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Band of Brothers - Part 5/5 | Full Episode Reactions (Patreon)

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2023-08-26 16:00:04
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2024-02-06 14:38:02
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The war is winding down, but not without discovering the true horrors of WWII. There final 2 episodes were nothing like I expected, but as well done as we’ve come to expect from this show.

Episode 10 starts at 56hr 28min

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Ryan

The camp inmates weren't actors, but cancer patients who really were in that bad of a condition, and eagerly jumped at the chance to have their unfair fate do some good by making the barbarity of the camps more clear than any makeup possibly could. Liebgott was so traumatized that he never contacted anyone from Easy Company ever again.

Ryan

Yes, the rest of the world really was totally ignorant of the Holocaust until very near the end of the war when Allied forces found some of the camps. One very noticeable sign of this is that Allied propaganda films during the war like Casablanca and Mrs. Miniver never once mention anything like it, despite how it would clearly be the best argument they could possibly make. One of the few from the era that even mentions the Nazis' treatment of Jews is the hard-hitting comedy To Be Or Not To Be, and even there the crew clearly had no idea of how bad things really were.

g g gooding

Minor note of little interest: where does the title originate, I mused? It's from Henry V, by Billy Shakes; The Saint Crispin's Day speech. "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother..." Its genuinely *STUNNING* how many common phrases and literal words (1200+ English words...WORDS...no joke) Shakespeare just made up. That dude could write! He was the Einstein of writing! 🤔🤨

Ryan
>>116115147

Now check out Leslie Nielsen’s version of it from the final episode of Due South. I truly believe it’s the greatest moment of his career.

Charity Konusser (the chonus)

In "Why We Fight," you noted an "interesting interaction" between Nixon and the woman in the dark red coat. In the scene where she comes upon him in her house, he's broken that photo of her husband in his uniform - the black ribbon around the top corner of the photo meant that he died in the war. The way she looked at him was meant to shame him for doing what he did, and it worked -- he left the house ashamed. I think you might have been speaking over the part where Winters says that they think someone from the town tipped off the camp guards that the Americans had arrived -- that's why they fled. So it was made clear that some, if not most (or all) of the people in town knew exactly what was going on. When Nixon locks eyes with the woman when she is trying to move dead bodies in the camp, they are standing in each other's shoes from the previous encounter regarding shameful and shaming, only it's so so so much worse. Nixon just looks straight at her and she is shamed, and rightly so, because *of course* she knew what was happening. Her husband was an officer in the SS. None of the people from Landsberg were ignorant of what was happening. The title of the episode was the name of a series of WWII propaganda films made by Frank Capra (director of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, and other films considered wholesome "Americana" stories). (A random note: I've seen a lot of reaction videos to BoB over the years, and without fail, if the reactor is Jewish, the moment we see our men in the woods, looking at something the audience can't see, the reactor says something like "they found a camp." Never once in my experience has a non-Jewish reactor realized what they found until it is revealed visually.)

casualnerdreactions
>>116115147

I have decided to start making up words myself, we'll see how it goes. haha no but seriously sometimes I do odd variations of words for fun and the other day I got the most hateful comment over one them. I laughed for a while that anyone thought I seriously said "optimistical" 🤣

casualnerdreactions
>>116129254

Thanks for all the bits in this comment! I think in my mind there's two different types of WWII content. One focused on the battles, and one focused on the holocaust. For whatever reason I disconnect the two and just didn't expect them to collide in such a visceral way. I love how they did it.

Ryan
>>116129254

Plus everything with Japan, which has its own companion HBO miniseries by the same crew.

Charity Konusser (the chonus)
>>116129254

I think your dividing WWII media into either "battle" or "Holocaust" is likely how most of us think about it, almost as if they were two different, unrelated events. I wonder if it isn't partly because of how we're taught about the subjects in North America. I wonder if it's different in the European countries where the war was waged.