moving speech by German Wehrmacht officer (Band of Brothers)

One of my favorite scenes in the movie. It is a moving speech delivered with so much dignity you almost wouldn't know he is exhausted and surrendering. Also, it is point in which the Americans realize that they have shared the same hardships of war as their German counter parts and that they are not so different from the men they had been at war with.

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[GlenRoSSe69]

I wish someone would make a GERMAN band of brothers -

[MuchoFunkie]

@badur77 "This is typically German" - What the fuck is wrong in your little imbecile brain, there are so many other nations which have committed even or worse exterminations of a certain group of people. For example the Indians being slaughtered by early Americans. And dropping the two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even after the Japanese Emperor was willing to surrender, and had allready announced the surrender to some of his most loyal people.

[GlenRoSSe69]

@aMarinedaughter Yes like 90% of my mothers side of the family was killed. 2 of my great ants had there hands nailed to there barn and then they were raped to death by Red Army troops. So I understand you. More Germans died AFTER the war was over in allied hands then during the whole war... Gen Ike murdered about 3 million German pows. Peace.

[aMarinedaughter]

There is just one thing that bugs me about this scene and that is having Liebgott translate this speech, sympathetically. After the liberation of the Arbeitslager, Liebgott hated the Germans so much that I don't think he would have done that. It would have been more believable for David Webster (who also spoke German) do it, except for the fact that Eion Bailey, although amazing in other ways, couldn't pronounce German worth a damn!

[aMarinedaughter]

@GlenRoSSe69 Cont. I walked into the tiny town, down by the little church. There was a monument there to the sons of that village who had been lost in WWI and WWII. I stood there and read each name, with their birth and death date, with tears streaming down my face, and began to realize how much the German people were also victimized. There were many middle aged women in the town who had never married. The young men they might have raised families with had all been killed.

[aMarinedaughter]

@GlenRoSSe69 I do too. We tend not to have sympathy for them, but when it really came down to it, it was a bunch of young men doing what they were told, trying to get themselves and their buddies back home again. I had an experience the first day we lived in Germany that taught me more in five minutes than I could have learned in days of intent study.

[EvilKorbinDallas]

@MuchoFunkie Or the holodomor, which was lead by Jewish Bolscheviks against White Eastern European Slavics...

[rifqyzp]

@TheDemoclesSword in every war, both side thought they are the right one, these soldier are just obey the order, both soldier shared the same suffer and pain, seeing their friends die, and calm down dude, war is already over, revenge only bring endless conflict

[v4lkyr]

@GlenRoSSe69

you could watch Die Brücke, it's from 1959... it's no mini-series but.. it's moving as hell, though

[ilias94x]

@v4lkyr well actually most neo nazis are now based in russia, but ya...there are alot in america

[TheAriovistus]

"Hombres, esta ha sido una guerra larga, una guerra dura. Han luchado valientemente, con orgullo para su país. Ustedes son un grupo especial. Han encontrado el uno en el otro un lazo, que existe sólo en el combate, entre hermanos. Ustedes han compartido trincheras, han sostenido el uno al otro en momentos horribles. Han visto la muerte y sufrido juntos. Estoy orgulloso de haber servido con todos y cada uno de ustedes. Todos ustedes merecen vidas largas y felices en paz."

[dovalle15111991]

I love Wehrmacht *_* best army  ever!