Band of Brothers
Why We Fight
Season 1, Episode 9 · Aired 2001-10-28
Synopsis
Easy Co. finally enters Germany, to surprisingly little resistance, and has a chance to relax for the first time in a long time. A patrol in a nearby forest discovers an abandoned Nazi concentration camp, still filled with emaciated prisoners. The local citizenry, unbelievably disavowing knowledge of its existence, is made to clean it up, as the news arrives that Hitler is dead.
In the series
This episode is part of Band of Brothers (2001) on HBO.
Easy Company from training grounds to the end of the Reich — war prestige perfected.
Key cast
- Damian Lewis as Richard Winters
- Ron Livingston as Lewis Nixon
- Donnie Wahlberg as C. Carwood Lipton
- Neal McDonough as Lynn 'Buck' Compton
- David Schwimmer as Herbert Sobel
- Kirk Acevedo as Joseph Toye