Band Of Brothers - Response to offer of surrender: Nuts!

• General McAuliffe's response to the German offer of surrender -- "Nuts!"
Col. Sink reads out the Generals response to Easy company.

I do not own the rights to any of this please don't sue me!

[assailant]

The best part is, this is real. This happened.

[Mwraf]

American: NUTS

German officer: *Triggered*

[whiteknight]

"Keep moving colonel. A man that eloquent has to be saved." General George S Patton

[hellhoundactual]

NUTS: Not Understanding Terms of Surrender.

[hookalakah]

The colonel in this scene is retired Army captain Dale Dye. He's a genuine hero and it's nice to see his casting here as a note of authenticity. Thanks for your service, Captain Dye--on and off the battlefield.

[stephenbetcher]

This reminds me of another historical response. In ancient greece, Macedon sent a messenger to sparta saying when they waged war on them if they won they would destroy sparta, women and children alike. The spartans sent a one word reply. "if"

[jephrokimbo]

Best part of this entire scene is the look on the actor portraying Medic "Doc" Eugene Rowe whose facial expressions clearly express the exasperation, desperation and heartbreak of trying to care for these men in the worst of circumstances, without the equipment and only the barest of medical necessities to treat the soldier's wounds. Eugene Rowe definitely was one of the heroes and a part of The Greatest Generation.

[tomblah]

0:35 Dick Winters gives the medic a quick glance and probably realises he is really struggling. IIRC Winters later recommends the medic have 24 hours leave to get a hot meal and some rest (then only to have Bastogne bombed...)

[jshepard]

Sink: "If they come by here, y'all remember to smile for for the camera. Gotta keep the morale up for them folks back home."
Winters: "Why?"
Sink: "Damned if I know."

[wasabi]

0:50 i love how it immediately raised the morale lmao

[Ladolcevitta]

NUTS !!!


"Staff moral increased"
"Staff moral increased"
"Staff moral increased"

[pikasome]

They want to surrender?


No Sir they want us to surrender.

[seanc]

Then McAulliffe was like "GOT EM"

[DieHeartly]

If there are any Sabaton fans right here... I salute you my friends.
NUTS! The General's word echoed clear.
NUTS! The Nazis shall

[blip]

Dale Dye delivering the "Nuts!" message is just how this should have been done. There's no better person to reenact this scene.

A+ and I'm glad all these guys did this series with Dye to make us remember.

[PhantomX]

BlackForestVideos The response from the German Commanders was initial confusion, until a translator told them what 'nuts' meant. He told them it basically meant "Go to hell."

Germans weren't too happy after that.

[nizloc]

"HELLO EASY COMPANY!"
If you paid him to, Dale Dye couldnt not sound like a Marine, even if he tried.

[thmilsimregiment]

Obviously, people don't understand how to deal with stress anymore. You make jokes about your imminent demise, you joke about yourself, your buddies, the weather, the food, the uniforms, the divine intervention that brought you to this godawful place. By God, they Repeated the phrase, because it was just as off-the-wall and unpredictable as that entire battle had become by that point. NUTS!

[kbanghart]

I love the writer's or directors attention to detail all through this series. note all while Colonel Sink is speaking to the guys in this scene, Winters is keeping an eye on Doc Roe, :36 one example, because he can sense Roe is losing it. always a leader. in the next episode, "the Breaking point" he sends Roe to the rear to try to clear his head.

[CineOdyssey]

When I was a youngster the movie "Battleground" was my favorite war movie. I always thought the reply to the Germans was something other than "Nuts!". In 1963 as a young soldier I was assigned to the 11th Air Assault Division (test). General Kinnard was the division commander. After the air assault testing the division would be renamed the First Cavalry Division and ordered to Vietnam with Maj. General H.W.O. Kinnard as division commander. Gen. Kinnard was the technical advisor for the movie "Battleground".
Many years after returning from Vietnam I attended a First Cavalry Div. reunion. At the banquet I asked Gen. Kinnard if Nuts was really the reply. He told me the story on how Nuts became the reply to the Germans. I really can say I heard it from the horses mouth.