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Band of Brothers :: Why We Fight (01x09)

Episode Information

Title:

Why We Fight

Episode #:

01x09

Original Airdate:

Sunday October 28th, 2001

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Episode Crew
Director:	Phil Alden Robinson
Writer:	Erik Jendresen (1)

Episode 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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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Christian Malcolm	played	Military Policeman

Episode Quotes

Frank Perconte: Hey this guy says he's not a Nazi. All of Germany and I haven't met one Nazi yet.

Luz: What're you reading?
Janovec: It's about why we're fighting the war, It seems that the Germans are bad. Very bad.
Luz: You don't say? The Germans are bad, huh? Hey Frank, this guy is reading an article, that says the Germans "are bad

David Webster: )at a passing column of German prisoners) Hey, you! That's right, you stupid Kraut bastards. That's right. Say hello to Ford, and General fuckin' Motors. You stupid fascist pigs. Look at you. You have horses. What were you thinking? Dragging our asses half way around the world, interrupting our lives. For what, you ignorant, servile scum. What the fuck are we doing here?

Episode Goofs

In the episode prior to this one "The Last Patrol" Webster is a German translator, however in this episode nobody asks him to translate anything, and also he doesn't seem to understand what the German baker is telling him at the bakery.

A title card shows the date of April 11, 1945 when Capt. Nixon advises a group of Easy Company that Hitler was dead. Hitler didn't commit suicide until April 30, 1945.

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