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UNCUT Reaction | *BAND OF BROTHERS* | 1x9 | Why We Fight (Patreon)

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2026-10-03 13:00:07
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Here's our UNCUT reaction to BAND OF BROTHERS s01e09!(Phil's re-watch, Erika's first time)

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Paul Phelan

The Allied leadership knew about the camps and the mass murder of Jews and other minorities from about the middle of the war, but they decided not to bomb the camps to avoid killing even more of the prisoners, although many survivors of the Holocaust later said they would have wanted the camps to be bombed. The allied leadership decided that ending the war overall as soon as possible to end the Holocaust was a higher priority. The men on the ground though, did not widely know of the extent and scale of the Holocaust until this time near the end of the war, since most of the camps were in Germany and in Poland to the east, so the western allies did not reach any camps to see them first hand until they were in Germany. The Russians advancing from the east would have reached the camps in Poland like Auschwitz first.

Paul Phelan

A minor inaccurate detail in the discovery of the camp portrayed here was that Easy Company were not the first unit to reach the camp outside the town they were in. The camp was discovered by another U.S. army unit, but Easy Company were there on the second day and were involved in policing the clean-up of the camp by local German civilians. The camp portrayed in this episode was actually just one sub-camp in a huge complex in the area that contained 14 sub-camps.

Paul Phelan

It was ironic in a way that Major Winters asked Christenson at the camp gates to get Joe Liebgott to translate from German to English and to speak to the prisoners, because Michael Fassbender who portrayed Christenson is half German (and half Irish) in real life, and he speaks fluent German.

Paul Phelan

It's interesting that the deaths of both President Roosevelt and Hitler are mentioned in this episode. President Roosevelt sadly died on April 12 1945 only about 3 weeks before the final German surrender so he didn't live to see the end of the war. Then Hitler killed himself on April 30, only 1 week before the official surrender of Germany, and VE Day.

Paul Phelan

The city of Orleans in France celebrates two historic events on May 8th each year. In 1429 Orleans was liberated from a siege by invading English forces when 19 year-old Joan of Arc led a French army to break the siege, and on the same date in 1945, German forces in Europe finally surrendered to the Allies. Both events happened on May 8th, separated by 516 years.

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My grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht on the german side in Russia. He told us that most people in Germany knew or at least could figure it out for themselves, that there are these camps. Jewish people and Minorities got snatched from the streets, were deported from their homes for everyone to see and never came back. After the war ended a lot of people pretended that they didnt know either out of guilt, shame or just to hide their Nazi ideology. And yes, the concentration camp for example in Ausschwitz is open for visitation, to make this history very real or for the victoms who lost someone in there. Its also there so that it doesnt happen again, because unfortunately there are a rising amount of people in germany who downplay the holocaust or who vote the extreme right, which wants to deport minorities again.

Screentime with Phil and Erika

Thank you for sharing your grandfather’s perspective. That distinction between not knowing every detail and choosing not to confront what was happening is important. It’s one of the hardest questions this episode leaves us with. And we agree with your point about remembrance. Keeping that history visible matters—not just to honour the people who were murdered, but to challenge anyone trying to minimise or excuse it. We really appreciate you bringing such personal context to the conversation.