Band of Brothers - Defeat March

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This series, originally broadcast on HBO, tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Based on interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, this 10-part series chronicles the experiences of these young men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. Based on the book written by Stephen Ambrose.
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[@JohnnysWarStories]

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[@marksmith5237]

It took the whole world to beat them.

[@marksmith5237]

@Garrison Nichols Lets be honest, We would never have won without their massive support and sacrifice, however, for every German division in the west, there were 10 in the east, 20 mil plus is a hell of a sacrifice. Best wishes.

[@marksmith5237]

@Garrison Nichols its not all of them, those that know really know. Got to be honest, glad they were on our side in truth. About the Russians, I don't think they would have stopped in Berlin, More like Dublin in my opinion. That's why us, our American cousins, and the Canadians, plus all the commonwealth troops had to invade from the West. To keep Europe capitalist/ democratic. Best wishes.

[@dynagusmandonat]

Hey Who You

[@danbam465]

Watch a ww2 documentary called Hellstorm.....and see the true horrors of war

[@Mirokuofnite]

One account I read years ago was from a German soldier around the time of D-Day. He said he knew the war was over when going through a dead American field kit. Inside there was chocolate and cigarettes. These were luxury items for officers. But the privates on the ground all had these items along with coffee.

[@marks665]

I heard a similar story about a Japanese officer upon learning that the US Navy had ships for the sole purpose of making ice cream.

[@timeklof62]

@@marks665 what

[@TheEphemeris]

@@timeklof62 the US navy had ships with big mixers on them used for producing concrete for airfields, facilities, defenses, etc. Well the US had so many of these ships, that a few were converted to making ice cream. Se idea as concrete, just different ingredients.

[@Lucas-vv7lw]

I've also heard of a similar account, were at D-day a German soldier should count how many horses were brought from the landing ships. 😅 There were none. Only motorized vehicles and tanks.

[@Tokax]

@@marks665 heard of that too

[@thekhoifish0146]

Webster’s yelling went from post-match trash talk to surprisingly deep dialogue about the war real quick

[@nordscum]

He went to Harvard

[@nzsoulman]

Webster is right. "Ignorant servile scum" twice in two generations, my grandfather, and my great uncles and 20 years before that my great grandfather.

[@apalahartisebuahnama7684]

@@occamsrazor1285 shame their plan initially wasn't about defeated US first but using resources from defeated nations then invade the US, the Germans just can't follow the proper steps and rush it all together.

[@ronniebishop2496]

They asked the Germans who they thought Americans best generals were and they said General Motors Lol.

[@alexs5744]

I understand Webster. We sent hundreds of thousands of Americans to their deaths because of European nonsense. I’d be pissed.

[@The_Devil_Himself]

I like how at 1:57 O'Keefe is visibly shaken by seeing Tom Hanks commit war crimes and Perconte just shrugs like "Yeah he's one of the producers he does what he wants"

[@ScottyShaw]

Tom Hanks was actually executing those three German actors for messing up some key lines, and Steven Spielberg happened to catch it on camera, so they kept the shot for realism.

[@africanlipplateandbonenose3223]

Little did they know this was the end of western civilization and the victory of international jewish bolshevism

[@pwrofrob]

I def did NOT catch that that was Tom Hanks!

[@williambrennan104]

Given that these Germans were hiding in a barn in an area where they were all supposed to have surrendered, that could be considered perfidy

[@BymesYS]

Wow I just got to know he was Tom Hanks.

[@Mode-Selektor]

The German military is often thought of as being highly mechanized. While it was for the time (at the start of WWII), the majority of it was hauled by horses and men. I remember an interview with a German WWII veteran who was captured in France. He said as soon as he saw the number of trucks the US had transporting goods and materials, he knew the war was lost.

[@copsondonuts]

They were a 'mobile' army. America was the ONLY fully mechanized military in WW2. The Japanese always talked about this.

[@imadeyoureadthis4674]

what does that even mean? Russians took down 85% of the axis army. more axis forces died in stalingrad than the rest of the allies killed combined.

[@Mode-Selektor]

@@imadeyoureadthis4674 What does THIS even mean?

[@imadeyoureadthis4674]

@@Mode-Selektor im telling you he knew the war was over a year before that when russia was stomping on germany

[@Mode-Selektor]

@@imadeyoureadthis4674 That's not what he said though. I'm just telling you what he said.

[@bobsagetsconcubine2866]

Fun Fact: The execution scene wasn’t scripted. Tom Hanks just wandered on set one day and started shooting extras so they had to work it into the film

[@AccountHolder007]

Likely not true.

[@bobsagetsconcubine2866]

@@AccountHolder007 shut up don’t question me

[@AccountHolder007]

@@bobsagetsconcubine2866 TrUst mE BrO!?!

[@bobsagetsconcubine2866]

@@AccountHolder007 eat my shorts

[@assaultguy859]

@@AccountHolder007 *Likely*

[@pirobot668beta]

Every time I hear someone say "My Father died in the War; we never learned any details." I think of the countless soldiers killed 'off the books'.

[@snd3054]

Two of my great uncles served with the Russian army in World War I, and were captured by the Austrians. They told my grandfather (their younger brother) a key to their survival: never surrender in a small group.

[@shepherdlavellen3301]

@@snd3054 why?

[@snd3054]

@@shepherdlavellen3301 In general, during a battle an opposing force wouldn't bother with the hassle of taking a few stragglers as prisoners; they'd simply kill them. Larger numbers were more likely to be spared and escorted to the rear. I assume my great uncles surrendered with many others, because they survived.

[@tomtacker8744]

Mine too. He fall down from the guard tower.

[@DonMeaker]

@@danielallan8061 Rather often, forces were tasked with raids into or across no-man's Land to capture prisoners, that normally only would capture small numbers. Why? It is one of the best ways to determine the enemy's intentions.

[@majerstud]

Read a very good book about D-Day from the German point of view. One of the Germans captured that day said that when he was taken to the rear, and saw the sheer volume of ships and equipment that were on the beach, with the enormous amount of fuel being almost casually expended, he knew the war was lost. This scene drives that perception home. The German army walked, the Allied army drove.

[@lightup6751]

Germany was already on its last leg when the US landed in Europe. The Soviet Union was the turning point of the down fall of The Third Reich. Its crazy to think how many more sacrifices the Russians made and lost more soldiers and civilians than all Allied forces combined

[@majerstud]

@@lightup6751 Agreed. It was the Red Army that broke the back of the Wehrmacht. They did it with immense logistical support from the US, but it was the Rooskies who supplied the bodies!

[@F14thunderhawk]

@@majerstud American Logistics, Russian Manpower, American Logistics, English Counterintelligence, and American Logistics won the war. German wonderwaffles were equipment like the V-2 ballistic missile, the King Tiger, and the electronic torpedo. United States Wonderweapons introduced the world to Standoff weaponry, intercontinental bombers, The power of the Sun Itself, the entire field of Air Supremacy, and the Dodge Ram 2500. Our primary European Fighter plane was the B-29 Superfortress. in 1943 we had produced more guns in a single year, then Germany, Austria, and the HRE had produced since Guns made their way to Europe. The Redball Express is the most exemplary moment of the entire war. Patton is an incredibly proficient commander and an absolutely horrible general. Hes running low on consumables and spares. So Dwight assembles a convoy with more vehicles then Germany had ever had dedicated to logistics to supply during the entire war.

[@craycrayhead843]

what was the name of that book?

[@leedong4201]

German can win if alllies dont bomb their industry.i think they can even makr more tiger and panther

[@michaelgalt388]

Never fully realized the full significance of this scene till now after reading some of the amazing comments. The glaring contrast in mechanical armaments. The beaten German officers leading a marching army (on foot) on horses/carriages. While the entire American batallion was being transported by vehicles! The Germans literally and figuratively ran out of gas!

[@vipwanrinkle6439]

SAY HELLO TO FORD AND GENERAL FUCKIN MOTORS

[@alexanderc.4654]

If Hitler had taken the Caucasus, the war would have lasted for years longer...

[@ThatIrishLass]

They barely had gas to begin with. The idea of full German Motorisation is a myth; the Nazis invaded Poland and France and Russia with a stark contrast between the sparsely-deployed Panzer Divisions which were fully motorised and the vastly more numerous Infantry Divisions, which marched or rode into battle on horses and carriages. Indy Neidell did a special on it a while back for his WW2 in Real Time series, which I recommend. But they didn't just have horses because it was late in the War--they'd *always* had horses. The scene is there to emphasise that the Germans *never had a credible chance of victory, and the entire war was functionally pointless because its outcome was never in doubt.*

[@ThatIrishLass]

This is why Webster is so upset. He knows that this was a foregone conclusion at this point and is FURIOUS that he's lost friends and comrades to a war that didn't need to happen, but the Nazis were too blind to recognise the inevitable, and tens of millions of people died needlessly. One of the great tragedies of WW2.

[@JohnSmith-yd5wq]

Thing is they knew Ford

[@zackstamp9052]

I have an Uncle who was with Patton, I asked him about this clip. He said only difference from his experience was that in his the Germans were still armed. They didnt stop to disarm them just kept them marching west. Their order were to get as far east as they could as fast as they could.

[@blademirlima4708]

In case they have to use what was left of the Wehrmacht against USSR, but their discarted this idea after.

[@scottbrown7073]

One of my favourite things of this series is the part where winters accepted the surrender of a German officer but in the movie it shows winters tells the officer to keep his side arm in the interviews with the actual men winters toke the gun and showed it off in the interview saying how he noticed it has never been fired once. And that's how all wars should end. Sad they changed it in the movie yes the movie version was good to showing respect to the enemy and allowing them to keep there side arm and colours ect. Quite often in wars if the enemy at the time gives a full surrender they would give them nearly full pardon. Not sure of the exact year but in the 1700s the French laid siege to a engish fort in America during the revolution war the 1200 strong British knew they couldn't hold with there supplies and position the French command of his army at the time saw the courage and strength of the English and knew that they would not surrender easy or at all and it was one fort in a area with dozens. The French commander seeing enough bloodshed offered a term of surrender to the British that they refused as they where too proud to hand over there colours and arms so the French commander basically turned a blind eye and said you may leave this fort with your weapons and colours held high and allowed them to leave the fort and head back north to there other forts.

[@reallyhappenings5597]

@@blademirlima4708 No. The true spoils of war were in Berlin, and Berlin is in the East. The instant the Wehrmacht was rendered ineffective, the Cold War began and the first order of business was the plunder of Nazi technology and skilled personnel.

[@BELCAN57]

And the Germans were anxious to get as far WEST as they could.

[@drevil0076]

@@BELCAN57 My German language teacher in college told us about how he ran across Germany just ahead of the Russians in order to surrender to the Americans.

[@chonnapatrujivanarm8581]

Something you might miss : The French officer shooting the prisoner is Tom Hanks

[@JNF590]

Checked to see yeah he is wow

[@luigidisanpietro3720]

Indeed! Amazing eyes.

[@romanroque9559]

Wow!! You had an amazing eyes bro!!

[@hariwijaya6698]

Maybe Tom Hanks had just avanged his death in Saving Private Ryan few years prior 🤔

[@mackgiver875]

I always thought they were British.

[@zinedinezethro9157]

this scene strikes pretty strong because it shows how the grunts on the ground really feel. It doesn't matter if you're the one in that lost or won the war. The upper ranks might celebrate or distressed, you might also feel a bit the same. But in the end, both sides are only left with scars and traumas, questioning why they had to go to war in the first place, angered with the war.

[@Sulimaaren]

Hmm....I dont think most russians or americans (just to name some) questioned why they had to go to war. It was pretty obvious actually.

[@cisium1184]

And yet committing the very kinds of acts brutality that ensure more wars will happen, that their sons and grandsons will have to fight..

[@Whatatwist2009]

@@cisium1184 No one leaves a war with clean hands. War changes people and they are taught by necessity to view their enemy as an enemy first and human 2nd. If not there is hesitation and that leads to your own death. You also have to factor in back then and in general a draft isn't super picky of the type of people they draft as long as they can fight and can follow orders.

[@Ilamarea]

That shit take really ignores all the genocide that needed to be stopped...

[@amovy031]

​@@Whatatwist2009 at the actual trials of Nazi war criminals, the Intl. Military Tribunal officially ruled that "just following orders" is not a valid defense. it's not like Nazi soldiers would have been executed for not committing war crimes. stop being an apologist.

[@NotAnAngryLesbian]

A WW2 Marine told me he had a friend tasked with guarding two Japanese soldiers. His friend shot them both after dark. In the morning he simply said he needed the sleep and didn't feel like guarding them all night. When you remove empathy from a teenagers heart this is what you get. As a veteran I know this personally. Learn to grow out of this terrible mindset. As a culture we must change our ethos. Love one another. It feels good and its worth the effort.

[@desertdude8274]

Nah we will just use drones next time that way nobody cares when it happens.

[@thedungeondelver]

A deacon at my dad's church was shot down over Germany during the war, and liberated by US troops. He said when they showed up the GI's gave pistols to the guys who wanted them and said if they wanted to take any Germans out, they could. A few did.

[@petepan9696]

Meh.

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

After what the Japanese did i don't think anyone really cared what 'the good guys' did to them. Everywhere they went there were atrocities that even the Nazis thought were terrible

[@MtuckerGoBlue]

Those SS guys that just murdered all the men in a small village, raped the women right down to the young girls, and hung their sons from trees, we just need to "love them". Must be nice to be so naïve. BTW, you don't know any WWII Marines, there's almost none of them left today.

[@bber45]

For us history buffs, this would be the remains of the Ruhr Pocket. Over 300k German Troops surrendered and basically the entire Army Group B was gone. In charge of that Field Marshall Model who would end his own life. Essentially, the War in the West was over.

[@alastor6114]

Let’s give a big thanks to the 3rd Armored Division they tied the noose and surrounded them

[@drg8687]

@@alastor6114 lol. Americans taking credit for showing up after the hard fighting was already done. Whether you showed up in Europe or not, it would have made no difference in the war against the Nazis.

[@hughmungus9831]

@@drg8687 your statement is nothing more than opinion. Russians always want praise for charging machine guy nest with no rifles. You’re just lucky the Germans didn’t have more ammo which they would have had the great USA 🇺🇸 not came and helped out. It was a group effort.

[@walterkrop12]

@@hughmungus9831 Russian didn't charge without rifles.

[@kiandocherty3589]

@@hughmungus9831 ...the Soviets never did that. By the time US involvement became relevant -roughly 1943- the Germans had already lost.

[@DJSkittles365]

"Look at them, even in defeat they still march with pride." Maybe because they're not on the Eastern Front.

[@superspies32]

All men on Eastern front already be sent to Gulag after Operation Baration

[@DJSkittles365]

@@superspies32 that is why I left that comment you muppet.

[@randomman3321]

On the eastern front they nay have been killed or starved by this point

[@whenyoupulloutyourdickands4023]

Yep. If it was the eastern front, there would have been no march at all. Just frozen malnourished corpses.

[@dipacalypse1092]

@@superspies32 and thats where they all belong

[@merrid.4550]

I love this exact same scene from the book ⬇️ "Winters watched the prisoners trudging by with something bordering on awe. Though beaten militarily, they did not seem to be defeated in spirit. Units walked in step, heads held up proudly as if to say “You beat our army but you didn’t beat me.” The Germans, in turn, were equally awestruck as they watched the endless stream of American vehicles flowing by. The one expression shared by men on both sides was curiosity as they studied each other, one rolling east, the other tramping west.“I wonder what they’re thinking,” Nixon said.“Probably the same thing I am,” Winters replied. “Just leave me alone. All I want to do is get this over with and go home.”“Speaking of home,” Nixon said, “what are your plans when this is all over?”“I haven’t given that too much thought,” Winters admitted. “Why?”“Well, you know my dad owns Nixon Nitration Works and I thought maybe you’d want to . . .”“You figure you’ve worked for me almost since we got into combat, and now you want me to come to New Jersey and work for you,” Winters said.“Unless you’ve got something better lined up,” Nixon said.“I don’t,” Winters said. “I’m not even sure how I’ll fit back into civilian life after all this. I’ll think about it, Nix.”

[@henryisthere]

That's honestly magnificently written. While I wholesale condemn the ideology of Nazism, I do have German and Hungarian ancestry. A distant relative of mine may have marched in that surrender procession. I won't let my empathy for the common man in that army eclipse the knowledge of the horrors they supported and the damage they caused, but I wish to commend the dignified and humane manner each side showed toward the other. I am glad that the United States and Germany are allies now, and I see the spirit of those thoughts reflected in the men of the Greatest Generation as well. So beautifully done.

[@asianprideyeex2]

Webster's "Wtf are we doing here?!" is one of my favorite lines in the series. It made me stop to really reflect on war, humanity, and what we're capable of doing to each other. May these soldiers rest in peace.

[@jannibal7622]

sadly the US started to grow quite fond of war after the second world war. Lots of money to be made and only those pesky poor and regular people that have to risk their lives. There grew quite an economy out of the us war machine and a handful of businessmen and politicians got quite rich during the late 20th century.

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

@@jannibal7622 We all like to pretend we had no hand in why WW2 happened. But there's a reason we treated Japan and Germany a hell of a lot differently post war than we treated Germany after WW1.

[@erich2432]

He made a choice and US policy was Germany first with or without Pearl Harbor. The US would've entered Europe even in 1943 or 44 with or without Hitler's declaration of war which was just a formality. The war between Germany and US started already in 1940. Webster is being a spoilt brat. Since America was a democracy, he could've said no and sat back. Nobody asked him to join.

[@zucaritasenjoyer7259]

Then you missed the point of the episode at the beggining all soldiers are wondering "why we figth" the name of the episode even laughing at the sentence "germans are bad" then they get their answer some minutes after

[@Dennis19901]

@@jannibal7622 The US started to grow quite fond of war during WW1. They realized the potential of selling weapons to Europe, and even briefly considered selling to Germany at that point. They made absolute bank in WW1 by selling goods to the allies, and they did exactly the same in WW2. The US joined both world wars pure out of own interest. Although I thank the US soldiers for freeing western Europe, the US leaders not so much. In WW1, they joined because a lot of merchant ships sunk by the Germans, and people wanted the US to join. In WW2, they joined Europe because they were scared of the entire continent becoming Communist. (Also the exact same reason they went to Korea and Vietnam).

[@ki-youngjang4067]

The Germans were probably amazed at all the fuel they were burning. The fact that the Allied Armies were almost completely motorized and didn't have to rely on the destroyed rail lines while the Germans were forced to rely on trains and horses for the vast majority of their logistics speaks volumes.

[@blazwinkler108]

And in this late stage of war most of germany army was underpowered and lacking pretty much everything and then they witnessed this endless armored convoy rolling towards the frontline... His expression of disbelief seems pretty spot on, he knows there is no way to win a war against that power knowing what your army is left with...

[@peterhurst4717]

What motorized allied armies are u talkin about? Surely neither the Soviets, Brits or Americans in that regard. German Armor was far superior to all allied armor they wre just heavily outnumbered and lost air supremacy bc they were literally fighting everyone same time

[@mignonthon]

@@peterhurst4717 no they weren't its a fucking myth. Most of german tanks were unreliable. Its the way they used them that made the difference.

[@peterhurst4717]

@@mignonthon ye that was in the early stages vs the soviet union relating to panzer 3/4(4 with short cannon aka stummel). Those tanks were inferior to the T34/76, tThe long cannon P4 outclassed the T34/76 as for western allied armor it was overall trash the only real thread was the sherman firefly. The T34/85 was a good tank but again vs Panther or Tiger it didnt stand a chance. the most potent tankhunter was the Jagdpanther which could destroy any allied tanks from 1.5km of range.

[@peterhurst4717]

@@mignonthon The Tiger might have had it Flaws but the early problems the Panther caused were quickly resolved and it is now seen as the best Tank of WW2. The Panther and its derivate the Jagdpanther were way ahead of their time. Combining Speed,manouverability, Thick armor and deadly Cannons ,that outranged almost every allied tanke except for heavy tankunters like Isu152 etc (in case of the regular Panther), with wide tracks to maintain their mobility even in muddy or other bad terrain.

[@BatMan-fj8dy]

1:54 Tom Hanks casually violating the Geneva Conventions

[@killerclone2177]

haha gun go bang bang

[@gideonbrock4624]

I never noticed that was Tom hanks til now

[@avarice4556]

Ehh

[@guypierson5754]

Geneva Conventions are all very good 'till you've been occupied by the Nazis for a few years. Then, yeah, gun go bang bang is sometimes only way forward.

[@Daguhl]

@@guypierson5754 And that makes a better person. Let's be honest, all nations were murderers, rapists and thieves in this war. Violence only creates violence. Bang bang is never the way to go. Everything else is bullshit.

[@TheGuyWithTheSniper]

"Say hello to Ford!" If only he knew...

[@agrandcanyonoffucksgiven2776]

Hitler loved the anti-semitic publications from Ford's newspaper. But as you already know, we like to sweep that tid-bit under rug.

[@xhagast]

During the Spanish Civil War Franco got hundreds of US trucks from a sympathizer and they helped a LOT. They provided him a great advantage over the Republicans.

[@waynetaylor8082]

Often wondered why Studebaker, Packard or similar companies weren't mentioned. As their roles were every bit as important to the outcome of the war? It's just a thought 🤔.

[@sketchygetchey8299]

That Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer or that VWs are far superior than Fords?

[@donwon7592]

William ford was a Hitler simp.

[@ThePierre58]

My English grandfather and my dad were cycling through lanes when they came across GIs getting ready for D-Day. They were both huge fans of the USA to the end of their lives. So, thank you America for your sacrifice.

[@chrisdardar9445]

Always a pleasure, never a chore. God bless the special friendship and God Bless the real men and women of WW2 stateside in the UK, North Africa and everywhere. If the Brits didn't keep calm and carry on despite being totally alone for a long time, then probably we are all speaking German. Especially if Churchill gave in During the Blitz. Hitler wasn't counting on the Brit's extreme perseverance. Amen and God bless.

[@LM1C144]

Webster needs a snickers, he's not himself when hungry.

[@alexiioo4428]

Yew

[@douglaslally156]

Where are you? I'm in New York. Who am I? You're the coach. And who are you? I'm Batman.

[@VaibhavAKhandare]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lemorelgambino9882]

Hungry, tired, traumatized, weaken... all the things that even a snicker bar wouldn’t fix...

[@user-zd4pr2li7f]

🍫 Better?

[@xibalba117m.3]

"Say hello to Ford" Ford was already there. He and old Adolf had some deals.

[@ruhri0411]

In fact, the then Lord Mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer, brought Ford to Germany. He offered Henry Ford large plots of land directly on the banks of the Rhine for the mass production of cars. Adenauer, by the way, was an opponent of the Nazis and was deposed after 1933. He was suspected of having supported the conspirators of 20 July 1944. He only narrowly escaped execution by the Nazis. In 1949, Adenauer was elected the first chancellor of democratic West Germany, a post he held for 14 years. In 1931, Henry Ford personally came to Cologne to lay the foundation stone of Ford-Werke with Adenauer. After 1933, Ford was expropriated, and during the war only vehicles for the military were built.

[@dandegunner7351]

@@ruhri0411 Ford helped and gave Hitler money to become leader

[@edgarbanuelos6472]

To be fair, a lot of Americans praised Nazi Germany prior to the war. All except the deep south.

[@anglishbookcraft1516]

Based Ford

[@Oberon4278]

The dude's a Private, give him a break.

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

I wish Webster had more screen time in the show. He wrote a long detailed memoir that was a really important source for the show

[@robjohnson212]

Powerful scene. Their frustration and exhaustion is really felt on both sides. Great acting.

[@TomWatsonB1]

The wars of the 1940s and 1950s certainly interrupted life of the young American. My grandfather was born in 1927. When he was nearly 18, after graduating high school early, he started receiving training to be a pilot in the Navy (V5 Pilot). The war ended right before he was set to be deployed. He went to college and received his engineering degree. Almost immediately afterward, he was called into military service for Korea, serving 4 more years. Fortunately, due to having his engineering degree, he was able to stay stateside and was in the engineering corp for the Air Force (yes, he served in two separate branches of the military). Still, 5-6 years of my grandfather's life was taken with the wars. He broke off an engagement to a woman during his time while he was serving, likely due to their prolonged separation. Eventually, he finally married around the age of 30, but he almost certainly would have had a different life had it not been for the wars. These are the kinds of uncounted costs that arise in war.

[@RandomPerson-ob1hk]

Yes, sad how civilian lives get ruined at the expense of petty rulers' decisions. I believe one of the men in All Quiet on the Western Front said that all of the world leaders should just get together and fight, hand to hand, rather than using up all of these young men to try to win power

[@thunderbird1921]

Now imagine being a younger World War II vet who was then called back into combat service for the Korean War. Even if the causes were justified, 1950s military films capture feelings clearly. "Why do you have to do this to us, pulling us away from our lives again?" "Was one war not enough?" Korea really needs to be talked about a lot more, it actually had a MUCH bigger impact on American culture and society than people would think.

[@Mini17]

@@thunderbird1921 it put the seeds of how modern Americans see the world and war in general

[@drewzilla4800]

I salute your Grandfather. My Father was born in 1927 and also was brought into the pilot program (he went in early with a letter from my Grandmother) but the war ended and so did the pilot program. He served in the Pacific on PBYs. He went on to get two engineering degrees and stayed in the naval reserve until Sep/Oct 62. It was time to reenlist and a little conflict was brewing in Cuba (he was a radioman on anti submarine coastal patrol aircraft). I had been born in May and my Mother told him he was not leaving her with 5 kids to raise so he ended his military career at 18 years. My sister was born in Aug of 63 so he must of kept busy that winter.....wars and the military make strange life stories.

[@RandomPerson-ob1hk]

@@drewzilla4800 your family is very interesting, I can't wrap my mind around the fact that the KZbin community includes actual older people, no offense. How is your family now, I wish them a good life

[@alexsheppard8331]

Geneva convention? More like Geneva suggestion.

[@Skitarii_MTF_Nu-7_1971]

youtuber Zanny reference?

[@Elisabeth-Darcille]

Verdamtt.

[@fasiapulekaufusi6632]

SS do not deserve geneva convention rules.

[@simehong2000]

Winner is take all. That war. But if you kill someone remember your must pay in the afterlife

[@Elisabeth-Darcille]

@@fasiapulekaufusi6632 gottverdamtt.

[@troiscinq7650]

This actually may be my favorite scene in BOB. It drives home that where you decide to employ your technology and machines truly does win the war. Germany focused on next generation fighting vehicles while still having horses carrying replacement parts for a King Tiger III. Mass production of support vehicles and streamlined chassis of fighting vehicles (m4, m10 and 1/2 track) and untouchable production lines are why Germany never stood a chance after dec 7 1941

[@Scriptorsilentum]

at one time in the second world war the german army (Heer) alone - that one service - could count over 2200 different types of vehicles all using different chassis, shafts, springs, connectors, engines (!), transmissions, gearings. basic things like fluid hoses and machine bolt-and-nut, bearing assemblies, machine screws of different measurements. It must have been a logistical nightmare just to keep transport trucks moving. This included the many different makes and models of vehicle stolen in conquered europe. even hitler complained long and loud about this to german industry, seemingly to little avail.

[@troiscinq7650]

@@Scriptorsilentum truly mind bending to us with knowledge of modern logistics but that’s just how it was done prior to WW2. Only real reason allied nations didn’t was basically everyone got the Jeep’s and the Sherman platform. Having over 2000 unique chassis that all probably needed skilled labor to maintain is just flat out impossible in a war

[@leomarkaable1]

@@Scriptorsilentum Consider the US change from the Thompson to the ugly but simple grease gun.

[@Scriptorsilentum]

gawd in heaven thank you for that reply! yes! the thompson was a real piece of artistry; the grease gun was pure function over form if there ever was. it may have been even simpler in design than the venerable sten. for reasons i couldn't begin to understand the germans always "over-engineered"... @@leomarkaable1

[@MTMCOMBATKID76]

I think all of our hearts mourn for Webster. He spoke the truth. Many of our grand relatives and great grand relatives fought for humanity and reason in this world. They didn’t have a choice. They were called on and acted.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

After the war - Webster had a boat he used to sail on the Ocean. They found the boat. He wasn't on it. If you fall off a boat under power - wind or fuel or whatever - the boat doesn't stop when you fall off - it just keeps right on going and leaves you behind in the water. Some boats would tow a small row boat behind them. If you could make it to the row boat - you could pull yourself back to yours with the rope towing it. Of course - you had to make it to the row boat before it passed you by. Sailing Solo is considered to be unwise. .

[@anhduc0913]

Just a small note, high chance many of those weren't german, but osttruppen units, conscripts from german occupied territories, since most of german crack troops are trapped in the eastern front. As their name suggests, osttruppen mean eastern troops, they are mainly conscripted from eastern nations, but are not limited to those. Also not so fun fact, in the D-day scene from "Saving private Ryan" where the Americans shoot a bunch of surrendering soldiers, they are actually osttruppens, not germans, and they were trying to say "Don't shoot, I'm Czech, I didn't kill anyone".

[@OneHeroTV]

They should’ve died rather join the Germans, they thought service would spare them. Karma caught them, they watched people die and they chose surrender.

[@youvirgin1247]

@@OneHeroTV does the word "conscript" not ring a bell???

[@chadwickst.clair-smythe4217]

Not likely by Spring 1945. Those Ostruppen were mostly manning fortresses in France and the Atlantic Wall. They had little motorized transport and the Germans would not have made moving them a priority. They often surrendered quickly anyway. Most of the German troops that made it back to Germany in late 1944 were German troops. And many of the troops defending Germany were also the Volksturm. So, most of them are likely German Germans.

[@magosmarechferracioli1128]

@@fonsaoptxd8357 Everyone thinks they'd be the one-in-a-million that would take a stand against tyranny or injustice. I'm sure the grunts of the Wehrmacht thought the same thing.

[@Yahtzee1]

@@OneHeroTV What about when an MP40 is pointed at your family's heads? Would you join then to save em Mr. Armchair General?

[@alexs5744]

Interesting fact, 90% of German transportation was horse drawn.

[@mikkel066h]

Not enough recourse to support or completely motorize the army. While the allies were completely motorized by 1940. Soviets were still behind but the point still stands. Germany could never win the war. It was lost from the start.

[@alexs5744]

@@mikkel066h Touche

[@reecen819]

@@mikkel066h they knew it had to be a quick victory. Anything else meant defeat. That’s why Blitzkrieg worked for them.

[@apalahartisebuahnama7684]

@@mikkel066h well maybe you talking about British or US Army but certainly not the rest, most nations at that time using horses.

[@stephanbockwold5762]

Berlin - Stalingrad with horse😉

[@incomingvirus5569]

"Dragging our assess half way around the world, interrupting our lives for what?" My favorite part

[@HydroSnips]

Hit the nail on the head, Webster. The nail on the head.

[@jacobpedersen3668]

0:13 That shot is absolutely incredible! It reminds me of the shot from Metropolis (1927) where the workers are leaving the machinery and the others is joining it. This contrast between who is going forward and who is going backwards is amazing. Super underrated imo

[@alienlife7754]

Yeah the looks on the German officers fa es says it all. They are speaking German but you can pretty much gues what they are saying “Holy shit Hanns! Are you seeing this!?!” Lol

[@giovannicervantes2053]

Thought of the edit of it that played Zanger and Evans 2525

[@GrandTheftChris]

@@alienlife7754 He says "Schaut euch das hier nur mal an" which means as much as "Just look at this".

[@daveyboy_]

One army is advancing and one army is retreating . How is that an underated scene .

[@daveyboy_]

@VideoLibs u had to show papers under Nazi regime.

[@Autobotmatt428]

Webster asked that question then not to long after this. He sees the camp as Ike said when he saw it. "Now you know why we fought the war boys."

[@RudelTaktik1889]

Now the question is, why were they fighting BEFORE discovering the camps? (I am not pretty sure, even AFTER...)

[@steveg6978]

My dad said by the end he just wanted to go home

[@ronniebishop2496]

My dad said lots of kids were starving that’s what really got to him because during the Great Depression he had been hungry and he knew how it felt.

[@Britich]

@@RudelTaktik1889 People knew about the camps long before they were found, I dont believe the general foot soldiers knew. They knew they existed though.

[@johnjacobsen1915]

and today Democrats are seeking the exact same power. You can argue with me, but this truth is apparent.

[@LIBREPUB]

Webster's rant was funny yet sad. "You have horses! What were you thinking?" Cameo by Tom Hanks is savage. My uncle was in the Ardennes with these guys (not in Easy co) and he didn't talk much about the horrors he saw.

[@pilates68]

This is a great scene and it seems like the director wanted it to look like original George Stephens color footage from the period. I think they really nailed it. Watch it without sound and the heckling American paratrooper and its spot on period footage. Really well done!!!

[@Randomdive]

2:00 the actor about to be shot by Tom Hanks is absolutely grinning

[@Lawnmower737]

I see that now, how did the editing team miss that?

[@roarroar4316]

who wouldn't want to be shot by tom hanks?

[@bastien5589]

I don’t think they’re smiling, either they are crying, or they are grinning because of tears or dirt something like that...

[@tony_seroka]

He was just happy because he could finally rest in piece

[@landofburger9601]

Whahahhaha nice eye

[@B20C0]

What many people don't understand about the eastern invasions of Germany is that their desperation for oil was one of the major strategic factors. This basically is a huge display of economic power for them.

[@ssgus3682]

Most people know of Hitlers U-Boats. Most people don't know before the war Germany imported a lot of its fuel from Venezuela. Once the war started the Royal Navy began a blockade of its own. Once Hitler failed to take GB out it had no choice but to make a play for the oil fields in the Caucuses.

[@28pbtkh23]

@@ssgus3682 - "... it had no choice ..." ? Well, in Hitler's mind it had no choice, but Stalin was more than willing to sell him all the oil that Germany needed. In fact, the Nazis received a huge consignment of oil just before they launched Barbarossa. That was the last oil from the Caucasus they ever received. Nice point about oil from Venezuela: that has added to my knowledge.

[@ssgus3682]

@@28pbtkh23 it is true that the USSR was selling Germany oil before they launched Operation Barbarossa. That said even with those oil sales Germany was running low on oil.

[@28pbtkh23]

@@ssgus3682 - yes, they had a real problem in supplying their tanks and airforce.

[@ssgus3682]

@@28pbtkh23 true but on your point I bet Stalin would have been more than happy to increase oil sales to Hitler. That said two key events happened which I would argue made Hitler think he could just take all of the oil: 1) The brilliant performance of the Wehmarct in conquering western Europe. 2) The very poor performance of the Red Army in the Winter War. If you look at how both Hitlers and Stalins forces performed in battle before The Great Patriotic War you would easily come to the conclusion the Germans will route the Soviets.

[@gowrifrank]

This video made me watch the entire series! Started watching this series on Jan 01, 2022 and completed it on Jan 08 2022. Such a good one!

[@rickpontificates3406]

One of my ALL TIME FAVORITE miniseries

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Being handed over to the French or Poles is worse than the Americans, but not as bad as the Soviets.

[@sergeanthowiefromthemainland]

No, the French will make you eat toads!

[@user-jn4qp3kn6c]

Read about the American death camps for German prisoners of war and read about the number of those who returned from Russian captivity. You'll be surprised. The Americans had an exception only for those whom they held for the war against the USSR (for example, for Operation "Unthinkable")

[@spicy5630]

being handed to the french meant packing up your gear and go fight in Indochina

[@CKlasseDTM]

@@spicy5630 They weren't forced to do so. But for reasons, some German people really wanted to start a new life where no questions about their past would be asked and the French army really wanted highly skilled and experienced fighters. Common interests.

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

danish goverment to german pow: lets go on a long beach walk

[@gungasc]

"Tom Hanks also put himself in the picture. He appeared in a couple of cameos, that of a British and French officer." The French officer shooting the POWs and at the scene with the brits in their burgundy berets listening to orders, hanks is in the center of the beginning shot.

[@RobbertHoek]

this is the first time i ever saw that, thanks!

[@Cerasius]

Hanks! I never would've realized.

[@AlshainFR]

They're not French they're Belgians. 1940 French and Belgian uniforms happen to look very similar, but there are noticable difference and by 1945 Free French troops would have British or US gear anyway .

[@AlexSwePR]

@@AlshainFR well i'll be damned if that's the case

[@felipelotas5609]

No, he´s not. Tom Hanks would ´ve never put himself in that scene.

[@seed157]

I had an Uncle who was in the western front. Drafted back in 1942,saw his portion ot combat in Africa too. He told me that he knew the war was over for the Germans when he saw Tom Hanks shooting extras on the set. He was a brave men. Died sadly in 2027 of gonorrhea.

[@takeusernname]

they had us in the first half not gonna lie

[@leomarkaable1]

You're funny like a wart is cute.

[@6401gabriel]

He also had a shitty name?

[@cmilla111]

The way Liebgott smiled at the kid for showing empathy. "As if they deserved any more than quick deaths."

[@PhilipDK5800]

Shooting uniformed POWs are still a war crime.

[@alainarchambault2331]

Germans must be thinking, "Look at all of that gasoline being burned."

[@rewjik7998]

Why would they think that?

[@kurousagi8155]

@@rewjik7998 the Germans were constantly short on oil during the war.

[@alainarchambault2331]

@@kurousagi8155 Exactly, particularly when the German's had to use horses for their logistics for the most part. Totalling 2.75 million horses and mules.

[@The_yeffy1]

@@rewjik7998 because just like you are seeing today with the invasion of Ukraine... Germany cannot sustain itself and Russian Oil played a huge role in their war machine.

[@nationalsocialist6590]

Yeah Europe is the continent that lacks the most in natural resources why do you think they sailed and conquer the world.

[@thomaspriest5278]

The 101st Airborne is rolling with impunity down Hitler's Autobahn

[@jager5796]

if you lay down against the ground as a tank goes by feels F great!

[@edlawn5481]

Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn...

[@elblitzb]

@@CavingIn2022 yeaaaaah i knew that phrase was from other serie. Gen K!!!

[@Otter-Destruction]

Im sure they wouldn't mind the tactical input from rolling stone.

[@RedRazorback15]

Anyone want a Charm?

[@davidallbaugh6858]

The scene where the two boys on the bridge are looking at the victorious American troops advancing on all four lanes of the autobahn while the defeated Germans walk down the median strip is based on a famous picture taken in April 1945 from a bridge over the German autobahn.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

Saw that pic as a kid in one of my books. Pure awesomeness to see it recreated

[@davidallbaugh6858]

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 I did too as a kid. For me it has always symbolized America's part in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@davidallbaugh6858 for me those were different pictures: those of airfields on Britain overloaded with planes, and fields full of Shermans, all ready for Overlord, but this pic does share the sentiment. It also shows victor and vanquished

[@kjragg1099]

1:56 that piece of music fits the scene perfectly. Very somber

[@brunomartins1477]

"You have horses! What were you thinking?!" XD

[@perspective7204]

@Simpson, eh? The Allied forces were largely motorized. You can read up on German war accounts which recall how they had to walk from Germany to Moscow the entire way. They had very little trucks, horses and rails were used for supplies, and reinforcements. The tanks they sent against the French were actually mostly training tanks that weren't even supposed to be sent out. The Germans were heavily lacking, and could not win a long term engagement with three world powers.

[@perspective7204]

@Simpson, eh? Your assumption that he would have been able to defeat the Russians is not a given. Stalin expected him to wait a little longer to attack the Soviet Union, thus why the Soviets were in the middle of rearranging their armed forces. Had Hitler waited longer, the Soviets would've been better armed, organized and led. This is a country which had 15 million men in reserve, the world's largest air force and tank force. Had Hitler waited a year or two more years, to invade the Soviets, the Germans would have been outmatched in every way imaginable. An invasion of Britain would have been costly for the Germans, especially given that after the attacking Poland and France, German reinforcements had already been depleted. Plus the Germans didn't have the equipment to invade Britain, it would have taken a year or two to build that alone.

[@f3lla776]

@Simpson, eh? I don't think Hitler would have even be able to invade Britain at all. The English Navy is too strong for the Germans to compete. Even if they got a few boats across the channel without being spotted the English would have seen right away that some German troops arrived on the shore and get their Navy into the channel before more German supplies and reinforcements can arrive and shoot down all the ones that try. Then there would just be a few thousand German troops on British soil without reinforcements or supplies... they would be defeated and imprisoned. And I don't think that if they took Stalingrad then automatically they would win. Even if they took Moscow I don't think they would have beat the Soviets yet. They are fierce, and likely if they took Moscow then they would just retreat further East and keep fighting

[@seththomas9105]

Just ask TIK. It was NO OIL. (Annnd logistically impossible for the European Axis powers to keep up a prolonged war of attrition against the Allies.)

[@perspective7204]

@Simpson, eh? For Hitler to invade Russia he would have needed to first Invade Poland. Which would have caused the Allies to declare war on him. So if he were to move on Russia first, he ends up in a WORSE situation because this time Germany would be facing FOUR world powers at the same time. Its just not feasible for Germany to win my dude.

[@zarathos9949]

"Even in defeat they know how to march" what a nice compliment

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

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[@afaultytoaster]

It's a backhanded compliment... they know how to march because they've been terrorised and brutalised. As Webster says, they are servile.

[@jdee8407]

If you read the book the endless stream of truck going in the same direction towards the front on both sides of the autobahn you see here was mentioned. The Germans were seeing this and a lot of them realized there was no way they could have won the war.

[@TheGoonsies]

Lol the way his voice cracks when he says they have horses

[@thanosmaster-abel559]

2:09 I love how joe liebgott just smiles at the sight of OKeefe experiencing what happened.

[@jimliebgott6491]

Joe Liebgott was known for killing prisoners.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

That just makes him a psychopath. He would be despised in any other context.

[@mohamadsadeghi9076]

Just finished the show for the second time. Every thing about it is just perfect. I cant complain about any thing.

[@JohnnysWarStories]

Probably my favorite ww2 production alongside Das Boot

[@archyneverpicked]

The one thing that annoyed me was the intro being nearly three fucking minutes long. Still, great show though

[@fantasyteamshorts6112]

I have watched nearly every American war movie, but after reading stories of Indian soldiers...who were awarded the Param Veer Chakra I think there can be a good series made on them just like the Band of brothers...with a Hollywood style VFX

[@Frankya92]

Just finished it a second time too not too long ago. Watching it again as an adult this time around, it hits harder 😔 I can’t believe we might be building up to another big war again

[@gregknipe8772]

brilliant scene.

[@christopherpotter6650]

I know how Webster feels about the Nazis of their monstrous crimes during the Second World War. I’ve quite study a lot about that conflict, the the invasion of Poland, Blitz, the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, the Battle of Moscow, the D-Day fight in Normandy, the sabotage of Norwegian heavy water in Rjukan, the liberation of Dachau, the Nuremberg war trials, and more. 🫡🪖

[@KoOkiEzRoCkz]

Webster’s mini-speech is one of my favourites in the series. Conflict is almost never worth it. All it does is drag on and on until one side is annihilated, and the ‘winning’ side goes home broken and damaged. Fighting for whats right IS worth it dont get me wrong. But in the grand scheme of large scale war, it must be very very difficult to remember that when all you see is endless suffering.

[@jacekszymanski8170]

so tell me about that few conflicts which is worth. because from history of my country proportions are quite oposite. i mean only few conflicts from history (which a was learn in school) was unnecessary. war is always bad but sametimes there are no other way.

[@ciaranoconnell4783]

@@jacekszymanski8170 Most wars are pointless. The Second World War was one of the few that had to be won no matter what. Any war where people are not resisting an invasion is needless.

[@scutumfidelis1436]

@@ciaranoconnell4783 So like Germany then who was resisting an invasion?

[@1Dylan1]

@@scutumfidelis1436 Please explain who Germany was "Resisting invasion" against when they started the war? Please do.

[@scutumfidelis1436]

@@1Dylan1 USSR who had deigned to invade all of the world for their global revolution as so lovingly put by Lenin. Then you have the capitalist allies in the west who couldn't stomach an economy not beholden to their banking system.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

"Say hello to Ford! And General Motors!" This is actually a very good point showing a part of why Germany lost the war.

[@charlesstuart7290]

Ford withheld participation in the arms buildup until war was declared.

[@paspax]

Opel was a German subsidiary of General Motors. When Allied troops arrived in Europe they were surprised to see that the Germans were using the exact same 'Blitz' truck as they were.. Theirs made by GM in the USA, the Germans' made by Opel in Europe.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

@@charlesstuart7290 Once it was declared they ended up being one of the biggest builders of vehicles though.

[@andrewsmith1655]

@@paspax Allied forces used the CCKW, the Blitz is a far different vehicle than anything used by the allies.

[@ccvcxf6760]

@@huntclanhunt9697 only points why Germany lost the war is winter and CCCP

[@RoonMian]

"Say hello to Ford"... That's funny, considering there was a huge Ford plant in Cologne, Germany, and Henry Ford was both an admirer of and an inspiration for Hitler.

[@ericericson3535]

When I worked in New York, I worked with a veteran of the Wehrmacht. He said that they were amazed at all the equipment the US had. "We would destroy 10 Shermans, and 20 more would show up. We ran out of gas before you ran out of tanks."

[@jshepard152]

Many people forget that US production made victory almost inevitable and saved millions of lives.

[@johnscarr70]

As a British Army Sergeant said to a group of us when I was younger "Join the army, see the world." (Adding Meet new and interesting people. And kill them.") Although I'm not sure that's a totally original point of view, the old boys I remember growing up newer resented being dragged around the world, didn't seem to resent former adversaries and were always full of stories about the places: smells, the locals, the weather and the beers. In those times former friends and foes, German, Italian, Pole, Hungarian, seem to have made their homes in my home city and worked, married and lived side by side with their former enemy. How things have changed, sadly.

[@Spireites72]

Agreed and look where we are now under the influence of communism,we have a communist EU and now Beijing BIden frau.ulen.ly being installed in the white House. Those defeated men where the last hope of a free Christian Europe.

[@matiasu.9550]

@@Spireites72 We are going to a poor world.

[@ronniebishop2496]

I’m 70 years old and I was raised by democrats my entire family were democrats I was a democrat and Nancy Pelosi and that bunch are not democrats, they’re an evil force that’s crawled in.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@Spireites72 any vote for Biden is fraudulent, sure. but getting curious... Would you rather have seen the assault on the capitol succeed, like in 1814? Also curious: why did Trump hold back all his evidence of fraud? I mean, 160 million fraudulent votes can NOT be hidden, yet even in his last phone call to the Georgia governor he kept ASKING if he knew about any fraud. Asking is a weak position. Asking means you do not know. When you have evidence, you present it. So here is mine: Trump either has nothing to present, or he is as much part of the scam and sold his country for 4 years of fame. Either sounds completely in character to me ..

[@Spireites72]

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 I m British, since the US have been a super power they have been making war around the globe for a very long time with the assistance of the British. But there was a time when Great Britain (approx size of the Philippines) was the dominant power. I think you are referring to the war of 1812, when the US sought to take advantage of Britain which was embroiled in the Napoleonic war with France and Spain. The US attempted to invade and absorb Canada they started this with border skirmishes the Americans went on to attack and burn several Canadian towns including the upper Canadian capital of York, now Toronto, The British response was to send a Royal Navy battle group to attack the US capital washington DC and assault it with ground troops , with the president fleeing the capital, the British responded by burning the presidents House down as a warning. The house was rebuilt and the scorched brick work was painted white, since then the building has been known eternally as the white House. As for the Canadians they preferred to stay with the British along with the many thousands of former Americans that fled over the border during and at the conclusion of the American war of Independence. History has many twists and turns. As for Trump I think he's thrown the republicans under the Bus, he's part of the problem rather than the solution. Britain has no independent power either we are all under the grip of this globalist conspiracy to reset the west under a dictatorship and our peoples have no representation.

[@spreadeagled5654]

I love all of those vintage military vehicles! 👍

[@michamorawiec750]

Me too... and the uniforms :)

[@Abverkauf1]

My Grandfather bought one of these Dodge trucks that the Americans left here after the war. He let me turn the steering wheel when i was a small child as i sat on his lap. He sold it and I don't know what became of it exactly but they still used it for transporting wood not long ago.

[@EricTheBroBean]

Rick Gomez (guy who lights cigarette) also played in Justified, produced by Graham Yost, who also was a writer in Band of Brothers.

[@TRex_OfTheThirdKind]

Especially the what we’re you thinking part

[@ryan0U]

“You have horses what were you thinking?” Love it.

[@sambeutlin9617]

Hans, why did you voted for the war declaration against the USA? Hmm, i didnt read it 1932, when my vote counted the last time. Next time, i read the party program more carefully, because i know, that i cant win against 4 world powers with more resources. So the statement of that US soldier is kinda stupid. Only a few made desicions like war declarations. The normal German had zero power ... he only could try to survive or got successfully indoctrinated (manipulated). By the way: where was the part of Obamas, Clintons, Bidens or Trumps party program to shoot terrorists even when innocents die? Are the US politicians really that more honest and respectful like German politicians?

[@pzg_kami6472]

@@sambeutlin9617 I bet if there was a magic to replace for example American (or british or any allied countris) people with germans during early 30s ,they more or less would have done what the germans did. I mean people aren't inherently good or bad , Ruling Regimes are very important in shaping the mind of people (especially at the time). Also bear in mind Nazi party didn't even won the majority of votes , so even if we say Nazi's future plans were clear still blaming majority of germans for what happened during WWII is unfair

[@albanianantivirus6849]

@@pzg_kami6472 are you fucking kidding me?

[@armoredlumberjack1999]

@@albanianantivirus6849 no no, he's got a point

[@steadybacon1606]

@@pzg_kami6472 "Also bear in mind Nazi party didn't even won the majority of votes" Perhaps not a supermajority, no, but the Nazi party grew from a small 2.63% of total votes (75% voter turnout) in 1928 to over 43.9% of total votes (88% voter turnout) in 1933. To behave as if the German people did not have a hand in the Nazi Party's rise to dominance is revisionist history.

[@tomblah]

0:07 the English translation of what they are saying is: "is that CGI? I can't tell", and the reply is "if so, it's pretty good"

[@Mano._777]

“LOOK AT YOU! YOU HAVE HORSES! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??!” High quality chirping

[@snarkymatt585]

Defeat march? More like a walk towards safety.

[@santiagocardozo4390]

Eisenhower concentration camps killed millions of germans lmao

[@michaelstout3775]

@@santiagocardozo4390 we don’t care lmfaooo. That’s what they fucking deserve for opposing us. The victors write history, their suffering will be forgotten as it should be

[@renzobrillantes3203]

@@michaelstout3775 well that's just stupid

[@snarkymatt585]

@@santiagocardozo4390 😂😂😂😂 oh you're a funny one aren't you! I looked at the little article in the link you provided, it's hardly credible information as it is completely unreferenced. What's more with it containing the following line "Thus it comes as no surprise that General George Patton, a real Aryan warrior, hated Eisenhower. " it clearly gives itself away as being a neo-Nazi opinion piece and the site the article is posted on is clearly a right-wing propaganda dumping ground. Don't bother replying to me any further as I'm not interested in conversing with idiots such as yourself.

[@DonMeaker]

@@santiagocardozo4390 There was a shortage of food, in part because of German destruction of ports and depots in the occupied countries. First priority for food was to soldiers performing their duties. Second was to civilians.Third priority was to soldiers not performing duties. When in Band of Brothers you see a German soldier acting as a military policeman, that gives you the clue that he agreed to do it, in cooperation with the allies, to get better rations.

[@Frserthegreenengine]

The Wehrmacht are using horses. Finally an accurate portrayal of the Wehrmacht!

[@sohamdas]

As did Luftwaffe 😅

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

Also shown in the film Patton but there inaccurately used to describe Germany's desperate situation. In reality it was simply situation normal.

[@kurvitaschthedictator]

@@sohamdas even worse, the kriegsmarine probably disappeared off the board

[@toughspitfire]

Something thats not mentioned is during this time tens of thousands of German Prisoners died after surrendering, not because war crimes were commited, but because the allied forces were completely unprepared for large scores of new prisoners in such a short time and didn't have the logistics to do little more than keep them contained in quickly set up "camps", which were just really just roped off outdoor spaces. Soldiers would end up trapped in these camps for months and lack of proper provisions and house meant exposure, disease, and malnourishment killed thousands. Eisenhower himself became very concerned with this and started to ask allied nations for help but most either couldn't or wouldn't provide any kind of support.

[@roydmercer455]

Fun fact: Ford and GM helped to rebuild the German war machine. The paper hanger from Vienna was so appreciative of Henry Ford that he gave him the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, Germany’s highest civilian award at the time. James Mooney , head of GM’s overseas operations, received the German Eagle with Cross, the highest award given to foreign suppliers and collaborators.

[@nvelsen1975]

Source, Russia Today, I imagine?

[@albanianantivirus6849]

@@nvelsen1975 no its true, i know ford was a raging anti semite. im not sure about mooney though

[@mitchrichards1532]

@@nvelsen1975 All true, Ford trucks and GM's Opel trucks were the standard in the German Army. Both companies had plants in Germany before the war and were pumping them out before the US was in it, then the Germans just took over the production.

[@Stevie8654]

"Say hello to Ford and General fucking Motors." The Germans had plenty of stuff made by Ford and GM's European subsidiaries.

[@zakadams762]

IBM

[@Apelles42069]

@Roopods6 Capitalist entities coexist with fascism. Fascists provide profit. Just look at the USA last month, it took five years and a failed putsch to get hundreds of companies to finally divest from Trumpism. Business as usual.

[@arturo0727]

I think he is talking about the manufacturing capacity of the U.S. well yes Germans had vehicles but never the extent of the U.S.

[@bigboi4269]

@@Apelles42069 Where there’s socialism, there’s oligarchs and corporatism

[@bigboi4269]

@@Apelles42069 Also you had good context and historical knowledge until you called Trump a fascist. Your reading level is fantastic, but your comprehension is terrible

[@tylerpeck8047]

That’s an inaccurate statement at the peak The German Army was 20% motorized in 1942. The Wehrmacht was heavily dependent on rail traffic for troop mobilization. Furthermore by this late stage of the war Germany had no access to the Romanian oil wells and it’s synthetic oil industry was destroyed by the allies. Literally Germany had no domestic oil left.

[@The_yeffy1]

Gotta suck being lied to by your fuher who was telling them for years how primitive and obsolete their enemies were. I imagine this is how we would look if an incredibly advanced alien race invaded us.

[@jassen1924]

@@The_yeffy1 'if'

[@scoville24]

Who’s to say they’re not marching to a train station?

[@bobsjepanzerkampfwagen4150]

@@The_yeffy1 german army nonetheless had alot of mechanised units way way more than the russians and about half of the americans and than compare their amount of planes tanks and the army size and invention in general there is a reason the germans in ww2 are admired so much look how powerful they got within 6 years from unbelievable depth no industry to a superpower that strong

[@kanokrojjanakitti9155]

@@bobsjepanzerkampfwagen4150 Your data are only a half truth.At the beginning of the war Germany had more sophisticated war machines than its opponent but it had less in numbers.When the war was progressing the Soviet Union defense industry had leaped forward quickly and rolled out many impressive armaments such as T-34 tank, Il-2 bombers and katyusha rocket launcher .In the last year of the war German air force tried to equipped Ju-87 with 37 mm. gun in order to stem the torrent of Soviet armoured divisions but it failed miserably.In the aspect of air power, the long ranged bomber,Germany had inferior JU-88 which was unsuitable for strategic bombing so it paid a heavy prize in the eastern front because the Soviet Ural industrial complex was humming freely and made an array of weapons which played a crucial role to decimate Wehrmacht.Meanwhile German factories were pulverized by Allied bombers as a result the third Reich had last only 12 years not a thousand according to Nazi propagandas.I found nothing to be admired about Germany for its role during 1933-1945 in contrast I found fiasco after fiasco that brought down Germany to its knees and those events were recorded in world history as the most ignominious defeat in the 20th century.

[@IsaiahRichards692]

I like how this show actually acknowledges other countries such as France! And it doesn’t just cut to black after the Germans surrender! We actually see the prisoners marching away while the Allies send columns of ambulances and troop carriers to resupply their men!

[@flatoutt1]

i just reread guy sajer's classic "the forgotten soldier".he hit the russian front when he was just late16 in 1942 .made it back to alsace when he was just 19 and his mother didn't recognise him . such a different perspective .he was so naïve he thought the french were going to rock up to help them out against the russians

[@Oldag75]

Magnificent portrayal. I've seen one photo of American vehicles advancing to the front on the autobahn, as German losers paraded the other way, and this scene nailed it better than that picture did.

[@WheelsRCool]

Funny thing is the Americans were amazed by the German autobahns and the Germans amazed by all the American vehicles :D

[@Crichton51]

Webster's comment about Ford and General Motors was such a powerful statement. Brilliant

[@imadeyoureadthis4674]

what does that even mean? Russians took down 85% of the axis army. more axis forces died in stalingrad than the rest of the allies killed combined.

[@MalfosRanger]

@@imadeyoureadthis4674 I’d like to take this opportunity to point out how macabre it is when people tout the mind-boggling amount of death and suffering between two rival powers to marginalize the Allies that the Soviet Union nominally fought on the same side with. As to your question, here’s a fact, the US supplied every Allied power with aircraft, ships, fuel, and other strategic resources while simultaneously engaging in two theaters spanning vast oceans. No, the US did not win WWII on its own. But why measure contribution in how many bodies were put in the ground?

[@imadeyoureadthis4674]

@@MalfosRanger how many US tanks did the soviets use in world war 2? and secondly since they didnt use any why would they use shitty us tanks and weapons, the US military budget was extremely low compared to germany and russia and it showed in the war the, thirdly food doesnt win wars winning battles and killing enemy soldiers does. US was a puppet compared to russia and you could almost say britain did about as much as the US did in ww2. USA became a super power as soon as they built nuclear weapons but that was pretty much it.

[@Crichton51]

@@imadeyoureadthis4674 Russia lost a disproportionate number of people inpart due to Stalin and his pact with Hitler leaving the country totally unprepared and his purge of the military and deliberately starving his own people. The only reason he was able to transfer massive reserves from the East was because of Japanese having no invasion capabilities as it became overwhelmed by the U.S. forces which would otherwise be unleashed against Hitler. The fight against Nazism and Nationalistic Imperialism required a huge sacrifice by many countries across the world and none should be belittled.

[@imadeyoureadthis4674]

@@Crichton51 really good opinion there except it dies straight away because the russians were defeating the germans before the US even joined in the damn war ya mong

[@burny890]

I totally forgot about this scene awesome

[@slyslancewall8156]

Notice the first angle of the shot from the ground looking up. This is a classic Spielberg angle… he used this many of times… you’ll see it in Jaws when he was just a 27 year old director

[@wowggyouth147]

1:57​ French soldier who shot German soldier Tom Hanks.

[@guillaumeroudiere5749]

@@peterchen1178 well that was just the second time since 1870, so more than 70 years ago

[@piritskenyer]

@@peterchen1178 That's really fucking ignorant. France didn't lose WW1 because of its colonial troops and the British, the US was way late to save the French. Without the US the war would have gone on for a year or two, but the outcome would have been the same: Starved of resources, the German army would have needed to throw in the towel while the British and French empires leverage their advantage to put out more of everything and grind them up or straight up punch through them. The US' involvement in the war accelerated things, but did not change the outcome.

[@mackgiver875]

@@piritskenyer So congrats for holding off the Germans with every other allied country except the U.S. propping you up until 1918. Chill dude it was literally a hundred plus years ago.

[@cswizzle1890]

@@piritskenyer You do realize the French army was in mutiny around 1917 because they keep going throw hell for false promises from their generals and the German defeated the Russians on the eastern front which means millions more man are going to the western front so the Germans where pretty much winning at that point.

[@federicomarci4145]

@@piritskenyer Don't call people ignorant. Certainly you are not a historian to being in such position. Without the american economic and military effort, the result of the war was not in favour of the allies for sure. France and UK suffered tremendous losses, and one of the reason why the Germans pushed so hard, even when the odds were not in their favour, was that they wanted to win before the american could arrive. If the US choose to not come, the German's military strategy would have been developed differently, to avoid the attack's struggle of spring 1918.

[@5krona366]

One of the most underrated scenes in Band of Brothers!

[@michaelpontbriant6160]

In response to Webster’s question of “What the F*** are we doing here” Concealed German SS officer: You’ll find out soon enough

[@SirHellNaja]

I like how the scene plays out here. Webster yelled at some specific Germans randomly for all the trouble he'd been through. Sure, the Germans he were yelling at might heard what he said for a while until they're all drowned out by the sounds of the marching feet and engines. Some Germans heard what he said afterwards, but didn't understand the original context, most didn't even understand what's he ranting about. In the end, the people that has to deal with your rants the longest are yourself and your friends.

[@1EthanCC]

This speech takes on a new meaning when put in the context of the concentration camp scene later. They find a reason for fighting, but only at the very end. The way the end of the series is structured is this question and then the concentration camp as the answer.

[@WarlordM]

Those camps were why the Germans fought, too

[@gwkiv1458]

@@WarlordM Ehh, can't say that for the farm boy who was drafted.

[@WarlordM]

@@gwkiv1458 if you mean the ones that were drafted then yeah, they were fighting because they had to. But the Nazis came to power because a lot of the public wanted to see Germany restored to its former glory and raised to new heights as the greatest power on the continent. And they saw the genocide of undesirable races and groups as part of that.

[@gwkiv1458]

@@WarlordM Yeah it's disgusting to think many people wanted that for other human beings. I just wanted to make that distinction

[@WarlordM]

@@gwkiv1458 sure. Draftees are essentially innocent, as the Nuremberg Defense shows. But the death camps weren't seen as a "bad thing" by everyone, the people who ordered their creation clearly thought they were doing something good for their country

[@timuss4329]

Such a great series lost count of how many times ive watched it.

[@scottanos9981]

"Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated" -William Wordsworth

[@mdflorida1233]

Winning the war didn't create a perfect world. But it was perfect compared to the alternative.

[@raymondyee2008]

0:54 taking your anger out on a whole new level.

[@mikkel066h]

Better that then shooting prisoners.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

@@totallossmac5079 The USA compensated General Motors for the damage done to it's plants in Germany by Allied Bombing. .

[@fluffy1931]

@@totallossmac5079 only in your fantasy. The most numerous truck produced apparently was the 4x2 3-ton capacity Opel "Blitz" of which approximately 100 000 were manufactured. Compare that to the more than 600 000 GMC 2 1/2 ton 6x6.

[@silvermistneoncloud845]

"..and General fucking Motors!" Can you say that in front of a General?

[@erich2432]

Lol! He seems like a spoilt brat. Shouldn't have come to Euorpe then. Nobody asked him to join.

[@flailingelbows7073]

Little did they know, at the end of the March Lieutenant Spiers was sitting there on a .30 Caliber Browning M1919 Machine Gun. With a supply NCO at his side, he began issuing out cigarettes. We may never know where the German Column went.

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

..And viewers would cheer and laugh, but cry and complain if it had been Leutnant Spier with an MG42 doing the same to Allied POWS LOL

[@flailingelbows7073]

@@SwedishEmpire1700 Took you 7 Months to make that edgy teenage comment? Funny. Because like the Allies, the Germans also shot prisoners. So. Miss me with that edge.

[@HaloFTW55]

@@flailingelbows7073 Not to mention that they literally institutionalized it as a part of their twisted ideology and often actively encouraged it, where as the (Western) Allies sometimes have to shoot prisoners only out of a necessary order born out of pragmatism.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@HaloFTW55 anyone like a biscari? Or a Patton killer division

[@matheusrodrigues9496]

shot in a nazi must be a right

[@jgg204]

Props to the cameraman being able to maintain the step march with the prisoners

[@erikanthes954]

At :33 I noticed something for the first time. MAJ Winters' has a different style logo on his helmet compared to CPT Nixon. Likely because of the headshot he sustained in that previous battle.

[@caliado]

This was such a well done series

not really a good series should have both sides ideas and not just us propaganda

[@yankeesforlife24]

⁠@this is one of the greatest, if not the greatest mini series ever created. It’s story is following one company. If you want a German sided show there are plenty of them. I have news for you, they weren’t the good guys so this isn’t “propaganda” it was real life experiences. Edit. Reading some of your awfully spelled critiques on bands of brothers saying it’s not “parcial” and not in reality makes me lose brain cells. Nobody said they were all nazis but they weren’t the good guys. “Following orders” isn’t a valid excuse and the Nuremberg trials made sure of that

[@weerwolf2410]

1:56 “This is not war, this is murder!” THIS is how you end a war, Chernov! - Viktor Reznov

[@trager8933]

Yea but Its still a war crime to shoot prisoners. Imagine If you were a soldier captured and then executed. It must feel realy bad to be In that spot as a pow.

[@trager8933]

@@weerwolf2410 yes but not every soldier did crimes. Thats the problem. Executing a wehrmacht soldier from the front lines Is just weird. I respect killing SS guys and hier up officers that orderd those crimes. But executing a soldier that surrenderd In battle Is way out of the line. Both American and Japanes soldiers left no prisoners on the pacific. I understand there were those that did crimes. But an everyday soldier that was drafted to war would only think about saving his ass and returning to his family.

[@trager8933]

@@weerwolf2410 and the SS soldiers guarded the concetration camps. So theres that.

[@weerwolf2410]

@@trager8933 In the heat of battle when whatever side is about to win would not think a moment about that. How highly trained you are, youre still a human that sees nothing more than dead. Many lost their friends - that last one is in the mind of every soldier by every kill they make. Execution or not, when you see war for to long, it doesnt matter to some soldiers anymore if they only defend them self or killing for no reason. Perhaps all kinds of Germans are ''the enemy'' in their eyes that ''need to be destroyed''. I still understand this, but its not the right way indeed. Soldiers that have done this are not themself anymore. In short words: war changes a person.

[@zaynbfoxanimation5904]

@@trager8933 to be honest the wehrmacht also commited war crime and a lot of it, the japanes was even worst with pow no side was innocent of war crime.

[@user-bl6kq3wl8l]

いやみな元上官に敬礼させるシーン好き、それにタイトルがまさかのドイツ軍の将軍の演説なのも良き。

[@ChatGPt2001]

"Band of Brothers" is an American television miniseries that depicts the history of Easy Company, part of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, from jump training in the U.S. through its participation in major actions in Europe up until Japan's capitulation and the war's end. In the series, the "Defeat March" refers to the final episode of the miniseries, titled "Points." It depicts the aftermath of the German surrender and the end of World War II in Europe. The episode showcases the emotional journey of the soldiers as they come to terms with the end of the war and the return to civilian life. During the "Defeat March," the soldiers of Easy Company are seen celebrating the end of the war and the victory over Germany. However, they are also confronted with the harsh reality of the destruction caused by the war and the personal toll it has taken on them. The episode highlights the psychological impact of war and the challenges faced by the soldiers as they try to reintegrate into society. Overall, the "Defeat March" episode in Band of Brothers serves as a powerful conclusion to the series, showcasing the triumphs and struggles of the soldiers as they come to terms with the end of the war and begin their journey back home.

[@ashfox7498]

Wheraboos: "The fucking Tiger oh god it's such a perfect tank! It could have won the war if only.." 1:00 Ameriboos:

[@FrostyyMcToasty]

Meanwhile, booviets: lmao t34 go brrrrr

[@ashfox7498]

@@FrostyyMcToasty Stalin: "I'm mechanized as fuck boiiiii"

[@ancaplanaoriginal5303]

@@ashfox7498 the US mechanized the USSR, which is really funny considering the clusterfuck that happened after the war

[@FreDDioh]

Americans still dont know they fought the wrong guys, they realize it now

[@TheBucketSkill]

@@FreDDioh Soviets don't exist. We don't care about it, the enemies of ww2 are gone from this earth.

[@artlover4668]

Captain Nixon's reaction just says it all, doesn't it? Some great acting from all.

[@coyote5735]

Didn't Winters go and work for Nixon at the family business for a while after the war? Saw an interview late in Winters life and he called Nixon a drunk, they fell out big time.

[@user-gm5bv2ez2r]

when I was working in Germany, one of the Germans I worked with told me "you Americans fought a rich man's war" Hmmm I told him "well that should teach you one lesson - not to fight with rich people" Germany declared war on the USA 11Dec41

[@ryucross]

Does anyone know what the German officer(s) are saying before Webster starts talking? It sounds like they're in awe of all the American vehicles but I want to be sure.

[@phlm9038]

At 0.50 ? Mein Gott ! Schaut euch das hier nur mal an. Which could be translated this way : My god, just have a look at this !

[@yakhooves]

@@phlm9038 thank you for this! I’ve always wondered and was scrolling to find a translation!