A Historian Reacts | Soldier of Heaven | Sabaton

[@MrTerry]

Where does this song stack up with the songs thus far on the upcoming album?

[@PetterVessel]

Those two released songs are getting me more hyped for the upcoming album. This is going to be epic!

[@ryantannar5301]

I really didn't like it all that much when I first heard it, but it REALLY grows on you.

[@wastedangelematis]

@@ryantannar5301 it has a "price of a mile" & "cliffs of Gallipoli" feeling for me, maybe for other people too

[@trafalgarlaw8373]

This and Christmas Truce are the best once you listen to them a couple of times. This one is the most hype, while Christmas Truce has this amazing feeling of unity and brotherhood.

[@Boeing77747]

It was in 1916

[@hoss3548]

The avalanches were causes by both sides shooting into the snowcapped, trying to burry one another. I believe that they added the dog fights to symbolize they are still up there watching the wars to this day

[@CecilA54]

yes i agree because the second plains were ww2 planes

[@hoss3548]

@@CecilA54 it is also supported with the lyrics "I saw the end of war I watched the soldiers come and go And I kept my watch forever So many brave men fell in the battles that were raging down below"

[@roftar]

I think it's more to show up that it was really high up in the mountain.

[@hoss3548]

@@roftar that could be too, but taken in context of the story Sabaton weaved, they showed first ww1 planes then ww2 planes, with the ghost of the soldier saluting asabaton then looking down the mountain. Tends to support it showing the passage of time.

[@SaschaDBrickman]

and nine days of heavy snowfall before the White Friday

[@travisnoffsinger1703]

I liked how they showed the World War II era planes later on in the video to portray the passage of time and the fact that those soldiers were still there on the mountain and eternally keeping their watch. Great reaction! Great song! 👍🏻

[@Spartan-001BladeHunter]

Imagine if they added modern fighters as well. Really push the point home that they're still there and always will be.

[@clashof6d]

Just so you know, the fighter plane is the red baron. Look a little closer and you will see it has the german empire logo on the wings and its red

[@Spartan-001BladeHunter]

@@clashof6d The red was a giveaway.

[@clashof6d]

@@Spartan-001BladeHunter idk about that but that plane is the same as in the red baron

[@Spartan-001BladeHunter]

@@clashof6d The Red Baron is the most famous pilot out of WWI, and flew red planes, so...

[@hoss3548]

The line that hit me " I have seen it all but none will hear my story" Until now

[@bramborovyastronaut]

My great great grandfather died at the mountains there, but I don't know exactly when or where. All I know is that he sent a letter from city under the mountains, saying something like he is going to the mountains and then there was silence, never heard of him again, not even a death letter, just nothing. There is a high possibility that he didn't make it untill December but he is a Soldier of Heaven for me.

[@kennethhigdon1159]

Sabaton has told his story. Hopefully you can feel a greater sense of honor and pride in him. He went into battle knowing that he might not come home. That warrior’s blood runs through your veins. Be proud of that.

[@bramborovyastronaut]

@@kennethhigdon1159 I am

[@Viktor-gi5up]

The Grandfather of my Grandfather was a WW1 veteran on Italian side and there's a small chance that he saw that. On one side I'm happy that he survived, on the other hand I Always am sad about all the Italians, Austrians, Hungarians and different Balkaners that lost their life on the alps, gaining nothing but an unjust death.

[@NetAndyCz]

There have been a lot of avalanches that day, some were probably natural, some were from artillery fire on mountain tops above the enemy emplacements... no winners that day, and very few survivors. It is unclear how many people died on White Friday, but it was at least 10 000 in avalanches that month. Sadly there are almost no records about it.

[@charlesmayberry2825]

I see someone already mentioned it, but the avalanche was caused by both sides shooting the snowpack on the mountains knowing there were avalanche conditions, trying to bury the other. The planes are more symbolism than anything because WWI planes wouldn't be able to fly at that altitude, WWII some of the planes could. The thing is at the kinds of altitudes you're talking in the mountains would require the later combat aircraft, most WWII planes the engines used single stage super chargers, that would allow operation to a flight ceiling of 16K feet, which mid/late war planes some were dual stage super chargers that could fly even higher. WWI the planes were N/A engines, they can't achieve the kind of power required to keep the prop running hard enough for the thinner atmosphere. Remember as you gain in elevation it's screwing you over a couple different ways, the higher you get, the less air, there is, the less fuel you can add to the engine, as the fuel air mixture needs to be right to make decent power. So as you go up the engine gets significantly weaker. The second factor is prop planes push air over an airfoil (the prop) the air is being pushed backwards, which in turn pushed the plane forward. As the air thins out, there's less air to push off the prop, which means the airspeed will be less at the same/equivalent engine power settings. So the chance of an aerodynamic stall increases, minimum flight speed goes up. Between those two factors the old WWI planes had a very low flight ceiling that would have made mountain flying unwise, and often impossible.

[@logirex]

Yeah heavy shelling from both sides lead to the worst snow avalanche in recorded human history with some 10k dead in that december month alone. The WWI and WWII (bf109) airplanes is to symbolize that these soldiers rest eternal and they have seen the end of wars.. both WWI and WWII. Just a few years ago they found another well preserved soldier in those mountains one hundred years after WWI and he was finally able to rest with his remianing relatives.

[@hawk1559]

WWI Planes could and did fly in the Alpes for reccon. Because the Stress of flying in the Alpes was so high most pilots only could fly two times.

[@charlesmayberry2825]

@@hawk1559 interesting I'll have to do more research on the altitude of the areas and the service ceiling of the planes :) learning is always a good time

[@operkoi8954]

And that is before factoring in extreme winds and constantly changing visibility. I know in ww2 the Soviets primarily used the I-153 biplane in the caucuses because it’s mobility and slow speed made it the “safest” plane to fly at altitudes where reconnaissance and air support were practical.

[@johnbeaulieu2404]

In WW2 flight at 20,000 ft (6000 meters) was not uncommon with the crew wearing oxygen masks. USAAF bombing missions were regularly flown that high as all the US heavy bombers used turbocharged engines, so German fighters like the Bf-109 need that capability to engage them. As an example a P-47D Thunderbolt had a service ceiling of 42, 000 feet (12,700 meters).

[@thekrakenbows7247]

I wish all history teachers were like Mr Terry

[@MeleeTiger]

Soldier of 3 Armies is another great one that focuses on a personal story.

[@shimmey1276]

I love this song and it is said that both sides fired upon the mountain to try and bury the other side with avalanches

[@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian]

Joakim looks so cool in the first shot

[@lisafoster4468]

I agree...I love that they immortalize the stories that should be remembered, from all sides. This is an absolutely beautiful piece, and I got shivers as usual from them XD I think the dogfight there is supposed to symbolize all the events from then forward that these fallen soldiers "saw" from their eternal post. I do know that many of the avalanches were set off intentionally, but open-cockpit planes would not have handled the Alps' conditions.

[@MTTT1234]

The explosions you see at 4:20 are the mountains that were detonated during the war. When the war bewteen Italy and Austria-Hungary set in, both sides of course tried to gaint he high ground, setting up artillery and what not on the highest places to be able to attack the other side. This caused a trench-warfare on the highest places, and just as they did at the Western front, they started to dig under the other side's trench, depositing large amoungs of explosves to destroy the other side there. They blew up entire mountain-tops to achieve this. Also, only now, because of global warming are many of these frozen soldiers finally coming out from their icy tombs, finally being able to be laid to rest properly in a grave. Each year now the glaciers are retreating more and more, revealing the trenches, dug-outs and barracks up there, revealing soldier after soldier as well.

[@robloxmaster4545]

Mr terry is probably the coolest teacher in the history of history teachers

[@gnarl80fi]

No it was from a perspective of a dead soldier who keeps watch forever, and he sees all kinds of battle, planes are possible future happenings

[@СансСмит]

Actually low air concentration in mountains makes rotors of theese days airplains useless, because there is not enough ai for rotors to work properly, even modern helicopters have big problems with flying on theese hights So I guess air battles of 1st WW placed in mountains are pretty impossible

[@PetterVessel]

Yeah, and the wind will carry them away in all directions.

[@forgottenredemption4970]

They attempted to many times, but usually it's just lucky enough to safely fly at all. Much less do any sort of fighting or sort of operation. Mountains from all of history to even today are some of the worst fighting imaginationable. Think about this. Even just resupply to troops would be incredibly difficult. You have to move heavy vehicles and equipment across this and it's barely possible. In war not even close. Yeah you could send a battalion into it but you better hope there's no one already there and that you don't really do ANY fighting because you'll just eat up all your supplies and be completely done. This is one of the ways terror groups survived the US for so long. The Middle East is not pure flat dessert. Unless you know what your doing and have an extreme overabundance if resources your not taking the fight to anyone while Mountains are in the way. And good luck assaulting someone already there.

[@trcaptainsidog]

Sorry I’m a bit late. Anyway, Sabaton is my favorite actual band, and only because they make History-Themed music videos they are amazing.

[@danielhughes1711]

Something I like about sabaton is that they talk about things that aren’t know that much

[@jeffreynagy7112]

You should do Steel Commanders next. It is awesome.

[@Gamerecroder]

Mr. T back at it again with another amazing vid!

[@nicholasmontgomery8594]

I think one thing that is never mentioned by reviewers is that they are still recovering bodies today. Even in 2021, there are still bodies of soldiers from WWI that are on the mountain with some being recovered.

[@MTTT1234]

Indeed, because of global climate change, glaciers and snow-packs are now finally recedeing, revealing the bodies of so many soldiers now, to be finally put to rest in their graves.

[@cloverseer9836]

yeah, a buddy of mine living near there who is an avid skier says that quite a few times in the past couple years he has had to detour his ski routes because they'd found another old corpse. Though usually they are bodies of recently missing skiers or hikers, sometimes they are an unknown soldier though. so pretty eye-opening stuff.

[@miafranlund6982]

I preordered the album months ago 😁. Keep a lookout though, I think they are going to release one or two more songs before march 4th.

[@Momo_Kawashima]

Something eerie about the italian front of ww1 is that to this day, 105 years from the end of ww1, italian soldiers are still dug up from the snow, still frozen and wearing their preserved uniforms. On other fronts usually what's dug up are bones, buttons, helmets, watches or other metallic personal effects, but on the alps they're still up there

[@Madjo-qj2ge]

My favorite mellow song from sabaton Alongside Christmas Truce and Price of a Mile

[@jimschuyler4339]

This song has the POWER and the story, its EPIC. Great review

[@charles8179]

I saw this song live back in October and it was the only one that I was capable of singing along all the way through... and it absolutely destroyed my voice, along with the rest of the show

[@lospiloto6544]

Hi Mr. Terry! The "White Friday" happened because the temperature on the Alps during 1916 was too high and they fired on the glaciers to provoke avalanches. Also the real name of the tragedy is "Santa Lucia nera" or "black Saint Lucy", because black is the colour of grief and it happened on 13th of December, Saint Lucy's Day. The term White Friday was coined in English but I can't find anything that says why. Hope I helped!

[@legolichtv]

Was a miox of both natural and man made avalances - both sides sent shells into the mountain side hoping to bury the others - somewhere between 2-10,000 are buried on the mountain side.

[@tokeri4198]

i can not stop looking at tmnt arcade ... all my memories

[@imjust0negaming883]

around 270 soldiers and avalance was speculated to caused by both parties shooting in the possible avalance to bury enemy under it

[@vandrirlost430]

Likely showing the dogs was to help signify the change in time as seen with the change in planes

[@bjornrosenlund135]

another great reaction from mr Terry , greetings from Sweden

[@strickersniper7909]

According to vth another great history channel the avalanches were artillery. Doubt that aircraft would have been in the mountains

[@NetAndyCz]

Yeah, the WW1 aircrafts were not very good at flying high and it is bit too dangerous to fly only in the valleys... cannot say for sure, seems there are not many records about what happened there :/

[@bogganalseryd2324]

White Friday on a Wednesday.

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

[@rikilamaru]

im going to their concert on the 15th of sept

[@MrTerry]

🤘

[@csanadbarczy9153]

It wasn't only the avalanche that bothered those soldiers. It was full on artillery warfare plus the high altitude shenanigans. Like no food, shelter, lack of protections from all that. And some snow and ice.......😮

[@RandomFurry07]

Some of those artillery caused some of those avalanches, one of which is the one in White Friday

[@hidantheimmortal1100]

The avalanches were from a mixture of reasons some were natural however some were caused by artillery firing on the snow caps to atleast loosen the snow leading to an avalanche later and the soldiers requested to leave however they were denied a move I’m sure they regretted the next day when every single soldier there was dead from an avalanche

[@kitthetruefox]

he is what is known as built different

[@vvvprince9487]

Both sides actually shelled the mountains on both sides trying to weaponize the terrains, also white Friday was on a Wednesday, it’s one of those genius history namings

[@Chuck12312]

Italians and Austro Hungarians would fire artillery at the mountain rather than enemy positions to cause avalanches that killed the enemy starting with the avalanche on the austro Hungarian barracks

[@rasungod0]

Some say that both sides had been purposely hitting the snow packs with artillery to try and cause avalanches to bury the other side.

[@RaoulKunz1]

The avalanches on White Frieday where actually (very likely) caused by both sides shelling the mountain sides to kick those off... A ton of bodies are still frozen up there only recently unfreezing after a century because of global warming. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

[@kennethhigdon1159]

The song pays homage to the men lost on White Friday and all the missing in action in all wars

[@sandraneuser2158]

Just a small detail: the dead soldier in blue is a austrian- hungary "Kaiserjäger" but the ghostsoldier is a italian "Alpini". You can easy see the difference he is wearing a adriano style helmet which was never worn by the austrians. Its so great to show both sides.

[@twistusvonhasburg4000]

No the Austro-Hungarians did use captured Adrians, from both the Russians and the Italians, they were on shortcut of helmets so they stole the ennemy helmets. It wasnt common, but saying it was never used is false.

[@jackeye5368]

The avalanche was made when both sides try to bury each other in snow but all 3 motors from Austro Hungarian side and Italian side hit the mountain so six's motors crashed into the mountain and both sides were buried alive in snow wiping them out

[@randomzocker8956]

I think it was said it is likely the avalanche was caused by a mortar but i mean the difference between a motor or a small bomb is miner

[@emilymiller3362]

I saw some articles about remains of from ww1 and ww2 being rediscovered as the glaciers melt from global warming.

[@scottdreemurrthegodofcreation]

These guys are fucking metal🫡

[@leonrekkar]

You need to react to Cliffs of Galipoli and the Red Baron

[@joaoduarteazevedo2818]

4:34 The red baron shows up

[@MidnyghtSabre]

I made the comment before, but I'll do so again here because it's a little more relevant being a music video: Could you please react to the Battle of Gettysburg three-song work by Iced Earth on the album, "The Glorious Burden"? The songs in question are 1) The Devil to Pay [July 1, 1863], 2) Hold at All Costs [July 2, 1863], and 3) High Water Mark [July 3,1863] Thank you! Love your videos!

[@Th3BigBoy]

I've never heard of them before but I'll check it out. Sabaton fans who make recommendations are people to take seriously, I have learned.

[@grandadmiralsteel1989]

So u had a few questions on the avalanches and I have come to answer them. SO both the Italians and austro Hungarians would use TONS of artillery in the alps and they would aim for the snow covered mountain tops to cause avalanches. So long story short they where used as weapons and many of them where on purpose and other where not.

[@DavidWsTrainVideos]

Can you do a video of Father please. Another song from Sabaton.

[@jeffbudd7678]

Both sides shelled the mountains intentionally to trigger avalanches. While it's unknown exactly how many men are forever buried in their final icy tombs, the estimates are anywhere from 2000 - 10000 soldiers buried deep in the snow and ice from the battle that took place on White Friday (which was actually a Wednesday 😉)

[@Swedeonamotorcycle]

Is that suppose to be Manfred Von Richthofen in that Red triplane?

[@matuzsonc]

damn you really know how to make yt videos i see all these reactions to this song and they are 30 minutes long yours is 8 minutes like how??? good job keep doing reactions

[@fenrisulfur842]

Did you realize, that they switched from WWI to WWII in the later part, when on of the Bf109s was shot down by AA fire?

[@Moja421]

It´s strange that the event is known as "white friday" when it actually happened on a wednesday

[@dynamosaurusimperious2718]

Sick video

[@jamesmccrea4871]

Thr planes are meant to show the passage of time.

[@raebee4321]

You should watch Tommy's Disney version of this (or any of his Disney versions). You don't have to do a reaction to it or anything. I just think you'd get a kick out of it.

[@reagangaming2360]

You should react to Puppet History

[@celticrebel5229]

About time you reacted to it lol jk as always great reaction buddy 😎🤙🤙🙌

[@NWANK1011]

They were supposed to have been set off deliberately by both sides

[@fieryredpodcast]

Thanks for being a real teacher and not an indoctrinator.

[@KAT-hs3xh]

can you tell sabaton to write about the best army in ww2? aka gurkhas?

[@RandomFurry07]

Fighting a fire team of Gurkhas is a death sentence

[@leftyme4568]

It`s a great song, but I have issues with the lyrics not making any sense. When I die I`ll be immortal??? A force of nature sent from above....Why would god do that if he was on their side? First he sings "I`ll guard this post forever", and later "I won`t return to bloodmountain???! Maybe i think too much about it, but I struggle to find logic in it.

[@ariz6823]

React to planet balls

[@greaper1976]

The way I see it, the soldier who is "speaking" in this song died and he body is still up there trapped in the ice, so he saw the war and all the other wars since on his final watch. So he saw the planes although they might not have been part of the White war. Apparently the soldiers of both sides aimed artillery on the slopes above the soldiers to cause the avalanches and because of the digging into the mountain to create tunnels and barracks already weakened the icepack, the resulting avalanches were some of the biggest in history.

[@Ruffster]

C minus, for not watching the outro.... booo!