside (babies included) in cold and rain to die of exposure - with the permission and encouragement of their own parents. I’m sure there were Germans who never saw the camps and put what might be happening to all those “untermenschen” - including the ones grassed up by their neighbours. But to claim they clean hands is just a conscious easing lie. This social history is extremely well documented and I suggest anyone still believing Germans didn’t know reads “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William L Shirer. The Holocaust was decades in the making and millions of people were responsible in big and small ways. Hitler was an evil genius, but no man does this alone. It takes the consent and passivity of millions. That’s the lesson here. Complacency in the face of fascism is complicity. Thanks for a beautiful reaction and for feeling the loss of so many. Loads of love xx
Kerry-anne Mendoza
2021-06-28 21:37:20 +0000 UTCConspiracy was mind blowing. Sitting around having sandwiches and planning the extermination of tens of millions of people. Just incomprehensible.
EmwunGarand
2021-06-28 20:32:04 +0000 UTCThank you for such a raw and vulnerable reaction (which you guys have always given us, but especially for this episode). Like this entire series, it’s an episode that stays with you forever. Hope you guys had a little bit of downtime afterward to digest it in peace. Love to you both ❤️
Katie H
2021-06-28 19:01:58 +0000 UTCThat was a young Tom Hardy playing Janoviv
ThatsSoGordo
2021-06-28 18:24:05 +0000 UTCps huge chunk of the German sentiment against Jews was rough YEARS before rise of National Socialism Party of Germany. The last Kaiser (king), Willhelm, was openly hateful. It was common and the evolution of it, was comprehensive and complicated. National Socialism, aka Nazi's, just gave rise to beliefs that were already there. But the extent? Germans knew they were in camps and being killed. Not all knew about the Final Solution (when they decided to add gas chambers in '44, to expedite the extermination). 100% watch the film Conspiracy. It's the office meeting that decided the Final Solution. It will educate and gut you. Just a meeting. But it's eye-opening, extraordinary learning. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Kenneth-Branagh/dp/B00KG2QO2K
Ashley
2021-06-28 18:03:41 +0000 UTCMost heartbreaking is that the soldiers that died prior to finding the camps, HAD NO IDEA. They died never truly knowing the cause they were fighting for. One of the most harrowing visual pieces of storytelling I've ever seen, like you said. No words.
Ashley
2021-06-28 17:51:38 +0000 UTCThe comments by the veterans at the beginning of the episode reminded me of my own impressions of the German people when I was a young soldier stationed in Bavaria. Of course I was aware of the history, the Nazis and the Holocaust, which is why it was surprising to me that I found the people so friendly. It was a small town (in my experience people in ANY big city tend to be less friendly), and although Germans have a reputation of being not necessarily the warmest people, they were really polite and when I'd get to know them they were great, and I'd be embarrassed at the behavior of some of my fellow soldiers when they'd get drunk and act the fool. I do remember thinking sometimes though, when I'd meet an elderly person, that this person was definitely old enough to have seen or even participated in the war, it gave me pause. While I was there our CO organized a "field trip" for our battery to Dachau, a concentrate camp a few hours bus ride from our post. It was an experience I'll never forget. Walking through the gate, with the infamous phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" (works makes one free) over it, was haunting, and we were shown film the Nazis themselves had kept of the tortures committed, it was horrific. The thing was we went there in two buses, each bus had TVs and a VCR (or DVD player, I can't remember), but there was only one copy of Schindler's List, so one bus watched it on the way there, and the other on the way back. Well obviously those of us on the bus that watched it on the way there were already emotional by the time we got to Dachau. But, despite the films we watched there, some of the soldiers from the other bus still didn't seem to feel the weight of where we were at, what had happened there. They were taking pictures like any other tourist attraction, laughing, joking, at one point I couldn't help it and I snapped at them, I don't remember everything I said but I remember shouting, "This isn't fucking Disneyland!" After we got back to the barracks I could see on the faces of the soldiers on the other bus who'd just watched Schindler's List, it hit them. It's strange how it sometimes takes a movie or a show to really make it real to us, because it is so hard to imagine otherwise. Obviously nothing beats talking to people who were really there, but otherwise, that's when you see that film and TV can actually have real importance as a way of telling stories that matter in a way we can understand.
Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
2021-06-28 17:14:21 +0000 UTCTo this day I still don’t know why some people deny that the holocaust exist. Each time I see this episode I always get upset, not just because of what happened but because of how so many people still have some sort of hatred towards others. May those who lost their lives during the holocaust never be forgotten.
Gabtab0000
2021-06-28 16:58:11 +0000 UTCThe three Germans shot in the head in the beginning of the episode as they were all driving by were shot by French soldiers not the Americans (uniforms and helmets are different). If you go back and look quickly and closely, Tom Hanks is playing one of the French soldiers doing the shooting. I am told that Tom Hanks is hidden in some other episodes but I have never been able to see him except in this one. After you are finished with the last episode you should definitely watch the Easy Company documentary: "We Stand Alone Together". It is really good and is like the 11th episode. Extensive interviews with all of the actual Easy Company guys, lots of old videos and pictures of them and the guys basically tell their stories about the war. It even shows them visiting Europe again as old men and seeing Bastogne, etc. Can't recommend it enough.
Nanette Davis
2021-06-28 15:39:46 +0000 UTCI've watched a lot of people react to this show and about 98% have shed tears watching this episode. My grandmother was german she was in Dortmund during the war. She told us that they didn't know what was going on. They were told all "none" Germans were being relocated as they just wanted Germans in Germany. As for Hitler as sick and twisted evil man who got people to follow him. But again my grandmother told us that before the war everyone loved him. The first world war had crippled Germany, there were no jobs everyone was poor then suddenly Hitler came to power and everyone had work and money.
Thomas Hamilton
2021-06-28 12:19:40 +0000 UTCIt’s almost 4:am my time (Dallas) so I’ll try and keep my comments relatively brief. Concentration Camps were brutal. For those who have been to Europe - primarily Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, etc - it’s definitely a must visit. It is, however, probably the most sobering experience ever. As I’ve stated I I studied in Austria and have been visiting Europe since I was small (though ancestral I am 3/4 Swedish and 1/4 Scottish). My Dad’s father was a career Colonel in the Army so my Dad spent many of his formative years in Germany and in France. I’ve also done extensive research on the subjects of WWI and WWII - what led to it, to the rise of a Hitler (a failed Austrian painter), the plans of the Axis Powers, etc… The show mentioned Hitler committing suicide as did many in his inner circle. Most killed themselves in Berlin. Some been killed their children with them. It’s absolutely horrific. The show does state that ‘the man (Hitler) killed himself in Berlin ‘and it wasn’t even his home’. Berchtesgaden (you’ll see it - kind of - next episode) was his retreat especially during summers. I am good friends (I consider him my surrogate grandfather) lives in Berchtesgaden (he just turned 80) a d owns a hotel there. I can guarantee that while some locals in Germany knew about the camps ], others did not. My friend Peter and his parents, grandparents are specific examples. Peter’s father was against the war but even though he had fought in WWI, he was drafted and sent east at nearly 60 years old. I have lots more to discuss and will after the next episode. Just wanted to sympathize with you all in watching this exceedingly difficult but fairly realistic depiction of the Holocaust, along with the understanding of general German knowledge. I should also point out that I studied both in the USA and Austria. One of my American professors was born in Germany and forced to join the Hitler Youth. By age 7, he had his thumb cut off for refusing to abide by Nazi party rules. Age seven. Unreal. He and his family fortunately escaped but he would waved his severed thumb as us, his students, to reinforce his points about the ruthlessness of the Nazis. I was recounted other stories by both Germans and particularly the Austrian family with whom I lived while studying there. Sorry for long bit of info….but thought it important. I’ll have LOTS to say after the finale especially next of the lines in the show that’s is patently false and upsets me every time I hear it. Okay now I’m really going to bed. Thanks for the late release. Much appreciated! Plus MANY thanks for watching this series and putting up with all our own stories about our grandparents, uncles, great-grandparents, etc…who fought in WWII. It’s very special to all of us!
Nancy Peterson
2021-06-28 09:16:05 +0000 UTC
