Band of brothers Ep 9 Full Reaction Why We Fight
Added 2022-01-09 08:46:40 +0000 UTC
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Excellent review/reaction. I watched your YouTube reactions and found you guys so compelling, here I am. Thanks.
Dennis Donehoo
2022-01-12 23:14:12 +0000 UTCYou should really see We Stand Alone Togather after Episode 10, you get to see the interviews in an extended format, its amazing and a great way to finish the Mini series :D https://youtu.be/z6j_nop4wh0
Anton Larsson
2022-01-12 21:56:08 +0000 UTCThese BoB reactions are so great! Can't wait to see you both watch episode 10.
DMae
2022-01-11 17:52:42 +0000 UTCThis episode speaks for itself. It's a powerful testament to the atrocities committed during WW2. What's more horrifying is that when you compare the footage from Bergen Belsen (Filmed by the British) to this, the show doesn't really come close to the true horror of the larger camps. We were shown the footage of Belsen in High School when learning about the Holocaust, it had quite the impact on the class. The footage was locked away from the public for decades. The other thing that this episode doesn't touch on is both the anti Jewish sentiment within the European aristocracy prior to the war, they were unwanted and disliked by most countries, as well as the fact that the Allies had pretty good knowledge of the camps prior to the troops actually getting there. There's a good, short YouTube piece on the liberation of Kaufering IV (camp shown here) by the National WW2 Museum https://youtu.be/rgAmDi96qpg It's well worth a watch, but obviously it contains graphic images and film. Thanks for taking the time to react to this episode, its a tough one
Andrew Charlton
2022-01-11 00:36:31 +0000 UTCThey moved from Kaufering IV to Thalem, then from Thalem to Berchtesgaden
Andrew Charlton
2022-01-11 00:30:46 +0000 UTCAlso, did anyone else notice when O’Keefe reacts to the French soldier executing the German prisoners on the side of the highway, that French soldier is Tom Hanks.
Dimwit Emeritus
2022-01-10 22:51:34 +0000 UTCi read on the internet that the cast didn't see or knew, via the script or location scouting, what to expect in the concentration camp scene. The directors did so to get the real reaction of the cast, the shock and etc.
Gregory Martin
2022-01-10 19:02:10 +0000 UTCWhen you said that Webster could have been an officer if he had finished school, he actually could have been an officer as he had the money, education, and connections but opted to go the enlisted route so he could experience the war as an average soldier. As a fun fact, the one aspect the real Malarkey was apparently unhappy about in this episode was them showing him at the camp as he never actually went there.
Kruppe
2022-01-10 11:11:35 +0000 UTCThis episode’s content speaks for itself. In my opinion, this episode and the entire series is excellently presented. Who would have guessed that Steven Spielberg knows what he’s doing. I enjoy your reactions because you two seem to pick up on the nuances and grasp things that many other reactioners seem to miss or even more annoyingly misunderstand, and then go off on an irrelevant tangent. I was much impressed when in episode 8, you two noticed that Sgt. Martin was angry with Webster because it was his meddling that got Martin roped into that patrol. So many people do not understand that scene. Having said that, there are a couple minor things I wanted to point out for you. Webster has been with us since day one. He was the one that gave the little boy in Holland the chocolate bar. He was wounded at the Crossroads right before Bastogne (“they got me, can you believe I said that”). You’re correct that Pvt. Cobb (at least as portrayed) is a jackass. Not only did he give Webster undeserved crap and berate Pvt. James (McAvoy) Miller for wearing a unit citation in Replacements, but he was also the only member of Bull Randleman’s squad who was reluctant to go on the search for him in the same episode. And finally, in this episode, I don’t know if you simply misspoke but they aren’t going to Thalem at the end of the episode, they are leaving Thalem and going to Berchtesgaden. Remember, they start with the violins, flash back about a month (the president’s dead-FDR died April 12, 1945), go to Landsberg and come across Kaufering IV camp, hand cleanup off to 10th Armored and leave for Thalem. We come back to the violins in Thalem, Hitler shot himself the day before (April 30, 1945, 900,000 vengeful Red Army soldiers knocking on his door) and off we go Berchtesgaden (why, the man is not home).
Dimwit Emeritus
2022-01-10 02:04:08 +0000 UTCMy great uncle toured Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, with Eisenhower. When the subject of German guilt and whether the average citizen knew comes up, I am always reminded of the last line in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. "Herr Janning, it came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent."
Baron Imhoof
2022-01-09 17:21:42 +0000 UTC
