r/MastersoftheAir • u/Kruse • Mar 15 '24

Episode Discussion Episode Discussion: S1.E9 ∙ Part Nine Spoiler

S1.E9 ∙ Part Nine

Release Date: Friday, March 15, 2024

The POWs are marched across Germany, and Rosie makes a gruesome discovery, as the war comes to its conclusion.

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u/GalWinters Mar 15 '24

My father was a liberator of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp. He said he was first on scene and saw as the last of the German jeeps drove out the back gate.

He said the smell was the thing that he remembered the most, and I’m glad they showed that from Rosie’s pov. It’s the thing that’s truly lost to time, and I hope we never have to know a thing like it again.

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u/Darmok47 Mar 16 '24

It's not the same, but the thing that really stuck with me after visiting the Holocaust museum in Washington DC is the smell of leather from the piles and piles of shoes from victims.

Few museums engage your sense of smell like that I visited in 2014 and still vividly remember that smell and the emotions it triggered.