Sabaton - Historian Reacts to "Bismark" (The official video)

[@tvaettis0653]

The captain carved the coordinates into the compass when he realized they were not going to make it (irl too). Just before he died he gave the compass to the kid who grew up and was the older man in the video. I believe he is the son of the kid that was on the ship, as the sailor passed away a few years ago.

[@HistoryBuff]

Ahhh ok! Thanks!

[@tvaettis0653]

History Buff happy to clear things up a little 😁

[@Kevichkovil]

Okay I have to correct you a little bit. So the old man(the captain of the fishers boat) is the son or grandson of the "kid" that you see. Because if i am correct from what I found online the "kid" passed away in 2015 at the age of 103 years old. So yes the captain of the fishers boat is supposed to be a direct family member. So he passed the compass forward to his children/grandchildren

[@HistoryBuff]

@@Kevichkovil yea, I thought that captain looked a bit young

[@tvaettis0653]

Kevichkovil ah, thanks!

[@inkplot6718]

"Do all their guitars match their pants?" is currently my favourite take on sabaton.

[@moetucktuck]

Until the pink Hello Kitty guitar comes out

[@rogoth01themasterwizard11]

the story of the pocket watch from the actual Bismarck is that at the time the officer in charge called for it to be scuttled he carved into it the co-ordinates of the approximate location of where it would be sunk as a sort of obituary 'here lies RMS Bismarck', the man at the helm of the fishing boat is the son of the real life sailor who received the pocket watch onboard the Bismarck and he has kept it (the one used in this video is a replica), there's only a handful of people who know where the Bismarck is actually located and they have kept it secret out of respect to the dead as it is considered a war grave, the diver who discovered the titanic is the one who also found the exact location of the Bismarck. the ships used in this music video are all 'real' in the sense that they are exact cgi model replicas of what the various ships looked like at the time, you have Bismarck firing against the HMS prince of wales at the start, the torpedo bombers and the various cruisers of the royal navy bearing down on Bismarck towards the end of the fight etc, and it was all done by the makers of the game 'world of tanks'/'world of warships' etc, they collaborated with Sabaton to create this music video.

[@PilgrimjGaming]

Fun fact is bismarck location is not far from titanic. Ballard crew found the Bismark first in 1989 while he discovered titanic in 1986. Fact is Bismark is setting in sailing position with most of the ship mainly intact. While most of turrets was blown off and scattered. if you look at the ship it front two turrets have been completely been blown off. Due brittish navy impacting the magazine compartment In middle of the ship. But pride of german navy flag is still visible at front of the ship. 80 some odd years later. Tirpiz sister ship of Bismark. Was behemoth of the ship to that was later sunken by brittish raf dam busters. Off Norwegian coast where it was sunken. Bismark was Hitler prized ship of kriegs marines. Also mention it was his favorite ship .

[@marianogonzalez1977]

Wargaming, the russian videogame company who made the game "World of Warships" hepled in creating such an amazing movie like video. They're kind of good at that. They periodically release historical videos about naval warfare of that period of time.

[@againnodans8138]

Actually it's not russian, main office at Minsk, Belarusian)))

[@tor6684]

@@againnodans8138 They have their headquarter in Nicosia, Cyprus. (so they can go around all "obstructive stuff/laws" Belarus, Russia, the EU, or whoever, might come up with)

[@marianogonzalez1977]

Thanks for the input.

[@Belnick6666]

@@againnodans8138 calling a Belarusian russian is for them about the same as calling germans a na**

[@ВладимирБабичев-ц3ш]

@@Belnick6666 Tell me, are you trying to imply that russian equal to nazi? By the way, where are you from? I'm asking it just for fun, to know whose rear end is burning.

[@Belnick6666]

i love how he say "did you find the BOAT?" is super swedish english lol

[@annikamyren3026]

Verkligen svensk dialekt

[@lenasoderberg2583]

@@annikamyren3026 dalarna.... damn i cant even write it without hearing it in dialect

[@jancmyon4240]

Welcome to the "Panzer battalion". As you already know Sabaton is about war history and they try to be so accurate in their storytelling as possible. And I can promise you won't be disappointed. I would recommend: Final solution (music video) Night Witches (animated video AND live from The Great Tour)Edit: I saw that you already did that one but do the live version just for fun Livstid i krig (live Gothenburg with captions on) (1618-1648) Shiroyama (1877) The Last Stand (1527) Boold of Bannockburn (1314) The Last Battle Fields of Verdun Screaming Eagels 82nd All the Way

[@Rhawin]

Shiroyama was my old favourite before Bismarck came out, and Blood Of Bannockburn :D

[@gerritrookworst3701]

Did someone say "Handsome Italian"?

[@TheMedicalDemon]

If you React to 'Uprising' by sabaton, I suggest reacting to the music video and the Live Woodstock version of it.

[@dukerollo1116]

Definitely the video

[@georgebeswick7549]

Woodstock is insane...

[@greaper1976]

well there's the Sabaton Pantzer Battalion ... and it seems like every country has their own fanclub where they use a song title or lyric for their name. The video was made by Wargaming for World of Warships, so it's almost all CGI with actors. They have a short "making of" video on their channel. The video was after the Hood got sung, they only mentioned the Hood getting blown up in the intro. The Burning ship was the Bismarck. .. at the end it said Battle of the Atlantic. The locket is a compass, and it's there to link the ship captain of the "Primo Victoria" to the survivor of the Bismarck, like it's the same guy. A good idea would be to do a video of the song, and then a separate video on the history channel video of that song.

[@jean-marcpaganowl8268]

The made a song for World Of Warship and as an exchange they provided ship videos. The Captain of the ship is a descendant of the one that survived the sinking. He carved the coordinates on it so he would know where to find the Bismarck

[@jankro1]

The coorfinates of Bismark were engraved on the cover of the pocket watch

[@ignorance112]

Great to see another Sabaton reaction from you

[@Myomer104]

At the beginning, when they are getting out of the vehicles, the voiceover comes from a couple of Movietone News episodes, which can be found on the DVD version (or at least one of them) of "Sink the Bismarck!", a 1960 movie about the battle. Also, yes, the Kriegsmarine was the Nazi navy, its name translating almost literally as "War Navy." The ending screen reads "War knows no nation. This video is dedicated to those who fought to the bitter end in the Battle of the Atlantic."

[@Sannoz]

Best way to join a "Sabaton Army", Sabaton Cruise is a big thing every year for 10y+. They rent a cruise boat and 2500 fans buy tickets and goes on a 24h cruise with the band 🤟 Been lucky to attend 3 times 🇸🇪

[@HistoryBuff]

😱😱😱😱😱 THERES A CRUISE!?

[@unowestlund1848]

@@HistoryBuff Yes, and they have their own three day festival Sabaton Open Air.

[@matsv201]

@@HistoryBuff its really common in scandinavia events rening a Cruise Ferry. Its a line ship that works as a cruise ship

[@davidfence6939]

Now imagine a Sabaton cruise on one of the new mega ships with like 6000 fans :D

[@mannistef]

I am both in the Nightwish Army and the Sabaton Army. And I love history so I think I will like your channel. Greetings from Iceland.

[@HistoryBuff]

ICELAND!! I think that's a first!

[@mattipihlaja6745]

Hello from Finland also. There is bunch of song from Finland in Sabaton repertoire. Talvisota, Soldier of Three Armies, Whitedeath.

[@VikingReacts]

That would be a cool skin indeed! Yo-àh-keem by the way ;). Good one bro!

[@HistoryBuff]

Thanks! my brain keeps wanting to say "wa-keem"

[@erikenqvist9081]

Yo-ah-kim.

[@gillandianyt3920]

Hi Viking! Those were huge battleships.

[@andrewniehoff8612]

Welcome to the fandom and to answer your question Kriegsmarine: '"War Navy"' German WW 2 designation for their navy.

[@Vagabound]

You said reacting is not easy. Well it depends on how you want to react. There are lots of self called "reactors" and all they do is whipping their heads and say here and there things like "oh that's great", "that sounds good", "awesome". When it comes to Nightwish (no Nightwish video here I know) they might ad "oh she's tall", "wow she can sing" and for sure "I have goosebumps". That can't be so hard 😂😉 But I know what you mean and that's why I follow your and a few other reaction channels where the reactors really have something to say 😊 Btw I like the term "family" more then "army" too. That's why I never joined the so called "Nightwish army" because I don't want to be part of any kind of army. I love their music but be part of an army!? Thank you but no thank you. I believe a few years ago it was a "Nightwish family" too. Not sure when and why that "family" turned into an "army". Anyways... good and interesting reaction to that song. Funfact: In Germany we say "Die Bismarck" which is female because the artikel isn't bound to the name of the ship but to the ship itself. So it stayed female even the name is not from a woman. And I remember years ago I spoke with my grandpa about ww2 and he also said "Die Bismarck" so it wasn't a thing to turn it male in his time (ww2) either. Would be interesting to know where you got this information?

[@terryhiggins5077]

Pretty sure it comes from a supposed quote from her captain (Ernst Lindemann) that a formidable ship such as Bismarck, should be called “he” as befitting it's strength and power. The only evidence to support this come from one of the high ranking survivors of the Bismarck, recalling a half remembered conversation with Lindemann, so validity of this is tenuous at best. Somehow this statement got into the pop cultural zeitgeist of the english speaking world and now everybody incorrectly thinks the Bismarck was male. I hope that answers your question.

[@Vagabound]

@@terryhiggins5077 Thank you for your answer. So that means in the english speaking world the "Bismarck" is male while in Germany it's female!? That's kind of funny in a weird way 😂 Every day something new to learn and yes i guess that answers my question 😊

[@terryhiggins5077]

@@Vagabound Its a bit more complicated than "it is" only those that know of the Bismarck via pop culture thinks its Male, everybody else correctly refers to her as a female. But it has become something of a meme at this point.

[@HistoryBuff]

It was actually said on the Sabaton History Channel. Thank you for you comments about my style of reacting. Its funny because I looked at a few other reactors to this song (one was even a "historian/history teacher") and they are mostly 9 minutes. HOW CAN YOU COVER THIS SONG IN 9 MINUTES!? The video itself is almost that long!

[@HistoryBuff]

Also, that Sabaton Army bit was meant to be funny, actually poking a little fun at the NW army which can be a little overbearing at times.

[@Katan-i7i]

Love the Cuthulu Funko Pop in the background. LOL. I love this video, it's totally awesome.

[@HistoryBuff]

Glad you enjoyed it! I've done some Lovecraft videos lately. Unfortunately, the original content tends to get relatively few views

[@tvaettis0653]

Yes, Primo Victoria is another song of theirs and the name of their first album released in 2005. Like this video, the official video for Primo Victoria was made by the game company Wargaming (this one for World of Warships and the other one for World of Tanks). However, the other video is very high volume, making it hard to hear the vocals. That might be something to take into consideration.

[@LianteakaLia]

I agree. I love the video and it's super cool but I think it works better as a promotion video for the game rather than a music video as the content of the video doesn't really have too much to do with the song. And yes, the sound effects are very loud. For a promo video, it's perfect, as a music video, not so much. :) But it's worth a check after you've heard the song I think, just for the epicness.

[@tvaettis0653]

Tiny Lia totally agree!

[@srg08]

The live version is the very best way for first time listening ( out of personal opinion I prefer to see 750k people singing and jumping at the song then the showcase of Sabaton skin for the tank)

[@LianteakaLia]

I would love to see a double reaction to the song Uprising. First the official music video with captions to really get into the story of it. And then the live performance from Woodstock 2012 because it's an absolutely epic live performance. The two of them together, I think, really gives you the full picture of both the story and what it means to their fans, the Polish fans especially. :)

[@MaskinJunior]

The story of the locket is that the old man in the beginning of the video is the young sailor who got it from the Admiral of the Bismarck who engraved the last position for him as the Bismarck was sinking. It is not really a locket it is a compass.

[@miafranlund6982]

I suggest that U now experience Sabaton live. They are always giving great performances and interacts with the crowd. Uprising live woodstock with an epic crowd of over 500.000 ppl and En livstid i krig live Göteborg 2020, its in Swedish so put caps on (highly emotional with great lyrics)

[@codex4046]

I've seen this video at least 40 times and never knew they wrote down coordinates on the locket. So yeah what you described at the end, after rewatching it you discover new things. That's one of the things I love about their music and videos.

[@HistoryBuff]

Do you usually watch on your phone? Doing reactions is the first time I've ever seen any music videos on my big computer monitor. I notice things on videos I'm incredibly familiar with.. I guarantee I never would've seen it on my phone screen.

[@GuyFreeman5041]

​​@@HistoryBuff The Hood, flagship of the British navy, blew up so hard it actually damaged the Prince of Whales. Why she sunk is hotly debated to this day, but I personally believe it was her main magazine exploding that sunk her. Of her crew of 1418, only 3 survived. The torpedo planes that went after the Bismarck were from HMS Victorious and were swordfish biplane that were too slow for Bismarck's anti aircraft guns to lock onto and they hit her with a torpedo as they were turning hard and the rudder was disabled at the hard turn.

[@theirishviking9278]

for reference pretty much every instance of damage dealt to any ship in this is as accurate to what they could find historically form the Hood getting hit in the rear at 10:27 to the turret guns falling out of the bismark as it sinks at 17:11

[@huey-fan8335]

The ships silouhette is clearly a KGV type Battleship, and only Prince of Wales was the only one near Bismarck! So it's not Hood, it's Prince of Wales!

[@theirishviking9278]

@@huey-fan8335 why are you yelling?

[@huey-fan8335]

@@theirishviking9278 BC your statement is as false as it can get ...there is no Hood in this Video, what you mentioned at 10:27 is HMS Prince of Whales getting straddled

[@theirishviking9278]

@@huey-fan8335 .... do you know what the side profile of the bismark is? cause that ain't it

[@huey-fan8335]

@@theirishviking9278 as I mentioned earlier....this is a KGV class ship, HMS Prince of Whales to be precise....

[@BlazerProject]

One thing about the Bismark is that when that torpedo hit it really jammed the rudder up into the center screw of the ship and prevented it from turning at all. If you want to look into a real heavy message song do look up 'The Final Solution' but also listen to 'Uprising' live in Warsaw, Poland. You have only scratched the surface with this band as well. Also if you want something different then look up The Miracle of Sound, this guy does music to video games and the ones for Doom are to say the least AWESOME!

[@aaronbriant3697]

at the time of Bismark's launch he was the largest Battle ship but a couple years after the Japanese launched the super battleship Yamato that became the largest battleship ever. Bismark was about 50000 tones Yamato was approximately 75000 tones

[@translaterinokripperino5824]

You've got listen to "The royal guard" - their newest song. The music video is of great production and is also nice "introduction" to the "Swedish War history" and army discipline. Sweden had a lot of political power in 17th century Europe, which of course was riddled with conflict. This period was captured in the 2012 album "Carolus Rex" (a Latin nickname given the Karl XII). "The Royal Guard" and "Livgardet" (which is the Swedish version of the song) are singles from this year which sort of carries on in the same line as that album. The song celebrated the 500 year anniversary of the forming of "Livgardet", which were, and still are, a regiment of highly trained soldiers sworn to protect the king at all costs. The infantry regiment has a long history of fighting and winning battles where the odds were severely stacked against them, the reason for this was because of the high quality of soldiers. The Swedish army was a clear example of quality over quantity, Sweden was forced into such a "predicament" thanks to their relatively small population. The king would also serve next to them in battle. The names are pronounced: "Joe-á-Kim" and "Pear".

[@AGDinCA]

LOL!! I never, never say Nightwish Army. I always say Nightwish family. But, I don't get into the weeds on these kinds of things. I'm a big fan of Nightwish and Sabaton, plain and simple.

[@HistoryBuff]

Yea, that was kind of meant to be a joke, maybe even a little poke at the fervency of the NW army.

[@AGDinCA]

@@HistoryBuff And that's completely warranted, in my opinion. 👍

[@jacobthompson800]

It's actually theorized that the ship was scuttled. Meaning the air hatches where opened to sink the ship. The captain thought the ship would be unsinkable after about 4 or 5 hours or just constant shelling from British ships. It just so happened that two cruziers fired Torpitos at the near same time. When the wreck was discovered everything was intact but it's main 4, 15mm canons where miles apart.

[@Natala781]

That was a lot of fun! It's always a learning expirience when Sabaton is concerned :) It would be very cool if you checked out Sabaton History as well! Also speaking of recommendations a small note, when it comes to the album "Carolus Rex" I would consider going in order as it's the only one that technically "tells" one story as it follows the rise and fall of the Swedish Empire. Also both the Swedish and English versions of the songs are absolutly worth covering as they can make for "two side of one coin" kind of expirience with the slight diffrences between the English and Swedish versions of the songs.

[@Nem01]

The guitar solo after the 'his guns have gone silent at last' sounds like a requiem for the Bismarck.

[@Deilwynna]

5:35 - initially, it was the hswms gotland (the seaplane tender/light cruiser) that spotted bismarck and prinz eugen going out of towards the north sea, gotland radiod back to swedish navys hq, the british caught the radio transmission as well so they knew about bismarcks journey out of the baltic sea and danish belt through swedens radio comms

[@bliblivion]

this video clip was made in colaboration with the video game "World of Warships" this is why it look so good (money plus a team who's job is to modelise Warship in 3D)

[@Sarge80]

Its scary to think that the Bismarck was mere hours away from aircover, that 1 torpedo hit changed everything.

[@rogerhack3750]

Bismarck the largest warship ever. Yamato and musashi: are we jokes to you?

[@HistoryBuff]

🤣😂

[@charliefoxtrott1048]

Nice reactions! If you are interested in the Middle Ages, their album Carolus Rex covers the history of Sweden and middle Europe from 1630 to 1730. There is also a song about the sack of Rome called The Last Stand. Afaik the is no offical Sabaton Army, but here in Europe we have a lot of Fan Clubs like the Sabateurs, the Swedish/Sabaton Pagans and others. If you wanna do some MURICA relatet reactions then you shall react to Panzer Batalion (my first experiance in 2005 with them ;o) ) Midway, To Hell and Back and Screaming Eagles (the first two as Lyric-Vids by Piscator, the other two as official Vids. Nice work.. Have fun with your Sabaticion XD

[@warrior7ra]

It's not a locket it's a compass, the compass of Capt Lindermann CO of the Bismark given to the ships boy who gave it to his son who is ferrying Sabaton to the wreck site.

[@corinna007]

I would recommend a double reaction "Carolus Rex" about King Carl XII of Sweden, once to a lyric video of the English lyrics (or maybe the Swedish version with an English translation), and then to the official live version where they performed the Swedish version in Stockholm. One of my favourite bands, Apocalyptica, was on tour with them and joined them on stage.

[@ulvsbane]

Sabaton has been working with the PC gaming company Wargaming. There's a tank in "World of tanks" called "Primo Victoria", from one of their songs, and they used 3D models from "World of warships" for this video.

[@pierresoder7671]

”Did you find the boat?” He means the fhisingboat that they played on.

[@cuillinguy]

We had a neighbour who was a survivor of HMS Hood. There were very few survivors.

[@HistoryBuff]

Wow! Yea, I think only 100 out of 1400

[@richardwest6358]

There were only three survivors from HMS Hood

[@anm10wolvorinenotapanther32]

damn he's one of the three sole survivors? That's awesome!

[@NikesZ28]

Im a bit late here, but if you see this. As far as people making reaction videos you are one of the better. You are doing a great job, keep it up :)

[@HistoryBuff]

Wow! Thanks a ton for that!!

[@jamesrose1460]

My father happened to get to meet Jock Moffat, the Swordfish pilot who torpedoed the Bismark, damaging her rudder, forcing her to turn North into the Prince of Wales and the Rodney. He related the story of when he Torpedoed the ship...he said he heard this voice saying, "No now Jock...no now!" Swordfish had a crew of three...pilot, gunner and radio/navigator. The voice was the Radioman, with one foot on the wing, hanging on his safety wire to look out past the engine...guiding him with a better view in the rainstorm. His guide told him to drop...and they got the lucky hit. The rudder strike was a fluke. The Hood was destroyed by the Bismark. Of the 1408 men..3 survived. The burning ship was the Bismark. All four of her turrets destroyed....she was wallowing...until the British Destroyers moved in and torpedoed the wreck to sink her. Kreigsmarine is German for "War Fleet" Battle of the Atlantic I have also read Moffats book...which is a fantastic.

[@HistoryBuff]

Wow! Amazing information! Thank you for all that!

[@coyotej4895]

In 1933 One of my Grandfathers was hired on at the big Bloom and Voss Ship yards in Hamburg. He was to help develop and build the Fire Control systems that would be put on Bismarck and Tirpitz. He was then assigned to Bismarck after the Launch and went with the ship to sea as one of the Engineering Officer. He survived because he was above working on the Fire control systems when the general order to abandon ship was passed. After making sure all Water tight doors where Open and the scuttling charges where set in his section he was told to see to his repair party, being as by that time the guns where all out of action he helped his men abandon ship. I never got to meet him. I did here many of the stories he told my Dad. They where many and ranged from funny to horrific and heroic.

[@HistoryBuff]

That is absolutely incredible! Make sure you write those stories down to pass down through many more generations!

[@coyotej4895]

@@HistoryBuff We did. His journal and other papers where sent to museums as well upon his death in 1964. Some used by Dr. Ballard to help him fiend and then dive on the wreck.

[@DanishOpTic]

from all i can find In the case of H.M.S. Hood, of the 1,418 men aboard that day, ONLY THREE were pulled from the water alive. either way love the vid man

[@hertzeid]

The ship on fire is the Bismarck itself. The Hood was sunk before the actual clips begin. You hear it mentioned on the radio as the band boards the fishing vessel they borrow. The Hood was destroyed by a single armor piercing shell penetrating into the forward magazine. Due to the British sailors focusing heavily on rapid fire, it is thought that they ignored rules for keeping the bulkheads between various ammunition and powder stores closed. This resulted in a massive explosion that ripped the Hood apart. Only 3 sailors of the 1500 man crew survived.

[@tvaettis0653]

So hyped for this journey! If you want to see some live performances, you could check out some amazing videos from Woodstock: Ghost division Uprising 40:1 The price of a mile White death Primo victoria

[@4K1ings]

The music video is a cooperation with the computer game World of Warships from Wargaming. Thats why they got this amazing detailshots. This is Sabatons second cooperation with Wargaming. The first one was the music video to Primo Victoria. But in this time it was for World of Tanks. Ingame exist a tank named of the song. (Sorry for the horrible english im from Germany )

[@Nem01]

One of our neighbors who died years ago was a survivor of the Bismarck he was pretty miserable the rest of his days. Poor soul.😢

[@thsmuller]

The wreck of Bismarck was discovered on 8 June 1989 by Robert Ballard, the oceanographer responsible for finding RMS Titanic. Bismarck was found to be resting on her keel at a dept of approximately 4,791 m (15,719 ft), about 650 km (400 mi) west of Brest. 48°10′N 16°12′W

[@Templarofsteel88]

As a sidenote here, the name they gave the boat ar 8:50 is taken from an older song by the band ( from the older set up of the band) the end text said wars know no nation this video is dedicated to those who fought to the bitter end in the battle of the atlantic.

[@Happymali10]

You need to watch the making of. If alone for the funny shots of the band rocking out, all epic, and then there's some guys on the chase-boats with garden hose foggers letting it rain on them^^

[@argantyr5154]

The Video was made with help from the company behind "World of Tanks" that needed some material to their game "World of Warships". And yes Sabaton really played on a boat in the "middle of nowhere".

[@dementiagaming4098]

Sabaton has a song called the last stand and it's about the sack of Rome, thought you might be interested

[@connydely1460]

Great reaction!There is a all female Sabaton fan club called Sabaton Witches Division. The Belgian fanclun is called Boar Battalion. React yo Resist and Bite, and you will get why

[@rorozoloc7706]

They blew up the Cruiser Hood. Which was basically the pride of the British navy at the time. And once the ship was hit in the Rutter it caused it to sail in circles so that's when it was surrounded and shot at constantly. That's why only 400 of the 2800 shells hit. Cause if it sat still they wouldn't have missed after getting the distance.

[@TonyMontanaCA]

Listen to the radio at the beginning, that was about the sinking of the Hood. The ship you have seen at the beginning the Bismarck was shooting on was the Prince of Wales.

[@berounmv7024]

8:52 Yes, Primo Victoria is the name of another song, but also the album that includes Primo Victoria.

[@arihaukipuro9674]

Nice react. Please react Sabaton White Death. He was finnish sniper who was world best sniper through WW2. Killed over 500 russians before his wounded. He used only Iron sight, no scope. Thanks.

[@ISAFMobius18]

If you want more Ship History, i highly recommend checking out the Naval Legends series by World of Warships. they're the ones who helped make this video and they do amazing 20-30 min documentaries for historical ships and naval battles.

[@artembentsionov]

In Star Wars: Rebels, the Malevolence story arc mirrors the hunt for the Bismarck. The Malevolence is a massive CIS cruiser that utterly wrecks the Republic Home Fleet. It’s eventually brought down first by bombers and then cornered by several ships

[@HistoryBuff]

Wow!!! I'm going to have to watch that again!!

[@WaywardVet]

Winston Churchill hearing you say "they had a little battle" after the Hood is sunk. SINK THE BISMARCK!!!! *Slams phone down*

[@vlinder6329]

Yesssss SABATON ARE GREAT🔥🤘 Thank You❤🙋🏼‍♀️😘

[@LianteakaLia]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but one thing to look into if you're looking at Sweden is Systembolaget. It has a connection to both history, politics and culture. Here's a wall of text about it! ;) Sweden, like many countries has a bit of a complicated relationship with alcohol. Clean drinking water wasn't always a thing and many times in history, alcohol was an alternative choice of drink since the water wasn't exactly good for you. And then there's all the other reasons people drink. In the 1700s every rule regulating alcoholic consumption was abolished and this led to a huge drinking boom in Sweden. We drank a lot. So much that the swedish government decided to intervene in the early 1900s after a big rise in sobriety movements. It ended with a complete government regulated monopoly on Alcohol that has lasted to this day. In Sweden, you can only get alcohol up to 3,5% in regular stores. For anything above that you have to go to Systembolaget. The government regulated chain of stores and only seller of hard liquour in the entire country. For anything 3,5% and under, the age limit is 18. To drink alcohol in bars and resturants the age requirement is also 18. To buy alcohol at Systembolaget you have to be 20 years old. Another limitation is the fact that Systembolaget aren't allowed to use regular marketing tactics like campaign prices and sales and their commercials are about responsible drinking rather than trying to promote the products. Norway and Finland has a similar system I belive but the laws regulating it can vary. I think the limit on alcohol in regular stores in Norway is 4,5% for example. There's a lot of different oppinions here about Systembolaget but one thing I do like about it, is the huge variety of alcohol you can get. Even if your closest store might not carry the type you want, you can just order it to that store. And if you want something that they don't actually offer, you can do a private import straight from the brewery/destillery/winery etc and then pick it up at your local store. (As long as the company ships to Sweden ofc.) And the staff are often very knowlegable and have their own customer support they can call if they can't answer a question. I always ask them for help with picking out beer or wine to go with whatever food I want to make and at least in my local store, they haven't steered me wrong yet. :) So there's a bit of information for you about Systembolaget. It's something I would encourage you to look further into since it has quite a fascinating history. And it's something that's rather different from many other countries.

[@Smudgegs]

Hood's loss was even worse than that, there were three survivors from a complement of 1,418. 😪

[@McFragg]

I agree, this video must be hard to react as you have to follow 3 storylines at the same time. The one that song tells, the one that visuals tells, and another one intertwined throughout the whole video for those who pay close attention to tiny details.

[@Belnick6666]

The crew of the Bismarck placed charges on the inside and sunk the ship rather than have it end up in the enemy hands as it was the pride of Germany back then....The allied hit the rudder and that was the doom of Bismarck, it could only go in circles and too big of a job to easily repair while under heavy bombardment. All torpedo walls were intact, they investigated the wreckage, even james cameron dove down there and filmed it lol. None of the allied torpedo caused any damage that could have sunk it and the same with the allied humongous cannons that bombarded Bismarck, Only clear penetrations(think there were 2 that penetrated the hull if i remember correctly) were far away from the water line and might "only" have taken out some people, but did nothing to sink it. The allied ship were too close and could not aim lower to hit Bismarck at the water line as a penetration there could have sunk her, but that is also where Bismarck had its thickest armor so even if the British ship were far enough away to hit Bismarck around the water line, it is a big chance it would have "bounced" as the ship side is angled and the shell being lobbied a bit so it drops on the way.....who knows, we can only guess until someone rebuild that armor and have another 406mm navel cannon fire and hit that armor :pI think Sabaton acted on old stories, the surviving crew always said they sunk it, but the britts always claim they sunk it, but evidence show that the crew on Bismarck that survived were right, no damage to any of Bismarks torpedo walls, no penetration of the hull from the 400mm brittish naval cannons that could have sunk Bismarck.....Sadly all three ships, Bismarck, Tirpitz and "never constructed"(?) were sunk, would have been amazing to walk on such a ship today on a museum......ofc even if they had captured it the allied would most likely melt it down for scraps to help rebuild after war, they were living in the now back then, did not care what we would want lol.....same goes with the Maus, I wish the soviets had captured both prototype instead of blowing them up and taking parts of both to reconstruct what it looked like and place in a museum....would have been fascinating to see how a turret of a maus would look like if not destroyed.....but still want to visit Kubinka museum just to watch the size of the thing.....ofc if you are from USA it might be hard to visit as it count as a russian military facility and you need oki from government to visit and I heard people from USA are often denied as I guess they think they are cia or something :P "#"#¤ sorry for the wall of text lol.....then again, KZbin might autodelete the whole thing because I might have used a word they dislike :P

[@frednone]

The Prince of Wales was a new ship and they hadn't properly worked it up yet, It wasn't really the Bismark that drove of PoW, by the end of the fight she only had two working main guns, once she had disengaged she got most of her guns working and swung back around and continued the pursuit until the Bismark managed to break contact. It was PoW who did the damage that forced Bismark to make for Brest.

[@Erki750]

You're backdrop is amazing!

[@HistoryBuff]

Thanks! It makes me look smurter 😉

[@Erki750]

@@HistoryBuff ☺️

[@zoom5024]

It was the Swedish aircraft carrier hms Gotland (not the submarines) who spotted bismark around the water of kattegatt. Who told the brittish embassy in Sweden about it.

[@annikahausen_]

You might enjoy Rammstein - Deutschland. I'm German and even I didn't capture all the History and clues and little details, even after watching it 10 times 😅 it's a great overview of German history though. Can highly recommend

[@ISAFMobius18]

Thank you to World of Warships for creating the amazing battle scene for this video. All the ships and fighting were created using CGI, then used Live Action actors placed into the scene. This is just one example of some of World of Warship's amazing battle scenes they can make. BTW- World of Warships is a free to play warship game.

[@NegotiatorGladiarius]

Also, as a historian you probably knew it better than me, but every couple of seconds it shows another sequence of the whole chase for the Bismarck. Like, even when it shows the ship capsized and the turrets falling out of the barbettes, it's literally like they found them separated on the bottom of the sea. Or even the recon planes passing over Sabaton's boat, yeah, they initially mis-identified another boat as the Bismarck. It takes some liberties, like the same British officer being present all along, but generally, every couple of seconds it's a litteral historical element of that episode. Blows my little mind, it does...

[@Belnick6666]

about the compass, might that been the location of there Bismarck was sunk? ~ 4809N 01607W. at a depth of roughly 15,715 ft / 4,790m

[@bernhardmayer4815]

ATLANTIC! The last word is ATLANTIC, Mr. Historian.

[@HistoryBuff]

Lol, yea, yea. I know

[@pierresoder7671]

Coin? Compass!

[@andreasnimmerfalk2524]

The coordinates is the place where Bismarck lies. The captain carves in it when the roder is hit.

[@oriongabriel6966]

13:48 Old video but wanted to mention it, the ship on fire is the bismarck, since it was peppered with HE until the steel was literally melting. The hood didn't catch on fire. What happened was that the bismarck got a lucky hit right in an ammunition locker which made such a violent explosion that it got cut in half. Sad they didn't show it in the music video but that might have confused viewers. Cheers! :) Edit: yeah you corrected it but still, hood went boom immedietly

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

The final battle was revenge for sinking the Royal Navy Flagship Hood.

[@PilgrimjGaming]

Minor corrections. It was known as battle of Denmark strait. Battle engaments hms hood and hms prince of whales. Hms hood was sunk by bismarck massive shell. Hms prince of whales escape the battle with minor dammage. Which would be sunken off asian pafic off india . Planes are called sword fish torpedo bomber pre ww1 crop duster planes. Bismarck rutter system was damamge by torpedo bomber. Only way the bismarc was found by oil slick it was producing . Bismarck first shell that inpacted was magine capartmet causing the turrets to explode . Then torpedo hell out bismarck. Kreigs marines was german navy. As luffwaffa was germany airforce. Tirpz was bismarck sister ship. Night witches was all female russian bomber they used night tactics and night flights .

[@matthewyakush6548]

The animation for this music video was made by World of Warships, more particularly wargaming. This song was made as a collaboration to bring attention to both the history of Bismarck and World of warships at the same time

[@einarthormodster95]

Don't worry, you did a great reaction to this video!

[@joshingoodnaturedly4923]

I believe the skipper encountered in the first half of the video is the grandson of a Bismarck survivor

[@jespereriksson4651]

The Singer's name is pronounced more as "Jo-A-kim, most Joakim are called "Jocke" though And YES you HAVE to do a video for "Primo Victoria" it's the song about D-day or Operation Overlord. 6th of june 1944. Probably the MOST important point of a war the Sabaton has made a song about. Attero Dominatus and Hearts of Iron might also qualify for this about the taking of Berlin. And also yes the "Kriegsmarine" was the german navy of the 2nd world war.

[@heatherwheeler8330]

The ship being shown blowing up is the USS Hood, based on the two smoke stacks seen on the ship.

[@89Keith]

Correction, HMS Hood

[@damienmaynard8892]

How to be the coolest history teacher ever? Play a Sabaton video every lesson! HMS Dorsetshire fired the final torpedoes into Bismarck. They also rescued some survivors but had to leave because there was a U-Boat in the area. U-74 was there and rescued some more survivors. Metal is Family! Sabaton's drummer, Hannes Van Dahl, is married to Floor Jansen of Nightwish! Prinz Eugen as USS Prinz Eugen took months of neglect, 2NUKES and more months of neglect to sink! Tough ship! 3 men survived the sinking of HMS Hood - one was the uncle of my best friend.

[@MaskinJunior]

It is CGI. But it is pretty high level since this is made in collaboration with World of Warships, so they probably had lots of good CGI-models of ships.

[@shawnengles8771]

Youre talking about the prince of wales and hood in the battle of Denmark strait. The hood lost all but 3 sailors when the aft magazines detonated and ripped the ship in half

[@yeettheheat]

Yeah nah, the ships are definitely CG. After WW2 there were no new Battleships built (excluding the HMS Vanguard wich was still meant to be finished during the war) and the existing ones only saw little action. This was because: 1.Aircraft carriers being the main figthing force on the sea (this became clear after the battle of midway), they could send their aircraft much further than a Battleship could shoot. Thus making them ideal for attacking an enemy fleet, even when being out of radar range. 2. Battleships are expensive to build and maintain and when one gets sunk it's a huge cost in both life's and morale. 3. Though some US Battleships like the USS Wisconsin did serve in the Korean War performing shore bombardments, by the end of the cold war most of the battleships the US Had were placed in the reserve, up for scrapping or being refit to museum ships. Also sorry for potential spelling mistakes, English isn't my first language and I'm putting a lot of faith in the autocorrect rigth now.

[@Ancient_War]

The Bismarck and her sister, Tripitz, were much smaller than Japan’s Yamato and Musashi. Bismarck saw battle and was relentlessly hunted. Tripitz saw battle and sunk after a fire spread to its munitions. Musashi was killed by air strikes in battle. Japan suicided the Yamato off Okinawa in 1945 when it realized it couldn’t fuel or feed its sailors. I love history. I just wish we’d learn from it. Can’t verify this but supposedly the fishing boat captain is the son of an actual survivor of the Bismarck. (?) The watch has the last known coordinates of the Bismarck. Oh, and I’m enjoying your channel! - A member of the Sabaton Army who wears her camo with pride.

[@nicholassalchert8583]

the band actually partnered with a free online game called World Of Warships who did the animations for their video

[@CheesyKnobby]

they filled the hull of the sunken Bismarck and raised her temporarily afloat for this video

[@HistoryBuff]

I sense some irony...

[@gregorturner9421]

the ship was found along with the hms hood. hence why he knew where the coordinates where at the start.

[@Dreamfox-df6bg]

Kriegsmarine is German Krieg - War Marine - All the ships of a nation However, the meaning of the term 'Marine' has changed since countries don't have their own merchant ships any more. Many freighters aren't even registered in the country where the operating company has it's main office. So 'Marine' today stand's for a country's Navy. At least in German. Although, the German translation of 'fleet' ('Flotte') is also being used. And just to make it even more complicated and fun, the sea branch of Germany's army prior to the reunification was called 'Bundesmarine' which translates to 'Federated Navy' from the full name of Germany, 'Bundesrepublik Deutschland', which translates to the 'Federal Republic of Germany'. That was to differentiate the West German navy from the 'Volksmarine' or 'People's Navy' of the 'Deutsche Demokratische Republik', which would be the 'German Democratic Republic', which usually was called 'East Germany'. History is fun, complicated and sometimes very, very confusing.

[@heatherwheeler8330]

You are right, the toepedo was aimed at the rudder , which was the Achilles hee if the ship.

[@HistoryBuff]

LOL, someone's having a history marathon! Thanks for watching!

[@five_eleven_tac3393]

I know this is kinda late. However, most battleships have to clear deck before firing their main battery’s (guns) due to the amount of force the shockwaves produced. They held Enough force to knock you off your feet and injure you if you were close enough.

[@DjKorppi]

I would suggest that if you are not immediately familiar with the history behind the song, that you'll watch the history channel episode first to give you the background of the lyrics. While this is in no way necessary to enjoy the storytelling (of these modern bards), it does help in understanding the lyrics. Maybe make two separate videos? There's so many very interesting bits of history that I've learned first through Sabaton songs... like "The Last Battle", "Hearts of Iron" or "A ghost in the trenches".

[@iamReddington]

12:31 You are the only person, out of all the reactions I've seen, to understand those were coordinates.

[@HistoryBuff]

Wow, seriously!?

[@iamReddington]

@@HistoryBuff Yep. Hell, most people don't even connect that the locket was the same one.

[@mike28003]

@@iamReddington most dont even mention the watch

[@jamesgunn7777]

I'm surprised that you didn't catch the 8 hints to who the boat pilot is including the coordinates written on the inside of the pocket watch cover