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Band Of Brothers - Speech by German Wehrmacht officer

submitted by Farhad2000

1 decade 5 years 11 months ago

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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I'm not one for those monologues, but this one ... had me falling off my couch when i heard it a few years ago.

The "amongst brothers who've shared foxholes" part ... they used a literal translation of foxhole, "Fuchshöhle". Now, Fuchshöhle refers to a fox's lair, exclusively. A foxhole would be a Schützenloch or Schützengraben.

ant

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Adding video to channels (History) - requested by ant.

Look at you all, having happy good feelings with the nazis. Why don't you share a big hug and tell em nobody remembers the holocaust anyway.

Yea Kommie, cos every German Soldier was a Nazi, just like every American is a Republican.

nickreal03 says...

f*ck all the wars and the idiots who make them. War above all things are the biggest tragedy of the human condition.

radx is right, there's a mistake in translation. It should be "trenches" instead of "foxholes". Trenches is the correct meaning of the used "Schützengräben".

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MEIN LIEBEN!

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