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1x09 Why We Fight
First Aired: Oct. 28, 2001 on HBO
Summary: Easy finally gets into Germany and is met with little resistance. While on a patrol, the members of Easy discover and abandonned concentration camp. The German guards have left, but all the prisoners are still in the camp. |
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Episode Quotes
Joseph Liebgott: [speaking with a prisoner] He said the guards left this morning, sir. Langsamer, bitte, langsamer. ["Slow down, please"] They burned some of the huts first... with the prisoners still in them, sir... alive.
Cpt. Nixon: Jesus Christ.
Joseph Liebgott: Some of the prisoners tried to stop them... some were killed... they didn't have enough ammo for all the prisoners, so... they killed as many as they could... before they left the camp. They locked the gates behind them and headed south.
Cpt. Nixon: Someone in town must have told them we were coming.
Joseph Liebgott: Yeah, I think so.
Cpt. Nixon: Will you ask him, uh... will you ask him what kind of camp this is? What, uh... why are they here?
Joseph Liebgott: Was ist das hier?
Camp prisoner: Das, das, das, das hier? Das, das ist ein arbeitslager fur, fur, fur, fur Unerwuenschter.
Joseph Liebgott: He says it's a work camp for..."Unerwuenschter." I'm not sure what the word means, sir. Uh, "unwanted," "disliked," maybe?
Cpt. Nixon: "Criminals?"
Joseph Liebgott: I don't think "criminals," sir. Verbrecher?
Camp prisoner: Verbrecher? Nein, nein.
Joseph Liebgott: No.
Camp prisoner: Ärzte, Musiker, Beamter, Bauern...
Joseph Liebgott: Doctors, musicians...
Camp prisoner: Schreiber, Schneider, Intellektuelle...
Joseph Liebgott: Tailors, clerks, farmers, intellectuals. I mean, normal people.
Camp prisoner: Juden. Juden. Juden.
Joseph Liebgott: [softly] They're Jews.
Camp prisoner: Pole, Ziegeuner.
Joseph Liebgott: Poles and Gypsies.
Cpt. Nixon: Jesus Christ.
Joseph Liebgott: Some of the prisoners tried to stop them... some were killed... they didn't have enough ammo for all the prisoners, so... they killed as many as they could... before they left the camp. They locked the gates behind them and headed south.
Cpt. Nixon: Someone in town must have told them we were coming.
Joseph Liebgott: Yeah, I think so.
Cpt. Nixon: Will you ask him, uh... will you ask him what kind of camp this is? What, uh... why are they here?
Joseph Liebgott: Was ist das hier?
Camp prisoner: Das, das, das, das hier? Das, das ist ein arbeitslager fur, fur, fur, fur Unerwuenschter.
Joseph Liebgott: He says it's a work camp for..."Unerwuenschter." I'm not sure what the word means, sir. Uh, "unwanted," "disliked," maybe?
Cpt. Nixon: "Criminals?"
Joseph Liebgott: I don't think "criminals," sir. Verbrecher?
Camp prisoner: Verbrecher? Nein, nein.
Joseph Liebgott: No.
Camp prisoner: Ärzte, Musiker, Beamter, Bauern...
Joseph Liebgott: Doctors, musicians...
Camp prisoner: Schreiber, Schneider, Intellektuelle...
Joseph Liebgott: Tailors, clerks, farmers, intellectuals. I mean, normal people.
Camp prisoner: Juden. Juden. Juden.
Joseph Liebgott: [softly] They're Jews.
Camp prisoner: Pole, Ziegeuner.
Joseph Liebgott: Poles and Gypsies.
David Webster: Shut up! I said, shut up, you Nazi fuck! [grabs baker]
German Baker: Ich-ich bin kein Nazi!
David Webster: Oh, you're not a Nazi? My mistake, you fat fucking prick. What about a human being? Are you one of those, or are you going to tell me that you never smelt the fucking stench? [of the nearby concentration camp]
German Baker: Toten sie mich nicht! Bitte toten sie mich nicht! ["Don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"] Ich verstehe nicht was du da sagst!
Pvt. Joseph Lesniewski: Leave him alone, Web. He says he doesn't know what the hell you're talking about.
David Webster: Bullshit.
German Baker: Ich-ich bin kein Nazi!
David Webster: Oh, you're not a Nazi? My mistake, you fat fucking prick. What about a human being? Are you one of those, or are you going to tell me that you never smelt the fucking stench? [of the nearby concentration camp]
German Baker: Toten sie mich nicht! Bitte toten sie mich nicht! ["Don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"] Ich verstehe nicht was du da sagst!
Pvt. Joseph Lesniewski: Leave him alone, Web. He says he doesn't know what the hell you're talking about.
David Webster: Bullshit.
Cpt. Nixon: Hitler's dead.
Joseph Liebgott: Holy shit.
Cpt. Nixon: Shot himself in Berlin.
Sgt. Denver 'Bull' Randleman: Is the war over, sir?
Cpt. Nixon: No. We have orders to Berghtesgaden. We're gonna move out in one hour.
David Webster: Why? The man's not home. Should've killed himself three years ago, saved us a lot of trouble.
Cpt. Nixon: Yeah, he should've. But he didn't.
Joseph Liebgott: Holy shit.
Cpt. Nixon: Shot himself in Berlin.
Sgt. Denver 'Bull' Randleman: Is the war over, sir?
Cpt. Nixon: No. We have orders to Berghtesgaden. We're gonna move out in one hour.
David Webster: Why? The man's not home. Should've killed himself three years ago, saved us a lot of trouble.
Cpt. Nixon: Yeah, he should've. But he didn't.
Mistakes/Goofs
- Goof (continuity error): The jacket worn by Private Webster changes from that of a staff sergeant to a private in subsequent scenes.
- Goof (factual errors): Nixon later mentions that "the President's dead," during the sequence that is occurring "one month earlier" than the April 11, 1945 starting date. President Roosevelt died April 12, 1945.
- Goof (continuity error): When Easy Company are giving out food to the prisoners at Landsburg, they are told by the regimental surgeon that the prisoners must be kept in the camp to monitor their health/nutrition. However when Nixon returns the next day to see the German citizens burying the bodies of the prisoners in accordance with martial law, none of the prisoners can be seen in the camp.
- Goof (factual errors): Lewis Nixon talks to his men on a day dated as April 11th and tells them that Hitler committed suicide in Berlin. Hitler actually shot himself on April 30th.
- Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Capt. Nixon is asking the clerk about finding some whiskey, Pvt. Janovec walks in and says, "Did you hear the news? 300,000 krauts just surrendered! We're moving out in an hour." Nixon asks, "One hour?" and Janovec responds, "Yeah." Although the men of Easy Company were generally laid back socially, Janovec was supposed to have answered with "Yes, sir" (or something similar) due to Nixon being a superior officer.
Trivia
- The string quartet at the beginning and then end is playing "String Quartet in C-sharp, op 131," by Beethoven. This song is also interwoven into the background music throughout this episode.
- Features Tom Hardy first appearance in any sort of acting role.
- The music for the end credits in this episode are different and more somber than the other episodes, using a string only orchestra, rather than a full orchestra.
- When Easy Company enters the concentration camp, Winters asks Sgt. Christenson if any of his men speak German and he replies, "No, sir." Michael Fassbender, who portrays Christenson, is a German-born Irish actor who speaks German as a first language.
- David Frankel (this episode's director) and Mikael Salomon (director of the next and final episode) were the only directors to direct more than one episode.
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