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Full Length | Band Of Brothers | Episode 5

🕑 Added 2024-01-22 17:35:00 +0000 UTC

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Chris Rawson

Winters noted in later life that the day that Easy Company set sail for England on 3rd September 1943, marked 4 years that the United Kingdom had been waging war against the Nazi and Japanese powers ... he also appreciated that more UK & Canadian forces took part on D-Day than Americans ....

Craig

The irony of Webster saying “They got me” is that he was an English/literature major at Harvard. He was embarrassed that all he could come up with when he got hit was such a cliche as “They got me!”

Robert Snyder

Love y’all’s reactions to this series.

Flubbedsquid

The SS were special soldiers recruited directly by the Nazi party. Despite the Nazi takeover of Germany, their military was still a regular state military, with, at least in theory, no special allegiance to the Nazi party, only Germany. Of course due to massive popular support for Nazism, and the Nazi control of the whole government, much of the military increasingly began to align with their ideology. Serving as a German soldier in ww2 by means meant one was aligned with the Nazis though. Many simply joined to protect their country, which they knew would be destroyed if Hitler lost, whether or not they agreed with him personally. The SS, however, were a league apart. They were specifically controlled by and undyingly loyal to Nazi leadership, and had no obligation to follow the law in their operation. They were essentially fanatics, even to join you had to prove your ancestry was purely aryan for several generations, and members were expected to denounce Christianity and adopt Germanic paganism as their new religion. They were so fanatic, that even after Germany surrendered, the SS continued to fight in Hitler's name, and in some places the regular German army even teamed up with Americans to fight those last SS holdouts. The SS consisted of three groups: one acted as enforcers for the Nazis throughout the reich, one fought on the battlefields as an armed force, and the third were guards for concentration and extermination camps.

CuddleBuddee

Oh yea oh yea

Simon Bjuhr

SS was basicly Hitlers lifeguard: "The SS. The SS (Schutzstaffel, or Protection Squads) was originally established as Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard unit. It would later become both the elite guard of the Nazi Reich and Hitler's executive force prepared to carry out all security-related duties, without regard for legal restraint."


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