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Here is the YT edit that will be out tomorrow!

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Ames

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Band of Brothers Epi 9 BREAKS YOU

This show is hard, but they have made this show with such great respect and. Have depicted these stories so well. So hard to see what was done to the Jewish People and may we never forget. Thanks for watching with me! Xx ames

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RFK Fan

Lived down the street from a neighbor who helped liberate one of these camps and said it was the smell that never left him. Claimed he can still smell it everytime he recounted his experience. Can you imagine?

Baron Imhoof

One thing I especially like about this episode is that it addresses responsibility on the part of Germans in a way that makes people think. The question of who knew about and bore responsibility for the Holocaust has been debated ever since the war ended. A lot of that debate has been consumed by demagoguery, and this episode manages to avoid that. Hitler’s autobiography/political manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” in which he foretold what he would do if given power, was written twenty years before the events in this episode. He and the Nazis were elected to power thirteen years before the events in this episode. They passed the Nuremberg Race Laws legalizing anti-Semitic policies ten years before this episode. Kristallnacht, when Jewish businesses, schools, homes, and hospitals across Germany were attacked and destroyed, happened seven years before. The Germans watched all of this happen, and they watched as houses in their neighborhoods where Jewish people had lived suddenly became empty, and as Jewish doctors, tradesmen, lawyers, teachers, and business owners they had known for years were suddenly gone, along with their families. I’m old enough that all the adults in my world when I was growing up served in the war, including one who was with General Eisenhower when he toured Ohrdruf (part of the Buchenwald system). What these older relatives of mine would say is that, no, not every German (including soldiers) knew about every aspect of the Holocaust. However, if an adult German didn’t know that horrific things were happening to Jews in their country, especially after the early 1930s, it was because they didn’t want to.

Josh Phillips

This was a really hard one. There were many cases after these camps were found, where individual American units hunted down and executed camp guards on the spot. One veteran described their feelings as shock, sadness, and blind rage.

Taz

I can’t do this Band of Bros run it’s so intense and raw, and knowing history was so much darker than what they are allowed to show on tv makes it worse - but it’s important to never forget it Like RFK said, the smell never left the person, can u imagine what one must smell to have that as the lasting memory of the event