Part Six
- Episode aired Feb 23, 2024
- TV-MA
- 1h 1m
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Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.
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- TriviaWhile not accurate for John Egan's actual evasion and capture in Germany, the experiences shown by his character in this episode were very strongly based on the actual incident named the Russelsheim Massacre, where six American airmen were executed by an angry mob of German civilians, while their two armed guards stood by idle. One uniformed air warden, armed with a semi-automatic pistol, emptied his magazine while shooting all six in the head to ensure they were dead. The incident started when two German women called the airmen, "terror flyers," and one threw a brick to the head of an airman.
Finally, again as portrayed, those airmen who failed to escape were taken by a cart to a nearby cemetery and buried in a mass grave. One event that happened in reality, but not portrayed in the scene was that an air raid siren sounded off at the height of the violence, causing the mob to stop and flee in fear. This allowed two of the six airmen to escape. Their reports were integral to the post-war investigation.
The American prosecutor was Lt. Col. Leon Jaworski, who was the special prosecutor in the Watergate hearing. He insisted on individual accountability for war crimes and secured eight convictions with one acquittal. Six German civilians and the air warden were sentenced to death. The two others were sentenced to 15 and 25 years in prison. One of the death sentences was later commuted to 30 years of hard labor, and the other five were hanged.
- GoofsStalag Luft III is portrayed as a massive camp, with several hundred barracks and similar in size to a concentration camp, and the caption marks the date as October 1943. In reality, Stalag Luft III had just opened in March 1943, so by October it was not that big. Its appearance is more consistent to the camp in the height of its operations, in November 1944.
- Quotes
Sandra Westgate: [On surprising a near naked Crosby] Oh, don't worry. I've seen men in much less, Captain. Big family. Small house. Few doors.
- ConnectionsReferences Test Pilot (1938)
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Episode made better by Bel Powley
Finally, some life and personality in a portrayal from this series! I continue to watch the show despite my disappointment with the overall execution. I just haven't grown attached to any of the characters in particular, and that's unfortunate as there are some talented people cast. Anthony Boyle's character is minimally compelling, but I enjoyed Bel Powley's introduction and flirtation with him. I just hope we haven't seen the last of her.
I felt like the people in Band of Brothers were so well drawn and real, and I just haven't found any depth to these characters. I don't know whether the source material was lacking or what, but no one is here is richly adapted, sadly.
I felt like the people in Band of Brothers were so well drawn and real, and I just haven't found any depth to these characters. I don't know whether the source material was lacking or what, but no one is here is richly adapted, sadly.
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- melissahenninger
- Feb 23, 2024
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