When they were filming this, Dick Winters was invited out to the set to meet the cast and crew and to get some of his insight. When he arrived most of the crew was on the back of one of the trucks (Like the one in episode 10) sitting and waiting. This one was covered and according to one of the actors when Mr. Winters lifted the canvas tarp to say hello to them he froze, stood there for a moment, and dropped the canvas and then left without saying anything. When asked later about it, he admitted that seeing his long dead friends again was too much.

Sadly, this series is more than 20 years old and most of the E company veterans have passed away now. This is the best WW2 series/film out there and perhaps one of the best tv series ever made.

If you guys enjoyed this series the documentary on the real men this show is based on is incredible its called "We Stand Alone Together" and i think its well worth your time!

The funny part is, most of these "cameos" weren't cameos at the time. For many of these actors, it was their first major role. This series helped launch the careers of many of them.

Capt. Nixon and the German officer's wife: When she catches Nixon stealing from her, she looks at him as if he should be ashamed. Then at the end while she is helping bury the victims, he looks at HER like SHE should be ashamed...and she is.

Winters: "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war"...Grandpa said "no"...."but I served in a company of heroes"....that just GUTS ME....every....single.....time. What a TRUE hero...and uncommon man. What a company of men who I'm not sure we could put together today. May they all rest in peace. Thanks for such a great review of one of the best series ever.

Many of the extras playing the concentration camp prisoners were cancer patients hence the emaciated look. Also, the actors were kept away from these extras to add to their shock.

16:22 man carrying older man, he is speaking Serbian, he is saying "People help, please help, he is still alive, you can still save him" Man I was just a kid when I first watched the series, to hear those words to understand them, while everything was subtitled. I still get chills down my spine...

"You salute the rank, not the man." One of my favorite lines of the entire series! Every year, the airport here in Reading, PA has a WWII Weekend. One year when I attended, a few of the Easy Company soldiers who were still living at the time were there. I had the EXTREME HONOR of getting to meet Winters and shake his hand! It was an AMAZING moment!

37:18 Important thing to note, the camera panning down to reveal the helmet was empty was that they planned it. They made it look random when in reality, Shifty's name was the only one in there. They picked to him and wanted to send him home.

Here's a brief explanation of how points worked. Each Month Spent in the Military - 1 point, an additionally point was awarded for months spent overseas Each Battle Star or Decoration (including Purple Hearts) 5 points Men with Dependent Children - 12 points for up to a maximum of three children.

"Grand Pa said no... but I served in a company of heroes." Gets me every time. I can never watch it without tearing up.

I recommend "The Pacific" if you really injoyed Band of the Brothers. It's another amazing series following the Pacific Theater!

Now they need to watch "The Pacific". Also by Tom Hanks and Spielbeg and set in the Pacific campaign.

I loved Nixon and Winters' best friend relationship in this series. Winters being there for Nixon when he lost so much and went through such severe emotions was what he needed. And then in the last episode, Nixon taking care of Winters with the job offer was such a kind and generous offer.

the tragic brilliance in the final shot of episode 9, he puts the violin in its case, reminiscent of a coffin.

44:05 It was actually much worse than depicted. The replacement actually had killed British officers as well as the Germans. When Easy Company immediately rallied and conducted a manhunt for the man, he was caught attempting to rape an Austrian girl. An ending to the whole ordeal that wasn't depicted in the series was when Colonel Sink came to debrief Speirs. Sink took Spears upstairs and asked for the whole story. After Sink left, they asked Speirs what had happened. Sink had replied, "I would have shot him" but left without saying anything else. Sink respected his men's decision-making and would have supported it either way. Tension was high and there was a lot of anger and blood in the air. But the men of Easy Company didn't want to actually kill the guy. They had enough of the killing.

You now NEED to watch “Together we stand alone” it’s the documentary with the members of the 506th that were still alive at the time of filming. Sadly, all the members are now gone.

The song Easy Company is singing is called "Blood on the Risers", and is sung to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic". It's the unofficial song of US paratroopers. It tells the story of a rookie paratrooper who is nervous and makes several mistakes during his jump, costing him his life. It's a cautionary tale to new recruits to both make them aware of the risks of parachuting, as well as admonishing them to be thorough when preparing for a jump. Lyrics (GRAPHIC LANGUAGE WARNING): He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright. He checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight. He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar. You ain' t gonna jump no more. (CHORUS): Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die. Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die. Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die. He ain' t gonna jump no more." Is everybody happy?" cried the sergeant looking up. Our hero feebly answered, " Yes", and then they stood him up. He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked. And he ain' t gonna jump no more. (CHORUS) He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock. He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop. The silk from his reserve spilled out and wrapped around his legs. And he ain' t gonna jump no more. (CHORUS) The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome. Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones. The canopy became his shroud, he hurtled to the ground. And he ain' t gonna jump no more. (CHORUS) The days he lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind. He thought about the girl back home, the one he left behind. He thought about the medicos and wondered what they' d find. And he ain' t gonna jump no more. (CHORUS) The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild. The medics jumped and screamed with glee, rolled up their sleeves and smiled. For it had been a week or more since last a ' chute had failed. And he ain' t gonna jump no more. (CHORUS) He hit the ground, the sound was " Splat," his blood went spurting high. His comrades they were heard to say, " A helluva way to die." He lay there rolling ' round in the welter of his gore. And he ain' t gonna jump no more. (CHORUS) There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the ' chute. Intestines were a-dangling from his paratrooper suit. He was a mess, they picked him up and poured him from his boots. And he ain' t gonna jump no more. Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die. Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die. Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die. He ain' t gonna jump no more

You still have one more episode to go! Episode 11 "We Stand Alone Together" The documentary of Easy Company. More of the interviews you've been seeing and includes family members and reunions. Well worth the watch and ties everything together nicely.

The miniseries began airing in 2001 (2 days before 9/11). Richard Winters would live until Jan 2011. He was buried in Ephrata, Lancaster County PA.

The camp scene breaks me every time. There are no words.

Its sad to think that every one of these amazing men are now gone. They will hopefully be forever remembered.

Had a great time rewatching this series with you both!

"Why We Fight..." Imagine seeing all of the horrors of War, and then being speechless seeing this. This title is a reference to the legendary Frank Capra World War 2 documentary series, that was actually made during the War and shown in theaters before the outcome was even known, making it all the more harrowing.

On christmass eve we allways put candle lights on the unnamed US and Canadian ww2 millitairy graves here in my city in The Netherlands. We will never forget what You all did for us.

The general population in Germany that lived near a camp knew something was up. It is literally impossible not to know from the ashes and smell alone. They wouldn't talk about it and weren't 100% sure of what was happening exactly, but when they acted like it was all something no one knew about they were just lying.

Points..."Easy Company" is the most tragically ironic name in military history. From D-Day, all the way to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. There was nothing easy about it. I'm so glad they never revealed the characters, but instead allowed us to focus on their stories. Now the actors who portrayed these hero's are having reunions of their own. I will absolutely always love this series. Currahee!♠

My Great Grandfather served with the 101st Airborne during the war. His job was as a supply officer in the Division’s Ordnance Company. He was in charge of the handling, distribution, and repair of all sorts of weapons and ammunition. There were many accounts that he would recall to us, like enduring artillery barrages among others. But one of the incidents that stuck out to him was the Landsberg Concentration Camp. He helped with translating for polish prisoners who were there as he was a 2nd generation Polish American. While there he took photos of the civilians burying the bodies of the dead like depicted in the show… There are other stories he never told us that we found out about after his passing. But it makes it all the more important to try and learn these stories before they’re all gone. As of now there are no longer any living members of Easy Company and there are only a little over 100,000 veterans left out of the 16 million men and women who served. It’s important to learn these stories while they are still here with us…

I am a combat veteran ( Vietnam ) You can not possibly know the good you have just done. Thank you for this and God bless you both.

ep9 will always bring a tear to my eyes.

i couldn't imagine what it was like to lose men that regularly. Losing people never felt like a singular event, it always felt like they were all connected, every new death just added to the weight felt from the last one

I knew exactly who Guarnere was from the beginning because the casting was so good lol - I was pretty sure I knew who Winters was and ended up being right. But it was for sure cool to see who was who at the end.

The last member of Easy company of the 506 parachute infantry regiment passed away last year. Bradley Freeman was 97. Time flies. The series came out of generation ago. We are almost as far away from the last Americans pulling out of Vietnam Today, as we were from the end of World War II, when "Saving Private Ryan" came out.

Obviously I wasn’t around when WWII happened but I did visit Berlin in 2016. While I was there, I took a walking tour of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. It’s about a 30 minute car ride from the city of Berlin but there is a town right outside of the camp. As part of the tour, we walked from the town to the camp to show how close they were to each other. The tour guides mad a point to tell us there is no way the people who lived in the town didn’t know what was happening. The smell alone would have notified most but also, seeing the endless trains full of “workers” that never left the camp also should have let them know. The general public may not have known but any boarding town knew and people talk so, it’s very likely a lot of Germans knew (not all, but enough for there to be rumors). If you ever find your self doubting that the boarder towns/cities did know, think about how far away you can smell barbecue when it’s cooking or recently been cooked and then multiple that by a thousand. That smell was strong, the wind carried it, and it lingered. They knew.

I can rewatch this series unlimited times. Masterpiece. Great reaction.

They wrapped it up so well. Best series ever made. You guys had very good reactions to it. The way they close it with a baseball game, explaining what happened to everyone, and then the reveal at the end is just perfect. They also did an amazing job at showing the discovery of the Concentration Camps.

As others stated, actors who portrayed actual vets were kept away from the "camp scene" until day of filming by Spielberg and Hanks for their honest reactions. "Camp survivors" were cancer patients from nearby hospital. Some of them never seen this miniseries due their deaths. Part 9 of this series always gets teared up!

This is explained in the follow-up documentary that Major Winters accepted the surrendering German's sidearm. He later discovered while cleaning it that the weapon was never fired at any point in the war. He's also never personally fired that sidearm since receiving it.

Vat 69 is Whiskey and is still around.

"That's not Mozart, That's Beethoven" was packed with meaning.... My Uncle was there, btw, though I know this, he never spoke of it to me.

The woman in episode 9 whose house Nixon walked into, that actually happened to Winters and not Nixon. Also her husband wasnt a Nazi officer, just a regular Wehrmacht officer and he died, hence the black ribbon on the picture frame. Also pretty sure Easy wasnt the first unit at that camp, a different outfit discovered it a few days earlier

You got points from being in battles, getting commendations, and unfortunately being injured by the enemy. I know a lady that took care of shifty powers in his older years. She said he was the sweetest guy she ever knew, and didn’t know about his part in the war until after his passing. Thank God for these men, like my own uncle, who went and fought and never came home.

fun fact: the solider shooting the prisoners in the back here 11:54 is Tom Hanks. He had a quick cameo

The work camp depicted is "Kaufering 4" a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp in Landsberg, Bavaria. Most Germans knew of the camps, as did the intelligence agencies and leaders of the allied nations. Most dismissed the reports as rumors or Soviet propaganda. The book and series are based on the memories of the surviving members of the company. So there are some historic inaccuracies. For example, private Blithe recovered and even served in the Korean War. In fact he was still alive when the series came out. The companion documentary is worth watching!

Monuments Men is an interesting WW2 movie to see. Another angle to it that you don't always hear about.

"Murders are not monsters, they're men, and that's the most frightening thing about them" - Alice Sebold

If you guys are astonished by all the cameos of Tom Hardy, Jimmy Fallon and the rest, here's an even bigger shock: Tom Hanks himself makes a cameo in makeup and costume as a soldier that the Easy guys pass by on the highway when Webster has his shouting moment

First watched episode 9 in high school history, I was high that morning, so I had a tough times holding the tears back😅. The Pacific is also very good, if u want more of this type of content.

I hope you guys are planning on reacting to 'The Pacific' as well. I love these two series, and watching these videos is like seeing it for the first time again.

Cracks up that you were calling them "cameos." Most of these guys hadn't really made it yet, so less cameos than early appearances. My brain still has a bit of a hiccup every time I watch and James Moriarty shows up as a radioman.

Since I first watched Band Of Brothers when it first aired…. To this day (comment posted May 11th, 2023) it is THE BEST TV movie series EVER!

The points system at the end of the war was based on a number of factors, including how long one had been in the Army, how long they had been in combat, medals and commendations earned, and whether one had a wife and kids back home. So if a soldier was single, and hadn't ever been wounded, or received any medals, their points would be lower, even if they had been in the Army for a while.

The officer in the picture wasn't SS. He's wearing a Wehrmacht (regular army) uniform. He was also dead, as indicated by the black ribbon. While he might have known of the camp when he was still alive, it's extremely doubtful he had anything to do with it.

Fun fact. The German officer addressing his men towarda the end of the episode is the same actor who played the German officer in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark whose face melts when they open the Ark.

The last surviving Easy Company veteran who passed away was Bradford Freeman last year in July 2022. He wasn't featured in the series but he did in fact serve and is now resting with his company of heroes. ❤

Allied forces had heard rumors from partisans in occupied areas about the camps but not to the level of what they were used for until advancing forces came upon them like the one in this episode.

If you decide to follow up with "The Pacific," be forewarned that it is a LOT darker than "Band of Brothers." I have seen a few reactors just cut off watching "The Pacific" because there are far fewer warm moments in that series and gets increasingly harder to watch as it progresses. The war in the Pacific was a completely different animal from the war in Europe and "The Pacific" shows that very well.

Im Nicaraguan special forces one time we got lost in the jungle during combat for 19 days. One of our guys got lost we found him, to make the story short, we only had 2 cans of tuna and we would take out a bit with our index finger in the morning and one in the afternoon. I was so skinny by then my pants wouldnt fit properly, so i had to wrap them with my belt. When we got to the base, i told everyone DO NOT EAT ANY FOOD RIGHT NOW. Because our stomach is so small your gonna make it burst or fuck it up. no one died in combat but 3 guys didnt listen and they ate whatever they could and i just remember them screaming in pain at night, 2 of them died only 1 of them survived.

I love that ending. Such a perfect way to close out such a perfect miniseries.

Not many people knew about the camp's. I served in the military and lived 12 years in Germany. My ex wives grandma, told me stories, she was from flossenburg , I've seen mounds of human ashes. She told me it was summer, but the ashes would pour down like it was snowing. She didn't tell many people about what happened. My wife didn't even know about it

Absolutely the best television series I've ever seen. ♥

Winters was such a great Commander. He knew how to take care of the men

My uncle Maurice was a motorbike messenger in the Canadian army. In 1946, after the war, Germans who had gone back home strung wire across a road and knocked him off of his bike at a high rate of speed near the Germany/Netherlands border. He was taken to the hospital where he got pneumonia and died. He is buried at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery in Holten, Netherlands. The war may have been officially declared over, but it didn’t stop the mayhem, a fact depicted so well in episode 10.

46:35 For those wondering about Sgt Grant, he had some issues with speech and one of his arms was partially paralyzed but he ended up opening a tobacconist and lived until 1984. The private who shot him received a life sentence but was released from prison shortly after the war. He died in 1987 after being hit by a truck.

Until they started finding, and, liberating the death camps, the average Allied soldiers didn't know about them. Army intel had heard rumors, but, they were all unconfirmed. The Germans didn't advertise what they were doing, and, the average German citizen learned early on that it was best to turn a blind eye to it, lest they wind up in a camp themselves. When Eisenhower issued the order that the civilians were to be forced to do the clean up, it was the first realization for most of them that they were, in fact, the "bad guys".

Ugh I’ve seen this show literally 55 times the ending ALWAYS makes me cry.

People have tried to say the German people may not have known about the camps. That's bullshit. We hear about the main ones, 23 of them. The Germans had over 42,500 camps spread out over Europe. The real statement is, they couldn't have missed them. It takes a lot to transport over 6 million people across countries. I've been to Dachau 4 times, you walk into that place, you'll never come out the same. The building we used as a library where I was stationed in Germany was a satellite camp.

The Pacific is also a highly recommended series to watch. It covers the Marines campaign in the Pacific Islands, which was a brutal campaign

I think the last member of easy company died a few years ago. Tom Hanks spoke at Dick Winters funeral in 2011. I'm just glad they were able to produce this miniseries while a decent amount of the guys were still around.

It's gory gory. It's from the song "Blood on the Risers" that many airborne units sing. The song tells a story of how a soldier jumped out of a plane and his parachutes failed.

If I was an actor I'd be considered a genius, because all I would ever need to cry on cue would be to think about the finale of this series. It gets me every time.

Great video, guys! I can answer some of those questions: (6:44) Vat 69 is an 80-proof blended scotch. It's basically about forty different whiskeys mixed together. It's made by Sanderson & Sons in Germany, though it was invented in Scotland. In 1882, Sanderson whipped up 100 different casks of other peoples' whiskeys and he decided cask #69 was the best tasting. Ironically, this spirit is more famous for the bottle than for the beverage. (10:58) Correct. Most people lived in cities. We learned about the highway system from the Germans during this war. It wasn't until the 1950s that we pushed to add freeways in the U.S., allowing people to move away from crowded cities. (11:04) First comic featuring Flash Gordon: 1934. (29:13) Though people had been kicking the idea around for years, Hitler ordered construction of the Autobahn in 1933 just days after he took office. That highway system was critical to the Blitzkrieg and the surprise economic growth that endeared him to the public.

You guys need to watch The Pianist! Very good movie definitely top 5. I enjoyed watching you guys experience this series!

From the Holocaust Museum: “Eisenhower foresaw a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied. He invited the media to document the scene. He compelled Germans living in the surrounding towns and any soldier not fighting at the front to witness the atrocities for themselves. “

But i served in a company of heroes! That hits so hard every single time!

My dad was in far east fighting the Japanese even when the war ended there in August 45 he didn’t get back to UK for 14 months.

I'd really like to see you guys react to The Pacific next, it's a sister series to Band of Brothers. It's about the US Marines during the Pacific theatre of war.

Episode 9 is the hardest one to watch, but, is definitely the most important to watch. “If anyone ever tells you the Holocaust didn't happen, or that it wasn't as bad as they say, no, it was worse than they say. What we saw, what these Germans did, it was worse than you can possibly imagine.” - Edward "Babe" Heffron

The last member of Easy Company Bradford C. Freeman passed away July 3rd 2022 at the age of 97, the last officer Edward Shames passed away December 3rd 2021 at the age of 99 you can see him as the officer depicted yelling in the Bastogne episode. May these men forever rest in peace and I truly hope we never forget the lengths our Greatest Generation went through to secure freedom and destroy tyranny around the world now WE need to be Americans worth fighting for.

This episode hits me the most because as a Chinese, I know that my grandfather generation suffered the same thing and even worse . German nazis just wanna wipe out the entire Jewish people, they just wanna kill , but the Japanese nazis did in China is 1000 times worse, they kill, rape , torture, just google nanjing massacre or the rape of Nanjing, or unit731 , you will find the most evil thing that happened in entire human history. Imagine how fked up that Japanese nazis doing things so evil that German Nazis had to step in and try to save some Chinese…

PLEASE WATCH WE STAND ALONE!!! IT'S A DOCUMENTARY FROM WHERE THE REAL CHARACTER'S SPEECHES IN THE BEGINNING OF EVERY EPISODE WERE GOTTEN FROM. IT TIES THE WHOLE SERIES TOGETHER AND SHOWS YOU THE CHARACTERS IN THEIR LATER YEARS.

I think I remember reading in the Band of Brothers book that the guys had a ton of respect for the German people themselves because whenever their towns got destroyed or areas got torn up they would immediately start cleaning up and rebuilding whereas the French people tended to just leave everything in rubble for years.

Was a pleasure re-watching this with you guys, loved it! Just wanted to hug you both when the war camp scenes were playing. I can tell you both got hit in the feels with that episode. *hugs* Keep up the great content :)

Now watch the pacific and generation kill, all apart of the hbo war series! both absolutely amazing!

If you want to do some research on WWII the easy way… consider watching the multi-part British series “The World at War.” Narrated by Lawrence Olivier and featuring interviews with all kinds of people, soldiers, politicians, common people, it covers the period from the end of WWI through the post-war world. There are some things that aren’t perfect. The series was made before info about ULTRA became public. Still it will fill lots of gaps. If you ask for a reading list you will get a couple 100 titles. Some of the men from Easy wrote books. Start with Ambrose’s book and go from there. Then it depends on your interests. There are many books just on D-Day or Market-Garden. You could take a more strategic view and get books covering a broad picture. If you want more info, just ask.

When she said how come so many of them meaning the 101 have New York accents...Joe Liebgott was from California and the Actor who played him Ross McCall had said in an interview he had done "I am a British man with a Scottish accent portraying American who spoke German". P.S. Fun Fact - That song they are singing is called Blood on the risers.

I will remember until the day I die that Webster wrote a book about sharks.

Loved the ending to this series. Hope to see you guys react to some Vietnam War movies in the future.

Is it me or is the sound desynced?

You guys! - "fingered him" is an expression meaning he was pointed out or identified as the culprit. As in, "The witness fingered Bobby the Bull as the killer." 😂

Points worked like this: 1 point per month in service. 1 additional point per month spent overseas. 5 points per combat award. Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts, Campaign participation awards etc. 12 points per dependent child under 18 years old. (3 Children maximum.) Service time was counted from September 16th 1940. After VJ day, the score required was lowered to 80 points and was lowered successively as the months and years went on.

Is it just me or is the audio desync for episode 10?

Can we expect The Pacific Next?

“Why We Fight” (title taken from a documentary by Frank Capra, who directed ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’) is structured in a way that once I saw part of the episode about the camp, I had mostly forgotten Nix’s problems. It seemed to me like seeing the camp gave him perspective on his problems. Sgt. Charles “Chuck” Grant survived his head wound. He went back to San Francisco and opened a tobacco shop. He passed in 1984.

My buddy in 8th grade Grandpa was in the Band of Brothers. He is portrayed in this series. My great uncle was in WWII too..however my mom said he never recovered from it. Would sleep in the backyard when he got back and had to put in mental health facility cause of all the PTSD. When I was in high school we broke into my friend's parents liquor cabinet and drank a bottle of whiskey from the 60s lol. When I broke up with my ex my sister said she would drive up to where I lived to make sure my ex didn't take my dog...I love my older sisters. I'm from Philly all my family has served. My Grandfather use to help build/weld on ships for the Navy at the shipyard. My Aunt was married to Jewish man who's parents survived this..I remember seeing the tattoos of their numbers they gave them.

This series also gave me great appreciation for "the greatest generation." Sadly, I am not expecting the same level of sacrifice from our current generation of 20 somethings.

The Pacific is told from the perspective of a few different Marines from WWII. Also, they are getting close to releasing a THIRD series within the next year or two called "Masters of the Air" which is taken from the stories of several different pilots of B-17 heavy bombers from the US 8th Army Air Force and their missions over Europe. That will surely be done just as well as this and Pacific. Gonna be good. The unfortunate thing is that all of the veterans are gone now. All of Easy Company is gone, the Pacific guys and 8th Air Force guys are almost all gone as well.

About to start watching...getting my tissues ready!!! Episode 9 gets me EVERY TIME!!!

Higher ranking officers commanding surrendering troops were often allowed to keep their sidearms so that discipline could be maintained with the officer's troops after they surrendered.